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Sandy Linver / Leader's Edge: How to Use Communication to Grow Your Business and Yourself (Hardback)

Showing how managers can help their businesses grow by developing their special personalities and strengths, a communication expert explains how major corporations have used her accessible techniques to build realistic goals and achieve better...

Sandy Linver / Speak and Get Results (Hardback)

Tells how to motivate listeners, handle questions, make an authoritative impression, and reduce audience resistance, and looks at specific business situations.          All of our books are second hand, and while you...

Jon Taffer / Raise the Bar: An Action-Based Method for Maximum Customer Reactions (Hardback)

If there’s anyone who can prevent a bar or restaurant from going belly up, it’s Jon Taffer. Widely considered the greatest authority in the food and beverage, hotel, and hospitality industries, he has turned around countless bars and...

Craig Hickman / Mind of a Manager Soul of a Leader (Hardback)

The best business managers and leaders often have an adversarial relationship with each other, yet they have one thing in common: the search for that elusive advantage that will propel them and their organizations to greater success. It explores the...

Gerry McCusker / Talespin: Public Relations Disasters -- the Inside Stories & the Lessons Learned (Hardback)

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Tim Drake / Wearing the Coat of Change: Handbook for Personal Survival and Prosperity in the Unpredictable World of Work (Hardback)

An inspiring and practical book for survival in today's tough work climate of change and uncertainty, Wearing the Coat of Change traces the personal odyssey of Tim Drake, from assets of 5 million, through well-near wipe out, to a state of...

Clive Gilson / Peak Performance: Business Lessons from the World?s Top Sports (Hardback)

In this text, the world's best sports organizations reveal how their teams keep on winning - and how any business can use their methods to get to the top and stay there.         All of our books are second hand, and while you...

Theodore B. Kinni, Al Ries / Future Focus: How 21 Companies are Capturing 21st Century Success (Hardback)

Theodore B. Kinni Editor of The Business Reader Review, a free electronic newsletter of capsule reviews of new business books. Al Ries Voted one of the top 100 most influential public relations people in the 20th century by PR Week. Savvy business...

W.d. Cohan / House of Cards: How Wall Street's Gamblers Broke Capitalism: The Fall of Bear Stearns and the Collapse of the Global Market (Hardback)

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Larry Winget / It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success Is Your Own Damn Fault (Hardback)

The #1 bestselling author of Shut Up, Stop Whining, & Get a Life reveals the only thing you need to know to succeed in business: YOUR SUCCESS IS YOUR OWN DAMN FAULT! Some authors of business books stroke your ego by reinforcing information...

Anthony Parinello / Secrets of VITO: Think and Sell Like a CEO (Hardback)

Discover the Sales Secrets of Corporate America's Top Movers and Shakers! At a time when integrity of America's corporate leaders is in question and their business practices are under intense scrutiny, bestselling author Anthony Parinello takes us...

Dan Ciampa, Michael Watkins / Right from the Start: Taking Charge in a New Leadership Role (Hardback)

According to Dan Ciampa and Michael Watkins, 64 percent of executives hired form the outside won't make it in their new jobs. While executives from within the ranks know the challenges, culture, and politics of a company, newcomers face a corporate...

Adrian J. Slywotzky / Value Migration: How to Think Several Moves Ahead of the Competition (Hardback)

According to Slywotzky, "value migration" is the flow of economic and shareholder value away from an increasingly outmoded business design toward others that are better equipped to create utility for customers and profit for the company. This book...

Jon M. Huntsman Sr. / Winners Never Cheat : Everyday Values We Learned As Children but May Have Forgotten (Hardback)

Next time someone tells you business can't be done ethically -- corners must be cut, negotiations can't be honest -- hand them Jon Huntsman's new book. He started with practically nothing, and made it to Forbes'list of America's Top 100 richest...

Jack Daly / Hyper Sales Growth: Street-Proven Systems & Processes. How to Grow Quickly & Profitably. (Hardback)

Jack Daly is an international expert in sales and sales management, bringing 30 plus years of field proven experience from a starting base with CPA firm Arthur Andersen to the CEO level of several national companies.A deep dive into three critical areas1...

James Champy / Reengineering Management: The Mandate for New Leadership (Hardback)

The coauthor of Reengineering the Corporation explains how to transform the principles and practices of management to adapt to a changing corporate environment, discussing essential reforms in culture, attitude, organization, and...

Philip Mounsey, Merlin Stone / Managing Direct Marketing (Hardback)

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Stephen C. Lundin / Fish : A Proven Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results (Hardback)

Here's another management parable that draws its lesson from an unlikely source--this time it's the fun-loving fishmongers at Seattle's Pike Place Market. In Fish! the heroine, Mary Jane Ramirez, recently widowed and mother of two, is asked...

Guy Kawasaki / How to Drive Your Competition Crazy: Creating Disruption for Fun and Profit (Hardback)

A rogue business strategist and Macintosh expert offers irreverent, unconventional, and extreme strategies in sales, marketing, production, and human resources to make one's company more competitive.         All of our books...

D. Michael Abrashoff / It's Your Ship : Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy (Hardback)

The story of Captain D. Michael Abrashoff and his command of USS Benfold has become legendary inside and outside the Navy. Now Abrashoff offers this fascinating tale of top-down change for anyone trying to navigate today's uncertain business seas.When...

Peter Sims / Little Bets: How Big Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries (Hardback)

How can errors produce perfection? How can failure fuel ambition? And how can confusion enhance creativity? The little bets. The little bets approach is about using negativity to positive effect. If your plans fall apart, refine them; if you don't...

Nick Wreden / ProfitBrand: How to Increase the Profitability, Accountability and Sustainability of Brands (Hardback)

""ProfitBrand does a superb job in showing how companies can gain by tracking individual customers' profitability, and not simply basing their strategies on aggregate measures such as sales and market share."" -- Philip Kotler, Kellogg School of...

Steven C. Wheelwright, Kim B. Clark / Leading Product Development: The Senior Manager's Guide to Creating and Shaping the Enterprise (Hardback)

Covers pre-project planning, choosing projects that match the strategic objectives of the company, and determining project sequence, measurement, and incentives         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not...

Jonathan Aitken / Heroes and Contemporaries (Hardback)

In the manner of Winston Churchill's book Great Contemporaries Jonathan Aitken brings his personal knowledge to bear combining personal insights, anecdotes and historical judgements on some of the most important figures of the last century Aitken was...

Dave Ulrich, Wayne Brockbank / The HR Value Proposition (Hardback)

The international best seller Human Resource Champions helped set the HR agenda for the 1990s and enabled HR professionals to become strategic partners in their organizations. But earning a seat at the executive table was only the beginning. Today's...

David A. Vise, Steve Coll / Eagle on the Street: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Account of the Sec's Battle with Wall Street (Hardback)

Looks at how deregulation led to SEC investigations of insider trading         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition...

Ronald Cohen / The Second Bounce of the Ball (Hardback)

One of the founding fathers of private equity, Ronald Cohen, distils the lessons of three decades of entrepreneurship.         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture,...

Lisa Endlich / Goldman Sachs; The Culture of Success (Hardback)

Goldman Sachs brings you inside the rarefied boardrooms of one of the most secretive Wall Street banking giants. Begun by a German immigrant in the late 1800s as a small family-run business, Goldman Sachs rose to become the world's top investment...

Tim Harford / The Logic of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of Everything (Hardback)

THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST showed how ordinary economics explained everyday curiosities, such as the price of a cup of coffee and the traffic jam on the way to the supermarket. THE LOGIC OF LIFE shows how the new economics of rational choice theory...

Brad Smith, Carol Ann Browne / Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age (Hardback)

Microsoft President Brad Smith operates by a simple core When your technology changes the world, you bear a responsibility to help address the world you have helped create. This might seem uncontroversial, but it flies in the face of a tech sector long...

Philip Augar / The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism (Hardback)

The first book to look at how and why the British banking industry sold out. A revolution took place in the City in the 80s and 90s. The cosy club of British merchant banking collapsed in a series of sell-outs, closures and scandals. This left the...

Jonathan A. Knee / The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street (Hardback)

Jonathan A. Knee had a ringside seat during the go-go, boom-and-bust decade and into the 21st century, at the two most prestigious investment banks on Wall Street--Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. In this candid and irreverent insider's account of an...

Peter Schwartz / The Art of the Long View (Hardback)

Forget number crunching, says our foremost futurist; it's vision that makes things happen — and this guide to his ideas is a vital tool for planners, managers, entrepreneurs, investors, or anyone interested in tomorrow. All of our...

Ed Smith / Making Decisions: Putting the Human Back in the Machine (Hardback)

Winning takes many forms. For fans of Matthew Syed, this is a great sports book about leadership, judgement and decision-making – rooted in the theory that helped Ed Smith lead England cricket to sustained success. And to help us all win more...

David Kean / How Not to Come Second: The Art of Winning Business Pitches (Hardback)

Seven practical and powerful pitch proposal techniques aimed at securing new clients and business make up the core of this indispensable guide to being the most organized, prepared, and best equipped in the competitive realm of new-business proposals...

David L. Dotlich, Peter C. Cairo / Why CEOs Fail: The 11 Behaviors That Can Derail Your Climb to the Top--And How to Manage Them (Hardback)

If any of the following behaviors sound like you or someone you work with, beware! In Why CEOs Fail, David L. Dotlich and Peter C. Cairo describe the most common characteristics of derailed top executives and how you can avoid...

James Hurman / The Case for Creativity (Hardback)

Three Decades Evidence of the Link Between Imaginative Marketing and Commercial Success     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing...

Robert Steven Kaplan / What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential (Hardback)

Successful leaders know that leadership is less often about having all the answers—and more often about asking the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your...

David Meerman Scott / World Wide Rave: Creating Triggers that Get Millions of People to Spread Your Ideas and Share Your Stories (Hardback)

A World Wide Rave ! What the heck is that ? A World Wide Rave is when people around the world are talking about you, your company, and your products. It's when communities eagerly link to your stuff on the Web. It's when online buzz drives buyers to...

Edward E. Lawler III / Built to Change: How to Achieve Sustained Organizational Effectiveness (Hardback)

In this groundbreaking book, organizational effectiveness experts Edward Lawler and Christopher Worley show how organizations can be “built to change” so they can last and succeed in today’s global economy. Instead of striving to...

Victoria Colligan / Ladies Who Launch: Embracing Entrepreneurship & Creativity as a Lifestyle (Hardback)

Ladies Who Launch is the first company to define the feminine approach to launching a business and to make the connection between starting a business and bringing creativity into your life with self-esteem and happiness. The nationally acclaimed Ladies...

Nouriel Roubini & Stephen Mihm / Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance (Hardback)

This myth shattering book reveals the methods Nouriel Roubini used to foretell the current crisis before other economists saw it coming and shows how those methods can help us make sense of the present and prepare for the future.Renowned economist...

Kenneth J. Arrow / International Perspectives on the Irish Economy (Hardback)

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Martin D. Weiss / The Ultimate Money Guide for Bubbles, Busts, Recession and Depression (Hardback)

Updated version of the bestselling book on how to grow and protect wealth in difficult economic times Having an effective financial plan has always been important; today, it's crucial. In The Ultimate Money Guide for Bubbles, Busts, Recession, and...

Grant Gordon, Nigel Nicholson / Family Wars: The Real Stories behind the Most Famous Family Business Feuds (Hardback)

Many of the world's greatest businesses are family owned, and with this comes the threat of family feuding, sibling rivalries, and petty jealousies. Family Wars takes readers behind the scenes on a rollercoaster ride through the ups and downs of some...

Eric Abrahamson / Change Without Pain: How Managers Can Overcome Initiative Overload, Organizational Chaos, and Employee Burnout (Hardback)

Outlining a positive approach to change called creative recombination, this title identifies five key elements that every company has - people, structures, culture, processes, and networks. It offers a toolkit of techniques for recombining, reusing,...

John Cross / The Little Black Book for Managers: How to Maximize Your Key Management Moments of Power (Hardback)

A smart, small book for any manager’s pocket.   In every manager’s career there are moments where decisions need to be made in order to achieve success and this smart, nicely packaged little book can be there to help each time. The...

Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams/ MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World (Hardback)

Rebooting Business and the World         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage...

Frank Partnoy / F.I.A.S.C.O.: Blood in the Water on Wall Street (Hardback)

The Orange County bankruptcy. The fall of Barings Bank. Shocking losses at Procter & Gamble, Dell Computer, and Gibson Greetings. The Mexican peso crisis. What did all these disasters have in common? A class of financial instruments known as...

Alan Greenspan / The Age of Turbulence (Hardback)

The most remarkable thing that happened to the world economy after 9/11 was ...nothing. What would have once meant a crippling shock to the system was absorbed astonishingly quickly, partly due to the efforts of the then Chairman of the Federal...

Robert E. Quinn / Building the Bridge As You Walk On It: A Guide for Leading Change (Hardback)

Building the Bridge As You Walk On It tells the personal stories of people who have embraced deep change and inspired author Robert Quinn to take his concept one step further and develop a new model of leadership―“the fundamental state of...

Bill Price, David Jaffe / The Best Service is No Service: How to Liberate Your Customers from Customer Service, Keep Them Happy, and Control Costs (Hardback)

In this groundbreaking book, Bill Price and David Jaffe offer a new, game-changing approach, showing how managers are taking the wrong path and are using the wrong metrics to measure customer service. Customer service, they assert, is only needed...