Authors:Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Charles Burck,
Publisher: Crown Business
Keywords: things, getting, discipline, execution
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-06-15
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0609610570
ISBN-13: 9780609610572

The book that shows how to get the job done and deliver results . . . whether you’re running an entire company or in your first management jobLarry Bossidy is one of the world’s most acclaimed CEOs, a man with few peers who has a track record for delivering results. Ram Charan is a legendary advisor to senior executives and boards of directors, a man with unparalleled insight into why some companies are successful and others are not. Together they’ve pooled their knowledge and experience into the one book on how to close the gap between results promised and results delivered

Author: Donald J. Trump
Publisher: Crown Business
Keywords: advice, received, business, top, way, trump
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-05-18
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1400050162
ISBN-13: 9781400050161

The host of the hit reality show The Apprentice presents an invaluable collection of grounded, hard-hitting advice on business success, from people who have made it to the boss’s chair at some of America’s most thriving companies. How can you find the way to the top? Ask people who are already there.Because you can’t know it all. No matter how smart you are, no matter how comprehensive your education, no matter how wide-ranging your business experience, there’s simply no way to acquire all the wisdom you need to make your business flourish. You need to learn from those

Author: Anne-Marie Fink
Publisher: Crown Business
Keywords: world, turned, upside, win, managers, makers, extraordinary, money
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-01-27
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0307396304
ISBN-13: 9780307396303

When real money is at stake, it tends to clarify the mind, and for over a decade, Anne-Marie Fink has had literally billions of dollars resting on her assessments of companies. As an equity analyst and professional investor, she has been charged with understanding whether businesses are solid, long-term moneymakers–or rotten tomatoes–before investing with them. She has had unusual access to an incredible variety of businesses, from entertainment conglomerates to newspapers, Internet companies, airlines, railroads, furniture manufacturers, auto suppliers, staffing agencies, and othe

Author: Karen Blumenthal
Publisher: Crown Business
Keywords: starbucks, stock, life, year, expectations, grande
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0307339726
ISBN-13: 9780307339720

Karen Blumenthal, like most people, is mystified by the stock market. Just why is it, she wonders, that seemingly good news can send a stock plummeting and bad news can send it skyrocketing again? In Grande Expectations, she shows how money is made and lost by following one of America’s hottest growth stocks, Starbucks, through a year of rapid store openings, fancy new drinks, and clever promotions, revealing how the many players—big and small investors, company management, analysts, and the media—propel its shares up and down. Blumenthal pulls back the curtain on the stock market to

Author: David Bach
Publisher: Crown Business
Keywords: live, finish, rich, plan, one, millionaire, powerful, automatic
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-12-27
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0767923820
ISBN-13: 9780767923828

What’s the secret to becoming a millionaire?For years people have asked David Bach, the national bestselling author of Smart Women Finish Rich, Smart Couples Finish Rich, and The Finish Rich Workbook, what’s the real secret to getting rich? What’s the one thing I need to do?Now, in The Automatic Millionaire, David Bach is sharing that secret.The Automatic Millionaire starts with the powerful story of an average American couple--he’s a low-level manager, she’s a beautician--whose joint income never exceeds $55,000 a year, yet who somehow manage to own two homes debt-free, put two kids

Authors:Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson,
Publisher: Crown Business
Keywords: rework
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2010-03-09
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0307463745
ISBN-13: 9780307463746

Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you’re looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf.Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Read it and you’ll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don’t need outside investors, and why you’re better off ignoring the competition. The truth is, you need less than you think. You don’t need to be a workaholic. You don’t need to staff up. You don’t need to waste time on paperw

Author: David Wessel
Publisher: Crown Business
Keywords: panic, war, bernanke, ben, fed
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-08-04
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0307459683
ISBN-13: 9780307459688

“Whatever it takes”That was Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s vow as the worst financial panic in more than fifty years gripped the world and he struggled to avoid the once unthinkable: a repeat of the Great Depression. Brilliant but temperamentally cautious, Bernanke researched and wrote about the causes of the Depression during his career as an academic. Then when thrust into a role as one of the most important people in the world, he was compelled to boldness by circumstances he never anticipated.The president of the United States can respond instantly to a missile attack with A