Industries category: 12638 books
Renewable Energy Finance
Powering the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
The future of clean energy is no longer about science and technology; it's all about access to finance. The fossil fuel industry has been subsidized for decades with tax breaks and government backing, while renewables have struggled to compete. But now clean energy is the safe bet for investors, as...
by Curtis W. Johnson, Michael B. Horn, Clayton M. Christensen
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2008
Selected as one of the "Best Books on Innovation, 2008" by BusinessWeek magazine
Named the "Best Human-Capital Book of 2008" by Strategy + Business magazine
A crash course in the business of learning-from the bestselling author of The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's...
Getting Organized in the Google Era
How to Get Stuff out of Your Head, Find It When You Need It, and Get It Done Right
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Whether it's a faulty memory, a tendency to multitask, or difficulty managing our time, every one of us has limitations conspiring to keep us from being organized. But, as organizational guru and former Google CIO Douglas C. Merrill points out, it isn't our fault. Our brains simply aren't designed...
by Michael George, David Rowlands, Bill Kastle
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2003
A quick introduction on how to use Lean Six Sigma to improve your workplace, meet your goals, and better serve your customers.
Lean Six Sigma combines the two most important improvement trends of our time: making work better (using Six Sigma) and making work faster (using Lean principles)....
Meaningful Work
A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The founder and CEO of Askinosie Chocolate, an award-winning craft chocolate factory, shows readers how he discovered the secret to purposeful work and business − and how we can too, no matter what work we do.
Askinosie Chocolate is a small-batch, award winning chocolate company widely considered...
The Master Switch
The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
A New Yorker and Fortune Best Book of the Year
Analyzing the strategic maneuvers of today’s great information powers–Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&T–Tim Wu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire.
It is easy...
Consumption Economics: The New Rules of Tech
The New Rules of Tech
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
If you’re a tech company, the most dramatic effect of megatrends like cloud computing, managed services, and the rise of consumer technology won’t be felt in your company’s product line. The true disruption will be to your business model. Future customers won’t want to pay you high prices...
Top of the Rock
Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Seinfeld, Friends, Frasier, ER, Cheers, Law & Order, Will & Grace…Here is the funny, splashy, irresistible insiders’ account of the greatest era in television history -- told by the actors, writers, directors, producers, and the network executives who made it happen…and watched it all...
The Facebook Effect
The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
The exclusive inside story of Facebook and how it has revolutionized the way the world uses the Internet. “A fantastic book, filled with great reporting and colorful narrative” (Walter Isaacson).
In little more than half a decade, Facebook has gone from a dorm-room novelty to a company...
The Machine That Changed the World
The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
The classic, nationally bestselling book that first articulated the principles of lean production, with a new foreword and afterword by the authors.
When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Twenty years later Toyota passed...
by Saru Jayaraman
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
"Sustainability is about contributing to a society that everybody benefits from, not just going organic because you don't want to die from cancer or have a difficult pregnancy. What is a sustainable restaurant? It's one in which as the restaurant grows, the people grow with it."-from Behind...
The One Device
The Secret History of the iPhone
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
**The secret history of the invention that changed everything-**and became the most profitable product in the world.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award
One of the Best Business Books of 2016 - CNBC, Bloomberg, 1-800-CEO-Read
"The...
The Toyota Way : 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer
14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2003
How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industry
In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor...
Life After Google
The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH
FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: "****Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fullest philosophical decibel... Mr. Gilder sounds less like a tech guru than a poet, and his words tumble out in a romantic cascade."
“Google’s...