Crown Business imprint: 386 books
Healing the Downsized Organization
What Every Employee Needs to Know About Today's New Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Healing the Downsized Organization is for managers and employees who must make sense of dramatically changed workplaces after reengineering, restructuring, or downsizing. Here are "best practices" from those who are successfully reinventing their organizations and re-creating healthy workplaces. Documented...
We're Not In Kansas Anymore
Strategies for Retiring Rich in a Totally Changed World
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2004
Whether you are thirty years from retirement or it's just around the corner, here is the only book you'll need about how to get it together and plan a safe, secure, and prosperous retirement.
We all know the scene: Dorothy is transported from the flat terrain of Kansas to the bizarre land of...
Click
The Forces Behind How We Fully Engage with People, Work, and Everything We Do
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
You know the feeling. You meet someone new—at a party or at work—and you just hit it off. There is an instant sense of camaraderie.
In a word, you “click.”
From the bestselling authors of Sway, Click is a fascinating psychological investigation of the forces behind what makes...
Showing Up for Life
Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
A heartfelt, deeply personal book, Showing Up for Life shines a bright light on the values and principles that Bill Gates Sr. has learned over a lifetime of “showing up”—lessons that he learned growing up during the Great Depression, and that he instilled in his children and continues to practice...
by Baltasar Gracian
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
A Pocket Mirror for Heroes is a mirror because it reflects "the person you are or the one you ought to be." It is a pocket mirror because its author took the time to be brief. And it is a mirror for heroes because it provides a vivid image of ethical and moral perfection to which all can...
Schools That Learn (Updated and Revised)
A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
"A rich, much-needed remedy for the standardized institutions that comprise too much of our school system today… ideal for teachers and parents intent on resurrecting and fostering students' inherent drive to learn…An essential resource."
-Daniel H. Pink, author of DRIVE and A WHOLE...
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
A Pocket Oracle
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
The remarkable best-seller -- a long-lost, 300-year-old book of wisdom on how to live successfully yet responsibly in a society governed by self-interest -- as acute as Machiavelli yet as humanistic and scrupulously moral as Marcus Aurelius.
The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived
The Wisdom of Jesus in Achieving Unparalleled Success and Unshakable Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Just as the sun blinds our eyes to a sky filled with stars, Jesus’ deity can blind us to the unseen riches of His humanity. In The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived, Steven K. Scott reveals the hidden treasures to be found in Christ’s life as a human. When you learn from Jesus’ life on earth, your...