Free Press: 1051 books
Credit and Blame at Work
How Better Assessment Can Improve Individual, Team and Organizational Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Previously published as The Blame Game, this acclaimed guide by a leading workplace expert offers essential advice about how to succeed at work by avoiding the pitfalls of pervasive credit-grabbing and finger-pointing.
Credit and Blame at Work, praised by bestselling management expert Robert...
The Way We're Working Isn't Working
The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
This book was previously titled, Be Excellent at Anything.
The Way We're Working Isn't Working is one of those rare books with the power to profoundly transform the way we work and live.
Demand is exceeding our capacity. The ethic of "more, bigger, faster" exacts a series of silent but...
by David H. Maister
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
International expert and consultant David Maister offers a brilliant and accessible guide to every management issue at play in professional firms.
Professional firms differ from other business enterprises in two distinct ways: first, they provide highly customized services and thus cannot apply...
Economic Principles
The Masters and Mavericks of Modern Economics
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
For nearly ten years, readers of the Sunday Boston Globe and newspapers around America have delighted in David Warsh's column, "Economic Principals." This collection shows why. Taken as a whole, Warsh's writings amount to a vast and colorful group portrait of the personalities who dominate modem economics...
Simplicity Marketing
End Brand Complexity, Clutter, and Confusion
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2001
For more than half a century, marketers have bombarded customers with more and more choices in products and services. What is the result? Unprecedented anxiety. Our mental circuit breakers are on overload. In fact, pioneering brand strategists Steven M. Cristol and Peter Sealey assert that we have...
by Ann Beaudry
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
This straightforward and direct guide to running a political campaign provides insight for the first-time candidate based on the authors’ years of experience in the political sphere.
The book features step-by-step instructions for an entire campaign: from the planning stages to the election. Perfect for community-based elections and grassroots campaigns.
Authentic Happiness
Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2002
A national bestseller, Authentic Happiness launched the revolutionary new science of Positive Psychology—and sparked a coast-to-coast debate on the nature of real happiness.
According to esteemed psychologist and bestselling author Martin Seligman, happiness is not the result of good genes...
The Power of Story
Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
In his groundbreaking new book, Dr. Jim Loehr, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Power of Full Engagement, examines the way we tell stories about ourselves to ourselves -- and, most important, the way we can change those stories to transform our business and personal lives.
"Your story...
Customer Centered Selling
Eight Steps To Success From The Worlds Best Sales Force
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 1999
This revised edition of Robert Jolles’s classic book on sales technique features brand new material throughout, including illustrations, teaching aids, coaching techniques, and true implementation strategies!
When you have a process, you have a way of measuring what you are doing. When you...
by Maria Shriver
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
When we look back over the 20th century and try to understand what's happened to workers and their families and the challenges they now face, the movement of women out of the home and into paid employment stands out as a unique and powerful transformation. At one level, everything has changed. And...
Orwell's Revenge
The 1984 Palimpsest
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Mark Zuckerberg's ‘A Year of Books’ Selection
George Orwell’s bleak visions of the future, one in which citizens are monitored through telescreens by an insidious Big Brother, has haunted our imagination long after the publication of 1984. Orwell’s dystopian image of the telescreen...
Intelligent Enterprise
A Knowledge and Service Based Paradigm for Industr
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 1992
In this penetrating study of how knowledge-based services and technology are revolutionizing the economy and every corporate strategy, James Brian Quinn argues that the successful companies of the 90's -- whether in manufacturing or services -- will derive their competitive edge not from ephemerally...
by Susan Rose-Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 1993
Rose-Ackerman sees recent advances in law and economics as an opportunity to tackle some of the failings of the US state. She proposes a progressive and positive agenda of reform rather than simple reduction or expansion of existing functions and services.
Harnessing Complexity
Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2000
Recent advances in the study of complexity have given scientists profound new insights into how natural innovation occurs and how its power can be exploited. Now two pioneers in the field, Robert Axelrod and Michael D. Cohen, provide leaders in business and government with a guide to complexity that...