Crown imprint: 1774 books
The Talent Masters
Why Smart Leaders Put People Before Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
If talent is the leading indicator of whether a business is up or down, a success or a failure (and it is) . . . do you know how to accurately judge raw human talent? Understand a person's unique combination of traits? Develop that talent? Convert what supposedly are "soft" subjective judgments...
The Power of Small
Why Little Things Make All the Difference
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
The authors of the national bestseller The Power of Nice once again tackle conventional wisdom with a provocative and counterintuitive book about the importance of sweating the small stuff in our lives and in our careers.
Our smallest actions and gestures often have outsized impact on our biggest...
The Six Sigma Fieldbook
How DuPont Successfully Implemented the Six Sigma Breakthrough Management Strate gy
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The authoritative hands-on guide to putting the Six Sigma strategy into practice, written by Mikel Harry, co-founder of the Six Sigma Academy, and Don Linsenmann, the Six Sigma champion who helped to implement Six Sigma across DuPont’s eighteen business divisions.
The ideal companion to Mikel...
Kinds of Power
A Guide to its Intelligent Uses
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
In the boldest expose on the nature of power since Machiavelli, celebrated Jungian therapist James Hillman shows how the artful leader uses each of two dozen kinds of power with finesse and subtlety. Power, we often forget, has many faces, many different expressions. "Empowerment," writes...
Unthink
Rediscover Your Creative Genius
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
In the tradition of A Whole New Mind and The War of Art, graffiti artist and corporate thought leader, Erik Wahl explores the power of creativity to achieve superior performance.
Somehow we’ve come to believe that creativity is reserved for the chosen few: the poets, the painters, the writers....
The Career Playbook
Essential Advice for Today's Aspiring Young Professional
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Are you about to graduate and begin your job search?
Or are you a young professional trying to choose the right field or looking for that perfect position that will catapult your career?
Figuring out a career and getting a great job has never been more difficult. On top of that, today’s...
Fight For Your Money
How to Stop Getting Ripped Off and Save a Fortune
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
A war for your money is raging and it is time to fight back!
In a book that will forever change how you spend your hard earned money, America’s favorite financial coach, David Bach, shows you how to save thousands of dollars every year by taking on the “corporate machines.” In these times...
by Bill Carter
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
In the executive offices of the four major networks, sweeping changes are taking place and billions of dollars are at stake. Now Bill Carter, bestselling author of The Late Shift, goes behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of the television industry, capturing the true portraits of the larger-than-life...
Dreaming in Code
Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2007
Their story takes us through a maze of dead ends and exhilarating breakthroughs as they and their colleagues wrestle not only with the abstraction of code but with the unpredictability of human behavior,
especially their own. Along the way, we encounter black holes, turtles, snakes, dragons, axe-sharpening,...
The Cult of the Amateur
How blogs, MySpace, YouTube, and the rest of today's user-generated media are destroying our economy, our culture, and our values
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
Amateur hour has arrived, and the audience is running the show
In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today’s new participatory Web 2.0 and reveals how it threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the...
House of Versace
The Untold Story of Genius, Murder, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Versace. The very name conjures up images of outrageous glamour and bold sexuality, opulence and daring. All of course true, but only half the story. Versace is also the legacy of a great creative genius from a poor, backward part of southern Italy who transformed the fashion world through his intuitive...
In Pursuit of the Common Good
Twenty-Five Years of Improving the World, One Bottle of Salad Dressing at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
Shameless exploitation has never been more fun nor done more good for more people than when done by Newman’s Own—the first green food company to use all-natural ingredients, and still the most successful.
It was 1982 when Paul Newman and A. E. Hotchner made their foray into local gourmet...
220 Best Franchises to Buy
The Essential Sourcebook for Evaluating the Best Franchise Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Today's economic climate, dominated by corporate giants and chains, can be a tough place for a new face, but buying a franchise is the best opportunity for a budding entrepreneur. 220 Best Franchises to Buy, revised and updated with all-new franchise ideas, shows you how to get in on the ground floor--and...
by Rachel Emma Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Let’s face it: you can't avoid death or taxes. But you can create an estate plan that will make both a whole lot easier for your loved ones and put you in control of how your assets will get passed to your heirs.
Here, Wall Street Journal personal-finance reporter Rachel Emma Silverman walks...