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1001 Ideas to Create Retail Excitementby Edgar A. FalkISBN 0735203431 (0-7352-0343-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Advanced Selling Strategies: The Proven System of Sales Ideas, Methods, and Techniques Used by Top Salespeople Everywhereby Brian TracyISBN 0684824744 (0-684-82474-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Strategy, tactics, and mental preparedness separate superior salespeople from the average -- and with technological advances evening the competition, the selling edge is now more important than ever. Drawing on his own successful sales career and on his extensive experience as a sales consultant and seminar leader, Brian Tracy has developed the most comprehensive and effective approach to selling ever created.
Advanced Selling Strategies provides you with the techniques and tools used by top salespeople in every industry -- methods that net immediate and spectacular results. This book explains how to:
* Develop the self-image to give you the edge in every sales situation
* Concentrate on the customer's emotional factors to ensure better sales results
* Identify your customer's most pressing concerns and position your product or service to fill those needs
A MUST READ FOR SALESPEOPLE AND BUSINESSPEOPLE ALIKE. [via]
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Alfred I. Du Pont: The Man and His Familyby Joseph Frazier WallISBN 0735103704 (0-7351-0370-4)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp
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The Big Book of Business Quotationsby Perseus PublishingISBN 0738208485 (0-7382-0848-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Billion Dollar Sure Thingby Paul E. ErdmanISBN 0684132796 (0-684-13279-6)
Hardcover, Scribner
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Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child And The New Consumer Cultureby Juliet B. SchorISBN 0684870568 (0-684-87056-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Designby Marty NeumeierISBN 0735713308 (0-7357-1330-8)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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Buck up, Suck up... And Come Back When You Foul Up : 12 Winning Secrets from the War Roomby James Carville, Paul BegalaISBN 0743224221 (0-7432-2422-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Businessby Iain BanksISBN 0743200152 (0-7432-0015-2)
Softcover, Scribner Paperback Fiction
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Business As Unusual: The Triumph of Anita Roddickby Anita RoddickISBN 0722539878 (0-7225-3987-8)
Hardcover, Thorsons Element
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Cigars, Whiskey and Winning : Leadership Lessons from General Ulysses S. Grantby Al KaltmanISBN 073520022X (0-7352-0022-X)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall Press
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The Commanding Heights Pt. 1: The Battle for the World Economyby Daniel Yergin, Joseph StanislawISBN 0684848112 (0-684-84811-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern Worldby Daniel Yergin, Joseph StanislawISBN 0684829754 (0-684-82975-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World'Book summary:The "commanding heights," according to Pulitzer Prize-winner Daniel Yergin and international business advisor Joseph Stanislaw, are those dominant enterprises and industries that form the high economic ground in nations around the globe. In their analysis of the new world economy, The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World, they examine "the individuals, the ideas, the conflicts, and the turning points" that are responsible. And by considering events such as the ongoing Asian monetary crisis, they suggest what the ultimate interconnection of financial markets might mean in the future. [via]
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The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economyby Daniel Yergin, Joseph StanislawISBN 068483569X (0-684-83569-X)
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Confident Children: Help Children Feel Good About Themselvesby Gael LindenfieldISBN 0722539568 (0-7225-3956-8)
Softcover, Thorsons Element
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Creating You & Co: Learn to Think Like the Ceo of Your Own Careerby William BridgesISBN 0738200328 (0-7382-0032-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: Inside Oracle Corporation God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellisonby Mike WilsonISBN 068816353X (0-688-16353-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Discover What You're Best at: The National Career Aptitude System and Career Directoryby Barry GaleISBN 0684839563 (0-684-83956-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discover What You're Best at: The National Career Aptitude System and Career Directory'Book summary:Take the test -- and find the right career for you. Join the ranks of the more than half-million people who have discovered their true talents and made successful career choices with discover what you're best at. Now this bestselling career guide has been revised for the twenty-first century, including valuable new information on the skills in demand in electronic communications, medical technology, and other high-tech fields. The book's unique national career aptitude system enables you to identify not only your interests but also your innate talents and potential skills, and then to match your career strengths to dozens of the more than 1,100 jobs described in detail. Discover what you're best at enables you to set realistic and rewarding career goals based on your abilities. It gives you the edge you need to take on the job market and succeed in your chosen career. Discover what you're best at will help you: save money -- possibly thousands of dollars -- by heading you in the proper career direction before you choose a school or a course of study save time -- by allowing you to tailor your curriculum to your career objectives, without resorting to trial-and-error course samplings set realistic goals -- why be an office administrator when your interpersonal skills make you a natural for sales? learn about new areas -- with more than 1,100 career possibilities listed and described in detail, you could easily discover that you have an interest in and aptitude for an exciting position you never knew existed. Discover what you're best at could put you well on your way to success. It's the only career resource you'll ever need [via]
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Don't Stand Where the Comet Is Assumed to Strike Oilby Scott AdamsISBN 0740745395 (0-7407-4539-5)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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Engines of Tomorrow: How the World's Best Companies Are Using Their Research Labs to Win the Futureby Robert BuderiISBN 0743200225 (0-7432-0022-5)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clintonby David R. GergenISBN 0743203224 (0-7432-0322-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton'Book summary:David Gergen is probably the only person to have served at high levels in both the Reagan and Clinton White Houses--not to mention his posts in the Nixon and Ford administrations. He's a consummate Washington insider, a man who appears regularly as a centrist political commentator on PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and works as editor at large for U.S. News & World Report. Eyewitness to Power, his first book, draws upon this unique experience. It's part memoir, part political history, part portrait of White House culture, but it's mostly a meditation on what it takes to be a great political leader. Gergen focuses on the four presidents he has known best--Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton--and offers pointed assessments of each. He calls Reagan "the best leader in the White House since Franklin Roosevelt," and says Clinton "is one of the smartest men ever elected president and has done some of the dumbest things." Gergen does not hesitate to offer harsh criticism: Nixon was hateful, Ford was overwhelmed by his predecessor's scandals, Reagan was often detached, and Clinton was not in control of his appetites. Yet there's a reflective admiration for each man.
What makes this volume rise above the mountain of books on leadership (usually written for executives) is its spot-on observations about the way Washington works, drawn from years of experience: "Republicans like hierarchy and order; they're not like Democrats, as I saw later on, who thrive on chaos and creativity"; the Nixon view of Watergate "was the same as the Victorians had of adultery: the sin was not in the doing of it but in getting caught"; "In most institutions, the power of a leader grows over time. A CEO, a university president, the head of a union, acquire stature through the quality of their long-term performance. The presidency is just the opposite: power tends to evaporate quickly."
Gergen concludes by describing the seven leadership qualities a great president must have: personal integrity, a sense of mission, the ability to persuade, the ability to work with other politicians, a strong start after inauguration, skilled advisers, and the ability to inspire. Those traits, of course, will serve people well from all walks of life--and Eyewitness to Power will appeal not just to readers interested in the presidency but to anyone occupying a position of responsibility (or interested in getting there). --John J. Miller [via]
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Fidelity's World: The Secret Life and Public Power of the Mutual Fund Giantby Diana B. HenriquesISBN 0684832232 (0-684-83223-2)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Final Cut: Dreams and Disaster in the Making of Heaven's Gateby Steven BachISBN 068813307X (0-688-13307-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computerby Douglas K. Smith, Robert C. AlexanderISBN 0688095119 (0-688-09511-9)
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Future Edge: Discovering the New Rules of Successby Joel A. BarkerISBN 0688109365 (0-688-10936-5)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Greenspan: The Man Behind Moneyby Justin MartinISBN 0738205249 (0-7382-0524-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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High Five !: The Magic of Working Togetherby Kenneth H. Blanchard, Eunice Parisi-Carew, Sheldon Bowles, Donald CarewISBN 0688170366 (0-688-17036-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Hit and Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywoodby Nancy Griffin, Kim MastersISBN 0684832666 (0-684-83266-6)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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How to Make Millions in Real Estate in Three Years Starting with No Cashby Tyler G. HicksISBN 0735201609 (0-7352-0160-9)
Softcover, Prentice Hall Press
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How to Say It: Choice Words, Phrases, Sentences, and Paragraphs for Every Situationby Rosalie MaggioISBN 0735202346 (0-7352-0234-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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How to Say It: Style Guideby Rosalie MaggioISBN 073520313X (0-7352-0313-X)
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Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Streetby David McClintickISBN 068801349X (0-688-01349-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Infosense : Turning Information into Knowledgeby Keith J. DevlinISBN 0716741644 (0-7167-4164-4)
Softcover, Freeman & Company, W. H.
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Infosense : Understanding Information to Survive in the Knowledge Societyby Keith J. DevlinISBN 0716734842 (0-7167-3484-2)
Hardcover, Freeman & Company, W. H.
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Learn to Earn: A Beginner's Guide to the Basics of Investing and Businessby John Rothchild, Peter LynchISBN 0684811634 (0-684-81163-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Learn to Earn: A Beginner's Guide to the Basics of Investing and Business'Book summary:To Peter Lynch, success in the stock market is pretty basic: if a company's earnings rise, then the stock price goes up. "This simple point--that the price of a stock is directly related to a company's earning power--is often overlooked, even by sophisticated investors," the former Fidelity Magellan manager writes in Learn to Earn, his third book on investing. "This is the starting point for the successful stock picker: find companies that grow their earnings over many years to come."
One of the best managers in the history of mutual funds, Lynch is certainly the person to help people choose the right stocks and understand the market. More so than One Up on Wall Street or Beating the Street, this Lynch book is for beginning investors of all ages. Lynch and coauthor John Rothchild are family men who are worried that teenagers aren't learning enough about the importance of American companies in improving lives and creating wealth. Lynch questions why students are taught that Hamlet was a tragic hero and Napoleon was a great general, but they don't know that Sam Walton founded Wal-Mart. In fact, Lynch's grasp of the past is one of the strengths of the book. One of the best chapters is "A Short History of Capitalism," a witty and homespun look at characters like Karl Marx, the Communist who believed capitalism was doomed, and the robber barons, the shrewd railroad magnates of the late 19th century who amassed huge fortunes by manipulating the markets.
Unlike the robber barons, beginning investors, Lynch says, should stick to the basics: get in the habit of saving and investing and putting aside a certain amount every month; develop a strong stomach because the stock market is going to fall and there's no way to anticipate it; do a little homework so you can understand the reasons to own a particular stock; and buy shares in solid companies and don't let go of them without a good reason.
This book marks Lynch's coming out as a fan of "direct investment programs," which are offered by many good companies. You purchase a couple of shares or so directly from the company and then you enroll in a plan and buy more shares each month, in some cases without paying a penny in fees and always without a broker--the way Lynch likes it. Lynch loves these plans because they're a great vehicle for investing a little bit at a time over a long period. Grab onto a company and learn about it, Lynch writes. The more you learn, the more you'll earn. --Dan Ring [via]
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Low Risk, High Reward: Starting Your Own Business With Minimal Personal Riskby Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, Bob Reiss, Howard H. StevensonISBN 0684849623 (0-684-84962-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Millionaire: The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Financeby Janet GleesonISBN 068487296X (0-684-87296-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Born into a Scottish family of Church clerics and goldsmiths in 1671, John Law grew up to exude little of the moral and much of the monetary influence in his blood. When, as a 23-year-old gambler and philandering playboy on the London scene, he killed a nobleman in a duel, he was thrown into prison and sentenced to death. After pursing legal channels of appeal and getting nowhere, he eventually escaped and began the life of a gambler-cum-aristocrat in exile. His uncanny knack at the card tables and renowned success with women earned him a dubious reputation within late seventeenth-century European social circles. But his equally outstanding mathematical skills and fascination with the mechanisms of credit also brought him to the attention of political leaders. After attempting to peddle his revolutionary scheme for creating a national bank that issued paper currency to officials in London, Scotland, Vienna, Turin, and elsewhere, Law finally convinced the war-impoverished French government to back his plan. The bank's success and the events that followed--Law's introduction of the "Mississippi scheme," a wild exercise in capital procurement and share offering that spawned the greatest bull market in history and its drastic crash--make this book fascinating reading for anyone playing the markets today.
Gleeson writes with clarity and style on topics that are notoriously complex and potentially dry. Without dumbing down her subject matter, she elucidates the finer points of credit-based financial systems and stock markets in readable English, welcoming both finance aficionados and illiterates to Law's tale. In that regard, the book is similar to Simon Winchester's The Professor and the Madman, and though ostensibly a record of the rise and fall of one of the world's most infamous--and ultimately influential--financiers, it is a story of murder, lust, politics, wealth, and poverty and far more intriguing than most fare in its often prosaic category. Indeed, this book will leap off your business bookshelf faster than you can ask who wants to be a millionaire. --S. Ketchum [via]
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Millionaire Women Next Door: The Many Journeys of Successful American Businesswomenby Thomas J. StanleyISBN 0740755706 (0-7407-5570-6)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Millionaire Women Next Door: The Many Journeys of Successful American Businesswomen'Book summary:Eight years ago, Dr. Thomas J. Stanley swept aside the mythical magic curtain of wealth to reveal The Millionaire Next Door. America found out just who and how common the truly wealthy were in this country¿and we learned the characteristics and habits that made them so. Now the author of the follow-up The Millionaire Mind focuses on one of the least understood but increasingly rich demographics: Millionaire Women Next Door.¿Why write another book that profiles millionaires?¿ Stanley asks. ¿The vast majority of the millionaire respondents (92 percent) in The Millionaire Next Door were men. . . . I felt that it was indeed time for successful businesswomen of the self-made variety to be heard.¿ And heard they are in this book that is destined to become every bit as informative, quoted, and inspirational as the author¿s earlier works. Readers everywhere will be fascinated by Stanley¿s thoroughly researched findings and conclusions. More than a simple extension of his studies of male millionaires, Millionaire Women Next Door presents groundbreaking concepts involving the nature, lifestyle, and business choices of successful American women that reach far beyond the scope of the author¿s previous studies. The book examines the choice of businesses elected by self-employed women, ranking over 150 categories in terms of their profitability and probability of success. It also describes the women¿s background, highlighting the fact that most millionaire women were raised in nurturing family environments that were literally training grounds for success, instilling the values that make this group one of the most generous in American society as demonstrated by its level of giving to charities, family, and friends. While many characteristics such as frugality and simplicity of lifestyle are similar to those of their male counterparts, Stanley demonstrates that most millionaire women work harder and do better¿at school, in business, and in investment practices. Millionaire Women is sure to be one of the most read, reviewed, and discussed books to come out this year. Make your own wise investment for a wealth of solid sales. [via]
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The Next Great Bubble Boom: How To Profit From The Greatest Boom in History 2005-2009by Harry S. DentISBN 0743222997 (0-7432-2299-7)
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1865-1869by Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0743203178 (0-7432-0317-8)
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Building a transcontinental railroad, writes the prolific historian Stephen Ambrose, was second only to the abolition of slavery on Lincoln's presidential agenda. Through an ambitious program of land grants and low-interest government loans, he encouraged entrepreneurs such as California's "Big Four"--Charles Crocker, Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins, and Leland Stanford--to take on the task of stringing steel rails from ocean to ocean. The real work of doing so, of course, was on the shoulders of immigrant men and women, mostly Chinese and Irish. These often-overlooked actors and what a contemporary called their "dreadful vitality" figure prominently in Ambrose's narrative, alongside the great financiers and surveyors who populate the standard textbooks.
In the end, Ambrose writes, Lincoln's dream transformed the nation, marking "the first great triumph over time and space" and inaugurating what has come to be known as the American Century. David Haward Bain's Empire Express, which covers the same ground, is more substantial, but Ambrose provides an eminently readable study of a complex episode in American history. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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On Bullshitby Harry G. FrankfurtISBN 0691122946 (0-691-12294-6)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Bullshit'Book summary:"One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit," Harry G. Frankfurt writes, in what must surely be the most eyebrow-raising opener in modern philosophical prose. "Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted." This compact little book, as pungent as the phenomenon it explores, attempts to articulate a theory of this contemporary scourge--what it is, what it does, and why there's so much of it. The result is entertaining and enlightening in almost equal measure. It can't be denied; part of the book's charm is the puerile pleasure of reading classic academic discourse punctuated at regular intervals by the word "bullshit." More pertinent is Frankfurt's focus on intentions--the practice of bullshit, rather than its end result. Bullshitting, as he notes, is not exactly lying, and bullshit remains bullshit whether it's true or false. The difference lies in the bullshitter's complete disregard for whether what he's saying corresponds to facts in the physical world: he "does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are."
This may sound all too familiar to those of use who still live in the "reality-based community" and must deal with a world convulsed by those who do not. But Frankfurt leaves such political implications to his readers. Instead, he points to one source of bullshit's unprecedented expansion in recent years, the postmodern skepticism of objective truth in favor of sincerity, or as he defines it, staying true to subjective experience. But what makes us think that anything in our nature is more stable or inherent than what lies outside it? Thus, Frankfurt concludes, with an observation as tiny and perfect as the rest of this exquisite book, "sincerity itself is bullshit." --Mary Park [via]
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Open Boundaries: Creating Business Innovation Through Complexityby Howard ShermanISBN 0738201553 (0-7382-0155-3)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Open Boundaries: Creating Business Innovation Through Complexityby Ron Schultz, Howard ShermanISBN 0738200050 (0-7382-0005-0)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Peter Pyramid: Or Will We Ever Get the Point?by Laurence J. PeterISBN 0688053807 (0-688-05380-7)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Peterman Rides Again: Adventures Continue With the Real "J. Peterman" Through Life & the Catalog Businessby John PetermanISBN 0735201994 (0-7352-0199-4)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall Pr
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The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewalby Tony Schwartz, Jim LoehrISBN 0743226747 (0-7432-2674-7)
Hardcover, Free Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal'Book summary:We live in digital time. Our pace is rushed, rapid-fire, and relentless. Facing crushing workloads, we try to cram as much as possible into every day. We're wired up, but we're melting down. Time management is no longer a viable solution. As bestselling authors Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz demonstrate in this groundbreaking book, managing energy, not time, is the key to enduring high performance as well as to health, happiness, and life balance.
The number of hours in a day is fixed, but the quantity and quality of energy available to us is not. This fundamental insight has the power to revolutionize the way you live your life. The Power of Full Engagement is a highly practical, scientifically based approach to managing your energy more skillfully both on and off the job.
At the heart of the program is the Corporate Athlete® Training System. It is grounded in twenty-five years of work with some of the world's greatest athletes to help them perform more effectively under brutal competitive pressures. Clients have included Jim Courier, Monica Seles, and Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario in tennis; Mark O'Meara and Ernie Els in golf; Eric Lindros and Mike Richter in hockey; Nick Anderson and Grant Hill in basketball; and gold medalist Dan Jansen in speed skating.
During the past decade, dozens of Fortune 500 companies have paid thousands of dollars to learn the Corporate Athlete training system. So have FBI swat teams, critical care physicians and nurses, salesmen, and stay-at-home moms. The Power of Full Engagement lays out the key training principles and provides a powerful, step-by-step program that will help you to:
" Mobilize four key sources of energy
" Balance energy expenditure with intermittent energy renewal
" Expand capacity in the same systematic way that elite athletes do
" Create highly specific, positive energy management rituals
Above all, this book provides a life-changing road map to becoming more fully engaged on and off the job, meaning physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused, and spiritually aligned. [via]
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Power Plays: Shakespeare's Lessons in Leadership and Managementby John O. Whitney, Tina PackerISBN 0684868881 (0-684-86888-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Power Principle: Influence With Honorby Blaine LeeISBN 0684846160 (0-684-84616-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Power Principle: Influence With Honor'Book summary:The Power Principle debunks the traditional ideas that force, fear, and control constitute power, and demonstrates why honorable behavior is the key to professional and personal success. Combining real-life examples and inspiring advice, it describes the principles that foster and encourage the respect, trust, and loyalty of employees, customers, coworkers, and even family members.
"The Power Principle is profound! Blaine Lee teaches you the essence of true empowerment through understanding the hearts and minds of those you live and work with". -- Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One-Minute Manager
"What people think they want is power. But what they really need is heart-centered leadership, which The Power Principle so aptly teaches!" -- Mark Victor Hansen, coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Soul
"The Power Principle provides a new standard for how we can build more meaningful relationships". -- John Gray, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus [via]
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A Primer on Business Ethicsby Tibor R. Machan, James E. ChesherISBN 0742513890 (0-7425-1389-0)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Primer on Business Ethics'Book summary:A Primer on Business Ethics is an accessibly written, engaging introduction to the fundamental questions of business ethics, for use in the undergraduate classroom. Machan and Chesher approach the business enterprise in a friendly, pro-business spirit, and identify the virtue of prudence as its moral foundation. Various branches of business including advertising, financial services, management, employment, corporate ethics, responsibilities of corporate management, public policy matters, and political economy are considered at length. The book is supplemented with an overview of various moral and political theories relevant to the subject matter, as well as a collection of useful case studies to inspire further discussion. An electronic instructor's manual enhances the material in the book with chapter abstracts, a bank of true/false questions for each chapter, essay questions, and mini-essays. This manual can be requested directly from the publisher for instructors using the book in the classroom. To request a copy, send an email to textbooks@rowman.com.Instructor Manual [via]
Punished by Rewards: The Trouble With Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, As, Praise, and Other Bribesby Alfie KohnISBN 0735101388 (0-7351-0138-8)
Hardcover, Xlibris Corp
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Random Acts of Managementby Scott AdamsISBN 0740704532 (0-7407-0453-2)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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The Rule of Three: Surviving and Thriving in Competitive Marketsby Jagdish Sheth, Rajendra S. SisodiaISBN 074320560X (0-7432-0560-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Searching For A Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest For Charismatic Ceosby Rakesh KhuranaISBN 0691120390 (0-691-12039-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Searching For A Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest For Charismatic Ceos'Book summary:Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected and dismissed or about their true power. This is the first book to take us into the often secretive world of the CEO selection process. Rakesh Khurana's findings are surprising and disturbing. In recent years, he shows, corporations have increasingly sought CEOs who are above all else charismatic, whose fame and force of personality impress analysts and the business media, but whose experience and abilities are not necessarily right for companies' specific needs. The labor market for CEOs, Khurana concludes, is far less rational than we might think.
Khurana's findings are based on a study of the hiring and firing of CEOs at over 850 of America's largest companies and on extensive interviews with CEOs, corporate board members, and consultants at executive search firms. Written with exceptional clarity and verve, the book explains the basic mechanics of the selection process and how hiring priorities have changed with the rise of shareholder activism. Khurana argues that the market for CEOs, which we often assume runs on cool calculation and the impersonal forces of supply and demand, is culturally determined and too frequently inefficient. Its emphasis on charisma artificially limits the number of candidates considered, giving them extraordinary leverage to demand high salaries and power. It also raises expectations and increases the chance that a CEO will be fired for failing to meet shareholders' hopes. The result is corporate instability and too little attention to long-term strategy.
The book is a major contribution to our understanding of corporate culture and the nature of markets and leadership in general.
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Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Webby David WeinbergerISBN 0738208507 (0-7382-0850-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web'Book summary:David Weinberger's Small Pieces Loosely Joined does not merely celebrate the World Wide Web; it attempts to make a case that the institution has completely remodeled many of the world's self-perceptions. The book does so entertainingly, if not convincingly, and is a lively collection of epigrammatic phrases (the Web is "'place-ial' but not spatial"; "on the Web everyone will be famous to 15 people"), as well as illustrations of these changes. There are intriguing assertions: that the Web is "broken on purpose" and that its many pockets of erroneous information and its available forums for disputing, say, manufacturers' hyperbole, let people feel more comfortable with their own inherent imperfections. At other times the book seems stale: it declares that the Web has disrupted long-held axioms about time, space, and knowledge retrieval and that it has dramatically rearranged notions of community and individuality. Weinberger's analysis, though occasionally facile and too relentlessly optimistic and overstated, is surely destined to be the subject of furious debate in chat rooms the cyber-world over. --H. O'Billovich [via]
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Software Requirementsby Karl E. WiegersISBN 0735618798 (0-7356-1879-8)
Softcover, Microsoft Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Software Requirements'Book summary:"Requirements" are essential for creating successful software because they let users and developers agree on what features will be delivered in new systems. Karl Wiegers's Software Requirements shows you how to define and get more out of software requirements with dozens of "best practices" and tips that make this book a valuable resource for both software project managers and developers.
The book's commonsense approach provides exemplary project management skills tailored to gathering (and refining, implementing, and eventually tracking) software requirements. While the book often cites recent software engineering studies, the focus always returns to practical management techniques. A case study for a chemical tracking application frames the book, and most chapters begin with anecdotes that demonstrate situations in which users and developers misunderstand each other about a software project's ultimate goals. (If you've ever worked in the field, these stories will probably sound all too familiar.)
This book offers hope, though, for improving your software design process, with dozens of tips on getting better design input from your customers and then using these requirements to generate a variety of design documents. There are numerous templates and sample documents too--a big help for the busy software manager.
Several standout sections cover negotiating difficult steps in the process, particularly how to manage shifting requirements as projects move forward and keep the various users and stakeholders content throughout the software process. Late in the book, the author surveys today's software management tools and shows how to pick the right ones for your organization.
Anchored by the author's considerable experience and software engineering expertise, this jargon-free and practical guide to software requirements can definitely give you the edge in managing software projects more efficiently. --Richard Dragan
Topics covered: software requirements specifications (SRS); business and user requirements; risk management; the requirements process; sample documents and templates; requirements development: elicitation, analysis, specification, and verification; rights and responsibilities for software customers; best practices; project management tips; process assessment and improvement; types of users; product champions; use cases and other diagrams; tips for prototyping; managing requirements change; change centered boards (CCBs); evaluating and using requirements tools; requirements traceability matrix; impact analysis. [via]
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Something Happenedby Joseph HellerISBN 0684841215 (0-684-84121-5)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Something Happened'Book summary:Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house...and all the mistresses he desired. He had it all -- all, that is, but happiness. Slocum was discontent. Inevitably, inexorably, his discontent deteriorated into desolation until...something happened.
Something Happened is Joseph Heller's wonderfully inventive and controversial second novel satirizing business life and American culture. The story is told as if the reader was overhearing the patter of Bob Slocum's brain -- recording what is going on at the office, as well as his fantasies and memories that complete the story of his life. The result is a novel as original and memorable as his Catch-22. [via]
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Strategic Selling: The Unique Sales System Proven Successful by America's Best Companiesby Robert Miller, Tad Tuleja, Stephen E. HeimanISBN 0688043135 (0-688-04313-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Survival Is Not Enough : Zooming, Evolution, and the Future of Your Companyby Seth GodinISBN 0743225716 (0-7432-2571-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Sustaining the Family Business: An Insider's Guide to Managing Across Generationsby Marshall B. PaisnerISBN 0738201146 (0-7382-0114-6)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Synergy Trapby Mark L. SirowerISBN 0684832550 (0-684-83255-0)
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Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politicsby Jane JacobsISBN 0679748164 (0-679-74816-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Take Back Your Life!: Using Microsoft Outlook to get Organized and Stay OrganizedISBN 0735620407 (0-7356-2040-7)
Softcover, Microsoft Pr
Find This BookBook summary:[via]Unrelenting e-mail. Conflicting commitments. Endless interruptions. In Take Back Your Life!, productivity expert Sally McGhee shows you how to take control and reclaim something you thought youd lost foreveryour work-life balance. Now you can benefit from Sallys popular and highly regarded corporate education programs, learning simple but powerful techniques for rebalancing your personal and professional commitments using the productivity features in Microsoft Outlook.
Learn the proven methods that will empower you to:
- Clear away distractions and loose ends and focus on whats really important to you and your business.
- Take charge of your productivity using techniques and processes designed by McGhee Productivity Solutions and implemented in numerous Fortune 500 companies.
- Customize and exploit the productivity features in Microsoft Outlook to help you create balance at home and on the job.
When you change your approach, you can change your results. So learn what thousands of Sallys clients worldwide have discovered about taking control of their everyday productivityand start transforming your own life today!
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Taken for a Ride: How Daimler-Benz Drove Off With Chryslerby Bill Vlasic, Bradley A. StertzISBN 0688173055 (0-688-17305-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Terrible Truth About Lawyers: How Lawyers Really Work and How to Deal With Them Successfullyby Mark H. McCormackISBN 0688066216 (0-688-06621-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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To Do Doing Done!: A Creative Approach to Managing Projects and Effectively Finishing What Matters Mostby Joyce Wycoff, G. Lynne SneadISBN 0684818876 (0-684-81887-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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In this book are proven techniques for bringing any project to a successful and satisfying conclusion. The techniques provided in To Do...Doing...Done! are based on Franklin Quest's highly successful Planning for Results seminar, which has boosted the productivity of thousands of employees in corporations across the country, as well as in Europe and Asia. [via]
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Trusted Partners : How Companies Build Mutual Trust and Win Togetherby Jordan D. LewisISBN 0684836513 (0-684-83651-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Ultimate Small Business Guide: A Resource for Startups and Growing Businessesby Perseus PublishingISBN 0738209139 (0-7382-0913-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ultimate Small Business Guide: A Resource for Startups and Growing Businesses'Book summary:In the United States, over 1.7 million startups were registered in 2001. The dream of owning, launching, and managing your own business is alive and well. With so many details to address and challenges and obstacles to overcome, where can entrepreneurs turn to find solid, authoritative, and up-to-date information? The Entrepreneur's Bible is one-stop shopping for anyone thinking of taking the entrepreneurial plunge or looking to grow an already established business. Expanding upon the dynamic database developed for Business: The Ultimate Resource, The Entrepreneur's Bible includes a wealth of insightful tools and information, and success stories and interviews from entrepreneurs who have experienced the joys and frustrations of business ownership firsthand. Covering all aspects of business creation and growth-from planning to launching to managing to growing-The Entrepreneur's Bible will be an essential resource for business owners, whether you're a company of 1 or 1000. [via]
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Under the Radar: Starting Your Net Business Without Venture Capitalby Arnold KlingISBN 0738204684 (0-7382-0468-4)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the Westby John Ralston SaulISBN 0679748199 (0-679-74819-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Familyby Ron ChernowISBN 0679743596 (0-679-74359-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family'Book summary:All three of Ron Chernow's books are lengthy and solidly researched, but his background as a journalist shows in his ability here to convey complex material in terms of vivid characters and a well-defined theme. As in his National Book Award-winning business history (The House of Morgan) and his comprehensive biography of John D. Rockefeller (Titan), in The Warburgs Chernow employs marvelously detailed material to trace a single overarching story: the riveting and ultimately tragic odyssey of German Jews. The Warburgs were Hamburg's preeminent banking family from the 18th century until Hitler's Third Reich forced them to hand over their business to Aryans in 1938. But they also boasted among their family members a celebrated art historian (Aby Warburg), a Nobel Prize-winning scientist (Otto Warburg), and the financial angel of the New York City Ballet (Edward Warburg). Two of the "Famous Five" brothers married American women at the turn of the 20th century and became honored members of the Wall Street establishment, so Chernow's lively narrative imparts important U.S. social and economic history as well. But don't let all those fancy credentials intimidate you: The Warburgs features enough flamboyant personalities and high-class gossip to make this as entertaining a read as the latest issue of People magazine. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Weird Ideas That Work: 11 1/2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovationby Robert I. SuttonISBN 0743212126 (0-7432-1212-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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What Do You Call a Sociopath in a Cubicle?: Answer A Coworker A Dilbert Bookby Scott AdamsISBN 0740726633 (0-7407-2663-3)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Do You Call a Sociopath in a Cubicle?: Answer A Coworker A Dilbert Book'Book summary:"Once every decade, America is gifted with an angst-ridden anti-hero, a Nietzschean nebbish, an us-against-the-universe everyperson around whom our insecurities collect like iron shavings to a magnet. Charlie Chaplin. Dagwood Bumstead. Charlie Brown. Cathy. Now, Dilbert." --The Miami Herald
The former occupant of cubicle 4S700R at Pacific Bell seems to have made a go of this cartoon strip thing. What began as a doodling diversion that Scott Adams shared with his officemates has exploded into one of the most read cartoon strips worldwide.
This Dilbert treasury, What Do You Call a Sociopath in a Cubicle? Answer: A Coworker, brings together all of the office psychos who have annoyed Dilbert and entertained millions. This compilation pays homage to some of the most annoying and outrageous characters Adams' has ever drawn-characters he likes to call office "sociopaths."
* Edfred the two-faced man
* Anne L. Retentive
* Nervous Ted
* Loud Howard
* Alice and her fist of death
This full-color treasury reinforces everything that makes the strip great by lampooning the people and processes of business. Adams homes in on all the quirky coworkers that drive us crazy in the corporate world. He has fun at the expense of office oafs found in workplaces everywhere--creatures like the Office Sociopath, who listens to voice mail on his speaker phone, and the Exactly Man, who punctuates everything with a finger point, exclaiming "Exactly!" The result is a book that leaves readers knowingly rolling their eyes and, of course, laughing uproariously. [via]
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What Management Is: How It Works and Why It's Everyone's Businessby Joan Magretta, Nan Dundes StoneISBN 0743203186 (0-7432-0318-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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When Body Language Goes Bad: A Dilbert Bookby Scott AdamsISBN 0740732986 (0-7407-3298-6)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When Body Language Goes Bad: A Dilbert Book'Book summary:"Dilbert is easily one of the most clever and consistently funny comics in current circulation. Like all great comic strips, it provides a much-needed daily dose of comedy and, most importantly, keeps its finger firmly planted on the pulse of truth while doing so." Some might think that the corporate scandals of 2002 could make it difficult to find anything funny about today's business world. But When Body Language Goes Bad proves it will take more than that to slow down the inventive wit of Scott Adams, who clearly is never at a loss for finding hysterical things to mock in corporate life.
This marks the 21st collection of Adams' wildly popular comic strip, Dilbert, which is featured in more than 2,000 newspapers worldwide. This book updates loyal readers on the so-called careers of Dilbert, Alice, Wally, Asok the intern, and other regulars as they wallow through pointless projects, mismanaged company takeovers, futile team-building exercises, and other inane company initiatives like the "name the rest room" contest.
In addition to the strips' familiar characters, this collection showcases Adams' masterful ability to create hilarious "guest stars." There's the network design engineer known as Psycho Hillbilly, who was going for the gentle biker look until he decided it was overdone. Then, there's M. T. Suit, who is merely an empty suit walking the office halls spewing corporatese, such as "promising to enhance core competencies by leveraging platforms."
Adams says that about 80 percent of his initial ideas come from his 150 million-plus readers. Those worldwide readers are sure to celebrate the humor found in When Body Language Goes Bad, his latest satirical look at the modern workplace. [via]
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When Did Ignorance Become a Point of View?by Scott AdamsISBN 0740718398 (0-7407-1839-8)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When Did Ignorance Become a Point of View?'Book summary:Scott Adams still has the corporate world guffawing about the adventures of nerdy Dilbert and his power-hungry companion, Dogbert, plus Ratbert and the pointy-haired boss, as they make their way through the travails of modern work life. Only a cartoonist with been-there-endured-that experience could make us laugh so hard. When Did Ignorance Become a Point of View? captures it all, even those Sunday strips that make it into the office each Monday morning. [via]
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Where the Suckers Moon: The Life and Death of an Advertising Campaignby Randall Rothenberg, Marty AsherISBN 0679740422 (0-679-74042-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Winsby Richard E. Farson, Ralph KeyesISBN 0743225929 (0-7432-2592-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Winning at New Products: Accelerating the Process from Idea to Launchby Robert G. CooperISBN 0738204633 (0-7382-0463-3)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divideby Linda Babcock, Sara LascheverISBN 069108940X (0-691-08940-X)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Working With Difficult Peopleby Muriel SolomonISBN 0735202915 (0-7352-0291-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Working With Difficult People'Book summary:Have you ever agonized over how to handle a bully in the workplace--with pie-in-the-face retribution or a saintly smile? "The 100 people you'll meet on these pages," Muriel Solomon teases in her introduction to this hard-hitting and entertaining guidebook, "should be founding members of E.O.O.--Equal Opportunity Offenders. They show no bias. They are as obnoxious to their bosses as they are to their bookkeepers." But the teasing segues into practical advice for those seeking to do their work in--if not kind circumstances--at least unthreatening ones.
Designed as an at-a-glance reference tool, this 10-part guide describes 10 kinds of culprits, from tyrants, bullies, and sadists to the pushy and presumptuous to connivers and camouflagers. Each type is first defined, allowing for a peek inside the heads of both victim and victimizer and offering a helpful strategy for facilitating tactful dialogues that serves as excellent advice for diffusing workplace tensions and hostilities.
You may recognize these types as thorns in your side or--worse--real threats to your sense of well-being and work performance. This reference book packs a wallop, not only restoring your self-esteem but allowing you to create better relationships with the people at work who make your life miserable. Working with Difficult People may not disarm the despicable, but it will supply you with the ammunition you need to put the control back in your camp. [via]
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The World According to Peter Druckerby Jack Beatty, Peter Ferdinand DruckerISBN 068483801X (0-684-83801-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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World Class Manufacturing : Building Power, Strength, and Valueby Richard J. SchonbergerISBN 0684823039 (0-684-82303-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkersby Robert L. HeilbronerISBN 068486214X (0-684-86214-X)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers'Book summary:The Worldly Philosophers is a bestselling classic that not only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better understand our own times. In this seventh edition, Robert L. Heilbroner provides a new theme that connects thinkers as diverse as Adam Smith and Karl Marx. The theme is the common focus of their highly varied ideas -- namely, the search to understand how a capitalist society works. It is a focus never more needed than in this age of confusing economic headlines.
In a bold new concluding chapter entitled "The End of the Worldly Philosophy?" Heilbroner reminds us that the word "end" refers to both the purpose and limits of economics. This chapter conveys a concern that today's increasingly "scientific" economics may overlook fundamental social and political issues that are central to economics. Thus, unlike its predecessors, this new edition provides not just an indispensable illumination of our past but a call to action for our future. [via]
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