With home foreclosures at an all-time high and the erratic stock market damaging 401(k) accounts, people are looking for innovative ways to invest their money. Moskowitz explains what tax lien certificates are (liens against property...
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General
- Author:Moskowitz, Joel S.Summary:
- Author:Avery, Christopher M., Walker, Meri A., Murphy, Erin O.Summary:
Knowing how to work effectively in and through groups may be the single most important skill anyone can develop in today's collaborative, team-based workplace. Unfortunately, all of the resources available on teamwork put the...
- Author:AnonymousSummary:
Team Secrets of the Navy SEALs is written especially for business professionals who want to make it in today's extremely aggressive business environment. No force or unit has ever had more success than the SEALs. Author Robert...
- Author:Augustine, Ellen, Stoddard, SuzanneSummary:
Corporate structures, products, and processes permeate our society -but what do they really mean to us in our daily lives? The bottom-line mentality that drives corporate America, say Ellen Augustine (formerly Schwartz) and Suzanne...
- Author:Maruska, Don, Perry, JaySummary:
Whether you’re the new kid in a cubicle, the boss in the executive suite, or self-employed, you have huge potential for greater productivity and fulfillment. Even very high performers in excellent organizations—large and small, for...
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Take Back Your Time is the official handbook for Take Back Your Time Day, a national event. Organizers have enlisted the support of colleges, universities, religious organizations, labor unions, businesses, activist groups, and non-...
- Author:Jaworski, JosephSummary:
We’ve all had those perfect moments when events that could never be predicted, let alone controlled, remarkably seem to guide us along our path. Carl Jung called this phenomena “synchronicity” – “a collaboration between persons and...
- Author:Conlow, Rick, Watsabaugh, DougSummary:
Do you want to be more successful? Achieve record breaking sales? Make more money right now? Are you committed to learning more about your customers and improving your skills and approach to helping them? Salespeople are some of the...
- Author:Conlow, Rick, Watsabaugh, DougSummary:
Superstar Leadership identifies key habits of the best and worst bosses. This 31 day book uses nine key performance drivers to evaluate and help leaders quickly increase results and sustain them. Each evaluation and activity hones your...
- Author:Armstrong, Sharon, Appelbaum, MadelynSummary:
Performance appraisals are one of the most important, continuous responsibilities of a supervisor — and the most dreaded. This book takes you through the entire process of conducting a productive and meaningful performance appraisal —...
- Author:Mager, David, Sibilia, JoeSummary:
Go green while making green. You already know why your company should go green. This comprehensive guide tells you how to do it profitably. It details every step of the process—from getting employee buy-in and conducting a current...
- Author:Block, PeterSummary:
Stewardship was provocative, even revolutionary, when it was first published in 1993, and it remains every bit as relevant and radical today. Most organizations still rely on patriarchy and hierarchy as their core form of governance,...
- Author:Reid, BrendanSummary:
Stealing the Corner Office is mandatory reading for smart, hardworking managers who always wonder why their seemingly incompetent superiors are so successful. It is a unique collection of controversial but highly effective tactics for...
- Author:Eka, EbongSummary:
There are four major pitfalls that business owners experience that inevitably lead to failure. Start Me Up! provides strategies to avoid those pitfalls and gives you the powerful ideas you need to build your thriving business. This is...
- Author:Dressler, Larry, Schwarz, RogerSummary:
High-heat meetings seem to be happening in more and more organizations these days. Situations where participants are polarized, angry, fearful, confused. If you facilitate meetings for a living, all your well-learned techniques won’t...
- Author:Phillips, Robert, Freeman, R. EdwardSummary:
Business ethics is a staple in the news today. One of the most difficult ethical questions facing managers is to whom are they responsible? Organizations can affect and are affected by many different constituencies-these groups are...
- Author:Vengel, Alan, Wright, GregSummary:
Sales has always been a high burnout profession. These days, with the intense focus on quarterly earnings reports, there is more pressure on sales professionals than ever before. The relentless push for immediate results can leave...
- Author:Zohar, Danah, Marshall, IanSummary:
Our world is at a crossroads; we must choose between two alternatives. The first is capitalism as we know it today—an amoral culture of short-term self-interest, profit maximization, emphasis on shareholder value, isolationist thinking...
- Author:Gilbert, FrederickSummary:
Learn the rules of the executive suite! If you are in middle management, to get anything done you must present your ideas to decision makers, and those presentations can be brutal. The stakes are high—one presentation can make or break...
- Author:Jaworski, JosephSummary:
As he did in his classic Synchronicity, Joseph Jaworski once again takes us on a mind-expanding journey, this time to the very heart of creativity and deep knowing. Institutions of all sorts are facing profound change today, with...