If you're wondering what happened after a company without assets acquired a company without a clue, as Kara Swisher wryly writes, it's time to crack open this trenchant book about the doomed merger of America Online and Time Warner. On a quest to discover how the deal of the century became the messiest ... more »

Torie Clarke, renowned and respected in political and business circles as one of the nation's most gifted communicators, offers a complete guide to the new age of transparency. Clarke's message is refreshing and straightforward: No more spin. Always a dubious proposition, spin has become increasingly ... more »

Lessons for Everyone in Business from an All-Star Team. Every six months Dennis C. Carey and Marie-Caroline von Weichs run the CEO Academy, an immersion course for newly appointed CEOs of the world's leading companies--what Business Week called a boot camp for the next class of top executives. Those ... more »

Negotiating is a face-to-face human drama that can be as genteel as croquet or as brutal as a prizefight, observes Victor Gotbaum. In Negotiating in the Real World, he draws on his experience to show how readers can also get results by sharpening their negotiating skills in every situation -- from getting ... more »

This classic, newly updated, is an indispensable source for anyone-from mid-level managers to CEOs-who must execute key business initiatives quickly and effectively. Once groundbreaking and now time-honored, Managing at the Speed of Change has helped countless business leaders learn how to orchestrate ... more »

Forget what you've heard. Nice girls can get the corner office. As women, we haven't always had the best role models at work. We've either worked for men or we've had female bosses who are, well, big bitches. Woman still don't have much of a road map right now when it comes to taking charge at the office ... more »

Best-selling author Andy Kessler ties up the loose ends from his provocative book, Running Money , with this history of breakthrough technology and the markets that funded them. Expanding on themes first raised in his tour de force, Running Money , Andy Kessler unpacks the entire history of Silicon Valley ... more »

Everything an individual investor needs to know about bonds. The average income investor doesn't want--or need--to get bogged down in technical discussions of interest rates and time. So All About Bonds and Bond Mutual Funds gives them what they want--a simple yet comprehensive treatment of bonds and ... more »

In this manifesto, Christian shows how essential it is to have the most talented people on your side. But how do you find the best? And how do you become the best? Christian's solution: Think like a headhunter. He gives readers the benefits of his twenty years of experience interviewing thousands of ... more »

Do you want to get ahead in life? Climb the ladder to personal success? The secret, master networker Keith Ferrazzi claims, is in reaching out to other people. As Ferrazzi discovered early in life, what distinguishes highly successful people from everyone else is the way they use the power of relationships ... more »

In ARE YOU READY TO SUCCEED, the premise is simple: discover what makes you happiest at work so that you can realize your greatest professional potential. But how do you do this? Through a series of readings, exercises, and lessons drawn from spiritual and commercial traditions, Dr. Rao engages readers ... more »

In his seminal works Megatrends and Megatrends 2000 , John Naisbitt proved himself one of the most far-sighted and accurate observers of our fast-changing world. Mind Set! goes beyond that-- Mind Set! discloses the secret of forecasting. John Naisbitt gives away the keys to the kingdom, opening the door ... more »