Crown Business imprint: 386 books
The Provocateur
Why Great Leaders are Educators, Entertainers, Sages, and Sherpa Guides, but not Generals
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2002
What’s the difference between CEOs like Lou Gerstner of IBM and Larry Ellison of Oracle? Between basketball coaches Phil Jackson and Bobby Knight? Or media entrepreneurs Oprah Winfrey and Rupert Murdoch?
Gerstner, Jackson, and Winfrey are provocateurs, leaders who are successful not just...
The Breakthrough Company
How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
The vast majority of small businesses stay small—and not by choice. Only the most savvy and persistent—a tiny one tenth of one percent—break through to annual sales above $250 million. In The Breakthrough Company, Keith McFarland pinpoints how everyday companies become extraordinary, showing...
Demand
Creating What People Love Before They Know They Want It
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
In DEMAND: Giving People What They Love Before They Know They Want It (Crown Business; October 2011), Adrian Slywotzky, named by Industry Week one of the world’s six most influential management thinkers, provides a radically new way to think about demand, with a big idea and a host of practical...
by Colleen DeBaise
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
Because starting a small business is not only a huge financial risk but also a complete lifestyle change, anyone who wants to be his or her own boss needs to approach entrepreneurship thoughtfully and with careful planning. That’s why there is no better resource than The Wall Street Journal Complete...
by Brent Bowers
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
“As unique as it is valuable, [8 Patterns of Highly Effective Entrepreneurs] achieves where so many business books fail. It provides practical advice for individuals . . . [I]t delivers what few business books ever aspire to achieve—wisdom regarding business and decision making, within a special...
Fast Company The Rules of Business
55 Essential Ideas to Help Smart People (and Organizations) Perform At Their Best
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2005
From The Rules of Business
Rule #1 The first rule of business is the same as the first rule of life: Adapt or die.
“What gets measured, gets done.”
—Peter Drucker
Rule #8 Nothing is more overrated than a new idea. Ideas by themselves are worthless. It’s what you do with...
Confronting Reality
Doing What Matters to Get Things Right
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2004
Confronting Reality will change the way you think about and run your business. It is the first book that shows how to connect the big picture of the new era of business with the nitty-gritty of what to do about it. Through a completely new way to understand and use the business model as the primary...
The Agenda
What Every Business Must Do to Dominate the Decade
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
The agenda: nine powerful and practical business ideas for today’s world of fierce competitors and even fiercer customers.
These are tough times for business. Pressures from all sides are greater than ever. The old solutions don’t work anymore, and the silver bullets of the late 1990s have...
Faith and Fortune
The Quiet Revolution to Reform American Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Lately the headlines have delivered dispiriting news about wrongdoing and scandal in business. But behind the headlines lies a surprising, untold story: Corporate America is changing for the better. Faith and Fortune tells the stories of the extraordinary people who are leading the way and the admirable...
by Adrian J. Slywotzky, David Morrison, Karl Weber
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2001
The biggest, most important issue in business today--becoming digital--touches not only traditional enterprises but the most avant-garde of Internet companies as well.
Old-economy companies must take steps to avoid becoming victims of capitalism's creative destruction, the unofficial system...
The One Minute Entrepreneur
The Secret to Creating and Sustaining a Successful Business
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Mega-bestselling author Ken Blanchard and celebrated business leaders Don Hutson and Ethan Willis present an inspiring story that reveals the secrets to becoming a successful entrepreneur.
In THE ONE MINUTE ENTREPRENEUR, Ken Blanchard (coauthor of the #1 bestselling business classic The One...
Startup Nation
America's Leading Entrepreneurial Experts Reveal the Secrets to Building a Block buster Business
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Want to take control of your life? Want to trade in that listless job and create the company you’ve always dreamed of? Millions of new businesses are started each year, from online diamond dealers to part-time “pet projects” to the latest franchises. StartupNation is all about putting you in...
199 Great Home Businesses You Can Start (and Succeed In) for Under $1,000
How to Choose the Best Home Business for You Based on Your Personality Type
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
Turn Your Dream of Starting a Home-Based Business into Reality!
It's incredibly easy to start a money-making business right from the comfort of your own home. Millions of people just like you are enjoying the freedom—and extra income—of working for themselves. You can too. In 199 Great Home Businesses...
Losing My Virginity
How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The unusual, frequently outrageous autobiography of one of the great business geniuses of our time, Richard Branson.
In little more than twenty-five years, Richard Branson spawned nearly a hundred successful ventures. From the airline business (Virgin Atlantic Airways), to music (Virgin Records...