What differentiates a star executive from his or her peers? This is no idle question because experts like Peter Drucker, Jim Collins, and Jack Welch agree that great talent builds great companies. So, finding and assembling a critical mass of the very best people should be the first priority of every ... more »

The founding father of the science of management (Los Angeles Times). The best of Drucker's sixty years of unequaled writing on management -- including material from Management Challenges for the 21st Century (1999). Managers: Have it with you always on your PDA, Tablet PC, or dedicated e-book reader ... more »

Want to know the secrets of successful and money-savvy home renovation? Best-selling real estate author Robert Irwin tells all. Millions of readers have relied on his Tips & Traps guides for solid advice on all aspects of real estate. Now this best-selling author guides you through the perilous world ... more »

This is a Gloom and Boom book.First the bad news: Between the years of 2007 and 2012-just a few years from now-the vast majority of Baby Boomers will be on the verge of retirement-and they'll be looking to cash in on their hefty retirement plans. Quite frankly, the country is not prepared to handle this ... more »

In August of 2002, Dan Ahrens and his colleagues at MUTUALS.com launched the Vice Fund, a mutual fund that invests solely in sin stocks-- tobacco, alcohol, adult entertainment, gambling, and aerospace/defense, believing that even during an abysmal economy, people will indulge in such goods and services ... more »

Harvey Mackay is author of four New York Times bestsellers. His first two books-Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive and Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt-were #1 New York Times bestsellers and are listed by the New York Times among the top fifteen inspirational business books of ... 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 »

Like a mirror, Your Management Sucks reveals important truths that you may deal with . . . or choose to ignore or put on the back burner. Everyone manages someone or something . . . your own life and career, an administrative assistant, hundreds or thousands of people. How well or poorly you manage has ... more »

Are You Considering Early Retirement? Do You Know Someone Who Is Considering This Momentous Decision? With Retire Early? Make the SMART Choices , Steven Silbiger , CPA, offers a short guide to the big issues of retirement planning -- packed on every page with detailed, step-by-step advice. Choosing when ... more »

The fault line is that dangerous, unstable seam in the economy where the Internet and other powerful innovations meet and create market-shattering tremors. Geoffrey A. Moore guides executives to the new models, metrics, and organizational practices necessary to meet the challenges of the 21st-century ... more »

The Managerial Moment of Truth explains a powerful new concept that can dramatically improve performance and increase productivity, at no cost, in virtually any company or organization. Developed by organizational consultant and bestselling author Robert Fritz and proven in practice by coauthor Bruce ... more »

In this substantially revised and updated edition of a brilliant and incisive business classic, Alfred Rappaport provides managers and investors with the practical tools needed to generate superior returns. The shareholder value approach presented here has been widely embraced by publicly traded as well ... more »