Business & economics / Entrepreneurship

The Power of Unfair Advantage: How to Create It, Build it, and Use It to Maximum Effect

by John L. Nesheim

A Silicon Valley veteran and author of the bestseller High Tech Start Up reveals the nature of unfair advantage -- that holy grail for every company, the mysterious quality that separates successful businesses...

Avoiding Skewed Entrepreneurial Strategies

by Ron Beilin & Paul DelFino

This short guide was designed to help small-business owners maintain a sound strategic perspective. Each chapter is, essentially, an introduction to a specific type of strategic thinking. Our goal is to help...

The Business of Software: What Every Manager, Programmer, and Entrepreneur Must Know to Thrive and Survive in Good Times and Bad

by Michael A. Cusumano

The world's leading expert on the global software industry and coauthor of the bestseller Microsoft Secrets reveals the inner workings of software giants like IBM, Microsoft, and Netscape and shows what it takes...

The Far Side of Eden: New Money, Old Land, and the Battle for Napa Valley

by James Conaway

In the tradition of his New York Times bestseller, Napa, James Conaway picks up the story he began a decade ago. The Far Side of Eden offers "a fascinating look at the political side of the wine revolution that...

The New Market Leaders: Who's Winning and How in the Battle for Customers

by Fred Wiersema

In the decade since Fred Wiersema coauthored the #1 bestseller The Discipline of Market Leaders, a momentous shift has occured. We have entered an age of customer scarcity--an age in which exciting, often unorthodox...

Digital Darwinism: 7 Breakthrough Business Strategies for Surviving in the Cutthroat Web Economy

by Evan I. Schwartz

Don’t let the rapid evolution of the Internet economy leave your business extinct before its time! Here are the key strategies you need to keep your company alive, growing, and profitable in today’s volatile...

Working at Warp Speed: The New Rules for Project Success in a Sped-up World

by Barry Flicker

Everyone is a project manager-projects are what all of us do day in and day out. Skillful project management is fundamental to survival in today's warp-speed world. Yet it is often misunderstood, leading to...

Low Risk, High Reward: Starting and Growing Your Own Business with Minimal Risk

by Bob Reiss

Contrary to popular belief, most entrepreneurs don't like risk. While they are not afraid to take chances, the most successful entrepreneurs do what they can to anticipate, minimize, and offset risk at every...

The Entrepreneurial Mindset: Strategies for Continuously Creating Opportunity in an Age of Uncertainty

by Rita McGrath & Ian MacMillan

The Entrepreneurial Mindset offers a refreshingly practical blueprint for thinking and acting in environments that are fast-paced, rapidly changing, and highly uncertain. It provides both a guide to energizing...

Inventions And Patents

by Steve S. Barbarich

Today, one of the easiest ways to make money is to create and sell original ideas. Every year, more than 100,000 patents are granted in the U.S., creating a billion-dollar industry for those using intellectual...

Best Practice

by Mohamed Zairi & Richard Duggan

Best Practice: Process Innovation Management highlights best practice in innovation by bringing together practitioners and researchers in this field.

This book presents contributions from leading academics and...

Sister Ceo: The Black Woman's Guide to Starting Your Own Business

by Cheryl Broussard

Sisters are doing it for themselves!

In this idea-packed, can-do handbook on entrepreneurship, successfully self-employed businesswoman Cheryl Broussard shows you how to take control of your destiny by taking...

Alchemy for Managers

by Tom Reeves

Alchemy for Managers demonstrates how you can develop yourself through the actual experience of managing.

Alchemy for Managers shows: - how you can use your practical experience as a self-contained means to...

How to Start and Operate Your Own Bed-and-Breakfast

by Martha W. Murphy & Amelia R. Seton

Down to earth advice from an award-winning B&B owner. Illustrated with charming line drawings and lightened by real-life anecdotes, this is an easily accessible guide to an ever growing small-business niche....