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Managing the Non-Profit Organization

Principles and Practices

by Peter F. Drucker
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010

The groundbreaking and premier work on nonprofit organizations. The nonprofit sector is growing rapidly, creating a major need for expert advice on how to manage these organizations effectively. Management legend Peter Drucker provides excellent examples and explanations of mission, leadership,...

The Asylum

The Renegades Who Hijacked the World's Oil Market

by Leah McGrath Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011

The Asylum is a stunning exposé by a seasoned Wall Street journalist that once and for all reveals the truth behind America’s oil addiction in all its unscripted and dysfunctional glory. In the tradition of Too Big to Fail and Liar’s Poker, author Leah McGrath Goodman tells the amazing-but-true...

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World

An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey to Educate the World’s Children

by John Wood
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work not at business school or helping lead Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. He made the difficult decision to walk away from his lucrative career to create Room to Read,...

Season Finale

The Unexpected Rise and Fall of the WB and UPN

by Susanne Daniels, Cynthia Littleton
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

In the mid-1990s, two major Hollywood studios, Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures, each launched their own broadcast television network with the hope of becoming the fifth major player in an industry long dominated by ABC, CBS, NBC, and, more recently, Fox. Despite the odds against them, the WB and...

What Will Be

How the World of Information Will Change

by Michael L. Dertouzos
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009

Michael Dertouzos has been an insightful commentator and an active participant in the creation of the Information Age.Now, in What Will Be, he offers a thought-provoking and entertaining vision of the world of the next decade -- and of the next century. Dertouzos examines the impact that the following...

Living on the Fault Line, Revised Edition

Managing for Shareholder Value in Any Economy

by Geoffrey A. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

The fault line -- that dangerous, unstable seam in the economy where powerful innovations and savage competition meet and create market-shattering tremors. Every company lives on it; no manager can control it. In the original edition of Living on the Fault Line, Geoffrey Moore presented a compelling...

Se acabó el promedio

Cómo tener exito en un mundo que valora

by Todd Rose
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 24, 2017

Combinando la ciencia y la historia con sus propias experiencias, Rose trae a la vida la historia sin narrar de cómo llegamos a aceptar la idea científicamente equivocada de que se pueden usar los promedios para entender a las personas, y ofrece una poderosa alternativa: los tres principios de individualidad. ¿Estás...

Begging for Change

The Dollars and Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient, and Rewarding for All

by Robert Egger
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010

You are a good person. You are one of the 84 million Americans who volunteer with a charity. You are part of a national donor pool that contributes nearly $200 billion to good causes every year. But you wonder: Why don't your efforts seem to make a difference? Fifteen years ago, Robert Egger...

Inviting Disaster

Lessons From the Edge of Technology

by James R Chiles
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008

Combining captivating storytelling with eye-opening findings, Inviting Disaster delves inside some of history's worst catastrophes in order to show how increasingly "smart" systems leave us wide open to human tragedy. Weaving a dramatic narrative that explains how breakdowns in these systems...

Business Is Combat

A Fighter Pilot's guide to Winning in Modern Warfare

by James D Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010

Whether you're engaging in supersonic jet combat at 48,000 feet or entering a tough sales battle with a cutthroat competitor, the goal is the same:absolute victory. In Business is Combat, former F-15 pilot James D. Murphy, an expert in both business and combat strategy, offers a full-scale training...

Setting the Table

The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business

by Danny Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

The bestselling business book from award-winning restauranteur Danny Meyer, of Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, and Shake Shack Seventy-five percent of all new restaurant ventures fail, and of those that do stick around, only a few become icons. Danny Meyer started Union Square Cafe when...

The Four Elements of Success

A Simple Personality Profile that will Transform Your Team

by Laurie Beth Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2006

Laurie Beth Jones, management expert and business consultant extraordinaire, noticed that none of the personality/temperament profiles in the market today, none of them provided a tool that was simple, visual, intuitive, and powerful enough to create a shift in thinking as well as relating. So she...

Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition

The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

by Dr. Dan Ariely
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009

"A marvelous book… thought provoking and highly entertaining." —Jerome Groopman, New York Times bestselling author of How Doctors Think "Ariely not only gives us a great read; he also makes us much wiser." —George Akerlof, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics "Revolutionary." —New...

Your Brain at Work

Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long

by David Rock
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009

In Your Brain at Work, David Rock takes readers inside the heads—literally—of a modern two-career couple as they mentally process their workday to reveal how we can better organize, prioritize, remember, and process our daily lives. Rock, the author of Quiet Leadership and Personal Best, shows...
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