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The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company

By: Packard, David,Lewis, David Kirby with Karen

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Collins: May 1995

Seller ID: 376928

ISBN: 0887307477

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In the fall of 1930, David Packard left his hometown of Pueblo, Colorado, to enroll at Stanford University, where he befriended another freshman, Bill Hewlett. After graduation, Hewlett and Packard decided to throw their lots in together. They tossed a coin to decide whose name should go first on the notice of incorporation, then cast about in search of products to sell.

Today, the one-car garage in Palo Alto that housed their first workshop is a California historic landmark: the birthplace of Silicon Valley. And Hewlett-Packard has produced thousands of innovative products for millions of...
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Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun

By: Roberts, Wess

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Business Plus: January 1990

Seller ID: 311535

ISBN: 0446391069

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This is the book you've heard about. The book that leaped to the top ranks of the bestseller lists. The book that's got the business world reading, thinking, and quoting. This is the book that reveals the leadership secrets of Attila the Hun-the man who centuries ago shaped an aimless band of mercenary tribal nomads into the undisputed rulers of the ancient world, and who today offers us timeless lessons in win-directed, take-charge management.
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Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun

By: Roberts, Wess

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Business Plus: January 1990

Seller ID: 371410

ISBN: 0446391069

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

100 Great Businesses and the Minds Behind Them

By: Ross, Emily

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Sourcebooks: December 2005

Seller ID: 343550

ISBN: 1402206313

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Inside the success of 100 Business Geniuses

Risk-loving entrepreneurs. Innovative geniuses. Self-starters and mavericks. The world's greatest businesses were built by unique people, each bringing their own style and savvy to the marketplace.

100 Great Businesses and the Minds Behind Them is a diverse and inspiring collections of great business stories. Covering a variety of success paths, brilliant strategies and engaging entrepreneurs, each profile explores the genius behind the greatest business minds:

A mother's inspiration that launched...
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How Google Works

By: Schmidt, Eric, Rosenberg, Jonathan

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Business Plus: September 2014

Seller ID: 396848

ISBN: 1455582344

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Seasoned Google executives Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg provide an insider's guide to Google, from its business history and disruptive corporate strategy to developing a new managment philosophy and creating a corporate culture where innovation and creativity thrive.

Google Executive Chairman and ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and former SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg came to Google over a decade ago as proven technology executives. At the time, the company was already well-known for doing things differently, reflecting the visionary-and frequently contrarian-principles of founders ...
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Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul

By: Schultz, Howard

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Rodale Books: January 1994

Seller ID: 384323

ISBN: B00AZ8DKWM

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace

By: Semler, Ricardo

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing: April 1995

Seller ID: 307899

ISBN: 0446670553

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Brazilian executive's success story describes how he turned around an aging, stagnant company that
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Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace

By: Semler, Ricardo

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing: April 1995

Seller ID: 391637

ISBN: 0446670553

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Brazilian executive's success story describes how he turned around an aging, stagnant company that
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

By: Stone, Brad

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Back Bay Books: August 2014

Seller ID: 370773

ISBN: 0316219282

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"An immersive play-by-play of the company's ascent.... It's hard to imagine a better retelling of the Amazon origin story." -- Laura Bennett, New Republic

Amazon.com's visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now.

Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former Amazon employees an...
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Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

By: Tapscott, Don, Williams, Anthony D.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover: April 2008

Seller ID: 370078

ISBN: 1591841933

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

An updated edition of the national bestseller?now with a new introduction and a new chapter
Today, encyclopedias, jetliners, operating systems, mutual funds, and many other items are being created by teams numbering in the thousands or even millions. While some leaders fear the heaving growth of these massive online communities, "Wikinomics" proves this fear is folly. Smart firms can harness collective capability and genius to spur innovation, growth, and success.
A brilliant guide to one of the most profound changes of our time, "Wikinomics" challenges our most deeply-rooted assumpt...
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When the Wolves Bite: Two Billionaires, One Company, and an Epic Wall Street Battle

By: Wapner, Scott

Price: $11.95

Publisher: PublicAffairs: April 2018

Seller ID: 395433

ISBN: 1610398270

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The inside story of the clash of two of Wall Street's biggest, richest, toughest, most aggressive players--Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman--and Herbalife, the company caught in the middle
With their billions of dollars and their business savvy, activist investors Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman have the ability to move markets with the flick of a wrist. But what happens when they run into the one thing in business they can't control: each other?
This fast-paced book tells the story of the clash of these two titans over Herbalife, a nutritional supplement company whose business model ...
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Jack: Straight from the Gut

By: Welch, Jack, A., John Byrne

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Business Plus: September 2001

Seller ID: 335989

ISBN: 0446528382

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Nearly 20 years ago, former General Electric CEO Reg Jones walked into Jack Welch's office and wrapped him in a bear hug. "Congratulations, Mr. Chairman", said Reg. It was a defining moment for American business. So begins the story of a self-made man and a self-described rebel who thrived in one of the most volatile and economically robust eras in U.S. history, while managing to maintain a unique leadership style. In what is the most anticipated book on business management for our time, Jack Welch surveys the landscape of his career running one of the world's largest and most successful corpo...
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Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

By: Wright, Tom,Hope, Bradley

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Hachette Books: September 2018

Seller ID: 351306

ISBN: 031643650X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (Axios).
Now a #1 international bestseller, BILLION DOLLAR WHALE is "an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), revealing how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest heists in history.

In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the Un...
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Irrational Persistence: Seven Secrets That Turned a Bankrupt Startup Into a $231,000,000 Business

By: Zilko, Dave

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Wiley: April 2016

Seller ID: 396885

ISBN: 1119240085

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A modern-day Detroit success story that fuels the entrepreneurial fire

Irrational Persistence tells the story of Garden Fresh Gourmet, and how two entrepreneurs turned a million-dollar debt to a 100-million-dollar annual revenue. Woody Allen famously said that 80 percent of success is just showing up; but any entrepreneur can tell you that it's the other 20 percent that's key. The founders of Garden Fresh took that old saying to heart, building so many strategic advantages into their products and business that their 'sales' team didn't have to do any selling--they simply had t...
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The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters

By: Zuckerman, Gregory

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Portfolio Trade: October 2014

Seller ID: 333996

ISBN: 1591847095

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"A lively, exciting, and definitely thought-provoking book." --Booklist

Things looked grim for American energy in 2006, but a handful of wildcatters were determined to tap massive deposits of oil and gas that giants like Exxon and Chevron had ignored. They risked everything on a new process called fracking. Within a few years, they solved America's dependence on imported energy, triggered a global environmental controversy, and made and lost astonishing fortunes.

No one understands the frackers--their ambitions, personalities, and foibles--better than Wall Street Jou...
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