From It's All Politics Like business in general, politics is not a spectator sport. You cannot afford to be apolitical at work if you have any aspirations for advancement. The only way to avoid politics is to avoid people--by finding an out-of-the-way corner where you can do your job. Of course, it's ... more »

It is well known that with a population of 1.3 billion people, China's market is moving quickly toward surpassing those of North America and Europe combined. Companies from the United States and around the globe are flocking there to buy, sell, manufacture, and create new products. But as former Wall ... more »

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 »

This educative book concentrates on providing strategies that will help companies reshape the way they think in terms of developing and maintaining relations with their customers. Brand equity, the lifetime value of a customer and ways to understand the trends of competitors make this an interesting ... 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 »

Crossing the Chasm (1991; rev. 1999) demonstrates the existence of distinct marketing challenges for each market segment in the life cycle of new technology-based products. A significant gulf -- the chasm -- exists between the market made up of early adopters and the markets of more pragmatic buyers ... more »