Digital Press: 167 books
The Strategic Leader's Roadmap
6 Steps for Integrating Leadership and Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
We can all become strategic leaders if we stay on the right path.”
-Harbir Singh & Michael Useem
Even a strong leader can flounder without an effective strategy, and the most powerful strategy can fail without the right leader. Only those who master and integrate both skills can effectively...
Why Good People Can't Get Jobs
The Skills Gap and What Companies Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Peter Cappelli confronts the myth of the skills gap and provides an actionable path forward to put people back to work.
Even in a time of perilously high unemployment, companies contend that they cannot find the employees they need. Pointing to a skills gap, employers argue applicants are simply...
The Immigrant Exodus
Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
A 2012 ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Many of the United States’ most innovative entrepreneurs have been immigrants, from Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, and Charles Pfizer to Sergey Brin, Vinod Khosla, and Elon Musk. Nearly half of Fortune 500 companies and one-quarter of all new small...
Brilliant Mistakes
Finding Success on the Far Side of Failure
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Named #1 Best Business Book of 2011, by Patriot-NewsPennLive.com
If you have ever flown in an airplane, used electricity from a nuclear power plant, or taken an antibiotic, you have benefited from a brilliant mistake.
Each of these life-changing innovations was the result of many missteps...
Crack the C-Suite Code
How Successful Leaders Make It to the Top
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
An insider’s guide to creating your own path to the corner office
How can I reach the C-suite? That is the most common question Cassandra Frangos hears from the executives she coaches. Many aspire to reach the C-suite, but the typical paths to the top are hard to find and difficult to follow.
In...
by Abner Doubleday
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Abner Doubleday was an 1842 graduate of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point and a veteran of the Mexican war when he was assigned to Fort Moultrie in the summer of 1860. A Captain of Artillery, he served as second in command of the garrison at the historic fort when the curtain rose on the dramatic...
The Life of Mary Jemison
White Woman of the Genesee
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Taken captive at the early age of thirteen by Seneca Indians, Mary Jemison was trained in the wilderness to the ordinary duties of the Indian female. Embedded with the sentiments and lifestyle of the Seneca's she essentially transformed into a member of the tribe. Mary Jemison's story is a remarkable...
The True Story of Andersonville Prison
A Defense of Major Henry Wirz
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
During the Civil War, James Madison Page was a prisoner in different places in the South. Seven months of that time was spent at Andersonville. While there he became well acquainted with Major Wirz, or Captain Wirz, his rank during Page’s confinement.
Page takes the stand that Captain Wirz...
Baby Bust
New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
**Lean in. Opt out. Have it all. None of the above.
A new book based on a groundbreaking cross-generational study reveals both greater freedom and new constraints for men and women in their work and family lives.**
Stew Friedman, founding director of The Wharton School’s Work/Life...
Dear Charlie
Letters to a Lost Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
‘The writing is incredibly raw and…pulls no punches…What it does do is remind us that life is brief and to be valued, which is no small thing.’ The Observer ‘Extra-ordinarily beautiful book on love and loss.’ The Bookseller ‘…utterly compelling in its intimacy...
Building Winning Teams
Leadership Tips from the Changing Room to the Board Room
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
‘Brian has spent his life learning from the best and trying to transfer their talent into his own work and life. This is a remarkable, unique handbook...’ STEVE TAPPIN (CEO) & HUGH LLOYD JUKES (DIRECTOR) OF XINFU Brian Noble has led rugby teams from adversity to triumph over and again and...
Leading Successful Change
8 Keys to Making Change Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Why do as many as 75% of change initiatives fail?
We live in an era where constant change is the norm rather than the exception. Given globalization, increased competition, and constant technological turnover, no organization can run in place: change is not optional. However, the sad fact is...
Global Brand Power
Leveraging Branding for Long-Term Growth
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The branding bible for today’s globalized world
Today, brands have become even more important than the products they represent: their stories travel with lightning speed through social media and the Internet and across countries and diverse cultures. A brand must be elastic enough to allow...
Financial Literacy for Managers
Finance and Accounting for Better Decision-Making
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The language of business
In order to understand how your business is performing right now and to evaluate, assess, and devise new strategies to boost future performance, you need information. Financial statements are a critical source of the information you need.
In direct and simple...