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Herman Brodie, Klaus Harnack / The Trust Mandate: The behavioural science behind how asset managers REALLY win and keep clients (Hardback)

This groundbreaking new book answers an essential why is it that a fund client selects, or an investment consultant recommends, one asset manager over another when the two are, on paper at least, very similar? Also, why is it that some asset managers...

Marc Benioff, Carlye Adler / Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry (Hardback)

How did salesforce.com grow from a start up in a rented apartment into the world's fastest growing software company in less than a decade? For the first time, Marc Benioff, the visionary founder, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com, tells how he and...

John Naisbitt / Megatrends Asia (Hardback)

Megatrends Asia is John Naisbitt's 1997 exploration of the eight Asian megatrends that are changing the world.In this, the mother of all megatrends books (Wall Street Journal), John Naisbitt, the trend forecaster known throughout the world for his...

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...

Jan Luiten Van Zaanden / A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set)

A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) Covering the period 1890-2007, 3 history volumes, and a seperate volume of appendices. 

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Maurice F. Greaver / Strategic Outsourcing: A Structured Approach to Outsourcing Decisions and Initiatives (Hardback)

STRATEGIC OUTSOURCING Risk Management, Methods and Benefits Organizations are turning to external suppliers for everything from payroll processing to facilities management. The goal is better quality at lower costs, but too often the results are...

Dave Francis / Unblocking Organizational Communication (Hardback)

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John Browne / Connect: How companies succeed by engaging radically with society (Hardback)

Drawing on the professional experience of John Browne, former CEO of BP, and the insight of two McKinsey experts, Connect articulates and explores the recurring rift between big business and society, offering a practical manifesto for reconciliation...

Roger McNamee / The New Normal: Great Opportunities in a Time of Great Risk (Hardback)

Back in the 40s, 50s, and 60s, it was fairly easy to plan for a secure future. People picked a career, a spouse, and a place to live, and those basic decisions put them on a predictable course for the rest of their lives. Especially if they were lucky...

Paul Galloway / The Little Black Book of Online Business: 1001 Insider Resources Every Business Owner Needs (Hardback)

All in one Resource for Internet marketers: This is the only book where internet marketers in myriad fields and industries can acquire access to an itemized and categorized listing of tools to fuel online business. The Little Black Book of Online...

William D. Cohan / The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. (Hardback)

A grand and revelatory portrait of Wall Street’s most storied investment bankWall Street investment banks move trillions of dollars a year, make billions in fees, pay their executives in the tens of millions of dollars. But even among the most...

W. Warner Burke / Business Climate Shifts: Profiles of Change Makers (Hardback)

First published in 1999. Business Climate Profiles of Change Makers contains a wealth of CEO wisdom about how companies today can successfully manage change in response to rapidly changing business conditions. Includes a compelling overview of the...

Klas Mellander / The Power of Learning: Fostering Employee Growth (Hardback)

Co-published with the American Society for Training and Development. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.     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...

Jeffrey D. Sachs / Common Wealth: Economics For A Crowded Planet (Hardback)

This is a book about how we should address the great, and interconnected, global challenges of the twenty-first century. Our task, Sachs argues, is to achieve truly sustainable development, by which he means finding a global course which enables the...

Tim Jackson / Richard Branson Virgin King (Hardback)

Richard Branson, Britain's 15th richest man and one of the most prominent businessmen, was voted the country's leading role model among young people. He is full of he is a notorious self-publicist who claims to be fiercely shy, a brilliant motivator...