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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Jim Collins
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October 16, 2001
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Five years ago, Jim Collins asked the question, "Can a good company become a great company and if so, how?" In ...
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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Larry Bossidy
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Crown Business
June 15, 2002
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Disciplines like strategy, leadership development, and innovation are the sexier aspects of being at the helm of a successful business; actually getting things done never seems quite as glamorous. But as Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan demonstrate in ...
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Floating Off the Page: The Best Stories from the Wall Street Journal's Middle Column
Ken Wells
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Free Press
May 15, 2002
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Wells, a senior editor at the Wall Street Journal, has put together a terrific collection of the most memorable stories from the off-beat front-page column that covers singular topics like toad-licking and the Miss Agriculture pageant, and leads with ir...
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First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
Marcus Buckingham
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Simon & Schuster
May 5, 1999
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Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman expose the fallacies of standard management thinking in ...
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Globalization and Its Discontents
Joseph E. Stiglitz
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W. W. Norton & Company
June 1, 2002
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Due to massive media coverage, many people are familiar with the controversy and organized resistance that globalization has generated around the world, yet explaining what globalization actually means in practice is a complicated task. For those wanting t...
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Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
Spencer Johnson
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
September 8, 1998
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Change can be a blessing or a curse, depending on your perspective. The message of ...
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Now, Discover Your Strengths
Marcus Buckingham
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Free Press
January 29, 2001
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Effectively managing personnel--as well as one's own behavior--is an extraordinarily complex task that, not surprisingly, has been the subject of countless books touting what each claims is the true path to success. That said, Marcus Buckingham and Dona...
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Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
Stephen C. Lundin
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March 8, 2000
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Here's another management parable that draws its lesson from an unlikely source--this time it's the fun-loving fishmongers at Seattle's Pike Place Market. In ...
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Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman
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Harvard Business School Press
March 15, 2002
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Business leaders who maintain that emotions are best kept out of the work environment do so at their organization's peril. Bestselling author Daniel Goleman's theories on emotional intelligence (EI) have radically altered common understanding of what "bein...
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
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September 15, 1990
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change was a groundbreaker when it was first published in 1990, and it continues to be a business bestseller with more than 10 million copies sold. Stephen Covey, an internationally respected leadership authority, realizes ...
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How to Win Friends & Influence People
Dale Carnegie
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February 15, 1990
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This grandfather of all people-skills books was first published in 1937. It was an overnight hit, eventually selling 15 million copies. ...
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What Management Is: How It Works and Why It's Everyone's Business
Joan Magretta
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April 30, 2002
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What Management Is, by former Harvard Business Review editors Joan Magretta and Nan Stone, identifies management as the driving force behind key innovations of the past century and presents a jargon-free look at the way its core principles work. Designed to promote "managerial literacy" up and down the business ...
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Confessions of a Street Addict
James J. Cramer
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Simon & Schuster
May 13, 2002
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It's hard to think of anyone more intense or opinionated, or who wears as many hats as James Cramer. In ...
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Jack: Straight from the Gut
Jack Welch
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Business Plus
September 11, 2001
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It's hard to think of a CEO that commands as much respect as Jack Welch. Under his leadership, General Electric reinvented itself several times over by integrating new and innovative practices into its many lines of business. In ...
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What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career-Changers
Richard N. Bolles
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Ten Speed Press
September 1, 2001
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For nearly 30 years, What Color Is Your Parachute? has been the guiding light for those in pursuit of satisfying and fulfilling employment. This year's edition has been completely revised and rewritten and is designed to work in conjunction with the book's Web site. At ...
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (J-B Lencioni Series)
Patrick Lencioni
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Jossey-Bass
April 11, 2002
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Once again using an astutely written fictional tale to unambiguously but painlessly deliver some hard truths about critical business procedures, Patrick Lencioni targets group behavior in the final entry of his trilogy of corporate fables. And like those p...
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
Thomas L. Friedman
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Anchor
May 2, 2000
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One day in 1992, Thomas Friedman toured a Lexus factory in Japan and marveled at the robots that put the luxury cars together. That evening, as he ate sushi on a Japanese bullet train, he read a story about yet another Middle East squabble between Pale...
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Leading Quietly
Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.
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February 11, 2002
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When we think of great leaders, it's usually the charismatic, globally influential Churchill, Patton, Jack Welch who spring to mind. But as Harvard Business School professor Badaracco (Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right) co...
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Sidetracked Home Executives(TM): From Pigpen to Paradise
Pam Young
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February 1, 2001
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Pam Young and Peggy Jones were "born slobs" who changed their attitudes and developed a great organising programme. Now, updated and revised, including a new chapter on using a personal computer, here is their classic guide that has helped over half a mill...
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Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading
Martin Linsky
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April 18, 2002
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Climbing Mount Everest: dangerous. Hitchhiking in Colombia: very dangerous. Leading through change: perilous. Perilous but possible, say Heifetz and Linsky in their encouragingly practical guide to putting yourself on the line and negotiating the hazards o...
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Soul Proprietor: 101 Lessons from a Lifestyle Entrepreneur
Jane Pollak
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September 1, 2004
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Art teacher Jane Pollak's career shot to a new level when she was invited to the White House to decorate an egg for the annual Easter Egg Roll. Not long after, this wife and mother was running a full-blown home business, speaking internationally, and appea...
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
James C. Collins
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HarperCollins Publishers
January 15, 1997
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This analysis of what makes great companies great has been hailed everywhere as an instant classic and one of the best business titles since ...
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Fish! Tales: Real-Life Stories to Help You Transform Your Workplace and Your Life
Stephen C. Lundin
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April 10, 2002
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Fish! Tales is Stephen C. Lundin, John Christensen, and Harry Paul's follow-up to Fish!--their enormously popular fable that draws lessons aimed at combating dysfunctional workplaces from the happy fishmongers at Seattle's Pike Place Market. In Fish! Tales the authors show how these lessons were put into practice at businesses ...
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First Among Equals: How to Manage a Group of Professionals
Patrick J. McKenna
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April 9, 2002
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Competently managing a group of peers is unquestionably among the most difficult of workplace tasks, but key steps that produce success are laid out so clearly by consultants Patrick J. McKenna and David H. Maister in ...
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How to Go to College Almost for Free
Ben Kaplan
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Collins Reference
September 18, 2001
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While still in high school, Ben Kaplan won more than two dozen merit-based scholarships amounting to more than $90,000 in funds for use at any school. After graduating from Harvard magna cum laude in 2001, he self-published How to Go to College Almost for ...
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Roger Fisher
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December 1, 1991
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We're constantly negotiating in our lives, whether it's convincing the kids to do their homework or settling million-dollar lawsuits. For those who need help winning these battles, Roger Fisher has developed a simple and straightforward five-step system...
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Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
Thomas Sowell
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Basic Books
December 26, 2000
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A well-known conservative columnist, author and economist, Sowell (A Personal Odyssey, etc.) presents an introductory course in economics with an emphasis on public policy. Forgoing jargon, equations, graphs and complicated exposition, he's produced a book...
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Martha Inc.: The Incredible Story of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
Christopher M. Byron
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Wiley
April 1, 2002
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There's probably no woman in America who is as famous--or controversial--as Martha Stewart. In ...
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