I'm someone who will push you beyond all reasonable limits.  Someone who will ask you not to just fulfill your potential but to exceed it.  Someone who will expect more from you than you may believe you are capable of.  So if you aren't ready to go to work, shut this book ... more »

There are only two types of stocks: those safe from bubbles and those that are not. This is a fact of investing many discovered as they saw their fabulous gains whittled away by the extreme calamity of the Internet sector. But what about the future? Is there a way for investors to capture the enormous ... more »

Today, with the Internet, anyone can be an informed investor. The Motley Fool Investment Guide deciphers all the new information -- from evaluating individual stocks to creating a diverse investment portfolio. Once you learn to tune out the hype, focusing on the factors that really matter, you too can ... more »

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 »

... CEO Wants You to Know captures these insights and explains in clear, simple language how to do what great CEOs do instinctively and persistently: * Understand the basic building blocks of a business and use them to figure out how your company makes money and operates as a total business. * Decide what ... more »

Looking for a job? Preparing for the biggest interview of your life? Facing a layoff? Have no fear. Work It! has all the strategies you need. The work world isn't so friendly anymore. Landing the job you want takes a little more sweat in this tight job market, and keeping that job requires savvy and ... more »

Michael Goldhaber, writing in Wired, said, If there is nothing very special about your work, no matter how hard you apply yourself you won't get noticed and that increasingly means you won't get paid much either. In times past you could be obscure yet secure -- now that's much harder. Again: the white ... more »

In the blink of an eye, vast economic forces have created new types of communities and reinvented old ones. In The New Geography , acclaimed forecaster Joel Kotkin decodes the changes, and provides the first clear road map for where Americans will live and work in the decades to come, and why. He examines ... more »

Like Robert Kiyosaki's RICH DAD'S PROPHECY, THE OIL FACTOR predicts catastrophic losses for those who rely solely on stocks and bonds-and shows how paying attention to oil prices can lead to financial security. For the last thirty years, the price of oil has been the single most important determinant ... more »

France's Louis XIV died in 1715. In exile in Paris -- having killed a man in a duel and acquired a huge fortune from gambling -- Edinburgh-born John Law advised Louis XV to issue paper money. He became one of the most powerful men in Europe -- and in America. Fortunes were made and lost. A modern fiscal ... more »

The world has been turned upside down. The economy is unpredictable. And it's time for you to take control. There's no better guide to being a savvy buyer and a smart investor than Alan Murray, the Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal . A clear and confident voice in times of chaotic change ... more »

Haben Sie manchmal das Gefühl, dass Sie Ihr Karrierepotenzial noch nicht ausgeschöpft haben? Finden Sie im zwischenmenschlichen Bereich oft nicht die richtigen Töne? Dann ist möglicherweise Ihre emotionale Intelligenz (EQ=Emotional Quality) nicht optimal entwickelt. Der EQ ist nicht festgelegt, sondern ... more »