Get the secrets of success in this great bestseller (over nine months on the "New York Times" bestseller list) that can change your life for the better. Claiming that the world is a giant negotiating table, renowned negotiator Cohen teaches the art of negotiation with dozens of concrete examples.

Have you ever wondered how the most successful people of our time made it to the top ? Take It From Me reveals practical and inspiring career advice from the brightest stars in entertainment,business,politics,and sports.From Woody Alley to Donald Trump,the powerful and celebrated share witty anecdotes and words of wisdom on follwing your dreams,excelling at your work,overcoming setbacks-reaching the top-and staying there. 作者简介： MICHAEL LEVINE heads a major entertainment public relations firm representing many top celebrities and corporations.He is also the author of The Address Book series,Guerrilla PR,and Lessons at Halfway Point.He lives in Los Angeles,California.

A newly revised edition of this guide to achieving successthrough the art of persuasion offers winning advice on how toincrease self-confidence, cultivate a taste for success, and muchmore. By the author of Think and Grow Rich.

Michael Wolff's wickedly funny chronicle of his rags-to-riches-to-rags adventure as a fledgling Internet entrepreneur exposes an industry powered by hype, celebrity, and billions of investment dollars -- and notably devoid of profit-making enterprises. As he describes his efforts to control his company's burn rate -- the amount of money the company consumes in excess of its income -- Wolff offers a no-holds-barred portrait of unaccountable successes and major disasters, including the story behind Wired magazine and its fanatical founder, Louis Rossetto; the rise of America Online, perhaps the most dysfunctional successful company in history, and the humiliating inability of people such as Bill Gates to untangle the intricacies of the Web.

Gorman presents a detailed explanation of how to manage your career in a way that will work for you in the 1990s--in a world with dramatic structural change in most corporations, a new social contract between employer and employee, and different skills and attitudes required for most jobs. Multipreneuring is a label for success in modern business today, which requires individuals to be able to organize resources, manage their careers, and assume sensible risks in the same way that a business enterprise is run. With the goal of helping the readers develop a portable, self-contained professional identity, the author offers them guidelines to gain insight into who they are professionally and, with that insight, to learn how to become multipreneurs. Criteria for a multipreneur include independence from a single employer, ability to learn and apply many skills, flexibility and adaptability, and being proactive in terms of starting a project and seeing it through. This thought-provoking book cautions readers that i

Ronni Eisenberg, who lectures and gives workshops on organization skills throughout the U.S., is also author of the popular but slightly more intimidating Organize Yourself!. Here she's brought a slew of practical tips for managing your workspace, from your briefcase to your bulletin board, from your e-mail inbox to those endless interruptions from coworkers. She covers the basics, including organizing your desktop and stemming the flood of junk mail (send a note to the Direct Marketing Association). She also hits upon modern organizational dilemmas, such as how to decide if you'd be better off with or without a PalmPilot. Some of the hundreds of handy tips she offers include: ways for making both in-person and telephone meetings quicker and more productive; methods for confronting procrastination and poor work habits; 10 rules to adhere to when filing; and 14 ways to make meetings run smoothly and accomplish what you want them to. Much of Eisenberg's advice is geared toward the executive; she

In todqy's ultracompetitive,lean-and-mean workplace,your professional success won'tbe determined by your family background,college affiliation,or educational major.Yoru intelli-gence,talent,drive,and ambition don't matter,either.Yoru success will depend on one thing only :learning the ropes of the working world-and figuring out how to be happy within it-during the first fourteen years of your professional life. Why fourteen years?Because once you aproach your mid-to-late thirties,you won't be easily forgiven fou business mistakes-for power struggles with the boss or cluelessness about marketing yourself,for mishandling office politics of for the megative attitude that comes from feeling "stuck"in an ill-fitting career. If you don't fit in,you're liable to be considered"work illiterate,"and your oportunities will be limited accordingly.It's imperative to know the ways of the work world. Based on personal experience,interviews with experts,and extensive research,The Critical 14Years of Your Professional Lif

Use these basic business reports to compare company earnings, examine historic performance, and evaluate investments and avenues of operation. There are plenty of guides available on setting up a business and organizing paperwork; but very few which delve into the basics of using an annual report or prospectus. Gelb's simple title is crucial to understanding the real progress of a company, using its own powerful tools as a source.

If you're ever favored enough to catch a few minutes of a corporate CEO's time, and feel bold enough to ask what their job entails, chances are you'll hear something lofty about developing strategy, empowering employees, seeing the big picture. But if you ask to see their calendar for the past month, you'll probably find they've spent very little, if any, time doing those things. The look-at-last-month's-calendar trick was devised by Donald Laurie, a Boston-based management consultant, to help top executives figure out how best to lead their companies. Laurie sees a leader as the person who climbs out on the balcony and sees the company from above, the one who sees how all the parts connect to make a smoothly running machine. At the same time, if the leader stays up on that balcony for too much of the day, he or she can't hear the grumbling below. And what's being grumbled about is often the information that could save the CEO's job. As an example of this, Laurie relates the story of Xerox Corp. when it

Dr. W. Edwards Deming, a household name in Japan, became the prime catalyst behind the incredible success of Japanese industry. In fact, since 1951, the Deming Prize has been the most coveted and prestigious award among Japanese corporations, similar to the Malcolm Baldrige Award for quality in business in the United States. Today, Deming is finally becoming a household name in his own country. The lessons he has to teach American business are more urgent than ever. Just how different is the Deming Management Method? Compare just a few of the many differences in beliefs between conventional organizations and Deming organizations: Standard Company * Quality is expensive * Defects are caused by workers * Buy at lowest cost * Fear and reward are proper ways to motivate * Play one supplier off against another

What could have been a breakthrough book for working women who want to hone their skills for success turns out to be little more than a lackluster attempt to interpret and explain men's attitudes toward women in the workplace, one that won't generate much word of mouth despite its compelling subject. Swiss (Women and the Work/Family Dilemma; Women Breaking Through) interviewed 52 successful men in a range of professions and influential positions to elicit candid opinions about their experiences with female colleagues. Most of this group assembled by Swiss, a management consultant on gender equity, are singularly unenlightened men who focus on women's lack of confidence and reluctance to take risks or make mistakes, and who emphasize the importance of competitive sports in making team players; these men also clearly feel (and resent) the need to be careful in their language and behavior. Although she does a fine job extracting and cogently organizing the essence of their thinking, the results will dishearten m

In this book you'll learn the answers to these questions and much more. American Politics in the20th Century is the perfect book for anyone interested in the political history of the United States. You'll read about the formation of the "Bull Moose" Party right through to the formation of the Reform Party. You'll also read about the struggles by women and African-Americans to gain equal voting rights, in addition to the various scandals that threatened and destroyed political careers and presidential administrations. Along the way you'll meet dozens of political bosses, politicians, lobbyists, speechwriters, spin doctors, pollsters, campaign strategists and other political movers and shakers. It's remarkable to look back over the past century and examine how politics has evolved, as well as how it has stayed the same. The struggle for control is constant, while the rules and means of gaining control have been periodically changed in response to public demands. Each book in the 20th Century Series cont

In this practical book, Richard A. Swanson offers a comprehensive approach to forecasting and analyzing the financial implications of any HRD initiative. Packed with step-by-step tools and worksheets, illustrated through a variety of case studies, and featuring the author's state-of-the-art insights, this book offers HRD professionals an essential resource for planning and budgeting, presenting recommendations to executives and department leaders, and keeping their organizations on the cutting edge.

With words like “recession” and “record unemployment” fillingthe air, the typical family–regardless of how the economy istreating them–will be paying attention to the budget. That’s why 99 Ways to Stretch Your Home Budget will receive a warmreception as it delivers scores of practical ideas to save casharound the house. Cheri Gillard , formerly an obstetrical and NICU nurse, is afreelance writer and editor, plus the mother of quadruplets.

It's great to be a woman . . . most of the time. Lisa Birnbach, Ann Hodgman, and Patty Marx have come up with 1,003 hilarious reasons why it's great all of the time. Pantyhose, high heels, lipstick, maxi pads, chocolate-all things feminine are covered. These three witty and wise women have delivered yet another hysterical list of 1,003 great things. Each writer has a unique (and much appreciated) take on being a modern-day woman. After all, today's females need to be tough, talented multitaskers with an amazing sense of humor-and that's just to compete with the males in grade school!

Stephen R. Covey Author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People An absolutely fascinating account of the...emerging...paradigm shift in the workplace. Rosabeth Moss Kanter Harvard Business School, author of When Giants Learn to Dance An essential guide for leaders of the future and an inspirational call to embrace more entrepreneurial and personally fulfilling careers. Georgette Mosbacher CEO, Georgette Mosbacher Enterprises, author of The Feminine Force After 20 Years in the corporate and small business worlds, I thought I knew everything about succeeding in today's tough market. I was wrong. Drop everything and read this book. It will change your life.