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The Charisma Myth

How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism

by Olivia Fox Cabane ...

What if charisma could be taught?For the first time, science and technology have taken charisma apart, figured it out and turned it into an applied science: In controlled laboratory experiments, researchers could raise or lower people's level of charisma as if they were turning a dial.What you'll find here is practical magic: unique knowledge, drawn from a variety of sciences, revealing what ... Read more

$14.99 USD

What if charisma could be taught?For the first time, science and technology have taken charisma apart, figured it out and turned it into an applied science: In controlled laboratory experiments, researchers could raise or lower people's level of charisma as if they were turning a dial.What you'll find here is practical magic: unique knowledge, drawn from a variety of sciences, revealing what
... Read more
High Output Management

by Andrew S. Grove ...

**In this legendary business book and Silicon Valley staple, the former chairman and CEO of Intel shares his perspective on how to build and run a company. A practical handbook for navigating real-life business scenarios and a powerful management manifesto with the ability to revolutionize the way we work."An organizational Baedeker for managers at all levels. . . . A highly credible handbook for ... Read more

$14.99 USD

**In this legendary business book and Silicon Valley staple, the former chairman and CEO of Intel shares his perspective on how to build and run a company. A practical handbook for navigating real-life business scenarios and a powerful management manifesto with the ability to revolutionize the way we work."An organizational Baedeker for managers at all levels. . . . A highly credible handbook for
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Multipliers, Revised and Updated

How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

by Liz Wiseman ...

A revised and updated edition of the acclaimed Wall Street Journal bestseller that explores why some leaders drain capability and intelligence from their teams while others amplify it to produce better business leadership results.We’ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from the people around them and ... Read more

Was $15.49 USD Now $10.99 USD

A revised and updated edition of the acclaimed Wall Street Journal bestseller that explores why some leaders drain capability and intelligence from their teams while others amplify it to produce better business leadership results.We’ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from the people around them and
... Read more
The Geek Way

The Radical Mindset that Drives Extraordinary Results

by Andrew McAfee ...

**The Geek Way reveals a new way to get big things done and shows how to change the way you think about work, teams, projects, and culture, and give you the insight and tools you need to harness our human superpowers of learning and cooperation."A handbook for disruptors." —Eric Schmidt**What is “being geeky?” It’s being a perennially curious person, one who's not afraid to tackle hard problems ... Read more

$14.99 USD

**The Geek Way reveals a new way to get big things done and shows how to change the way you think about work, teams, projects, and culture, and give you the insight and tools you need to harness our human superpowers of learning and cooperation."A handbook for disruptors." —Eric Schmidt**What is “being geeky?” It’s being a perennially curious person, one who's not afraid to tackle hard problems
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Contemporary Sport Management

Edited by Paul M. Pedersen ...

For over 25 years, Contemporary Sport Management has been the most comprehensive, authoritative introductory sport management textbook, and this improved eighth edition promises to serve the needs of students even better.Sixty contributors representing a diverse array of scholarly and practitioner backgrounds have teamed up to deliver a timely text to keep pace with the ever-changing sport ... Read more

$98.99 USD

For over 25 years, Contemporary Sport Management has been the most comprehensive, authoritative introductory sport management textbook, and this improved eighth edition promises to serve the needs of students even better.Sixty contributors representing a diverse array of scholarly and practitioner backgrounds have teamed up to deliver a timely text to keep pace with the ever-changing sport
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The Private Equity Playbook

Management's Guide to Working with Private Equity 2nd Edition

by Adam Coffey ...

New rules. New playbook.Nearly half of all mergers and acquisitions involve private equity, but the world of PE can confuse even lifelong business professionals. For years, the #1 bestselling book The Private Equity Playbook has helped countless entrepreneurs, leaders, and CEOs like you successfully navigate the PE playing field. But much has changed since the book was released at the start of ... Read more

$4.99 USD

New rules. New playbook.Nearly half of all mergers and acquisitions involve private equity, but the world of PE can confuse even lifelong business professionals. For years, the #1 bestselling book The Private Equity Playbook has helped countless entrepreneurs, leaders, and CEOs like you successfully navigate the PE playing field. But much has changed since the book was released at the start of
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Managerial Economics

Concepts and Principles

by Donald N. Stengel ...

Economic thinking belongs in every manager’s toolkit.Managerial Economics shows how sound economic reasoning leads to better business decisions across operations, marketing, finance, and strategy. Far from being an abstract academic exercise, economics provides a practical framework—and a shared language—for understanding how firms operate and compete within their markets.This concise text applies ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Economic thinking belongs in every manager’s toolkit.Managerial Economics shows how sound economic reasoning leads to better business decisions across operations, marketing, finance, and strategy. Far from being an abstract academic exercise, economics provides a practical framework—and a shared language—for understanding how firms operate and compete within their markets.This concise text applies
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Good Strategy Bad Strategy

The Difference and Why It Matters

by Richard Rumelt ...

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world.Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by ... Read more

Was $14.99 USD Now $12.99 USD

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world.Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by
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Set-up-to-Fail Syndrome

Overcoming the Undertow of Expectations

by Jean-Francois Manzoni, Jean-Louis Barsoux ...

Do you have an employee whose performance keeps deteriorating-despite your close monitoring? Brace yourself: You may be at fault-by unknowingly triggering the set-up-to-fail syndrome. Perhaps things started off swimmingly. But then something--a missed deadline, a lost client-made you question the person's performance. You began micromanaging him. Suspecting your reduced confidence, he started ... Read more

$20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Do you have an employee whose performance keeps deteriorating-despite your close monitoring? Brace yourself: You may be at fault-by unknowingly triggering the set-up-to-fail syndrome. Perhaps things started off swimmingly. But then something--a missed deadline, a lost client-made you question the person's performance. You began micromanaging him. Suspecting your reduced confidence, he started
... Read more
Transformed

Moving to the Product Operating Model

by Marty Cagan, Lea Hickman, Chris Jones, Christian Idiodi, John Moore ...

Series series Silicon Valley Product Group
Help transform your business and innovate like the world's top tech companies!In INSPIRED, product thought leader Marty Cagan revealed the best practices and techniques used by the top product teams operating in the product model. Next, EMPOWERED shared the best practices and techniques used by the top product leaders to provide their teams with the kind of environment they need to thrive in the ... Read more

$20.00 USD

Help transform your business and innovate like the world's top tech companies!In INSPIRED, product thought leader Marty Cagan revealed the best practices and techniques used by the top product teams operating in the product model. Next, EMPOWERED shared the best practices and techniques used by the top product leaders to provide their teams with the kind of environment they need to thrive in the
... Read more
Measure What Matters

How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

by John Doerr ...

**#1 New York Times BestsellerLegendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth—and how it can help any organization thrive.**In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he'd just given $12.5 million, the biggest investment of his career. ... Read more

Was $12.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

**#1 New York Times BestsellerLegendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth—and how it can help any organization thrive.**In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he'd just given $12.5 million, the biggest investment of his career.
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Empowered

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

by Marty Cagan ...

Series series Silicon Valley Product Group
What is it about the top tech product companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix and Tesla that enables their record of consistent innovation?Most people think it’s because these companies are somehow able to find and attract a level of talent that makes this innovation possible. But the real advantage these companies have is not so much who they hire, but rather how they enable their people ... Read more

$19.00 USD

What is it about the top tech product companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix and Tesla that enables their record of consistent innovation?Most people think it’s because these companies are somehow able to find and attract a level of talent that makes this innovation possible. But the real advantage these companies have is not so much who they hire, but rather how they enable their people
... Read more
The Algorithm

The Hypergrowth Formula That Transformed Tesla, Lululemon, General Motors, and SpaceX

by Jon McNeill ...

**A USA Today BestsellerFrom a former President of Tesla comes The Algorithm—the first book written by any of Elon Musk’s direct reports—a transformative guide for leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators who want to emulate the paradigm-shattering approach Musk used to launch Tesla and SpaceX to meteoric success.**Jon McNeill had already founded and sold six startups when Sheryl Sandberg introduced ... Read more

$15.99 USD

**A USA Today BestsellerFrom a former President of Tesla comes The Algorithm—the first book written by any of Elon Musk’s direct reports—a transformative guide for leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators who want to emulate the paradigm-shattering approach Musk used to launch Tesla and SpaceX to meteoric success.**Jon McNeill had already founded and sold six startups when Sheryl Sandberg introduced
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Delegating Work (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)

by Harvard Business Review ...

Series series 20-Minute Manager
Master the art of effective delegation.You know you need to delegate some of your work so that you have time to focus on the things that require your expertise. But it's not easy to do. Delegating Work quickly walks you through the fundamentals of:Establishing a productive environmentAssigning the right work to the right peopleConducting an effective hand-off meetingMonitoring without micromanagi. ... Read more

$10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Master the art of effective delegation.You know you need to delegate some of your work so that you have time to focus on the things that require your expertise. But it's not easy to do. Delegating Work quickly walks you through the fundamentals of:Establishing a productive environmentAssigning the right work to the right peopleConducting an effective hand-off meetingMonitoring without micromanagi.
... Read more
Strategic Thinking

A Learning-Focused Approach to Strategic Management

by Scott Kuban, Ryan Cooper ...

Strategic Thinking: A Learning-Focused Approach to Strategic Management is an undergraduate textbook built around a simple premise: the sequence in which strategy is taught should follow how students learn, not how professors organize the field.Most strategic management texts open with sweeping analytical frameworks, asking students to evaluate global political and economic forces before they ... Read more

$60.00 USD

Strategic Thinking: A Learning-Focused Approach to Strategic Management is an undergraduate textbook built around a simple premise: the sequence in which strategy is taught should follow how students learn, not how professors organize the field.Most strategic management texts open with sweeping analytical frameworks, asking students to evaluate global political and economic forces before they
... Read more
The Phoenix Project

A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford ...

Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. It's Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bill gets a call from the CEO.The company's new IT initiative, code named Phoenix Project, is critical to the future of Parts Unlimited, but the project is massively over budget and very late. The CEO wants Bill to report directly to him and fix the mess in ninety days or else Bill's entire department ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. It's Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bill gets a call from the CEO.The company's new IT initiative, code named Phoenix Project, is critical to the future of Parts Unlimited, but the project is massively over budget and very late. The CEO wants Bill to report directly to him and fix the mess in ninety days or else Bill's entire department
... Read more
The Six Disciplines of Strategic Thinking

Leading Your Organization into the Future

by Michael D. Watkins ...

International bestselling author of The First 90 Days Michael D. Watkins presents an actionable framework for business strategy to help aspiring leaders learn to think strategically and improve their decision-making—a set of skills more necessary than ever in a world of constant change.Pattern recognition. Systems perspective. Mental agility. Structured problem-solving. Visioning. Political savvy. ... Read more

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International bestselling author of The First 90 Days Michael D. Watkins presents an actionable framework for business strategy to help aspiring leaders learn to think strategically and improve their decision-making—a set of skills more necessary than ever in a world of constant change.Pattern recognition. Systems perspective. Mental agility. Structured problem-solving. Visioning. Political savvy.
... Read more
10 to 25

The Science of Motivating Young People: A Groundbreaking Approach to Leading the Next Generation—And Making Your Own Life Easier

by David Yeager ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Acclaimed developmental psychologist David Yeager reveals the new science of motivating young people ages ten through twenty-five in this groundbreaking book that is a must-read for managers, parents, educators, coaches, and mentors everywhere.“Ambitious and revelatory...10 to 25 offers baffled adults new approaches—and possibly new hope—during some of their families’ most ... Read more

$16.99 USD

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Acclaimed developmental psychologist David Yeager reveals the new science of motivating young people ages ten through twenty-five in this groundbreaking book that is a must-read for managers, parents, educators, coaches, and mentors everywhere.“Ambitious and revelatory...10 to 25 offers baffled adults new approaches—and possibly new hope—during some of their families’ most
... Read more
El trabajo no tiene por qué ser una locura

by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson ...

Trabajar más horas no te hace más valioso, te hace desperdiciar tu vida. Descubre cómo la calma también puede ser rentable.¿Cuántas veces a la semana (¡o al día!) piensas «qué locura» ante tu lista de tareas pendientes, el chat que echa humo o los mails que se acumulan sin que tengas tiempo de pensar respuestas decentes? Probablemente, más de las que te gustaría…Esto se debe a que vivimos en una ... Read more

$14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Trabajar más horas no te hace más valioso, te hace desperdiciar tu vida. Descubre cómo la calma también puede ser rentable.¿Cuántas veces a la semana (¡o al día!) piensas «qué locura» ante tu lista de tareas pendientes, el chat que echa humo o los mails que se acumulan sin que tengas tiempo de pensar respuestas decentes? Probablemente, más de las que te gustaría…Esto se debe a que vivimos en una
... Read more
Way of the Turtle: The Secret Methods that Turned Ordinary People into Legendary Traders : The Secret Methods that Turned Ordinary People into Legendary Traders: The Secret Methods that Turned Ordinary People into Legendary Traders

The Secret Methods that Turned Ordinary People into Legendary Traders

by Curtis Faith ...

“We're going to raise traders just like they raise turtles in Singapore.”So trading guru Richard Dennis reportedly said to his long-time friend William Eckhardt nearly 25 years ago. What started as a bet about whether great traders were born or made became a legendary trading experiment that, until now, has never been told in its entirety.Way of the Turtle reveals, for the first time, the reasons ... Read more

$23.99 USD

“We're going to raise traders just like they raise turtles in Singapore.”So trading guru Richard Dennis reportedly said to his long-time friend William Eckhardt nearly 25 years ago. What started as a bet about whether great traders were born or made became a legendary trading experiment that, until now, has never been told in its entirety.Way of the Turtle reveals, for the first time, the reasons
... Read more
Leading Like a Human

Building High-Functioning Teams by Putting People First

by Rob Swannie ...

Human-centered leadership isn’t about checking a box.It’s about who you become while building others up.The most powerful leadership lessons rarely come from theories or frameworks—they emerge in real moments with real people. With a focus on presence and genuine connection, Leading Like a Human makes the case that leadership isn’t about performance alone but about how you show up for others when ... Read more

$8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Human-centered leadership isn’t about checking a box.It’s about who you become while building others up.The most powerful leadership lessons rarely come from theories or frameworks—they emerge in real moments with real people. With a focus on presence and genuine connection, Leading Like a Human makes the case that leadership isn’t about performance alone but about how you show up for others when
... Read more
Museums

A History

by John E. Simmons ...

This comprehensive history of museums begins with the origins of collecting in prehistory and traces the evolution of museums from grave goods to treasure troves, from the Alexandrian Temple of the Muses to the Renaissance cabinets of curiosities, and onto the diverse array of modern institutions worldwide. The development of museums as public institutions is explored in the context of world ... Read more

$28.99 USD

This comprehensive history of museums begins with the origins of collecting in prehistory and traces the evolution of museums from grave goods to treasure troves, from the Alexandrian Temple of the Muses to the Renaissance cabinets of curiosities, and onto the diverse array of modern institutions worldwide. The development of museums as public institutions is explored in the context of world
... Read more
The Problem with Change

And the Essential Nature of Human Performance

by Ashley Goodall ...

If you’ve had enough of the constant turbulence that defines corporate life today, you’re not alone. Learn why change is bad for people and for business, and discover how to create the stability that we all need to thrive.For decades, “disruption” and “change” have been seen as essential to business growth and success. In this provocative and incisive book, leadership expert Ashley Goodall argues ... Read more

Was $14.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

If you’ve had enough of the constant turbulence that defines corporate life today, you’re not alone. Learn why change is bad for people and for business, and discover how to create the stability that we all need to thrive.For decades, “disruption” and “change” have been seen as essential to business growth and success. In this provocative and incisive book, leadership expert Ashley Goodall argues
... Read more
Team Topologies, 2nd Edition

Organizing Business and Technology for Fast Flow of Value

by Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais ...

The 2nd Edition of the widely successful Team Topologies, now updated with new case studies and a new foreword and afterword from the authorsEmpowered teams—augmented by technology—are essential for any organization to deliver value continuously and sustainably. But how do you build the best team organization for your specific goals, culture, and needs?Team Topologies offers a practical, adaptive ... Read more

$14.99 USD

The 2nd Edition of the widely successful Team Topologies, now updated with new case studies and a new foreword and afterword from the authorsEmpowered teams—augmented by technology—are essential for any organization to deliver value continuously and sustainably. But how do you build the best team organization for your specific goals, culture, and needs?Team Topologies offers a practical, adaptive
... Read more

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