Business & economics

Test-Drive Your Dream Job: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding and Creating the Work You Love

von Brian Kurth

In TEST-DRIVE YOUR DREAM JOB, you'll discover how you can identify, explore and experience your dream job, and how or if you want to pursue it. Author Brian Kurth, founder of VocationVacations, offers professional,...

The Founding Fathers on Leadership: Classic Teamwork in Changing Times

von Donald T. Phillips

Extracts valuable lessons on business leadership from the story of the Founding Fathers' struggle to create a new nation. Shows how figures such as Thomas Paine, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin faced challenges...

God Is a Salesman: Learn from the Master

von Mark Stevens

Laced with anecdotes based on the experiences of the author and the many others he has known, loved, mentored, coached, and partnered with, GOD IS A SALESMAN shows us how to translate powerful lessons from God...

Game Over: How You Can Prosper in a Shattered Economy

von Stephen Leeb

You already know about the devastating recession we're in. Jobs are being cut by the tens of thousands. Real estate values are plummeting. Retirement plans and 401ks are going up in smoke. And then there's rising...

Animals Inc.: A Business Parable for the 21st Century

von Kenneth A. Tucker & Vandana Allman

With its previous bestsellers - First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths - The Gallup Organization rewrote the book on great management. Now Gallup finally makes its classic, hilarious parable,...

Martin Luther King, Jr., on Leadership: Inspiration and Wisdom for Challenging Times

von Donald T. Phillips

Guide to how the philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., can be used to effect positive, long-lasting change in any organization.

Real World Careers: Why College Is Not the Only Path to Becoming Rich

von Betsy Cummings

Betsy Cummings offers careers advice for capable people who chose not to attend college, but go immediately into the 'real world'. She talks up the benefits of getting into a good job early, jumpstarting their...

Making a Life, Making a Living®: Reclaiming Your Purpose and Passion in Business and in Life

von Mark Albion

Peppered with numerous quotes, quips, and observations, this book offers a detailed approach to how people who are serious about their careers can seek financial goals in life while maintaining an inner spiritual...

The Mormon Way of Doing Business: How Nine Western Boys Reached the Top of Corporate America

von Jeff Benedict

The Founder of JetBlue. The former CEO of Dell Computers. The CEO of Deloitte & Touche. The former Dean of the Harvard Business School. They all have one thing in common. They are devout Mormons who spend their...

The Wallstrip (TM) Edge: Using Trends to Make Money -- Find Them, Ride Them, and Get Off

von Howard Lindzon

It's been often observed that anyone who invests in the stock market needs to have a very strong sense of humor....indeed; no truer words were ever spoken.

And the truth is, Howard Lindzon took that observation...

The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time

von Leslie Pockell & Adrienne Avila

From practical advice on how to handle oneself to romantic ideals on how to lead, great business principles that helped some of the most influential and powerful people in the world achieve great success are...

Extreme Management: What They Teach at Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program

von Mark Stevens

The cutting edge management strategies taught at Harvard Business School's advanced management training programme are rendered accessible through this publication. It essentially provides a crash course in substantial...

How to Grow When Markets Don't

von Adrian Slywotzky

Though most companies claim to be growth oriented, surprisingly few actually achieve double-digit growth-and over the past 10 years, that percentage has steadily decreased.

The Art of Profitability

von Adrian Slywotzky

An extraordinarily new business slant on how companies can generate greater profits. Presented in 23 compact lessons, "The Art of Profitability" features an ongoing tutorial between two fictitious individuals....

Digital Aboriginal: The Direction of Business Now: Instinctive, Nomadic, and Ever-Changing

von Mikela Tarlow & John Calbom

The Aborigine's view of the world suggests that all things are interconnected. Every relationship in turn influences every other relationship. Along these same lines, this book reveals how the modern-day business...

Be a Kickass Assistant: How to Get from a Grunt Job to a Great Career

von Heather Beckel

A practical guide to strutting your stuff from cubicle to corner office. Drawing on her experience as personal and executive assistant to George Stephanopolous during Clinton's campaign and first term, Heather...

Jack: Straight from the Gut

von Jack Welch

In an anticipated book on business management for our time, Jack Welch surveys the landscape of his career running General Electric, one of the world's largest and most successful corporations. Here he reveals...

What Clients Love: A Field Guide to Growing Your Business

von Harry Beckwith

Harry Beckwith is the author of Selling the Invisible and The Invisible Touch, both marketing classics. Now he applies his unparalleled clarity, insight, humor, and expertise to a new age of mass communication...

Follow This Path: How the World's Greatest Organizations Drive Growth by Unleashing Human Potential

von Curt Coffman

When it comes to getting ahead in business, The Gallup Organization has led the way with two landmark books: the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover...

How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers

von William Poundstone

For years, Microsoft and other high-tech companies have been posing riddles and logic puzzles like these in their notoriously grueling job interviews. Now "puzzle interviews" have become a hot new trend in hiring....