Portfolio imprint: 521 books
No Man's Land
Where Growing Companies Fail
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2007
If starting a company is difficult, leading a company once the business has caught fire is infinitely more so. Thousands of startups each year approach the dangerous transition that Doug Tatum calls No Man's Land—when they are too big too be considered small but still too small to be considered...
O Great One!
A Little Story About the Awesome Power of Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Rather than explain the power of recognition in a typical business book, acclaimed CEO David Novak wrote a fun story that draws on his real-world experiences at Pepsi and Yum! Brands, as well as his personal life.
When was the last time you told your colleagues how much you value them? It sounds...
Get Your Ship Together
How Great Leaders Inspire Ownership From The Keel Up
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2004
Former U.S. Navy Commander Michael Abrashoff attracted worldwide media attention for his success in turning around a struggling ship, the USS Benfold—the subject of his acclaimed bestseller, It’s Your Ship. Since then, he’s been a fixture on the business lecture circuit, spreading an empowering...
Rock Bottom to Rock Star
Lessons from the Business School of Hard Knocks
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Can you remember that one time you got recognized or someone thanked you for your contribution to their life? You were a rock star, even for just one second. This book isn't about a charmed path to success or some untouchable fairy tale that nobody can relate to-this is about going from rock bottom...
The Lost Art of Closing
Winning the Ten Commitments That Drive Sales
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
“Always be closing!” —Glengarry Glen Ross, 1992
“Never Be Closing!” —a sales book title, 2014
“?????” —salespeople everywhere, 2017
For decades, sales managers, coaches, and authors talked about closing as the most essential, most difficult phase of selling. They invented...
How to Be a Capitalist Without Any Capital
The Four Rules You Must Break To Get Rich
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
**Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller!
You don't need to be Ivy League educated, have money, be creative, or even have an idea to get rich. You just need to be willing to break the rules.**
At nineteen, I founded a software company with $119 in my bank account. Five years later, it...
by Alex Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Could everything we know about fossil fuels be wrong?
For decades, environmentalists have told us that using fossil fuels is a self-destructive addiction that will destroy our planet. Yet at the same time, by every measure of human well-being, from life expectancy to clean water to climate...
Netflixed
The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Netflix has come a long way since 1997, when two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings, decided to start an online DVD store before most people owned a DVD player. They were surprised and elated when launch-day traffic in April 1998 crashed their server and resulted in 150...
Wild Ride
Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
In your pocket is something amazing: a quick and easy way to summon a total stranger who will take you anywhere you’d like. In your hands is something equally amazing: the untold story of Uber’s meteoric rise, and the massive ambitions of its larger-than-life founder and CEO.
Before Travis...
Where Does It Hurt?
An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
A bold new remedy for the sprawling and wasteful health care industry.
Where else but the doctor’s office do you have to fill out a form on a clipboard? Have you noticed that hospital bills are almost unintelligible, except for the absurdly high dollar amount? Why is it that technology in...
You Only Have to Be Right Once
The Unprecedented Rise of the Instant Tech Billionaires
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The ultimate insider look at the newest titans of tech—and what you can learn from their success
In 2007, twenty-one-year old David Karp launched Tumblr, a simple micro-blogging platform, on a whim. By 2012, it had become one of the top ten online destinations, drawing 170 million visitors....
Shake the World
It's Not About Finding a Job, It's About Creating a Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
James Marshall Reilly set out to capture the insights of today's brightest business and nonprofit leaders. He conducted in-depth interviews with Tony Hsieh (Zappos), Blake Mycoskie (TOMS), Shawn Fanning (Napster, Rupture, Path), and Jessica Jackley (Kiva, ProFounder), among many others. And he learned...
Miracle Medicines
Seven Lifesaving Drugs and the People Who Created Them
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
It’s the business of saving lives.
Miracle Medicines goes behind the scenes of the pharmaceutical industry and into the high-security laboratories to tell the stories of the men and women---chemists, physiologists, medical and clinical researchers, engineers---who have chosen to toil for years...
Street Fighters
The Last 72 Hours of Bear Stearns, the Toughest Firm on Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
The acclaimed New York Times bestseller-updated for the second anniversary of the collapse of Bear Stearns
The fall of Bear Stearns in March 2008 set off a wave of global financial turmoil that continues to ripple. How could one of the oldest, most resilient firms on Wall Street go so far astray...