The new question: Ten years after the worldwide best seller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? In Great by Choice, Collins and his colleague, Morten T. Hansen, enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous, and fast-moving times. […]
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing People
Managing people is fraught with challenges―even if you’re a seasoned manager. Here’s how to handle them. If you read nothing else on managing people, read these 10 articles (featuring “Leadership That Gets Results,” by Daniel Goleman). We’ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you maximize your employees’ […]
Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive
This straight-from-the-hip handbook by bestselling author and self-made millionaire Harvey Mackay spells out the path to success for readers everywhere. Inside, you will learn how to: Outsell by getting appointments with people who absolutely, positively do not want to see you, and then making them glad they said “yes!” Outmanage by arming yourself with information […]
First, Break All the Rules
Gallup presents the remarkable findings of its revolutionary study of more than 80,000 managers in First, Break All the Rules, revealing what the world’s greatest managers do differently. With vital performance and career lessons and ideas for how to apply them, it is a must-read for managers at every level. Included with this re-release of First, Break […]
Work Rules! (Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead)
From the visionary head of Google’s innovative People Operations comes a groundbreaking inquiry into the philosophy of work — and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent to your business and ensuring that they succeed. “We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It’s not right that the experience of work […]
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself
The path to your professional success starts with a critical look in the mirror. If you read nothing else on managing yourself, read these 10 articles (plus the bonus article “How Will You Measure Your Life?” by Clayton M. Christensen). We’ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles to select the most important ones to help […]
How to Win Friends & Influence People
You can go after the job you want—and get it! You can take the job you have—and improve it! You can take any situation—and make it work for you! Dale Carnegie’s rock-solid, time-tested advice has carried countless people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. One of the most groundbreaking and […]
Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader
You never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You’re caught in a web of conflicting expectations from your subordinates, from those above you, and from your peers and customers. You’re not alone. As Harvard Business School’s Linda Hill and manager and executive Kent Lineback reveal in Being the Boss, becoming an effective manager is […]
Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way
“There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against us. Step one is to recognize this. This recognition alone is enormously powerful. It saved my life, and it will save yours.” — Steven Pressfield Could you be getting in your way of producing great work? Have you started a project but […]
Hungry for Peace: How You Can Help End Poverty and War with Food Not Bombs
The de facto how-to manual of the international Food Not Bombs movement, which provides free food to the homeless and hungry and has branches in countries on every continent except Antarctica, this book describes at length how to set up and operate a Food Not Bombs chapter. The guide considers every aspect of the operation, […]
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