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How Foundations Work: What Grantseekers Need to Know About the Many Faces of Foundations
Author Dennis P. McIlnay
In this groundbreaking book, Dennis McIlnay offers a unique and remarkable look inside foundations--exploring the complex workings of the mysterious and often misunderstood organizations that so often determine the success or failure of a nonprofit's fund raising v....
Release Date 1998/04 -
The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable: Laws of Business Success
Author Brian Tracy
Why are some people more successful in business than others? Why do some businesses flourish where others fail? Renowned business speaker and author Brian Tracy has discovered the answers to these profoundly puzzling questions. In this eye-opening practical guide, h....
Release Date 2000/01 -
Author Geoffrey Bellman
THE WAYS WE GO about changing organizations usually don't work, asserts Geoff Bellman. Our underlying assumptions predetermine the results and preclude the broad success we so desperately seek. Change efforts often end up off-track because of small expectations. Wh....
Release Date 2000/04 -
Author James W. Cortada
Manage all the changes driving your business in the 21st century!In a time of unremitting, accelerating technological change, James W. Cortada offers a calm, intelligent path through the wilderness, helping managers understand the big picture and successfully manage....
Release Date 2000/08 -
Beyond the Core: Expand Your Market Without Abandoning Your Roots
Author Chris Zook
All companies must grow to survive--but only one in five growth strategies succeeds. In Profit from the Core, strategy expert Chris Zook revealed how to grow profitably by focusing on and achieving full potential in the core business. But what happens when your core....
Release Date 2004/01 -
Powerful Times: Rising to the Challenge of Our Uncertain World
Author Eamonn Kelly
Understand the most revolutionary human transformation in four centuries... and prepare for it!We're not just living through an age of change: we're living through a 'change of age': the most profound inflection point in human history since the Enlightenment. Th....
Release Date 2005/09 -
Big Winners and Big Losers: The 4 Secrets of Long-Term Business Success and Failure
Author Alfred A. Marcus
What keeps great companies winning, year after year, even as yesterday's most hyped businesses fall by the wayside? It's not what you think -- or what you've read. To find the real answers, strategic management expert Alfred Marcus systematically reviewed detaile....
Release Date 2005/10 -
Let Go To Grow: Escaping the Commodity Trap
Author Dave Taylor , Linda S. Sanford
Praise for Let Go To Grow"Over the next ten years large companies will be hit with a wide array of harrowing new business challenges—commoditization being at the top of that list.Let Go To Grow elegantly outlines the critical new innovation, standardization, and glo....
Release Date 2005/12 -
Author Mark Albion
How do you build the kind of company you've always wanted to work in—one that serves people and the planet while being financially successful, too? What do you do when you believe that business should serve the common good, but everyday business pressures—meet....
Release Date 2006/06 -
Essentials for Government Contract Negotiators
Author Legette McIntyre
Learn to negotiate by applying business-savvy negotiation strategies and tactics, anticipating and countering the other side's strategies and tactics, and concluding and documenting the negotiation successfully. Essentials for Government Contract Negotiators ....
Release Date 2006/07 -
Author Lynn Jackson , Bill Capodagli
The original edition of The Disney Way was awarded a coveted Best Business Book of the Year by Fortune magazine. The world's foremost experts on Disney, Bill Capodagli and Lynn Jackson revealed Walt's secret success formula that propelled his company into the high....
Release Date 2006/10 -
Changing How the World Does Business
Author Roger Frock
From humble beginnings, FedEx has literally revolutionized the way business is conducted. Not too long ago, overnight shipping was barely an option for even the largest companies. Today, thanks to FedEx, it's available to every living room start-up. With annua....
Release Date 2006/10 -
The Ernst & Young Business Plan Guide, Third Edition
Author Ernst & Young , Patrick T. Pruitt , Jay M. Bornstein , Brian R. Ford
In today's competitive business environment, a well thought out business plan is more important than ever before. Not only can it assist you in raising the money needed to start or expand a business-by attracting the interest of potential investors-but it can also ....
Release Date 2007/06 -
Unearthing Business Requirements
Author Kathleen B. Hass , Rosemary Hossenlopp
A Volume of the Business Analysis Essential Library Series Learn how the business analyst works collaboratively with the project manager and other core team members to create plans that customize elicitation activities to the unique needs of the project. The a....
Release Date 2007/10 -
Creating Success from the Inside Out: Develop The Focus and Strategy To Uncover the Life You Want
Author Emerson Brantley , Ephren W. Taylor
Creating Success from the Inside Out shares the inspiring and motivational story of Ephren Taylor, one of the world’s youngest-ever CEOs of a publicly traded company. A millionaire by the young age of sixteen, Taylor tells you what it takes to succeed in life by fol....
Release Date 2007/11 -
Parallel Peaks: Business Insights While Climbing the World's Highest Mountains
Author John D. McQuaig
Get inspired to hold onto your business dream and keep heading upward. This book ties together eight common elements of mountaineering and business management that make the crucial difference between success and failure in either endeavor. John McQuaig is uniquely q....
Release Date 2008/01 -
Extreme Toyota: Radical Contradictions That Drive Success at the World's Best Manufacturer
Author Hirotaka Takeuchi , Norihiko Shimizu , Emi Osono
Extreme Toyota offers the first real, comprehensive inside look at what makes one of the world?s best companies run. With unprecedented access to the inner working of Toyota, the authors spent six years researching the company, interviewing hundreds of executives an....
Release Date 2008/05 -
So You Want to be an Entrepreneur?: How to Decide if Starting A Business is Really For You
Author Jon Gillespie-Brown
Jon Gillespie Brown brings his extensive mentoring experience to bear in this new handbook for would-be entrepreneurs. So You Want to Be an Entrepreneur? contains a series of mentoring sessions, each carefully thought out to make you consider and plan your life base....
Release Date 2008/07 -
Author Kristin Tillquist
To be successful in the 21st century global marketplace you need many things—determination, well-articulated goals, and a bit of luck. But more than anything else, you need kindness.Kindness becomes the key business asset when you couple a caring attitude toward oth....
Release Date 2008/11 -
Aligning Human Resources and Business Strategy, 2nd Edition
Author Linda Holbeche
What difference can the aspiring HR strategist really make to business value?In the new edition of her ground-breaking book, Linda Holbeche answers this question and provides the tools and insights to help HR managers and directors add value to the organizatio....
Release Date 2009/06 -
The Complete Idiot’s Guide® To: Greening Your Business
Author Heather Gadonniex , Trish Riley
The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Greening Your Business gives you ingenious business strategies and practical tips that are good for the environment and save your (large or small) business money. Coverage includes everything from implementing green manufacturing, pac....
Release Date 2009/06 -
Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies for Turning Ideas Into Action
Author John Spence
The six core strategies to elevate any business-and how to implement them-made simpleWhat do the world's most successful companies and organization have in common? And what can you actually take away and use from their examples? Distilling the best fundamental busi....
Release Date 2009/09 -
Profit from the Core: A Return to Growth in Turbulent Times
Author James Allen , Chris Zook
When Profit from the Core was published in 2001, it became an international bestseller, helping hundreds of companies find their way back to profitable growth after the bursting of the Internet bubble. The 2007 global financial meltdown reaffirmed the perils of purs....
Release Date 2010/02 -
The Complete Idiot's Guide® To Business Plans
Author Gwen Moran , Sue Johnson
It's just good business.The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Business Plans, Second Edition, helps new and existing entrepreneurs create clear, comprehensive, and compelling business plans by walking them through all of the decisions they'll need to make before writing....
Release Date 2010/02 -
Author Michael Jarrett
Are you falling behind your competitors? Are you too slow getting your products to market? Are your overheads too high? These are just some of the challenges that companies face. However, initiating successful change strategies is far from easy. 70% of all change programmes fail. This book shows how....
Release Date 2010/04 -
Author Sanjyot P. Dunung
In the hard-fought business world, only one new business in 20 lives to see its fifth anniversary. Typical management books do not address the unique nuances of early stage companies. Most entrepreneurial books often profile successful entrepreneurs or companies who....
Release Date 2010/04 -
Author Sanjyot Dunung
In the hard-fought business world, only one new business in 20 lives to see its fifth anniversary. Typical management books do not address the unique nuances of early stage companies. Most entrepreneurial books often profile successful entrepreneurs or companies who....
Release Date 2010/05 -
Forbes® Best Business Mistakes: How Today's Top Business Leaders Turned Missteps into Success
Author Bob Sellers
Today's top business leaders reveal how to make even the biggest mistakes work for youForbes Best Business Mistakes reveals practical lessons from some of today's most successful business leaders to show you how to turn a bad business situation into a success.Base....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Author Catherine W. Scherer
This book identifies the six key practices of successful internationalists and posits that recognizing them will have a profound effect on corporate mindset and how global companies plan and execute cross-border strategies. She relates stories from the trenches, ill....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Author Tim Williams
It's not the best companies that prevail in the marketplace, but rather the best brands. The goal of business strategy is not just to be better, but different. Learn how to build a differentiating value proposition by clearly and carefully defining your brand bound....
Release Date 2010/08