David Allen's Getting Things Done hit a nerve and ignited amovement with businesses, students, soccer moms, and techies allthe way from Silicon Valley to Europe and Asia. Now, David Allenleads the world on a new path to achieve focus, control, andperspective. Throw out everything you know about productivity -Making It All Work will make life and work a game you can win. Forthose who have already experienced the clarity of mind from readingGetting Things Done, Making It All Work will take the process tothe next level. David Allen shows us how to excel in dealing withour daily commitments, the unexpected, and the information overloadthat threatens to drown us. Making It All Work provides aninstantly usable, success-building tool kit for staying ahead ofthe game. Making It All Work addresses: how to figure out where youare in life and what you need; how to be your own consultant and aCEO of your life; moving from hope to trust in decision-making;when not to set goals; harnessing intuition, spontaneity, an

Developed by two Harvard scientists, this is a revolutionaryand fascinating new approach for achieving extraordinary success -how to re-train your brain to win. Ever wonder why some people seemblessed with success? In fact, everyone is capable of winning inlife - you just need to develop the right brain for it. In "TheWinner's Brain", Drs. Jeffrey Brown and Mark Fenske usecutting-edge neuroscience to reveal the secrets of those whosucceed no matter what - and demonstrate how little it has to dowith IQ or upbringing. Through simple everyday practices, Brown andFenske explain how to unlock the Brain's hidden potential using:Balance - Make emotions work in your favour; Bounce - Create afailure-resistant brain; Opportunity Radar - Spot hot prospectspreviously hidden by problems; Focus Laser - Lock into what'simportant; and, Effort Accelerator - Cultivate the drive to win.Along the way, meet dozens of interesting people who possess 'winfactors' (like the inventor of Whac-A-Mole) and glean fascinatinginforma

In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles and business philosophy behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability. Complete with profiles of organizations that have successfully adopted Toyota's principles, this book shows managers in every industry how to improve business processes by: Eliminating wasted time and resources； Building quality into workplace systems； Finding low-cost but reliable alternatives to expensive new technology； Producing in small quantities； Turning every employee into a qualitycontrol inspector.

At Harvard, social acceptance and success with the opposite sex had to be applied for. In the absence of family money or innate charisma, misfit and maths prodigy Eduardo Saverin dreamed of joining one of Harvard's elite Final clubs. His best friend, painfully shy computer genius Mark Zuckerberg, turned instead to his natural talents, hacking into the university's computer system to create a rateable database of every female student on campus. Narrowly escaping expulsion after 80% of Harvarda's population voted in just two hours, crashing the entire computer system, Mark and Eduardo together refocused the site into something less controversial - The Facebook - which spread like a wildfire across campuses around the country. Within months hundreds of thousands of college kids had signed up. Suddenly Eduardo and Mark were getting nods not just from the female population, but from venture capitalists too. It was then, amidst the dizzying levels of cash and the promise of unbelievable power, that the first cracks

Hailed by Business Week as "the man who invented management,"Peter EDrucker approached the topic from a stun-ning number ofangles--drawing on lessons from sociology, culture, politics,econom- ics, religion, psychology, and literature--and molded theminto a clear, coherent vision:The ultimate health of societydepends on whether our corporations and other institu- tions areeffectively run and responsibly led. Over many decades, Drucker's books and articles have influencedcountless busi- ness, nonprofit, and government leaders, and his principles continue to help steerthe most successful organizations in the world. But even his mostavid fans will find a new Peter Drucker in these pages. The DruckerLectures presents thirty-three of his most im-portant speeches andtalks delivered at profes- sional gatherings and in the classroom.They showcase a great thinker at work--exploring, testing, andrefining his ideas.

Trading up isn’t just for the wealthy anymore. These days noone is shocked when an administrative assistant buys silk pajamasat Victoria’s Secret. Or a young professional buys onlyKendall-Jackson premium wines. Or a construction worker splurges ona $3,000 set of Callaway golf clubs. In dozens of categories, these “new luxury” brands now sell athuge premiums over conventional goods, and in much larger volumesthan traditional “old luxury” goods. Trading Up has becomethe definitive book about this growing trend.

"Logos and No Gos ought to be mandatory reference material for all managers of branded products and services. It is a concise, easy read, jammed with crucial information on how to survive and thrive in the I.P. Jungle. It shows how to add brand value and how to guard that value with your life. When Kangol moved out of manufacturing and distribution into brand licensing it took us a while to realise that brand value lies as much in the quality and protection of the I.P. portfolio as it does in the image and trading performance. With Logos and No Gos on your desk there can be no excuse for sloppy I.P. management."—David M. Heys, C.E.O., Kangol Holdings Ltd "Geoff Steward is a highly experienced practitioner in the field of Intellectual Property and Trade Marks in particular. Logos and No Gos embodies his wide experience and is a very readable guide to what is otherwise a tortuous and, often, near impenetrable legal mine-field for the unwary brand owner and brand developer. Anyone thinking of laun

Real estate titan, bestselling author, and TV impresario Donald J. Trump reveals the secrets of his success in this candid and unprecedented book of business wisdom and advice. Over the years, everyone has urged Trump to write on this subject, but it wasn’t until NBC and executive producer Mark Burnett asked him to star in The Apprentice that he realized just how hungry people are to learn how great personal wealth is created and first-class businesses are run. Thousands applied to be Trump’s apprentice, and millions have been watching the program, making it the highest rated debut of the season. In Trump: How To Get Rich, Trump tells all–about the lessons learned from The Apprentice, his real estate empire, his position as head of the 20,000-member Trump Organization, and his most important role, as a father who has successfully taught his children the value of money and hard work.

This sweeping study of the history of innovation breaks outthe seven patterns of innovation like "the slow hunch" and"serendipity." It debunks the myth of the lone genius and presentsthe real-world dynamics and context that enable innovation. Johnsonshows how understanding the roots of innovation can lead to our owncreative breakthroughs.

The rules that can make or break your career. For anyone who's breaking in, moving up, or just trying to make agreat professional impression, this essential guide offersreal-life anecdotes and advice to help you build competence andconfidence in the tricky arena of modern business etiquette.Includes: "Blunder Busters"-proven strategies to help you tackle anythingfrom office dating to business lunches "Sir, your fly is unzipped!"-the art of verbal diplomacy Contemporary guidelines for goof-proof e-mail The top ten career killers and how to beat them Global gaffes: easy ways to avoid overseas embarrassment Grace under fire-surviving dining disasters, party faux-pas andeverything in-between

The practical guide to discovering the rules of our superconnected world through the science and sociology of networks. In Superconnect, Richard Koch and Greg Lockwood show that success is less about who you are than how you connect—a chance meeting with an old colleague leads to a swanky new job; two businessmen collaborate online and cofound a successful start-up; a friend introduces a promising entrepreneur to a millionaire looking to invest. But why do these lucky breaks always happen to other people? Personal and professional networks shape everything we do, but simply knowing that they exist won’t help you harness your connections for maximum success. With an eye toward business applications, Superconnect outlines the new rules of our densely linked society. At the core of the analysis are three simple network components—strong relationships, weak relationships, and hubs—that interact in surprising, counterintuitive ways. Understanding how these components mesh, and connecting unrelated p

Microfinancing is considered one of the most effective strategies in the fight against global poverty. And now, in Small Loans, Big Changes, author Alex Counts reveals how Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus revolutionized global antipoverty efforts through the development of this approach. This book presents compelling stories of women benefiting from Yunus’s microcredit in rural Bangladesh and urban Chicago, and recounts the experiences of different borrowers in each country, interspersing them with stories of Yunus, his colleagues, and their counterparts in Chicago.

In 1996, young cycling phenom Armstrong discovered he had testicular cancer. In 1999, he won the Tour de France. Now he's a grateful husband, a new fatherAand a memoirist: with pluck, humility and verve, this volume covers his early life, his rise through the endurance sport world and his medical difficulties. Cancer "was like being run off the road by a truck, and I've got the scars to prove it," Armstrong declares. Earlier scars, he explains, came from a stepfather he casts as unworthy; early rewards, from his hardworking mother and from the triathlons and national bike races Armstrong won as a Texas teen. "The real racing action was over in Europe": after covering that, Armstrong and Jenkins (Men Will Be Boys, with Pat Summit, etc.) ascend to the scarier challenges of diagnoses and surgeries. As he gets worse, then better, Armstrong describes the affections of his racing friends and of the professionals who cared for him. Armstrong is honest and delightful on his relationship to wife Kristin (Kik), and goe

"A magisterial work...You can't help thinking about the economic crisis we're living through now." --The New York Times Book Review It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions made by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of that economic meltdown, the effects of which set the stage for World War II and reverberated for decades. As yet another period of economic turmoil makes headlines today, Lords of Finance is a potent reminder of the enormous impact that the decisions of central bankers can have, their fallibility, and the terrible human consequences that can result when they are wrong.

The definitive overview of knowledge management, now availablein paperback. This influential book establishes the enduringvocabulary and concepts in the burgeoning field of knowledgemanagement. It serves as the hands-on resource of choice forcompanies that recognize knowledge as the only sustainable sourceof competitive advantage going forward. Drawing from their workwith more than 30 knowledge-rich firms, Davenport and Prusak -experienced consultants with a track record of success - examinehow all types of companies can effectively understand, analyze,measure, and manage their intellectual assets, turning corporatewisdom into market value.They categorize knowledge work into foursequential activities - accessing, generating, embedding, andtransferring - and look at the key skills, techniques, andprocesses of each. While they present a practical approach tocataloging and storing knowledge so that employees can easilyleverage it throughout the firm, the authors caution readers on thelimits of communications an

The winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty. Acclaimed by The Wall Street Journal as "brilliantly researched and written", the book tells the rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned. It is the definitive account of the rise of the modern financial world.A gripping history of banking and the booms and busts that shaped the world on both sides of the Atlantic, The House of Morgan traces the trajectory of the J. P. Morgan empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the crash of 1987. Ron Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the private saga of the Morgans and the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved.Based on extensive interviews and access to the family and business archives, The House of Morgan is an investigative masterpiece, a compelling account of a remarkable institution and the m

"One of the best baseball—and management—books out....Deserves aplace in the Baseball Hall of Fame."—Forbes Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball.Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-lifegeneral manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateurbaseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only "thesingle most influential baseball book ever" (Rob Neyer, Slate) butalso what "may be the best book ever written on business" (WeeklyStandard). I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. The storyconcerned a small group of undervalued professional baseballplayers and executives, many of whom had been rejected as unfit forthe big leagues, who had turned themselves into one of the mostsuccessful franchises in Major League Baseball. But the idea forthe book came well before I had good reason to write it—before Ihad a story to fall in love with. It began, really, with aninnocent question: how did one of the poorest teams in baseball,the Oa