Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same passion he brought to the challenge of climate change, and with his decades of experience on the front lines of global policy, Al Gore surveys our planet’s beclouded horizon and offers a sober, learned and, ultimately, hopeful forecast in the visionary tradition of Alvin Toffler’s Future … [More]
Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business
Whole Foods Market co-founder John Mackey and professor and Conscious Capitalism, Inc. co-founder Rajendra Sisodia argue for the inherent good of both business and capitalism. Looking at some of today’s best-known companies, they illustrate how these two forces can — and do — work most powerfully to create value for all stakeholders in business today: customers, employees, … [More]
What’s the Future of Business: Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences
What’s the Future of Business? will galvanize a new movement that aligns the tenets of user experience with the vision of innovative leadership to improve business performance, engagement and relationships for a new generation of consumerism. It provides an overview of real-world experiences versus “user” experiences in relation to products, services, mobile, social media and … [More]
Breakthrough Marketing Plans
Almost every company creates a marketing plan each year, and many spend hundreds of employee hours researching, preparing and presenting their tomes to senior executives. But most marketing plans are too long and too complicated. They end up sitting on a shelf, unread and unrealized. Breakthrough Marketing Plans provides simple, clear frameworks that are easy to apply, and … [More]
Lifestyle Brands
What do brands like Apple, Diesel, Abercrombie & Fitch and Virgin have in common and what differentiates them from other brands? These brands are able to maintain a relationship with their clients that go beyond brand loyalty. This book gives a complete analysis of lifestyle brands that inspire, guide and motivate beyond product benefits alone. Stefania Saviola and … [More]
Brand You
In the modern workplace, clearly defined hierarchies are on the wane, few have “jobs for life,” and many have portfolio careers or are self-employed. In these self-reliant times, it’s essential to be remembered for the right reasons. Brand You helps the individual develop a powerful personal brand, both on- and offline, and shows one how to discover one’s talents, values and … [More]
Think Like a Futurist: Know What Changes, What Doesn’t, and What’s Next
Discover how to short circuit the habits that blind us to future trends, how to break through the walls of resistance to change, and how to find the tools needed to face the future with confidence. This book brings a practical and disciplined approach to creativity and future thinking that can be immediately applied. Futurism isn’t just a profession for an elite few but a way … [More]
The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
Kotter and co-author Dan S. Cohen delve deeper into the subject of change to get to the heart of how change actually happens. Through real-life stories from people in the trenches, in all kinds of organizations, the authors tackle the fundamental problem that underlies every major transformation: How do you go beyond simply getting your message across to truly changing people’s … [More]
Amplify: How the Rise of the Social Economy Empowers Us All
A leading futurist offers a portrayal of how new technologies are giving individuals so much power to connect and share resources that we are entering a new era in which networks of individuals, not big organizations, will solve a host of problems by reinventing business, education, medicine, banking, government and scientific research into radical new types of organizations … [More]
Google+ for Business: How Google’s Social Network Changes Everything
This conversational, business-savvy guide helps businesspeople identify where Google+ is most likely to offer them value, avoid missteps and wasted energy, and get results fast. This is a business book, not a technology book. Business decision-makers will learn how Google+ is different and why the difference matters, how to define effective Google+ strategy and tactics, how to … [More]
