Portfolio imprint: 521 books
Stand Out
How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Standing out is no longer optional
Too many people believe that if they keep their heads down and work hard, they’ll be recognized on the merits of their work. But that’s simply not true anymore. “Safe” jobs disappear daily, and the clamor of everyday life drowns out ordinary contributions....
The High-Speed Company
Creating Urgency and Growth in a Nanosecond Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
The only way to ensure your company’s success is to change faster on the inside than the world is changing on the outside
No one knows the ins and outs of successful companies better than bestselling author Jason Jennings. Back in 2001, with It’s Not the Big That Eat the Small, It’s the...
Blockchain Revolution
How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Blockchain technology is powering our future. As the technology behind cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and Facebook's Libra, open software platforms like Ethereum, and disruptive companies like Ripple, it’s too important to ignore.
In this revelatory book, Don Tapscott, the bestselling author...
Revolution in a Bottle
How Terracycle Is Eliminating the Idea of Waste
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
The amazing story of what Inc. magazine called “the coolest little startup in America.”
Tom Szaky dropped out of Princeton a decade ago to found TerraCycle, a company that makes the nonrecyclable recyclable. TerraCycle is now at the forefront of the eco-capitalist movement, partnering with...
Business Models for Teams
See How Your Organization Really Works and How Each Person Fits In
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Are you frustrated by these common problems?
-Lack of a source of motivation common to millennials and boomers alike
-Teambuilding exercises that fail to produce lasting results
-Groups that isolate themselves in specialty silos
-“Job description myopia,” or employee inability see the bigger...
First In, Last Out
Leadership Lessons from the New York Fire Department
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2005
What does it take to lead people into a burning building? How do the leaders of the New York City Fire Department develop so much loyalty, trust, and grace under pressure that their subordinates will risk their very lives for them?
As a high-ranking officer of the FDNY, John Salka is an expert...
Super Thinking
The Big Book of Mental Models
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER!
"You can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form.
You've got to have models in your head."
- Charlie Munger, investor, vice chairman of Berkshire...
Regulatory Hacking
A Playbook for Startups
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
**Named by Inc. magazine as one of the Ten Best Business Books of 2018
Every startup wants to change the world. But the ones who truly make an impact know something the others don't: how to make government and regulation work for them.**
As startups use technology to shape the way we...
by Lauris Liberts, Startup Vitamins
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Get Shit Done. Less meetings, more doing. Passion never fails.
Startup Vitamins aims to provide doses of vitalizing support to startups to help them throughout their development. Posters are created to provide inspiration, reminding startups of key aspects to success while also offering a constant...
Lost and Founder
A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Rand Fishkin, the founder and former CEO of Moz, reveals how traditional Silicon Valley "wisdom" leads far too many startups astray, with the transparency and humor that his hundreds of thousands of blog readers have come to love.
Everyone knows how a startup story is supposed to go: A young,...
High-Hanging Fruit
Build Something Great by Going Where No One Else Will
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Grabbing the low-hanging fruit is no longer acceptable. ZICO Coconut Water founder Mark Rampolla argues that when you choose to reach higher, you can build an incredible business, be profitable, and maybe even change the world.
In 2004, Mark Rampolla was successful by most standards. There...
Power Listening
Mastering the Most Critical Business Skill of All
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Listening is harder than it looks- but it's the difference between business success and failure.
Nothing causes bad decisions in organizations as often as poor listening. But Bernard Ferrari, adviser to some of the nation's most influential executives, believes that such missteps can be avoided...
V Is for Vulnerable
Life Outside the Comfort Zone
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
V is for Vulnerable by Seth Godin is a full-color ABC book for grown-ups, with a powerful message about doing great work. V is for Vulnerable looks and feels like a classic picture book. But it's not for kids, it's for hardworking adults.
It highlights twenty-six of Seth Godin's principles...
There's No Elevator to the Top
A Leading Headhunter Shares the Advancement Strategies of the World's Most Succe ssful Executives
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2008
A top corporate recruiter reveals what it takes to reach the top of a major corporation.
Few people have as deep an understanding of corporate leadership as Umesh Ramakrishnan. As vice chairman of CTPartners, one of the world’s premier search firms, he has placed dozens of C-level executives...