Review imprint: 1779 books
IT Governance
How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2004
Firms with superior IT governance have more than 25% higher profits than firms with poor governance given the same strategic objectives. These top performers have custom designed IT governance for their strategies. Just as corporate governance aims to ensure quality decisions about all corporate assets,...
The Pirate Organization
Lessons from the Fringes of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
A short history of piracy and capitalism
When capitalism spread along the trade routes toward the Indies
when radio opened an era of mass communication . . . when the Internet became part of the global economy
pirates were there. And although most people see pirates as solitary anarchists...
Becoming a Manager
How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2003
New managers must learn how to lead others rather than do the work themselves, to win trust and respect, to motivate, and to strike the right balance between delegation and control. It is a transition many fail to make. This book traces the experiences of nineteen new managers over the course of their...
One Page Talent Management, with a New Introduction
Eliminating Complexity, Adding Value
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
A radical approach to growing high-quality talent--fast
You know that winning in today's marketplace requires top-quality talent. You also know what it takes to build that talent--and you spend significant financial and human resources to make it happen. Yet somehow, your company's beautifully...
Human + Machine
Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
AI is radically transforming business. Are you ready?
Look around you. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a futuristic notion. It's here right now--in software that senses what we need, supply chains that "think" in real time, and robots that respond to changes in their environment....
The Innovator's Dilemma
When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Named one of 100 Leadership & Success Books to Read in a Lifetime by Amazon Editors
A Wall Street Journal and Businessweek bestseller. Named by Fast Company as one of the most influential leadership books in its Leadership Hall of Fame. An innovation classic. From Steve Jobs to Jeff Bezos,...
The Outsiders
Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
An outstanding book about CEOs who excelled at capital allocation.” - Warren Buffett
#1 on Warren Buffett’s Recommended Reading List, Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Letter, 2012
Named one of 19 Books Billionaire Charlie Munger Thinks You Should Read” in Business Insider.
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The Heart of Change
Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Moving beyond the process of change
Why is change so hard? Because in order to make any transformation successful, you must change more than just the structure and operations of an organization-you need to change people’s behavior. And that is never easy.
The Heart of Change is your...
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
When change requires you to challenge people's familiar reality, it can be difficult, dangerous work. Whatever the context--whether in the private or the public sector--many will feel threatened as you push though major changes. But as a leader, you need to find a way to make it work.
Ron Heifetz...
The Heart of Change Field Guide
Tools And Tactics for Leading Change in Your Organization
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2005
In 1996, John P. Kotter's Leading Change became a runaway best seller, outlining an eight-step program for organizational change that was embraced by executives around the world. Then, Kotter and co-author Dan Cohen's The Heart of Change introduced the revolutionary "see-feel-change" approach,...
Marketing Metaphoria
What Deep Metaphors Reveal About the Minds of Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Why do advertising campaigns and new products often fail? Why do consumers feel that companies don't understand their needs? Because marketers themselves don't think deeply about consumers' innermost thoughts and feelings. Marketing Metaphoria is a groundbreaking book that reveals how to overcome...
This I Know
Marketing Lessons from Under the Influence
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Terry O'Reilly, host of the popular radio show Under the Influence, provides the best stories about smart marketing for small business. In Terry's gifted presentation, This I Know is more than applied business techniques. It offers a unique view of contemporary life through the lens of advertising....
by Blutch
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
The man known as Blutch is one of the giants of contemporary comics, and Peplum may be his masterpiece: a grand, strange dream of ancient Rome. At the edge of the empire, a gang of bandits discovers the body of a beautiful woman in a cave; she is encased in ice but may still be alive. One of the bandits,...
by Mark Beyer
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
ENJOY THE ECSTASY OF AGONY. Amy and Jordan are just like us: hoping for the best, even when things go from bad to worse. They are menaced by bears, beheaded by ghosts, and hunted by the cops, but still they struggle on, bickering and reconciling, scraping together the rent and trying to find a decent...