Category: Business

Let's face it. Some people just don't listen, don't care, and aren't willing to compromise. And you probably work with some of them. The incomprehensible supervisor. The person in the next office who chats more than works. The customer who, by the way, isn't always right. For all those co-workers who drive you crazy, there's a solution. The bestselling author of "Living Successfully with Screwed-Up People" turns her insightful eye to the workplace, showing readers how they can get along with and work successfully beside the people who drive them up the wall. "It doesn't take two people to ...
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It's OK to Be the Boss: The Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming the Manager Your Employees Need

By: Bruce Tulgan

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Pfeiffer: March 2007

Seller ID: 332474

ISBN: 0061121363

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Do you feel you don't have enough time to manage your people?Do you avoid interacting with some employees because you hate the dreaded confrontations that often follow?Do you have some great employees you really cannot afford to lose?Do you secretly wish you could be more in control but don't know where to start?Managing people is harder and more high-pressure today than ever before. There's no room for downtime, waste, or inefficiency. You have to do more with less. And employees have become high maintenance. Not only are they more likely to disagree openly and push back, but t...
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Dotcomsecrets: Underground Playbook or Growing Your Company Online

By: Brunson, Russell

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing: April 2015

Seller ID: 312384

ISBN: 1630474770

Condition: Used - Very Good

Dotcomsecrets: Underground Playbook or Growing Your Company Online

By: Brunson, Russell

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing: April 2015

Seller ID: 345617

ISBN: 1630474770

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

By: Bryan Burrough, John Helyar

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Harpercollins: January 1991

Seller ID: 330280

ISBN: 0060920386

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Over six months on the "New York Times bestseller list, "Barbarians at the Gate is "the definitive account of the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Bryan Burrough and John Helyar's gripping record of the frenzy that overtook Wall Street in October and November of 1988 is the story of deal makers and pulicity flaks, of strategy meetings and society dinners, of boardrooms and bedrooms, giving us not only an unprecedentedly detailed look at how financial operations at the highest levels are conducted but also a richly textured social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era. As ...
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Now, Discover Your Strengths

By: Buckingham, Marcus, O., Donald Clifton

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Free Press: January 2001

Seller ID: 322435

ISBN: 0743201140

Condition: Used - Very Good

Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths, much less the ability to build our lives around them. Instead, guided by our parents, by our teachers, by our managers, and by psychology's fascination with pathology, we become experts in our weaknesses and spend our lives trying to repair these flaws, while our strengths lie dormant and neglected. Marcus Buckingham, coauthor of the national bestseller "First, Break All the Rules, " and Donald O. Clifton, Chair of the Gallup International Research & Education Center, have created a revolutionary program to help ...
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Now, Discover Your Strengths

By: Buckingham, Marcus, O., Donald Clifton

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Free Press: January 2001

Seller ID: 334216

ISBN: 0743201140

Condition: Used - Very Good

Now, Discover Your Strengths

By: Buckingham, Marcus, O., Donald Clifton

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Free Press: January 2001

Seller ID: 345180

ISBN: 0743201140

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Positive Leadership: Strategies for Extraordinary Performance

By: Cameron, Kim

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers: July 2008

Seller ID: 338813

ISBN: 1576756025

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Introducing a new leadership field of the same name, Positive Leadership presents a concise, accessible and practical guide to strategies that can help leaders reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results, and positively deviant performance. Positive Leadership is based on analyses of organizations that have achieved levels of success that are exceptional. For example, the Rocky Flats Nuclear Arsenal closure and cleanup crew completed their assignment 60 years ahead of schedule, $30 billion under budget, and made the area 13 times cleaner than was r...
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The Disney Way

By: Capodagli, William, Jackson, Lynn

Price: $7.95

Publisher: McGraw-Hill: December 1998

Seller ID: 342509

ISBN: 0070120641

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

"I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true." -Walt Disney. Walt Disney's dreams, beliefs, and daring gave birth to captivating characters, thrilling theme park attractions, and breathtaking tales that have inspired the imaginations of generations of children and adults. Disney also launched an entertainment and marketing empire whose influence is felt around the world, and whose success provides a model of business excellence that can guide any company. Each principle is then examined in detail by illustrating the...
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Customers for Life: How to Turn That One-Time Buyer Into a Lifetime Customer

By: Carl Sewell, Paul B. Brown

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Currency: November 2002

Seller ID: 333983

ISBN: 0385504454

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this completely revised and updated edition of the customer service classic (more than 600,000 copies sold), Carl Sewell enhances his time-tested advice with fresh ideas and new examples and explains how the groundbreaking "Ten Commandments of Customer Service" apply to today's world. Drawing on his incredible success in transforming his Dallas Cadillac dealership into the second largest in America, Carl Sewell revealed the secret of getting customers to return again and again in the original "Customers for Life." A lively, down-to-earth narrative, it set the standard for customer servi...
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Financing Our Foodshed: Growing Local Food with Slow Money

By: Carol Peppe Hewitt

Price: $7.95

Publisher: New Society Publishers: April 2013

Seller ID: 328248

ISBN: 0865717230

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

In towns and cities across North America, a quiet revolution is underway. Fed up with sending their money off to make a fast buck in faraway markets, people are putting their money to work where they live, in markets they trust and understand--starting with food."Financing Our Foodshed" is a collection of real life stories of these Slow Money pioneers and the local food entrepreneurs, sustainable farmers, bakers, and restaurateurs that they have chosen to support.Fueled by their desire to do more than just "eat" local food, lenders of "nurture capital" are making low-interest, pee...
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How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul

By: Caroll Michels

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks: June 2009

Seller ID: 252930

ISBN: 0805088482

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The classic handbook for launching and sustaining a career that "explodes the romantic notion of the starving artist," ("The New York Times") with a brand-new chapter on Internet art marketingNow in its sixth edition, "How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist" is the definitive guide to taking control of your career and making a good living in the art world. Drawing on nearly three decades of experience, Caroll Michels offers a wealth of insider's information on getting into a gallery, being your own PR agent, and negotiating prices, as well as innovative marketing, exhibition, and sales ...
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Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies

By: Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press: March 2008

Seller ID: 325733

ISBN: 1422125009

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies

By: Charles G. Koch

Price: $7.95

Publisher: N/A: October 2015

Seller ID: 289399

ISBN: 1101904135

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Age of Unreason

By: Charles Handy

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Harvard Business School Press: February 1998

Seller ID: 317491

ISBN: 0875843018

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

High Altitude Leadership: What the World's Most Forbidding Peaks Teach Us About Success

By: Chris Warner,Don Schmincke

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Jossey-Bass: October 2008

Seller ID: 331913

ISBN: 0470345039

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Leadership is often a risky, lonely role possessing nearly unbearable lows and fleeting highs. Despite this emotionally and intellectually draining roller coaster, a handful of leaders deliver stunning results, with great consistency. They push past current leadership trends in order to achieve the most extremely challenging goals. They don't fall prey to the platitudes or cliches we see so often see in leadership theory. Instead, they succeed by recognizing and surviving the dangers that challenge them as they take themselves and their teams to higher levels. These rare individuals are those ...
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