Business & economics

One Person Business: How To Start A Small Business

by Clive Morton

Opportunities always exist for those with skills and relevant experience to create and build a business of their own. And if it's a service industry that you are offering it is possible to start from your home...

The 24-Hour Genius: Unlocking Your Brain's Potential with Strategic All-Nighters

by Eric Epstein

If a year of study or work is a competitive marathon, all-nighters are often the sprints in which certain runners break away from the pack. Tap into your genius and achieve greater success by learning to strategically...

For What It's Worth: Business Wisdom from a Pawnbroker

by Les Gold

Businesses these days talk a lot about figuring out what the customer wants. Well, here's your first lesson: the customer doesn't know what he wants. This book is going to show you how to convince him he wants...

Inside the Box: A Proven System of Creativity for Breakthrough Results

by Jacob Goldenberg & Drew Boyd

Want a truly creative organization? Then think Inside the Box. The traditional view says that creativity is unstructured and doesn’t follow rules or patterns. That you need to think “outside the box” to...

Mobile Influence

by Chuck Martin

The explosion of mobile access across the globe has shaken the foundations of the traditional sales funnel, and businesses are scrambling to adapt and find new ways to tap into the market. For all their effort,...

Great Meetings! Great Results: A Practical Guide for Facilitating Successful, Productive Meetings

by Dee Kelsey & Pam Plumb

A practical guide for facilitating successful, productive meetings

Tapping the Iceberg: Achieve Straight A's in Life Through Attitude, Aptitude, and Action

by Tim Cork

Just as 90 percent of an iceberg lies under water, so most of your strengths lie below the surface of your life. To realize all of your possibilities, you must find a way to tap those hidden strengths. Motivational...

Top Stocks 2013 Half Yearly Update: A Sharebuyer's Guide to Leading Australian Companies

by Martin Roth

In Top Stocks 2013 Martin Roth once again applied his tried-and-tested selection criteria and rigorous analysis to determine the best public companies (representing low-risk, long-term value) for share buyers...

The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess

by Turney Duff

The Buy Side, by former Galleon Group trader Turney Duff, portrays an after-hours Wall Street culture where drugs and sex are rampant and billions in trading commissions flow to those who dangle the most enticements. ...

Your Network Is Your Net Worth: Unlock the Hidden Power of Connections for Wealth, Success, and Happiness in the Digital Age

by Porter Gale & Guy Kawasaki

Networking doesn’t have to be that frenzied old-school game of calendars packed with stuffy power lunches and sterile evenings at community business gatherings. We’ve entered a new era, one in which shifting...

Fate of the States: The New Geography of American Prosperity

by Meredith Whitney

"Forget everything you think you know about the direction of the American economy, about our grow­ing need for foreign oil, about the rise of the service economy and the decline of American manufacturing. The...

Finerman's Rules: Secrets I'd Only Tell My Daughters About Business and Life

by Karen Finerman

Karen Finerman likes to tell people she was raised Calvinist. Or as her mother used to say, "I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes... Then when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for...

Icons and Idiots: Straight Talk on Leadership

by Bob Lutz

"Most successful leaders are mentally and emotionally askew. There's a good side, which gets the job done. There's often also a downside that makes them hard to understand or difficult to work for. It's precisely...

Celebrate 100: Centenarian Secrets to Success in Business and Life

by Steve Franklin & Lynn Peters Adler

A thoroughly enthralling book that proves the truth of the adage, "with age comes wisdom"

Based on video recorded interviews and extensive surveys of more than 450 Centenarians, this unforgettable book brings...

Experiencing the European Union

by Marco Brunazzo & Pierpaolo Settembri

The EU is a complex political and institutional machine, with distinct procedures, language and codes. Its functioning is based on negotiations among a variety of actors at different levels (local, regional,...

How to Start a Creative Business - A Glossary of Over 130 Terms for Creative Entrepreneurs

by Doug Richard

This invaluable glossary of terms can be used alongside Doug's brilliant new book, How to Start a Creative Business, a must-have for any creative-type wanting to start their own venture. This glossary of terms...

Going Self-Employed: How to Start Out in Business on Your Own

by Steve Gibson

Assess whether you've got the right characteristics to make a success of self-employment.Learn about business plans; survival income; discounting; researching your market; targeting your customers; listening...

SmartTribes: How Teams Become Brilliant Together

by Christine Comaford

Are You Scaring Your People into Mediocrity?

All leaders want to outperform, outsell, and outin­novate the competition. And most teams are fully capable of doing so. The problem: we consistently say and...

The Three Rules: How Exceptional Companies Think

by MichaelE. Raynor & Mumtaz Ahmed

Finally, an answer to the ultimate business question: How do some companies achieve exceptional performance over the long term?

In every sector, there's an outlier. In the phar­maceutical industry, it's...

The Money Lenders

by Anthony Sampson

First published in 1981, The Money Lenders reveals the power, the workings and the personalities of the money men who have made the world go round:

The Superbankers ? including Chase Manhattan?s David Rockefeller,...