The CEO Code shows how to develop the attitudes, knowledge, skills, and behaviors required to master leadership and build a great company. This practical book shows you how to design your own program of development and create a...
Business and economics
- Author:Rohlander, DavidSummary:
- Author:Hopkins, Tom, Laaman, LauraSummary:
This focuses on critical selling techniques, from handshakes and clothing to networking and presentations. By observing three salespeople during their transformation from skeptical to productive, this handbook helps individuals turn...
- Author:Salerno, Ann, Brock, LillieSummary:
Dealing with organizational change is about getting through the emotion and commotion with minimal damage to your blood pressure, career, relationships, and confidence. In The Change Cycle, Ann Salerno and Lillie Brock help readers cope...
- Author:Nasaw, DavidSummary:
David Nasaw's magnificent, definitive biography of William Randolph Hearst is based on newly released private and business papers and interviews. For the first time, documentation of Hearst's interactions with Hitler,...
- Author:Baldwin, Christina, Linnea, Ann, Wheatley, Margaret J.Summary:
More and more organizations are looking for alternatives to rigid, top-down hierarchy. Even the most old-school now realize that good ideas can come from anywhere and that fostering collaboration and group cohesion is vital to any...
- Author:Stanier, Michael BungaySummary:
Want to say less, work less, and have more impact? Stanier gives you the seven core questions that will help you provide more effective support to your employees and co-workers. By unlocking their potential, you'll be able to unlock...
- Author:Auerswald, Philip E.Summary:
Code is the "how" of human productive activity. The creation, implementation, and refinement of code have been the infrastructure of human progress from Neolithic simplicity to modern complexity. In a sweeping narrative that takes...
- Author:Sandford, Robert William, Harford, Deborah, O'Riordan, Dr. JonSummary:
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies. The Columbia River Treaty ratification in 1964 created the largest hydropower project in North...
- Author:Jantsch, JohnSummary:
Jantsch illustrates his three-point system for helping business leaders develop long-lasting and profitable relationships between employees and customers.
- Author:Bown, Stephen R.Summary:
The story of the Hudson's Bay Company is the story of modern Canada's creation. And it has never before been told in such depth and detail as in this new book by Stephen R. Bown.
- Author:Bakan, JoelSummary:
Bakan contends that the corporation is created by law to function much like a psychopathic personality whose destructive behaviour, if left unchecked, leads to scandal and ruin. Backed by extensive research, the book draws on interviews...
- Author:Rumelt, Richard P.Summary:
Strategy is an ongoing journey, not a once-a-year exercise done and then forgotten. Leaders who are strategists have an ever-present alertness to rapidly evolving business, economic, and institutional challenges that threaten future...
- Author:Brown, EliotSummary:
WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER - "The riveting, definitive account of WeWork, one of the wildest business stories of our time."-Matt Levine, Money Stuff columnist, Bloomberg Opinion The inside story of WeWork, its audacious...
- Author:Rapaille, ClotaireSummary:
Rapaille's breakthrough notion is that we acquire a silent system of Codes as we grow up within our culture. These Culture Codes invisibly shape how we behave in our personal lives. We can learn to crack these Codes and achieve new...
- Author:Meyer, ErinSummary:
As today's business world becomes ever-more global and virtual, executives and managers are expected to work harmoniously together with counterparts from a broad array dramatically different cultures and backgrounds, often without...
- Author:Ballesteros, EmilySummary:
"An empowering guidebook to combatting burnout . . . Emily Ballesteros' advice is useful and practical, especially for young workers eager to reclaim their time and energy." - Charles Duhigg, New York Times bestselling author of The...
- Author:Greene, RobertSummary:
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From the world's foremost expert on power and strategy comes a daily devotional designed to help you seize your destiny. Robert Greene, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, has been the consigliere...
- Author:Frank, Robert H.Summary:
Frank looks at how economic competition is actually hindering the "common good." He explains that Charles Darwin's theory on the clash between individual and group interests is a perfect analogy for today's economic landscape.
- Author:MacKinnon, J. B.Summary:
In a brilliant work of imaginative nonfiction, prize-winning author J.B. MacKinnon asks, what would happen - to our economy, our ecology, our products, ourselves - if we stopped consuming so much? Is that alternative world one we might...
- Author:Coll, SteveSummary:
A New York Times-bestselling author's "superbly reported" account of the dismantling of the world's largest corporation (The Washington Post). Written by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars and...