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by Paul Leinwand, Cesare R. Mainardi
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009

For most companies, cost cutting in a down economy means across-the-board slashing that "spreads the pain" of budget reductions across many departments. While that may sound like the best approach for getting critical results fast and for limiting political infighting, it is a mistake-one...

Cyclopedia

It's All About the Bike

by William Fotheringham
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011

The essential A-Z compendium of everything there is to know about the bicycle, this sports reference is full of amazing facts and enthralling anecdotes. A world of death-defying feats and obscure mechanical oddities, the nature of cycling is both heroic and geeky, and the perils of vicious dogs are...
by John J. Gabarro, John P. Kotter
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008

Managing your boss: Isn't that merely manipulation? Corporate cozying up? Not according to John Gabarro and John Kotter. In this handy guidebook, the authors contend that you manage your boss for a very good reason: to do your best on the job—and thereby benefit not only yourself but also your supervisor...

Conquering the Chaos

Win in India, Win Everywhere

by Ravi Venkatesan
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013

India is back! With the country’s general elections in 2014 resulting in a government formed by a new political party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, led by a business-friendly prime minister, Narendra Kumar Modi, the world’s largest democracy is once again on the minds of business leaders the world...

A Swamp Full of Dollars

Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier

by Michael Peel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010

A gripping account of how the 50-year life of Nigeria has been shaped by the crude oil that flows from its Niger Delta, this chronicle is peopled with a cast of characters that is stranger than fiction-from the Area Boy gangsters of Lagos and the anti-imperialist militants in their swamp forest...

Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck

What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur and Build a Great Business

by Tsun-Yan Hsieh, Anthony K. Tjan, Richard J. Harrington
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012

What’s your entrepreneurial profile? Do you have what it takes to build a great business? In this book, three prominent business leaders and entrepreneurs-now venture capitalists and CEO advisers-share the qualities that surface again and again in those who successfully achieve their...

Ben Bernanke's Fed

The Federal Reserve After Greenspan

by Ethan S. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008

Ben Bernanke's swearing in as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006 marked the end of Alan Greenspan's long, legendary career. To date, the new chair has garnered mixed reviews. Business economists see him as the best-qualified successor to Greenspan, while many traders and investors worry that he's too...

The Supper Club Book

A Celebration of a Midwest Tradition

by Dave Hoekstra
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013

The phenomenon of the supper club—as unique to the Upper Midwest as great lakes, cheese curds, and Curly Lambeau—is explored for the first time in this attractive and engaging book. Revealing the rich history behind these time-honored establishments, it defines the experience for the uninitiated...

Capitalism at Risk

Rethinking the Role of Business

by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard, Lynn S. Paine
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011

The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism’s future is far from assured. The global financial meltdown of 2008 nearly produced a great depression. Economies in Europe are still teetering. Income inequality, resource depletion, mass migrations from...

The People's Place

Soul Food Restaurants and Reminiscences from the Civil Rights Era to Today

by Dave Hoekstra, Paul Natkin
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

Celebrated former Chicago Sun-Times columnist Dave Hoekstra unearths stories as he travels, tastes, and talks his way through 20 of America’s soul food restaurants   Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. loved the fried catfish and lemon icebox pie at Memphis’s Four Way restaurant. In New Orleans, beloved...

Mark Twain for Kids

His Life & Times, 21 Activities

by R. Kent Rasmussen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004

Nineteenth-century America and the world of Samuel L. Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, come to life as children journey back in time with this history- and literature-laden activity book. The comprehensive biographical information explores Mark Twain as a multi-talented man of his times, from...

TV-a-Go-Go

Rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol

by Jake Austen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005

From Elvis and a hound dog wearing matching tuxedos and the comic adventures of artificially produced bands to elaborate music videos and contrived reality-show contests, television-as this critical look brilliantly shows-has done a superb job of presenting the energy of rock in a fabulously entertaining...

It's Not the How or the What but the Who

Succeed by Surrounding Yourself with the Best

by Claudio Fernández-Aráoz
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014

Succeed by mastering the art of the who Why surround yourself with the best? Because it matters-in all aspects of life. In fact, in professional environments, getting people right-what global leadership authority Claudio Fernández-Aráoz calls “the art of great ‘who’ decisions”-marks...

World War II for Kids

A History with 21 Activities

by Richard Panchyk
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005

Now more than ever, kids want to know about our country's great struggles during World War II. This book is packed with information that kids will find fascinating, from Hitler's rise to power in 1933 to the surrender of the Japanese in 1945. Much more than an ordinary history book, it is filled with...
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