Crown: 5430 books
The Whuffie Factor
Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
The book that catches the crest of Web 2.0 and shows how any business can harness its power by increasing whuffie, the store of social capital that is the currency of the digital world.
Everyone knows about blogs and social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, and has heard about someone...
The Girl's Guide to Being a Boss (Without Being a Bitch)
Valuable Lessons, Smart Suggestions, and True Stories for Succeeding as the Chick-in-Charge
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Forget what you’ve heard. Nice girls can get the corner office.
So, you finally got that promotion. You’re the boss now. The supervisor. The manager. The captain. Those days of taking orders and running errands are over. As exciting as all this might seem, once the rush of the promotion...
The Myth of the Garage
And Other Minor Surprises
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
From Chip and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick, comes The Myth of the Garage: And Other Minor Surprises, a collection of the authors’ best columns for Fast Company magazine—16 pieces in all, plus a previously unpublished piece entitled “The Future Fails Again.”
In...
The Power of Many
Values for Success in Business and in Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Is it possible to run a multibillion-dollar corporation on the power of trust? Must you set aside your authentic self as you climb the corporate ladder? Is there another role for technology beyond saving costs and creating efficiencies? In The Power of Many, Meg Whitman, former president and CEO of...
Management in Ten Words
Practical Advice from the Man Who Created One of the World's Largest Retailers
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
From one of the world’s most admired business leaders, here is a remarkable book
that will forever change the way you think about management.
The meteoric rise of UK supermarket chain Tesco from humble beginnings to its current status as one of the largest retailers in the world can be largely...
Time Off for Good Behavior
How Hardworking Women Can Take a Break and Change Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Have you ever fantasized about taking time away from your overworked life? Nights uninterrupted by email? Days to pursue set-aside dreams? Do you promise yourself that “someday” you will get a break?
Mary Lou Quinlan had those “someday” thoughts. But her hard-earned job as CEO of a...
The Self-Employed Woman's Guide to Launching a Home-Based Business
Everything You Need to Know About Getting Started on the Road to Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
Step-by-Step Advice on Making Your Home-Business Dreams a Reality
From Priscilla Y. Huff, the leading expert on home businesses for women, The Self-Employed Woman's Guide to Launching a Home-Based Business is your step-by-step resource to getting the business of your dreams up and started in no time....
Superforecasting
The Art and Science of Prediction
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST
“The most important book on decision making since Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.”—Jason Zweig, The Wall Street Journal
Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future,...
The One Minute Millionaire
The Enlightened Way to Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Two mega-bestselling authors with decades of experience in teaching people how to achieve extraordinary wealth and success share their secrets.
Mark Victor Hansen, cocreator of the phenomenal Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and Robert G. Allen, one of the world’s foremost financial experts,...
by Jack Weatherford
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
In his most widely appealing book yet, one of today's leading authors of popular anthropology looks at the intriguing history and peculiar nature of money, tracing our relationship with it from the time when primitive men exchanged cowrie shells to the imminent arrival of the all-purpose electronic cash card. 320 pp. Author tour. National radio publicity. 25,000 print.
Everything Is Obvious
*Once You Know the Answer
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
By understanding how and when common sense fails, we can improve our understanding of the present and better plan for the future.
Drawing on the latest scientific research, along with a wealth of historical and contemporary examples, Watts shows how common sense reasoning and history conspire...
Predator Nation
Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Charles H. Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, now explains how a predator elite took over the country, step by step, and he exposes the networks of academic, financial, and political influence, in all recent administrations, that prepared the predators’...
Richistan
A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
The rich have always been different from you and me, but this revealing and funny journey through “Richistan” entertainingly shows that they are more different than ever. Richistanis have 400-foot-yachts, 30,000-square-foot homes, house staffs of more than 100, and their own “arborists.” They’re...
Chasing Goldman Sachs
How the Masters of the Universe Melted Wall Street Down...And Why They'll Take Us to the Brink Again
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
You know what happened during the financial crisis … now it is time to understand why the financial system came so close to falling over the edge of the abyss and why it could happen again.Wall Street has been saved, but it hasn’t been reformed. What is the problem?
Suzanne McGee provides...