The Crown Publishing Group: 2539 books
Career Comeback
Eight steps to getting back on your feet when you're fired, laid off, or your business ventures has failed--and finding more job satisfaction than ever before
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2004
Career Comeback helps you create a powerful plan to get back on top
The author of the national bestseller JobSmarts for TwentySomethings, Bradley Richardson is one of America’s top career experts. But he also knows what it is like to experience a career setback. When an entrepreneurial effort...
Intellectual Capital
The new wealth of organization
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
Visionary in scope, Intellectual Capital is the first book that shows how to turn the untapped knowledge of an organization into its greatest competitive weapon. Thomas A. Stewart demonstrates how knowledge--not natural resources, machinery, or financial capital--has become the most important factor...
Getting Organized in the Google Era
How to Get Stuff out of Your Head, Find It When You Need It, and Get It Done Right
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Whether it's a faulty memory, a tendency to multitask, or difficulty managing our time, every one of us has limitations conspiring to keep us from being organized. But, as organizational guru and former Google CIO Douglas C. Merrill points out, it isn't our fault. Our brains simply aren't designed...
Before Happiness
The 5 Hidden Keys to Achieving Success, Spreading Happiness, and Sustaining Positive Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Why are some people able to make positive change while others remain the same?
In his international bestseller, The Happiness Advantage, Harvard trained researcher Shawn Achor described why happiness is the precursor to greater success. This book is about what comes before both. Because before...
The 80/20 Principle, Third Edition
The Secret to Achieving More with Less
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Be more effective with less effort by learning how to identify and leverage the 80/20 principle: that 80 percent of all our results in business and in life stem from a mere 20 percent of our efforts.
The 80/20 principle is one of the great secrets of highly effective people and organizations.
Did...
Born for This
How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Have you ever met someone with the perfect job?
To the outside observer, it seems like they've won the career lottery—that by some stroke of luck or circumstance they've found the one thing they love so much that it doesn't even feel like work—and they're getting paid well to do it.
In...
Mind over Money
Overcoming the Money Disorders That Threaten Our Financial Health
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
Do you overspend? Undersave? Keep secrets about money from a spouse or family member? Are you anxious about dealing with your finances? If so, you are not alone. Let's face it–just about all of have complicated, if not downright dysfunctional, relationships with money.
As Drs. Brad and Ted...
by Jeff D. Opdyke
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
A hands-on, interactive guide to managing your monday and building your financial future
Many of the worksheets in this book are available online and can be saved, printed, and recalculated at any time. Go to: WSJ.com/BookTools
Understanding your money, and getting it to work for you,...
Habit Changers
81 Game-Changing Mantras to Mindfully Realize Your Goals
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
What would you like to change in your life? Be more focused at work? Communicate more effectively? Find work-life balance? Make smarter decisions? Be more patient with your team or family? Have greater self-confidence? Less stress? Just . . . be happier?
Often, the biggest obstacle to change...
Bullies, Tyrants, and Impossible People
How to Beat Them Without Joining Them
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
The impossible people who make life’s journey so difficult are everywhere—at the office, in restaurants, on airplanes, living next door, members of your own family. They’re . . .
• your “nothing is ever good enough” boss
• the “no price is ever low enough” client
•...
Organized for Success
Top Executives and CEOs Reveal the Organizing Principles That Helped Them Reach the Top
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2004
In this groundbreaking guide, Stephanie Winston explains how she discovered, after more than two decades as a leading organization expert and bestselling author, that senior executives and CEOs seem to possess unique conceptual skills in the areas of time management and organization that enable them...
The Chaos Imperative
How Chance and Disruption Increase Innovation, Effectiveness, and Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
In the bestselling tradition of Switch and Made to Stick, Ori Brafman reveals how organizations can drive growth and profits by allowing contained chaos and disruption the space to flourish, generating new ideas that trigger innovation.
In The Chaos Imperative, organizational expert and bestselling...
Confidence
How Winning and Losing Streaks Begin and End
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
From the boardroom to the locker room to the living room—how winners become winners . . . and stay that way.
Is success simply a matter of money and talent? Or is there another reason why some people and organizations always land on their feet, while others, equally talented, stumble again...
The Talent Masters
Why Smart Leaders Put People Before Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
If talent is the leading indicator of whether a business is up or down, a success or a failure (and it is) . . . do you know how to accurately judge raw human talent? Understand a person's unique combination of traits? Develop that talent? Convert what supposedly are "soft" subjective judgments...