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Strong Woman: Ambition, Grit and a Great Pair of Heels
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Iacocca: An Autobiography
Lee Iacocca, William Novak · 365 pages
He's an American legend, the tough-talking, straight-shooting businessman who brought Chrysler back from the brink and in the process became a media celebrity, a newsmaker, and a man many have urged to run for President. Now Lee Iacocca opens his personal files on an extraordinary life of survival and triumph in Iacocca -- the outspoken, headline-making autobiography of a man who has come to repre
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Yvon Chouinard · 266 pages
The long-awaited memoir/manifesto from legendary climber, businessman, and environmentalist Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of one of the world's most inspiring companies, Patagonia, Inc.Whether you care about adventure sports, the fate of the natural world, or pure brand maintenance and business success, Patagonia, Inc. is one of the earth's most interesting and inspiring companies. For almost
Sam Walton: Made In America
Sam Walton, John Huey · 272 pages
Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, Sam never lost the common touch. Here, finally, inimitable words. Genuinely modest, but always sure if his ambitions and achie
I Love Capitalism!: An American Story
Ken Langone · 320 pages
Trump: The Art of the Deal
Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz · 372 pages
Jack: Straight from the Gut
Jack Welch, John A. Byrne, Mike Barnicle · 487 pages
Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School
Philip Delves Broughton · 280 pages
In the century since its founding, Harvard BusinessSchool has become the single most influential institution inglobal business. Twenty percent of the CEOs of Fortune 500companies are HBS graduates, as are many of our savviestentrepreneurs (e. g. , Michael Bloomberg) and canniest felons(e. g. , Jeffrey Skilling). The top investment banks and brokeragehouses routinely send their brightest young star
What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
Stephen A. Schwarzman · 400 pages
Confessions of an Advertising Man
David Ogilvy · 172 pages
Mr. Ogilvy reveals, among other professional secrets, how he gets clients, how to write potent copy, and how to rise to the top of the advertising field.
Sum It Up: A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective
Pat Summitt, Sally Jenkins · 554 pages
Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace
Ricardo Semler · 333 pages
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg · 240 pages
Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women's voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why women's progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root ca
Bossypants
Tina Fey · 277 pages
Tina Fey’s new book *Bossypants* is short, messy, and impossibly funny (an apt description of the comedian herself). From her humble roots growing up in Pennsylvania to her days doing amateur improv in Chicago to her early sketches on Saturday Night Live, Fey gives us a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of modern comedy with equal doses of wit, candor, and self-deprecation. Some of the funnie
Shark Tales: How I Turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business
Barbara Corcoran, Bruce Littlefield
The inspiring true story of Shark Tank star Barbara Corcoran and her best advice for anyone starting a business. After failing at twenty-two jobs, Barbara Corcoran borrowed $1000 from a boyfriend, quit her job as a diner waitress, and started a tiny real estate office in New York City. Using the unconventional lessons she learned from her homemaker mom, she gradually built it into a $6 billion bus
Made In Japan: Akio Morita And Sony
Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura · 352 pages
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin · 208 pages
Few men could compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, an editor, and a writer, and he was probably the most successful diplomat in American history. David Hume hailed him as the first great philosopher and great man of letters in the New World. Written initially to guide his son, Franklin's aut
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
Phil Knight · 304 pages
"In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands. In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high
Elon Musk: Inventing the Future
Ashlee Vance · 396 pages
In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs -- a real-life Tony Stark -- and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new "makers." Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision of Elon Musk, the renowned
My Personal Best : Life Lessons from an All-American Journey
John Wooden, Steve Jamison · 192 pages
"In this book, basketball coach John Wooden reveals the educational journey he took throughout his legendary life, from his earliest days on a small Indiana farm to the glory of his historic record-setting UCLA dynasty. Throughout My Personal Best, Coach Wooden introduces us to the men and women who shaped him and the many important life lessons they taught along the way."--Jacket.