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Dumb Money
How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
The financial crisis that has gripped this country since last September has had so many twists and turns, it would make for a great drama -- if it all were not so real and damaging. Companies are shutting down and laying off workers, 401ks are melting away, and the government is spending $700 billion...
The Immigrant Advantage
What We Can Learn from Newcomers to America about Health, Happiness and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Do you have a relative or friend who would gladly wait on you, hand and foot, for a full month after you had a baby? How about someone to deliver a delicious, piping hot home-cooked meal, just like your mother’s, right to your front door after work? Do you know people you’d trust enough to give...
e-Commerce
An e-Book Special Report
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2001
Several times a year, The Wall Street Journal publishes Special Reports about e-commerce and technology. With this segment of the economy generating billions of dollars in revenue and market capitalization, it's no wonder that this is one of the most popular features of both the print and interactive...
Too Many Bosses, Too Few Leaders
The Three Essential Principles You Need to Become an Extraordinary Leader
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
How did Alan Mulally––an outsider to the auto industry—lead such a spectacular turnaround at Ford? How did Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack keep his company from imploding even as Lehman Brothers collapsed? What is it that enables such extraordinary leaders to galvanize their talents and energy,...
The Rule of Three
Surviving and Thriving in Competitive Markets
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
Name any industry and more likely than not you will find that the three strongest, most efficient companies control 70 to 90 percent of the market. Here are just a few examples:
McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's
General Mills, Kellogg, and Post
Nike, Adidas, and Reebok
Bank of America, Chase...
Five Points
The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words." So wrote a reporter about Five Points,...
by Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2005
In No Place to Hide, award-winning Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow, Jr., lays out in unnerving detail the post-9/11 marriage of private data and technology companies and government anti-terror initiatives to create something entirely new: a security-industrial complex. Drawing on his years...
Why Business People Speak Like Idiots
A Bullfighter's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2005
Ole!
If you think you smell something at work, there's probably good reason--"bull" has become the official language of business. Every day, we get bombarded by an endless stream of filtered, antiseptic, jargon-filled corporate speak, all of which makes it harder to get heard, harder to be authentic,...
Better, Stronger, Faster
The Myth of American Decline . . . and the Rise of a New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Financial meltdown, a deep recession, and political polarization—combined with strong growth outside the United States—have led to a global bubble of pessimism surrounding America’s economic prospects. Bloated with debt, and outpaced by China and other emerging markets, the United States has...
Executive Economics
Ten Tools for Business Decision Makers
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
What do economists know that business executives find useful? Economics ought to be indispensable for business decision-makers because it deals with the issues executives face daily: what to pro duce, how and how much, at what price, how best to use resources (time, labor, capital), how to understand...
The 18 Immutable Laws of Corporate Reputation
Creating, Protecting, and Repairing Your Most Valu
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A veteran Wall Street Journal editor and authority on branding, marketing and reputation provides the 18 crucial rules for companies to follow in developing and protecting their reputation, which can be their most valuable asset or their worst nightmare. A must read book for senior executives, consultants,...
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...