The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Little, Brown and Company $27.99
This celebrated New York Times bestseller -- now poised to reach an even wider audience in paperback -- is a book that is changing the way Americans think about selling products and disseminating ideas.
How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything by President Bill Clinton $27.95
The flood of information, unprecedented transparency, increasing interconnectedness-and our global interde¬pendence-are dramatically reshaping today's world, the world of business, and our lives. We are in the Era of Behavior and the rules of the game have fundamentally changed. It is no longer what you do that matters most and sets you apart from others, but how you do what you do. Whats are...
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Harper Business Essentials) by Collins Business $17.95
Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from their very beginnings to the present day -- as start-ups, as midsize companies, and as large...
The Toyota Way : 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer by McGraw-Hill $30.00
How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industryIn factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the...
The Art of War (History and Warfare) by Ralph D. Sawyer $16.95
The Art of War is almost certainly the most famous study of strategy ever written and has had an extraordinary influence on the history of warfare. The principles Sun-tzu expounded were utilized brilliantly by such great Asian war leaders as Mao Tse-tung, Giap, and Yamamoto. First translated two hundred years ago by a French missionary, Sun-tzu’s Art of War has been credited with influencing...
Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm by Gazelles, Inc. $24.95
What are the underlying handful of fundamentals that haven't changed for over a hundred years? From Harnish's famous "Mastering a One Page Strategic Plan" process that has been a best-selling article on the web to his concise outline of eight practical actions you can take to strengthen your culture, this book is a compilation of best practices adapted from some of the best-run firms on the...
The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More with Less by Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd
Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround by Edward Herrmann $29.95
In 1990, IBM had its most profitable year ever. By 1993, the company was on a watch list for extinction -- victimized by its own lumbering size, an insular corporate culture, and the PC era IBM had itself helped invent.Enter Lou Gerstner. The presumption was that Gerstner had joined IBM to preside over its continued dissolution into a confederation of autonomous business units -- effectively...
The Book of Five Rings (Shambhala Classics) by Thomas Cleary $14.95
Here is one of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asian culture. Written not only for martial artists but for leaders in all professions, the book analyzes the process of struggle and mastery over conflict that underlies every level of human interaction. The Book of Five Rings —which has become a well-known classic among American business...
Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance by Free Press