Business & economics / Management

Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary

by Frank I. Luntz

From the New York Times bestselling author and top pollster Dr. Frank Luntz comes an unprecedented examination of communication excellence and how top performers win in all areas of human endeavor by utilizing...

Executive Economics: Ten Tools for Business Decision Makers

by Shlomo Maital

What do economists know that business executives find useful? Economics ought to be indispensable for business decision-makers because it deals with the issues executives face daily: what to pro duce, how and...

The One Thing You Need to Know: ... About Great Managing, Great Leading and Sustained Individual Success

by Marcus Buckingham

Following the success of the landmark bestsellers First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham offers a dramatically new way to understand the art of success.

With over 1.6...

Statistics for Six Sigma Made Easy: Getting Good Samples and Data

by Warren Brussee

This chapter is from Statistics for Six Sigma Made Easy, a simple guide to using the powerful statistical tools of Six Sigma to solve real-world problems. Warren Brussee, a Six Sigma manager who helped his teams...

Go Put Your Strengths to Work: Six Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance

by Marcus Buckingham

Beginning with the million-copy bestsellers First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham jump-started the strengths movement that is now sweeping the work world, from business...

Managing a Nonprofit Organization in the Twenty-First Century

by Thomas Wolf

Since this classic work was originally published in 1984, there have been major shifts in the nonprofit world -- the growth of more profit-oriented ventures, the overhaul of accounting rules, new partnerships,...

It's Not About the Coffee: Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks

by Howard Behar

During his many years as a senior executive at Starbucks, Howard Behar helped establish the Starbucks culture, which stresses people over profits. He coached hundreds of leaders at every level and helped the...

Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

by Liz Wiseman & Greg McKeown

Are you a genius or a genius maker?

We've all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drain intelligence, energy, and capability from the ones around them and always need...

Manager's Guide to Business Planning

by Peter J. Capezio

Get the business results you wantby creating and executing a solid plan!One simple thing usually makes the difference between business success and failure: a well-laid plan.Whether you want to enact a long-term...

The Manager's Guide to Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Teams

by Dr. Charles Prather

Unleash your employees’ hidden talent for innovationand creativity—the key to organizational success!For any organization competing today, nothing is more important than building teams ofcreative thinkers...

How to Get Your Work Noticed at Your Job

by Richard Templar

This Element is an excerpt from The Rules of Work: A Definitive Code for Personal Success, Expanded Edition (9780137072064) by Richard Templar. Available in print and digital formats.

Don't let your excellence...

Churchill on Leadership: Executive Success in the Face of Adversity

by Steven F. Hayward

Success often depends on the strength of a single quality: leadership. Winston Churchill is universally recognized as one of the 20th century's great political leaders and his words ring just as true in the...

Complete New Manager

by John H. Zenger

Tackle every management challengewith skill and confidence!Managers are faced with a variety of challenges every day. There are decisionsto make, conflicts to resolve, and strategies to implement, among many...

Perfect Phrases for Communicating Change

by Lawrence Polsky & Antoine Gerschel

THE RIGHT PHRASE FOR EVERYSITUATION . . . EVERY TIMEEmployees respond to organizational change with worry, fear, and sometimeseven panic. Your job is to keep them motivated and focused—so you mustchoose your...

West Point Way of Leadership

by Larry Donnithorne

West Point has bred more CEOs than any business school, and the leadership skills taught there are truly matters of life and death.  Bolder than Sun Tzu, savvier than Gracian -- THE book on learning to lead....

The World Is Flat 3.0

by Thomas L. Friedman & Oliver Wyman

This Independence Day edition of The World is Flat 3.0 includes an an exclusive preview of That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back, by Thomas L. Friedman...

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

by Peter L. Bernstein

A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller

"Ambitious and readable . . . an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind...

Outsourcing IT - The Legal Aspects: Planning, Contracting, Managing and the Law

by Rachel Burnett

Whether you are a supplier or a customer, it is vital to have a properly negotiated formal contract if you are entering into an outsourcing arrangement. A good contract needs careful planning and this book provides...

4 Disciplines of Execution: Getting Strategy Done

by Sean Covey, Chris McChesney & Jim Huling

Do you remember the last major initiative you watched die in your organization? Did it go down with a loud crash? Or was it slowly and quietly suffocated by other competing priorities?

By the time it finally...

The Innovator's Dilemma with Award-Winning Harvard Business Review Article "How Will You Measure Your Life?"

by Clayton M. Christensen

Get these bestsellers together: one of the most influential business books of all time—with a bonus HBR article that will inspire you to find meaning and happiness in your life by applying the principles of...