Harperbusiness: 138 books
The Alternative Answer
The Nontraditional Investments That Drive the World's Best Performing Portfolios
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
The first book to explain the new world of alternative investing, showing how anyone can use nontraditional options to significantly increase returns and lower risks
The world's elite investors have long relied on alternative investments to produce superior returns. Until now, these strategies...
Killing It
An Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Head Without Losing Your Heart
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
The former CEO of Clif Bar, Co-founder of Plum, and serial entrepreneur offers insights about launching and growing a business while maintaining a fulfilled life in this practical guide filled with hard-won advice culled from the author’s own sometimes dark, raw experiences. With a foreword by Steve...
Warren Buffett's Ground Rules
Words of Wisdom from the Partnership Letters of the World's Greatest Investor
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Using the letters Warren Buffett wrote to his partners between 1956 and 1970, a veteran financial advisor presents the renowned guru’s “ground rules” for investing—guidelines that remain startlingly relevant today.
In the fourteen years between his time in New York with value-investing...
The Achievement Habit
Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
The co-founder of the Stanford d.School introduces the power of design thinking to help you achieve goals you never thought possible.
Achievement can be learned. It’s a muscle, and once you learn how to flex it, you’ll be able to meet life’s challenges and fulfill your goals, Bernard...
by Clayton M Christensen, James Allworth, Karen Dillon
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
From the world’s leading thinker on innovation and New York Times bestselling author of The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton M. Christensen, comes an unconventional book of inspiration and wisdom for achieving a fulfilling life. Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma, notably the only business...
Multipliers, Revised and Updated
How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
A revised and updated edition of the acclaimed Wall Street Journal bestseller that explores why some leaders drain capability and intelligence from their teams while others amplify it to produce better results.
We’ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The...
Pitch Perfect
How to Say It Right the First Time, Every Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Media guru and Emmy Award-winning correspondent Bill McGowan—coach to some of the biggest names in business and entertainment, including Eli Manning, Kelly Clarkson, Jack Welch, Thomas Keller and Kenneth Cole teaches you how to get your message across and get what you want with pitch perfect communication. ...
Dying for a Paycheck
How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance—and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
In one survey, 61 percent of employees said that workplace stress had made them sick and 7 percent said they had actually been hospitalized. Job stress costs US employers more than $300 billion annually and may cause 120,000 excess deaths each year. In China, 1 million people a year may be dying from...
Winning from Within
A Breakthrough Method for Leading, Living, and Lasting Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Winning from Within by leadership and negotiation expert Erica Ariel Fox presents a contemporary approach for getting more of what you want, improving relationships, and enjoying life’s deeper rewards.
With principles developed while teaching negotiation at Harvard Law School and coaching executives...
Primed to Perform
How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The revolutionary book that teaches you how to use the cutting edge of human psychology to build high performing workplace cultures.
Too often, great cultures feel like magic. While most leaders believe culture is critical to success, few know how to build one, or sustain it over time.
What...
Change by Design, Revised and Updated
How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
The subject of “design thinking” is the rage at business schools, throughout corporations, and increasingly in the popular press—due in large part to the work of IDEO, a leading design firm, and its celebrated CEO, Tim Brown, who uses this book to show how the techniques and strategies of design...
How the World Sees You
Discover Your Highest Value Through the Science of Fascination
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Sally Hogshead believes the greatest value you can add is to become more of yourself.
Hogshead rose to the top of the advertising profession in her early 20s, writing ads that fascinated millions of consumers. Over the course of her ad career, Sally won hundreds of awards for creativity, copywriting,...
Rookie Smarts
Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Wall Street Journal Bestseller
Is it possible to be at your best even when you are underqualified or doing something for the first time? Is it still possible, even after decades of experience, to recapture the enthusiasm, curiosity, and fearlessness of youth to take on new challenges? With...
The Curriculum
Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master of Business Arts
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
From the mind of the ultimate corporate gunslinger comes this no-nonsense, real-world Curriculum, designed to augment—if not replace—the more traditional path to achieving mastery of the business universe. Conquer this sharp, practical and often amusing course of study and save $250,000 of wasted...