Crown imprint: 1774 books
If Harry Potter Ran General Electric
Leadership Wisdom from the World of the Wizards
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2006
However important the magic of wands, brooms, cauldrons, potions, and spells might be to the vivid story telling of [the Harry Potter] books, it is merely incidental to their philosophy of life…. I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard someone in a business context say something like “I...
Satisfied Customers Tell Three Friends, Angry Customers Tell 3,000
Running a Business in Today's Consumer-Driven World
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
In today’s Internet-driven world, customers have more power than ever. Through what interactive marketing expert Pete Blackshaw calls "consumer-generated media"—blogs, social networking pages, message boards, product review sites—even a single disgruntled customer can broadcast his complaints...
How to Retire Rich in a Totally Changed World
Why You're Not in Kansas Anymore
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Whether you are thirty years from retirement or it’s just around the corner, here is the only book you’ll need about how to get it together and plan a safe, secure, and prosperous retirement. Money magazine senior editor Walter Updegrave has crafted a practical, resourceful guide, showing readers...
Schools That Learn (Updated and Revised)
A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
"A rich, much-needed remedy for the standardized institutions that comprise too much of our school system today… ideal for teachers and parents intent on resurrecting and fostering students' inherent drive to learn…An essential resource."
-Daniel H. Pink, author of DRIVE and A WHOLE...
The Penguin and the Leviathan
How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
What do Wikipedia, Zip Car’s business model, Barack Obama's presidential campaign, and a small group of lobster fishermen have in common? They all show the power and promise of human cooperation in transforming our businesses, our government, and our society at large. Because today, when the costs...
Consult Yourself
The NLP guide to being a management consultant
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
"What is the most important attribute a freelance consultant must have? " Is it communications skills, a package of up-to-the- inute techniques, or the ability to project manage effectively? " All of these things are necessary. But I encourage you to read this book through a different...
The Change Monster
The Human Forces That Fuel or Foil Corporate Transformation and Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2001
A brilliant, original, and powerful look at corporate change--mergers, reorganizations, transformations--and why it succeeds or fails.
The Change Monster is the first book on the central issue that blows so many change efforts out of the water: the human interactions and emotional dynamics...
Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists
How Open Financial Markets Challenge the Establishment and Spread Prosperity to Rich and Poor Alike
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2003
Capitalism’s biggest problem is the executive in pinstripes who extols the virtues of competitive markets with every breath while attempting to extinguish them with every action.
Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists is a groundbreaking book that will radically change our understanding of...
Everything You've Heard About Investing Is Wrong!
How to Profit in Coming Post-Bull Markets
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
One of today's best money managers heralds the onset of a new financial era, in which the rules for investors will be dramatically different. With wit and humor, Gross details recommended strategies, revealing where the markets are headed--and how to ride them to success.
The 30-Day Plan to Whip Your Career Into Submission
Transform Yourself from Job Slave to Master of Your Destiny in Just One Month
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Don't Stay Stuck in a Job Rut--Take Control of Your Career in Just 30 Days!
Feeling enslaved by pointless meetings, overflowing "in" boxes, and endless phone calls? Shackled by mindless busywork and jealous colleagues who keep you from landing the corner office and the recognition you deserve?...
Miss Manners' Guide to Domestic Tranquility
The Authoritative Manual for Every Civilized Household, However Harried
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
America's leading civility expert knocks household discourteousness off its foundations.
As the rudeness rampant in America's streets sends its citizens fleeing inside to bolt the doors and draw the shades, they are finding what was once the relative safety of the hearth threatened by an unwelcome...
by Josh Aiello
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2004
You're smarter than they are.
You're more efficient than they are.
You’re funnier than they are.
But they have you outnumbered.
Meet:
The Alpha Chimp
The Brown Noser
The Cheapskate
The Chitchat Artist
The Condescending IT Guy
The Dinosaur
The Floozy
The Gossip
The Hall Monitor
The...
by Stephanie Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Whether you work in Hollywood or not, the fact is that selling ideas is really difficult to do. The reason the pitching secrets of the most successful writers and directors are relevant is because these people have evolved an advanced method for selling ideas.
Whether you’re a screenwriter, a journalist...
Beside Every Successful Man
A Woman's Guide to Having It All
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
“There is a reason this book is titled beside every successful man rather than behind him. It is about taking the best part of the progress women have made and combining it with age-old wisdom to create a more satisfying future for both you and your husband. The wives who were the models for this...