Tired of swimming with the sharks? Fed up with that big ape down the hall? Real animals can teach us better ways to thrive in the workplace jungle. You're ambitious and want to get ahead, but what's the best way to do it? Become the biggest, baddest predator? The proverbial 800-pound gorilla? Or does ... more »

In the last half of the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution sparked a remarkable, historic series of innovations--the first transatlantic telegraph cable, electric lights and motors, automobiles, telephones, and more. This process of discovery and invention led to a noninflationary boom in economic ... more »

Traditional brick-and-mortar companies are waking up to the fact that competitive survival in the New Economy depends on learning how to think and act like today's most successful dotcom enterprises. Now this important new book from the authors of the bestseller The Disney Way shows them how. Based on ... more »

Product Info This book is an important and stimulating analysis of how industrial activity can be organized efficiently when the work is divided across different firms. more »

Product Info Peter Herriot argues that it is often employees' dark rather than bright side, which best expresses how they really feel. more »

In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helix structure of DNA, but did not decipher the messages on the strands -- the human genome sequence. Now, at the beginning of a new millennium, the code has been cracked. Here is the dramatic story of one of the greatest of scientific feats ... more »

What is different about the careers of people like Lou Gerstner, the acclaimed, recently retired chairman and CEO of IBM? Or Senator Elizabeth Dole, Yahoo! COO Dan Rosensweig, and Tom Freston, chairman and CEO of MTV Networks? Why did they ascend to the top and prosper--why did they have extraordinary ... more »

Do you think it's possible to truly enjoy your job? No matter what it is or where you are? Timothy Gallwey does, and in this groundbreaking book he tells you how to overcome the inner obstacles that sabotage your efforts to be your best on the job. Timothy Gallwey burst upon the scene twenty years ago ... more »

From the boardroom to the locker room to the living room--how winners become winners . . . and stay that way. Is success simply a matter of money and talent? Or is there another reason why some people and organizations always land on their feet, while others, equally talented, stumble again and again ... more »

In 2000, when The Informant was published, few would've imagined that a story about price fixing at Archer Daniels Midland could be as un-put-downable as the best crime fiction. Yet critics--and consumers--agreed: The New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald had taken the stuff of dry business reporting ... more »

Ole! If you think you smell something at work, there's probably good reason--bull has become the official language of business. Every day, we get bombarded by an endless stream of filtered, antiseptic, jargon-filled corporate speak, all of which makes it harder to get heard, harder to be authentic, and ... more »

Das Standardwerk zur EKS - neu überarbeitet Fokussierung und Konzentration auf Kernkompetenzen gelten als das Erfolgsrezept schlechthin. Wie man sich richtig spezialisiert und sein Erfolgspotenzial ausschöpft, zeigt Ihnen die Engpass-Konzentrierte Strategie (EKS). Ob Sie Ihr Unternehmen an die Marktspitze ... more »