In this remarkable book, Nigel Nicholson takes a fresh, novel, and penetrating look at human nature and why we do what we do at work. * Why we let one piece of bad news drive out 100 pieces of good. * Create the us versus them problem by immediately classifying people as winners and losers. * And think ... more »

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Jeremy Siegel's best-selling book has proven that stocks are the best investment over the long term. Now, this classic guide has been revised to include today's most successful investment strategies. With its phenomenal analysis of financial market returns since 1802, no other book offers such an in ... more »

... , How to Retire Happy arms anyone approaching retirement with easy-to-comprehend answers to all their complicated questions. How to Retire Happy: * Provides practical advice and guidance on the 12 most complicated decisions to make before retiring * Covers all the bases, from where to live to how to ... more »

Based upon indepth case studies of companies such as Coca-Cola and 3M this book is an original and comprehensive analysis of learning organisations. Includes interviews with over seventy managers an... more » more »

The voluntary nonprofit sector is now involved in all aspects of people's lives. The management of these organizations has never been of more interest, and has been changing rapidly with well meaning amateurs being replaced by highly committed and professional leaders. With one in every six employees ... more »

A wholly new force is driving human behavior today, and it's turning the world as we know it upside down and inside out. Human behavior is now being driven by a new survival instinct -- a new primal desire -- that is invisibly but unstoppably reshaping the world, from the most intimate details of our ... more »

In the tradition of his acclaimed books Eyewitness to America and Eyewitness to the American West , David Colbert draws on diaries, private letters, memoirs, and reportage to bring the 400 year history of the world's most famous street to life in the words of the people whose lives were deeply entwined ... more »

Every eight seconds someone in this country turns 50, an age at which even baby boomers can no longer put off becoming fiscally responsible and planning for the future. For everyone who finds that thought daunting (and that's an awful lot of us), Charles R. Schwab, America's most trusted figure in financial ... more »

What Would Machiavelli Do? and Throwing the Elephant. Fortune's Stanley Bing has written two very different but complementary survival guides for today's business world. Inspired by the Florentine master, Bing offers (in Machiavelli) a way of seeing colleagues and rivals from 50,000 feet -- as teeny ... more »

Confronting Reality will change the way you think about and run your business. It is the first book that shows how to connect the big picture of the new era of business with the nitty-gritty of what to do about it. Through a completely new way to understand and use the business model as the primary tool ... more »

You get sick; you go to your doctor. Too bad. Because medicine isn't an industry, it's practically witchcraft. Despite the growth of big pharma, HMOs, and hospital chains, medicine remains the isolated work of individual doctors -- and the system is going broke fast. So why is Andy Kessler -- the man ... more »