RESOURCE CENTER-BUSINESS BOOKS
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The author of Quality Is Free offers his proven, step-by-step program for keeping a company fiscally fit, discussing the histories of great companies who have benefited from his program.
Philip B. Crosby
Robert Rosekind
Millions of people have used A Course In Miracles to improve their relationships and spiritual lives. In The Spirit Of Business is the first book to apply the Course's powerful principles to the world of business, offering a loving yet practical, philosophical, and psychological basis for transforming one's working life. Based on the assumption that we live in a benevolent universe, this book reveals that each of us can achieve true, deep happiness.
The seminal book that introduced a new way of reasoning and decision making. “Dr. de Bono does not claim to be able to turn us all into Miltons, Da Vincis, and Einsteins. . . . The Muse never appears to most of us–hence the value of this book.”–Times Educational Supplement
Edward Debono
John Neisbitt
This follow-up to Megatrends is a social forecast for the 1990s, identifying and describing trends already in evidence, as well as their social, political, cultural, and economic context.
Jan Carlzon, the then president of Scandinavian Airlines System, tells the extraordinary story of turning a lacklustre state-run airline into a profitable business that consistently won passenger preference surveys.
Jan Carlzon
Alfie Kohn
Updated for the 1990s, the award-winning book that stands as the definitive critique of competition. Kohn says that contrary to accepted wisdom, competition is not basic to “human nature,” but actually poisons our relationships, damages our self-esteem, and holds us back from doing our best
A New York Times Bestseller for over three years To discover the secrets of the art of management, Peters and Waterman studied more than 43 successful American companies. The companies specialized in a number of areas: consumer goods, high technology, and services. What he discovered was that regardless of how different each company was, they shared eight basic principles of management that anyone can use on their way to success.
Thomas J. Peters & Robert II
Al Ries & Jack Trout
Positioning, a concept developed by the authors, has changed the way people advertise. The reason? It’s the first concept to deal with the problems of communicating in an overcommunicated society
Your dolphin personality — flexible, responsive, accepting — represents precisely the attitude that successful managers must adopt. In Strategy of the Dolphin, the authors, innovative business experts, demonstrate that everyone will need to be a dolphin to survive the changes the future will bring
Philip B. Crosby
Sheila Ostrander & Lynn Schroeder
Millions of people have used A Course In Miracles to improve their relationships and spiritual lives. In The Spirit Of Business is the first book to apply the Course's powerful principles to the world of business, offering a loving yet practical, philosophical, and psychological basis for transforming one's working life. Based on the assumption that we live in a benevolent universe, this book reveals that each of us can achieve true, deep happiness.
Originally published in 1980, this tome is a celebration of new ways of thinking about vocation, spirituality, and society in general.
Marilyn Ferguson
Rolo May
In eloquent but inordinately accessible language May surveys the entire concept of Creativity with terse, well selected passages from Plato and the ancients to Cezanne to Tillich and Kierkegard and Thomas Wolfe. This is not a “How To” book or self-help rapid- read to solve superficial problems. This little book, when read slowly and thoughtfully, guides us through concepts that allow us to regain a state of positive thinking in a time when it is far more popular to dwell on our day to day foibles and transient misjudgments.
Denis Waitley writes: "...much of the frustration, depression, and restlessness in society is related to talents that are not being used or properly expressed." God gave us gifts, talents, and abilities to use, to bless other people. Fulfillment comes from doing that."
Philip B. Crosby
Robert Axelrod
The much-discussed book that explores how cooperation can emerge in a world of self-seeking egoists–whether superpowers, businesses, or individuals–when there is no central authority to police their actions.
This is the MBA school version of “One L”. Peter Cohen takes you through his two years at the Harvard B School in the early 1970s and he does an excellent job of describing the backbreaking work and the ethos of graduate business education
Peter Cohen
Og Mandino
First published in 1968, Og Mandino’s classic remains an invaluable guide to a philosophy of salesmanship. Mandino’s clear, simple writing style supports his purpose: to make the principles of sales known to a wide audience.
The One-Minute Manager, adapted from Blanchard’s classic book which sold more than a million copies, is a parable about a young man in search of world-class management skills. The authors’ message is so simple it’s brilliant: a “One-Minute Manager” achieves positive results with a minimum of time.
Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson
Spencer Johnson & Constance Johnson
The One-Minute Manager, adapted from Blanchard’s classic book which sold more than a million copies, is a parable about a young man in search of world-class management skills. The authors’ message is so simple it’s brilliant: a “One-Minute Manager” achieves positive results with a minimum of time.
Faith Popcorn’s (slightly unusual) name is synonymous with consumer trends. The woman who spotted and named the “cocooning” movement advises clients from Campbell Soup to American Express to IBM on consumer attitudes.
Faith Popcorn
Alvon Toffler
This book attempts to explain the both the nature and the process of the technological revolution that has transformed the world’s social and economic systems. To quote Newt Gingrich, US Speaker of the House of Representatives, “Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given us the key to viewing current disarray within the positive framework of a dynamic, exciting future.”
Anthony Robbins calls it the new science of personal achievement. You’ll call it the best thing that ever happened to you. If you have ever dreamed of a better life, Unlimited Power will show you how to achieve the extraordinary quality of life you desire and deserve, and how to master your personal and professional life.
Anthony Robbins
Tony Buzan
Using the latest research on the workings of the human brain, Buzan provides step-by-step exercises for discovering the powers of the right side of the brain and learning to use the left side more effectively.
Mark McCormack is the founder of International Management Group, a multimillion-dollar, worldwide corporation that is a consultant to fifty Fortune 500 companies, a major producer of television programming and credited as the single most important influence in turning sports into big business. Listen to McCormack as he tells you how to — read people — create the right first impression — take the leading edge -run and attend meetings — the secrets of successful selling and moving up within the organization.
Mark H. McCormack
Mark H. McCormack
A straight-talking must-read of powerful strategies for every executive headed for the top. Written in the same no-nonsense, hard-hitting manner that McCormack brings to his own fast-paced business and management style, this is mandatory reading for executives on every rung of the corporate ladder.