Crown: 5430 books
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook
Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Senge's best-selling The Fifth Discipline led Business Week to dub him the "new guru" of the corporate world; here he offers executives a step-by-step guide to building "learning organizations" of their own.
Life Is What You Make It
Find Your Own Path to Fulfillment
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
From composer, musician, and philanthropist Peter Buffett comes a warm, wise, and inspirational book that asks, Which will you choose: the path of least resistance or the path of potentially greatest satisfaction?
You may think that with a last name like his, Buffett has enjoyed a life of endless...
The Female Advantage
Women's Ways of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Now in Currency paperback -- Sally Helgesen's classic study of female leaders and how their strategies represent a highly successful revision of male leadership styles. Sixty thousand copies in print! In her bestselling 1990 book, Sally Helgesen discovered that men and women approach...
The Agenda
What Every Business Must Do to Dominate the Decade
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
The agenda: nine powerful and practical business ideas for today’s world of fierce competitors and even fiercer customers.
These are tough times for business. Pressures from all sides are greater than ever. The old solutions don’t work anymore, and the silver bullets of the late 1990s have...
The Last Line of Defense
The New Fight for American Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli leads the historic fight against the unprecedented overreach of the federal government.
With Obamacare and agencies like the EPA, the FCC, and the National Labor Relations Board attempting to exercise unprecedented control over the American people, the...
The Price of Admission
How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A disturbing exposé of the influence that wealth and power still exert on admission to the nation’s most prestigious universities.”—The Washington Post Book World
“A fire-breathing, righteous attack on the culture of superprivilege.”—Michael Wolff, author...
Hope Is Not a Method
What Business Leaders Can Learn from America's Army
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
Since the end of the Cold War, the United States Army has been reengineered and downsized more thoroughly than any other business. In the early 1990s, General Sullivan, army chief of staff, and Colonel Harper, his key strategic planner, took the post-Cold War army into the Information Age. Faced with...
by A.M. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Warfighting is an authentic American philosophy of action that will thrill the millions of fans of SunTzu's The Art of War and Musashi's The Book of Five Rings. This modern classic of strategy and philosophy is the quintessential guide to prevailing in competitive situations, be it war, work, play,...
Your First Year As a Nurse, Second Edition
Making the Transition from Total Novice to Successful Professional
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Survive and Thrive as a Nurse in Today's New Health-Services Landscape
Welcome to the compassionate and caring world of nursing! You are entering a profession that offers great rewards and endless opportunities. But you must prepare for the challenges ahead and do everything you can to ensure...
If Harry Potter Ran General Electric
Leadership Wisdom from the World of the Wizards
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2006
However important the magic of wands, brooms, cauldrons, potions, and spells might be to the vivid story telling of [the Harry Potter] books, it is merely incidental to their philosophy of life…. I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard someone in a business context say something like “I...
Satisfied Customers Tell Three Friends, Angry Customers Tell 3,000
Running a Business in Today's Consumer-Driven World
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
In today’s Internet-driven world, customers have more power than ever. Through what interactive marketing expert Pete Blackshaw calls "consumer-generated media"—blogs, social networking pages, message boards, product review sites—even a single disgruntled customer can broadcast his complaints...
How to Retire Rich in a Totally Changed World
Why You're Not in Kansas Anymore
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Whether you are thirty years from retirement or it’s just around the corner, here is the only book you’ll need about how to get it together and plan a safe, secure, and prosperous retirement. Money magazine senior editor Walter Updegrave has crafted a practical, resourceful guide, showing readers...
Schools That Learn (Updated and Revised)
A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
"A rich, much-needed remedy for the standardized institutions that comprise too much of our school system today… ideal for teachers and parents intent on resurrecting and fostering students' inherent drive to learn…An essential resource."
-Daniel H. Pink, author of DRIVE and A WHOLE...
The Penguin and the Leviathan
How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
What do Wikipedia, Zip Car’s business model, Barack Obama's presidential campaign, and a small group of lobster fishermen have in common? They all show the power and promise of human cooperation in transforming our businesses, our government, and our society at large. Because today, when the costs...