On October 23, 2001, Apple Computer, a company known for its chic, cutting-edge technology -- if not necessarily for its dominant market share -- launched a product with an enticing promise: You can carry an entire music collection in your pocket. It was called the iPod. What happened next exceeded the ... more »

You thought you could write your own resume.  You thought you didn't need to pay anyone to do it.  You thumbed through a few books, and sat down to write the killer resume. You sent your resume to monster.com.  You sent it to hotjobs com, cooljobs com, coldjobs com, and oddjobs com.  ... more »

Today's successful managers are negotiators who are judged on their ability to foster, coach, and support collaborative relationships -- and manage conflict -- with peers, workers, bosses, suppliers, customers, regulators, competitors, and stakeholders. Here is essential reading for every manager who ... more »

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 »

For the Part-Time Student with a Full-Time Life Kaplans M.B.A. Part-Time: An Insiders Guide is written exclusively for the professional balancing the demands of home and work with the challenges of getting an M.B.A. This straightforward guide outlines the entire processfrom selecting the program that ... more »

The classic text annotated by noted financial journalist Jason Zweig to update Benjamin Graham's timeless wisdom for today's market conditions. Warren Buffet: By far the best book on investing ever written. Considered the greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham's philosophy ... more »

The phenomenal success of the initial public offerings (IPOs) of many new Internet companies obscures the fact that fewer than six out of 1 million business plans submitted to venture capital firms will ever reach the IPO stage. Many fail, according to start-up expert John Nesheim, because the entrepreneurs ... more »

Bestselling financial advisor David Bach brings us his proven, revolutionary system that in one hour will make readers -- even those not smart about money, not disciplined or budget-minded -- rich. The Automatic Millionaire shows readers how to change financial practices and financial lives, beginning ... more »

In his inspiring new book, You Don't Need a Title to Be a Leader , Mark Sanborn, the author of the national bestseller The Fred Factor , shows how each of us can be a leader in our daily lives and make a positive difference, whatever our title or position. Through the stories of a number of unsung heroes ... more »

From the bare basics to tips for the self-made sophisticate, Lisa Holton captures both the art and science of contrarian investing in her book HOW TO BE A VALUE INVESTOR, arming investors with the necessary tools and information they need to make informed investment decisions. Holton not only emphasizes ... more »

The effective business, Peter Drucker observes, focuses on opportunities rather than problems. How this focus is achieved in order to make the organization prosper and grow is the subject of this companion to his classic, The Practice of Management . The earlier book was chiefly concerned with how management ... more »

"Competition is the bane of the free enterprise system." --Anonymous business mogul What people on the front lines--making, marketing, and selling products and services--really want is to be alone in the marketplace, to have a space that they own for a long enough period of time so they can ... more »