Free navigation apps on smartphones wreaked havoc for the makers of stand-alone GPS devices. Airbnb and other resource-sharing services are undermining hotels. Uber, SideCar and Lyft are reinventing the heavily regulated taxi and limousine industry. These are just a few of hundreds of examples of Big Bang Disruptions — new products and services that enter the market better and … [More]
Reputation Economics
As the Internet has increasingly become more social, the value of individual reputations has risen and a new currency based on reputation has been created. This means that not only are companies tracking what an individual is tweeting and what sites they spend the most time on, but they’re using this knowledge to predict the consumer’s future behavior. Klein’s book points to … [More]
The New Corporate Facts of Life
Rivenburgh demonstrates that old rules of business are being rendered obsolete by disruptive innovation, economic instability, environmental degradation, increasing stakeholder power and other sweeping global forces. Through interviews with top executives and thought leaders, she shows that bold leaders move beyond today’s best practices to develop tomorrow’s next practices. … [More]
Jim Cramer’s Get Rich Carefully
Jim Cramer uses his 35 years of experience as a Wall Street veteran and host of CNBC’s “Mad Money” to create a guide to high-yield, low-risk investing. In our recovering economy, this is the plan for making big money without taking big risks. Drawing on his unparalleled knowledge of the stock market and on the mistakes and successes he’s made on the way to his own fortune, … [More]
It Starts with One
J. Stewart Black identifies the three critical “brain barriers” managers must break through in order to start, deepen and sustain needed change. With new cases, examples and tools for executing successful change initiatives, this edition dives even more deeply into the personal aspects of leading strategic change — as well as the unique challenges posed by driving change in … [More]
Unlimited Sales Success
The art of sales is continually evolving, and for sales professionals worldwide, Unlimited Sales Success is a must-read for staying ahead of the curve. Brian Tracy is unquestionably one of the world’s most revered masters in achieving success, and this book, with its unfailingly smart strategies and techniques, reflects his supreme knowledge and innate understanding of every … [More]
Perfecting Your Pitch
Whether making a budget request, interviewing for a job, ending a relationship or talking to children about divorce, the crux of success in those and other crucial situations is planned, effective communication. And yet, it is the tool people most often fail to use. In Perfecting Your Pitch, expert consultant and negotiator Ronald M. Shapiro presents his system of scripting, … [More]
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Dilbert creator Scott Adams offers his most personal book ever — a funny memoir of his many failures and what they eventually taught him about success. How does one go from hapless office worker to world-famous cartoonist and bestselling author in just a few years? No career guide can answer that, and not even Scott Adams (who actually did it) can give a road map that works for … [More]
The 80/20 Manager
In his bestselling book The 80/20 Principle, Richard Koch showed readers how to practice in their personal lives the idea that 80 percent of results come from just 20 percent of effort. In this new book, he demonstrates how to apply the principle to management, to focus only on the issues that really matter, achieving exceptional results and feeling successful every day while … [More]
The 5 Levels of Leadership
Being chosen for a position is only the first of the five levels every effective leader achieves. Becoming more than “the boss” people follow only because they are required to requires mastering the ability to invest in people and inspire them. Building a team that produces requires helping people develop their skills to become leaders in their own right. And those who have the … [More]
The Heart of Leadership
Are you the type of leader people want to follow? You can be — but first, you’ve got to understand what sets great leaders apart from all the rest. Certainly, leaders need people skills, execution skills, a deep knowledge of industry trends, the ability to articulate a vision, and more, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. In his latest business fable, Mark Miller describes … [More]
Creative Confidence
It is a common assumption that creativity and innovation are the domain of the “creative types.” But two of the leading experts in innovation, design and creativity show us that each of us is creative. Drawing on countless stories from their work at the Stanford d.school IDEO and with many of the world’s top companies, Tom and David Kelley identify the principles and strategies … [More]
Compelling People
After this look at how we make character judgments, readers will never look at people — including themselves — the same way again. Drawing on cutting-edge social science research as well as their own work with Fortune 500 executives, members of Congress and Nobel Prize winners, authors Matt Kohut and John Neffinger demystify the process we use to size each other up. It turns … [More]
Grow a Pair
A five-time bestselling author and one of the country’s leading business speakers, Winget has made a reputation for being the first to challenge the positive-attraction gurus and the law-of-attraction bozos with his commonsense approach to success. Winget doesn’t sugar-coat, and he isn’t afraid to make people uncomfortable, because he wants us to stop making excuses and start … [More]
Before Happiness
Why are some people able to make positive change while others remain the same? In his international bestseller, The Happiness Advantage, Harvard-trained researcher Shawn Achor described why happiness is the precursor to greater success. This book is about what comes before both. Because before we can be happy or successful, we need to first develop the ability to see that … [More]
The Rise of the Naked Economy
This book shows readers how to achieve both personal and professional success in an economy that does not guarantee lifetime employment by covering how the rise in non-traditional employment calls for a new infrastructure, strategy and attitude for workers, companies and communities alike. Through interviews with the people, companies and policymakers who are leading the change … [More]
The Chaos Imperative
In The Chaos Imperative, organizational expert and bestselling author Ori Brafman shows how even the best and most efficient organizations, from Fortune 500 companies to today’s U.S. Army, benefit from allowing a little unstructured space and disruption into their planning and decision-making. The authors reveal how organizations can drive growth and profits by allowing … [More]
Compelling People:
Drawing on cutting-edge social science research as well as their own work with Fortune 500 executives, members of Congress and Nobel Prize winners, the authors demystify the process we use to size each other up. It turns out that we judge each other primarily on two critical criteria: strength and warmth. The authors explain the inner workings of each, the tension that makes it … [More]
