Author: Gary Klein
Publisher: Broadway Books
Keywords: decisions, work, feelings, gut, intuition, power
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0385502893
ISBN-13: 9780385502894

At times in our careers, we’ve all been aware of a "gut feeling" guiding our decisions. Too often, we dismiss these feelings as "hunches" and therefore untrustworthy. But renowned researcher Gary Klein reveals that, in fact, 90 percent of the critical decisions we make is based on our intuition. In his new book, THE POWER OF INTUITION, Klein shows that intuition, far from being an innate "sixth sense," is a learnable--and essential--skill.Based on interviews with senior executives who make important judgments swiftly, as well as firefighters, emergency medical staff, soldiers, and others

Author: Andrew S. Grove
Publisher: Broadway Books
Keywords: survive, paranoid
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1996-10-02
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0385482582
ISBN-13: 9780385482585

Under Andy Grove’s leadership, Intel has become the world’s largest chipmaker, the fifth-most-admired company in America, and the seventh-most-profitable company among the Fortune 500. You don’t achieve rankings like these unless you have mastered a rare understanding of the art of business and an unusual way with its practice.Few CEOs can claim this level of consistent record-breaking success. Grove attributes much of this success to the philosophy and strategy he reveals in Only the Paranoid Survive--a book that is unique in leadership annals for offering a bold new busines

Author: Richard Koch
Publisher: Broadway Books
Keywords: achieving, success, secret, principle
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1999-10-19
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0385491743
ISBN-13: 9780385491747

How anyone can be more effective with less effort by learning how to identify and leverage the 80/20 principle--the well-known, unpublicized secret that 80 percent of all our results in business and in life stem from a mere 20 percent of our efforts.The 80/20 principle is one of the great secrets of highly effective people and organizations.Did you know, for example, that 20 percent of customers account for 80 percent of revenues? That 20 percent of our time accounts for 80 percent of the work we accomplish? The 80/20 Principle shows how we can achieve much more with much less effort, time, an

Author: Donald Norman
Publisher: Broadway Books
Keywords: things, everyday, design
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1990-02-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0385267746
ISBN-13: 9780385267748

The Director of the Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of California hails excellence of design as the most important key to regaining the competitive edge in influencing consumer behavior.

Author: Elaine N. Aron Ph.D.
Publisher: Broadway Books
Keywords: person, sensitive, highly
Number of Pages: 251
Published: 1997-06-02
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0553062182
ISBN-13: 9780553062182

Are you a highly sensitive person?Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food and water? Are you "too shy" or "too sensitive" according to others? Do noise and confusion quickly overwhelm you? If your answers are yes, you may be a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP).Most of us feel overstimulated every once in a while, but for the Highly Sensitive Person, it’s a way of life. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Elaine Aron, a psychotherapist, workshop leader and highly sensitive person herself, shows you how to identify this trait in you

Author: Frances Mayes
Publisher: Broadway Books
Keywords: italy, home, sun, tuscan
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1997-09-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0767900383
ISBN-13: 9780767900386

Now in paperback, the #1 San Francisco Chronicle bestseller that is an enchanting and lyrical look at the life, the traditions, and the cuisine of Tuscany, in the spirit of Peter Mayle’s A Year in Provence.Frances Mayes entered a wondrous new world when she began restoring an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. There were unexpected treasures at every turn: faded frescos beneath the whitewash in her dining room, a vineyard under wildly overgrown brambles in the garden, and, in the nearby hill towns, vibrant markets and delightful people. In Under the Tuscan Sun, she br

Author: Jalal Al-Din Rumi
Publisher: Broadway Books
Keywords: rumi, illuminated
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1997-10-13
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0767900022
ISBN-13: 9780767900027

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings...In the mid-thirteenth century, in a dusty marketplace in Konya, Turkey, a city where Muslim, Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist travelers mingled, Jelaluddin Rumi, a popular philosopher and scholar, met Shams of Tabriz, a wandering dervish. Their meeting forever altered the course of Rumi’s life and influenced the mystical evolution of the planet. The bond they formed was everlasting--a powerful transcendent friendship that would flow through Rumi as some of the world’s best-loved ecstatic poetry.Rumi’s pa