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Force For Change
How Leadership Differs from Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
The critics who despair of the coming of imaginative, charismatic leaders to replace the so-called manipulative caretakers of American corporations don't tell us much about what leadership actually is, or, for that matter, what management is either. Now, John P. Kotter, who focused on why we have...
by H.W. Brands
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
From the early years of fur trading to today's Silicon Valley empires, America has proved to be an extraordinarily fertile land for the creation of enormous fortunes. Each generation has produced one or two phenomenally successful leaders, often in new industries that caught contemporaries by surprise,...
America's First Dynasty
The Adamses, 1735-1918
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
They were America's longest lasting dynasty, the closest thing to a royal family our nation has ever known. The Adamses played a leading role in America's affairs for nearly two centuries -- from John, the self-taught lawyer who rose to the highest office in the government he helped to create; to...
by John P. Kotter
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Based on a landmark twenty-year study of 115 members of the Harvard Business School's Class of 1974, this vital and important book describes how the globalization of markets and competition is altering career paths, wage levels, the structure and functioning of corporations, and the very nature of...
Kennedy & Nixon
The Rivalry that Shaped Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In this compelling, smart, and well-researched dual biography, Chris Matthews shows how the contest between the charismatic John F. Kennedy and the talented yet haunted Richard Nixon propelled America toward Vietnam and Watergate.
John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon each dreamed of becoming the...
The Influentials
One American in Ten Tells the Other Nine How to Vote, Where to Eat, and What to Buy
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2003
One American in ten tells the other nine where to shop, what to buy...even how to vote. The Influentials tells who they are, and how they can be influenced.
Who are they? The most influential Americans—the ones who tell their neighbors what to buy, which politicians to support, and where...
To Conquer the Air
The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
James Tobin, award-winning author of Ernie Pyle's War and The Man He Became, has penned the definitive account of the inspiring and impassioned race between the Wright brothers and their primary rival Samuel Langley across ten years and two continents to conquer the air.
For years, Wilbur Wright...
Government of Our Own
The Making of the Confederacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1994
For four crucial months in 1861, delegates from all over the South met in Montgomery, Alabama, to establish a new nation. Davis (Jefferson Davis: The Man and the Hour, LJ 11/15/91) tells their story in this new work, another example of Davis's fine storytelling skill and an indispensable guide to...
Mrs. Goose Goes to Washington
Nursery Rhymes for the Political Barnyard
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
Can anything be poetic in the politicking of Washington, D.C.? Is there poetry in the morning's headlines and in tonight's news tickers? Or, as Seely paraphrases Dr. Seuss, Do W's troubles trouble you, too? America's pundit poet laureate, the man who channeled the poetry of Donald Rumsfeld and Phil...
The Israelis
Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land (Updated in 2008)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Israel is smaller than New Jersey, with 0.11% of the world's population, yet captures a lion's share of headlines. It looks like one country on CNN, a very different one on al-Jazeera. The BBC has their version, The New York Times theirs. But how does Israel look to Israelis? The answers are varied,...
The Inner Game of Selling
Mastering the Hidden Forces that Determine Your Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Selling is 85% emotional and 15% logical.
Forget everything you've been taught about selling -- forget the hardsell, forget negotiation strategies, forget those closing techniques. In The Inner Game of Selling, Ron Willingham debunks the familiar myths about "sales skills," showing that those...
The Silent Takeover
Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2002
Named one of the best books of the year by The Sunday Times of London, and already a bestseller in England, Noreena Hertz's The Silent Takeover explains how corporations in the age of globalization are changing our lives, our society, and our future -- and are threatening the very basis of our democracy.
Of...
High Tech Start Up, Revised And Updated
The Complete Handbook For Creating Successful New High Tech Companies
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2000
This revised and updated edition of Nesheim's underground Silicon Valley bestseller incorporates twenty-three case studies of successful start-ups, including tables of wealth showing how much money founders and investors realized from each venture.
The phenomenal success of the initial public...
by Bill James
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 1995
Arguing about the merits of players is the baseball fan's second favorite pastime and every year the Hall of Fame elections spark heated controversy. In a book that's sure to thrill--and infuriate--countless fans, Bill James takes a hard look at the Hall, probing its history, its politics and, most of all, its decisions.