Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance by Free Press $40.00
The essential complement to the pathbreaking book Competitive Strategy, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Advantage explores the underpinnings of competitive advantage in the individual firm. With over 30 printings in English and translated into thirteen languages, this second volume in Porter's landmark trilogy describes how a firm actually gains an advantage over its rivals. Competitive Advantage...

Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career by Harvard Business Press $26.95
This title shows how successful career changers turn fantasy into reality. Whether as a daydream or a spoken desire, nearly all of us have entertained the notion of reinventing ourselves. Feeling unfulfilled, burned out, or just plain unhappy with what we're doing, we long to make that leap into the unknown. But we also hold on, white-knuckled, to the years of time and effort we've invested in...

Work in the 21st Century: An Introduction to Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Wiley Desktop Editions) by Wiley-Blackwell $19.00
Work in the 21st Century is the highly regarded, most current and engaging text for the industrial and organizational psychology course. Combining leading research, consulting, and teaching expertise, Frank Landy and Jeff Conte provide students with up-to-date examples and cases that link current research and theory to practical issues in the workplace.Modular approach: The text features...

Managing Organizational Change by Mcgraw Hill Higher Education $41.75
Managing Organizational Change, by Palmer/Dunford/Akin, provides managers with an awareness of the issues involved in managing change, moving them beyond "one-best way" approaches and providing them with access to multiple perspectives that they can draw upon in order to enhance their success in producing organizational change. These multiple perspectives provide a theme for the text as well as a...

Small Business Management (Ise) by South-Western, Div of Thomson Learning

Essentials of Real Estate Economics by South-Western Educational Pub $64.95
Completely updaetd and one of the most direct and practical approaches to presenting the factors that cause real estate value to change. McKenzie and Betts have updated the fifth edition while adding graphics and coverage of contemporary topics. This text works well for individuals with little or no background in formal economics providing current information needed for a successful course in...

Political Savvy: Systematic Approaches to Leadership Behind the Scenes by Evergreen Business Group $28.50
While most people are wary or organization politics, politically savvy leaders know how to manage them. They take initiative, and they forge consensus. Ultimately, they help others maximize their impact, so the organization can continue to thrive in a highly competitive future. Insprirational leadership without a firm grounding in organization politics risks becoming hollow rhetoric. ...

The Joy of Conflict Resolution: Transforming Victims, Villains and Heroes in the Workplace and at Home by New Society Publishers $19.95
The rapid rate of change in the workplace and among families often leads to conflict and confrontation which can undermine productivity and poison relationships. The Joy of Conflict Resolution helps readers understand conflict and why it arises through the lens of the “drama triangle” of victims, villains and heroes. In an accessible, engaging and lighthearted style that uses stories and...

The Theory Of Social And Economic Organization by Free Press $21.95
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Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination by Pfeiffer $50.00
Appreciative Inquiry--a book in The Practicing Organization Development Series--is for leaders and organizational consultants who are ready to abandon the familiar tyranny of complex change programs. Recognizing that human systems are constructions of the human imagination and therefore capable of change at the speed of imagination, the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) process frees organizations from...