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Resilience
Why Things Bounce Back
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Discover a powerful new lens for viewing the world with fascinating implications for our companies, economies, societies, and planet as a whole.
What causes one system to break down and another to rebound? Are we merely subject to the whim of forces beyond our control? Or, in the face of constant...
Game Frame
Using Games as a Strategy for Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Ever wonder why teens can spend entire weekends playing video games but struggle with just one hour of homework? Why we’re addicted to certain websites and steal glances at our smartphones under the dinner table? Or why some people are able to find joy in difficult or repetitive jobs while others...
The Business of Software
What Every Manager, Programmer, and Entrepreneur Must Know to Thrive and Survive in Good Times and Bad
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2004
The world's leading expert on the global software industry and coauthor of the bestseller Microsoft Secrets reveals the inner workings of software giants like IBM, Microsoft, and Netscape and shows what it takes to create, develop, and manage a successful company -- in good times and bad -- in the...
Competing On Internet Time
Lessons From Netscape and Its Battle With Microsoft
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 1998
Competing on Internet time means competitive advantage can be won and lost overnight. In this penetrating analysis of strategy-making and product innovation in the dynamic markets of commercial cyberspace, bestselling Microsoft Secrets co-author Michael Cusumano and top competitive strategy expert...
The Bell Curve
Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public policy can do to mitigate socioeconomic differences in IQ, birth rate, crime, fertility, welfare, and poverty.
The Wisest One in the Room
How You Can Benefit from Social Psychology's Most Powerful Insights
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Renowned psychologists describe the five most useful insights from social psychology that will help make you “wise”: wise about why we behave the way we do, and wise about how to use that knowledge to understand others and change ourselves for the better.
When faced with a challenge, we...
by Herbert A. Simon
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
In this fourth edition of his ground-breaking work, Herbert A. Simon applies his pioneering theory of human choice and administrative decision-making to concrete organizational problems. To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the book's original publication, Professor Simon enhances his timeless...
by Pankaj Ghemawat
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1991
To create a competitive advantage, a company must commit itself to developing a set of capabilities superior to its competitors; But such commitments tend to be costly and hard to reverse. How then, should a company decide which broad path, or strategy, to commit itself to? And how are competition...
by Tony Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
YES, YOU CAN BE, DO, HAVE AND ACHIEVE THE THINGS YOU WANT IN LIFE
Unlimited Power, the international bestseller by Anthony Robbins, has guided millions along the path to success. Now, in Unlimited Power: A Black Choice, Robbins and his longtime associate and friend Joseph McClendon III. an...
The Virtue Of Prosperity
Finding Values In An Age Of Technoaffluence
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2002
In The Virtue of Prosperity, Dinesh D'Souza examines the spiritual and social crisis spawned by the new economy and new technologies of the last ten years. D'Souza questions the basic premise of the American dream that prosperity and "progress" will better the human condition. Anchored in history,...
by George D. Robson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
During the past decade Japanese companies have derived many of their competitive advantages from streamlined work-flow processes. Desperate to replicate the Japanese systems, American managers have bought into countless theories advanced by management consultants which, lacking a methodology, have...
Stand Up For Your Life
A Practical Step-by-Step Plan to Build Inner Confidence and Personal Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2002
In her most provocative work to date, Cheryl Richardson, the New York Times bestselling author of Take Time for Your Life and Life Makeovers, challenges readers to begin an interactive training program that will transform internal obstacles such as self-doubt, conflict phobia, and a fear of what others...
Survival Is Not Enough
Why Smart Companies Abandon Worry and Embrace Chan
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
You can't embrace change any faster...can't make time for the synergy training workshop...can't deal with one more change management seminar. So stop changing. Evolve.
Evolution can be unleashed in your organization, effortlessly and gradually changing everything in its path. By teaching your...
La chispa
Cómo activar los 10 impulsores humanos que te hacen sentir vivo
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Millionaire Messenger, an electrifying and inspiring book that provides the keys to motivating yourself to satisfy your highest, most essential creative and intellectual needs.