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Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business
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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
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders
Warren Buffett · 768 pages
The Real-Life MBA: Your No-Bs Guide to Competing, Team-Building, and Getting Ahead in Business Today
Jack Welch, Suzy Welch · 272 pages
What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
Stephen A. Schwarzman · 400 pages
The Power of Ethical Management
Norman Vincent Peale · 144 pages
Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen · 112 pages
The Five Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People
Gary Chapman, Paul White · 264 pages
The 6 Types of Working Genius
Patrick Lencioni · 228 pages
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Chip Heath, Dan Heath · 308 pages
Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives? The primary obstacle is a conflict that's built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems--the rational mind and the emotional mind--that compete for control
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson · 631 pages
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years -- as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues -- Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industrie
Powerful Conversations: How High Impact Leaders Communicate
Phil Harkins · 224 pages
Disney U: How Disney University Develops the World's Most Engaged, Loyal, and Customer-Centric Employees
Doug Lipp · 222 pages
What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation
Gary Hamel · 304 pages
"Critical insight from the man Fortune called "the world's leading expert on business strategy"About the only thing a leader can be sure of is that what worked yesterday is unlikely to work today, let alone tomorrow. Never before have businesses faced a more fractured, contentious and dynamic environment. If ever there was a need for fundamentally new thinking about values, competition, leadership
Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon · 350 pages
In 2008, Howard Schultz, the president and chairman of Starbucks, made the unprecedented decision to return as the CEO eight years after he stepped down from daily oversight of the company and became chairman. Concerned that Starbucks had lost its way, Schultz was determined to help it return to its core values and restore not only its financial health, but also its soul. In Onward, he shares the
Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior
Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
The authors of the New York Times bestseller Crucial Conversations show you how to achieve personal, team, and organizational success by healing broken promises, resolving violated expectations, and influencing good behaviorDiscover skills to resolve touchy, controversial, and complex issues at work and at home--now available in this follow-up to the internationally popular Crucial Conversations.B
The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability
Roger Connors, Tom Smith, Craig Hickman · 256 pages
Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love
Richard Sheridan · 270 pages
"Last year 2,197 visitors came from around the world to visit Menlo Innovations, a small software company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They made the trek not to learn about technology, but to witness a radically different approach to workplace culture- one intentionally designed to produce joy. CEO and Chief Storyteller Rich Sheridan removed the fear and ambiguity that typically make a workplace misera
Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy
Patrick Bet-David · 275 pages
Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace
Ricardo Semler · 333 pages
DisneyWar
James B. Stewart · 608 pages
The dramatic inside story of the downfall of Michael Eisner—Disney Chairman and CEO—and the scandals that drove America’s best-known entertainment company to civil war. “When You Wish Upon a Star,” “Whistle While You Work,” “The Happiest Place on Earth”—these are lyrics indelibly linked to Disney, one of the most admired and best-known companies in the world. So when Roy Disney, chairman of Wal
Organizational Culture and Leadership (The Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series)
Edgar H. Schein · 464 pages
In this third edition of his classic book, Edgar Schein shows how to transform the abstract concept of culture into a practical tool that managers and students can use to understand the dynamics of organizations and change. Organizational pioneer Schein updates his influential understanding of culture--what it is, how it is created, how it evolves, and how it can be changed. Focusing on today's bu
Adventures of an IT Leader
Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, Shannon O'Donnell · 314 pages