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Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Peter F. Drucker
This is the classic business tome for presenting innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline. This practical book explains what all businesses and institutions have to know, learn, and do in today’s market.
The Practice of Management
Peter F. Drucker
The first book to depict management as a distinct function and to recognize managing as a separate responsibility, this classic Drucker work is the fundamental and basic book for understanding these ideas.
The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done
Peter F. Drucker with Joseph A. Maciariello
Drucker offers his penetrating and practical wisdom with his trademark clarity, vision, and humanity.
Five Frogs on a Log: A CEO’s Field Guide to Accelerating the Transition in Mergers, Acquisitions, and Gut Wrenching Change
Mark L. Feldman and Michael F. Spratt
Designed for corporate managers and CEOs caught up in the whirlwind of change, every chapter provides accessible ideas and wisdom for navigating the most demanding business transitions.
How to Sell Anything to Anybody
Joe Girard
“The world’s greatest retail salesman” (Guinness Book of Records) shares his secrets for finding customers, closing deals, and making lifelong friends.
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability Paul Hawken
The entrepreneur behind the Smith & Hawken gardening supply empire proposes an Earth-and people-friendly approach to business.
“Yes” or “No”: The Guide to Better Decisions
Spencer Johnson, M.D.
Best-selling author Spencer Johnson presents a practical system anyone can use to make better decisions in both one’s professional and personal life.
Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes
Alfie Kohn
Seeing rewards as bribery, the author argues that teamwork, meaningfulness, and autonomy are incentive enough for both students and workers.
Leading Change
John P. Kotter
Kotter shows how executives at all levels need to address and lead the organization by improving the status quo.
Swim with the Sharks without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, and Outnegotiate Your Competition Harvey B. Mackay
In this straight-from-the-hip handbook, with almost 2 million in print, best-selling author and self-made millionaire Mackay reviews the secrets of his success.
You Can’t Win a Fight with Your Boss: & 55 Other Rules for Success
Tom Markert
This guide to surviving the pitfalls of the modern corporate environment presents fifty-six practical rules that one can use to find corporate success.
The Corporate Coach: How to Build A Team of Loyal Customers and Happy Employees
James B. Miller with Paul B. Brown
Founder and CEO of Miller Business Systems, Jim Miller shows how giving customers legendary services and also motivating employees makes for a winning combination.
Launch It!: How to Turn Good Ideas into Great Products
Molly Miller-Davidson, JoAnne Stone-Geier, and Michael B. Levinson
Written by an expert team of trend and product consultants with over sixty years of collective experience advising thousands of entrepreneurs, designers, and companies, this book provides step-by-step nuts-and-bolts advice.
In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies
Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr.
Based on a study of 43 of America’s best-run companies, In Search of Excellence describes eight basic principles of management that made these organizations successful.
Emily Post’s The Etiquette Advantage in Business, 2nd edition: Personal Skills for Professional Success
Peggy Post and Peter Post
Helpful guidance for appropriate behavior and communication for both everyday and unusual situations essential to professional and personal success.
Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work
David Rock
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