Portfolio imprint: 521 books
Scaling Lean
Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Is your “big idea” worth pursuing? What if you could test your business model earlier in the process—before you’ve expended valuable time and resources?
You’ve talked to customers. You’ve identified problems that need solving, and maybe even built a minimum viable product. But now...
Humans Are Underrated
What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
As technology races ahead, what will people do better than computers?
What hope will there be for us when computers can drive cars better than humans, predict Supreme Court decisions better than legal experts, identify faces, scurry helpfully around offices and factories, even perform some...
Billion Dollar Lessons
What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Ye ars
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
”This book is your chance to learn from others’ mistakes.”-- Entrepreneur
In the 1960s, IBM CEO Tom Watson called an executive into his office after his venture lost $10 million. The man assumed he was being fired. Watson told him, “Fired? Hell, I spent $10 million educating you. I...
After the Trade Is Made, Revised Ed.
Processing Securities Transactions
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
The fully updated classic guide to the mechanics of securities processing—a must for professional investors
This third edition of After the Trade Is Made reflects the changes that have taken place in recent years as a result of new products, technological breakthroughs, and the globalization...
China's Disruptors
How Alibaba, Xiaomi, Tencent, and Other Companies are Changing the Rules of Business
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
In September 2014, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba raised $25 billion in the world’s biggest-ever initial public offering. Since then, millions of investors and managers worldwide have pondered a fundamental question: What’s really going on with the new wave of China’s disruptors?
Alibaba...
Tap Dancing to Work
Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Warren Buffett built Berkshire Hathaway into something remarkable— and Fortune journalist Carol Loomis had a front-row seat for it all.
When Carol Loomis first mentioned a little-known Omaha hedge fund manager in a 1966 Fortune article, she didn’t dream that Warren Buffett would one day...
Shark Tales
How I Turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
The inspiring true story of Shark Tank star Barbara Corcoran--and her best advice for anyone starting a business. After failing at twenty-two jobs, Barbara Corcoran borrowed $1,000 from a boyfriend, quit her job as a diner waitress, and started a tiny real estate office in New York City. Using the...
Retirement Heist
How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
"'As far as I can determine there is only one solution [to the CEO's demand to save more money]', the HR representative wrote to her superiors. 'That would be the death of all existing retirees.'"
It's no secret that hundreds of companies have been slashing pensions and health coverage...
The Postcatastrophe Economy
Rebuilding America and Avoiding the Next Bubble
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
How government and business can work together to secure our economic future.
The 2008 crisis was just the beginning; according to sought-after analyst Eric Janszen, an even bigger financial catastrophe is imminent. Inclined to disbelieve him? He predicted the last two busts months before they...
Ten Steps Ahead
What Separates Successful Business Visionaries from the Rest of Us
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
How do the most extraordinary entrepreneurs create a bold vision for the future-and follow through against all setbacks?
Visionaries like Steve Jobs and Thomas Edison are the stuff of legend. Yet we still fumble in describing what they actually do. Drawing on recent insights from neuroscience...
The Three Rules
How Exceptional Companies Think
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Finally, an answer to the ultimate business question: How do some companies achieve exceptional performance over the long term?
In every sector, there’s an outlier. In the pharmaceutical industry, it’s Merck. In discount retail, it’s Family Dollar. It used to be Wrigley in candy and Maytag...
Street Smarts
An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
"One is tempted to say 'the only book you'll need on starting a business.' Brilliant! Genius! Choose your superlative-it'll fit."-Tom Peters
People starting out in business tend to seek step-by-step formulas or rules, but in reality there are no magic bullets. Rather, says veteran company-builder...
by Donald R. Keough
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Don Keough—a former top executive at Coca-Cola and now chairman of the elite investment banking firm Allen & Company—has witnessed plenty of failures in his sixty-year career (including New Coke). He has also been friends with some of the most successful people in business history, including...
Free Prize Inside
How to Make a Purple Cow
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2004
How to find the soft innovation that will make your product, service, school, church, or career worth talking about.
We live in an era of too much noise, too much clutter, too many choices, and too much spam. And as Seth Godin's 200,000-copy bestseller Purple Cow taught the business world,...