In the bestselling tradition of Who Moved My Cheese? and TheOne Minute Manager, this smart little book, written as a businessparable, tells the story of a young man who is sent from thecorporate ladder to the football field to learn a lesson in teamplaying from one person who knows how to win - a college footballcoach. "The best guidelines I've seen to help you unleash your power andreach your maximum potential." (Ken Blanchard, bestselling authorof The One Minute Manager) "You can't be a star player on your team if you don't havewinning ways. This smart, sensible book shows how to develop them.(Tom Muccio, Vice-President, Proctor Gamble) "The best book ever written about how to work well with others.All new employees should receive a copy the first day on the job.(Art Bauer, President and CEO, American Media, Inc.)
An essential resource for coping with the taxing ordeal ofbeing audited. The Pocket Idiot's Guide(tm) to Surviving an Audit presents allof the information a taxpayer needs to get through an audit in onepiece, including: ?What is an audit? ?The summons ?The interview ?Rights as a taxpayer ?What to bring and how to prepare your presentation ?What the auditor will bring and how he or she will prepare ?Finding a tax pro
Mark Penn argues that the biggest trends in America are theMicrotrends, the smaller trends that go unnoticed or ignored. Onemillion people can create new market for a business, spark a socialmovement, or effect political change. In 1996, a microtrendidentified by Penn ("soccer moms") was crucial in re-electingPresident Clinton. With years of experience as one of world's mosthighly regarded pollsters, Mark Penn identifies the new microtrendssweeping the world: *Single women by choice: More often than ever before, they aren'twaiting for Mr. Right. They are raising children by themselves andbuying their own homes. *Splitters: A growing number of middle-class residents areshuttling between two homes, creating new communities and dynamicsin the real estate market. *Sun Haters: Environmentalists, skin cancer survivors, andparents concerned about the impact the sun is having on ourhealth. *Philo-semites: A growing number of people want to date Jewishmen and women. *Classical Musi
A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is takingon New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. Hismessage is clear: remember your manners or suffer the consequences!For some, it seems that the rich are finally getting what theydeserve. For New York's elite, it is a call to terror. Only one man can tackle such a high-profile case: Detective MikeBennett. The pressure is enough for anyone, but Mike also has tocare for his 10 children-all of whom have come down with virulentflu at once! Discovering a secret pattern in The Teacher's lessons, DetectiveBennett realizes he has just hours to save New York from thegreatest disaster in its history. From the #1 bestselling authorcomes RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, the continuation of his newest,electrifying series.
Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source ofbreakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard BusinessReview Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make theseseminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Eachhighly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea thatcontinues to shape best practices and inspire countless managersaround the world. In this article, renowned management experts GaryHamel and C. K. Prahalad introduce their approach to strategicplanning in the face of tough competition. With advice on tailoringyour company's strategy and developing the will to win within yourfirm, this article helps you define a long-term strategy for yourorganization that captures employees' imaginations and creates aclear path to success.
So much to do, so little time, so best to start early. Full of things to make, achieve, learn (and some things you shouldn't learn) this is the perfect handbook for any child who wants to revel in being young and not-boring. Can you Make an origami crane? Lie convincingly? Operate as a spy? Parents may need these skills (not origami) to wrest their child's copy from them and indulge in all the fun they should have had.
This book is important because it is about finding your pathin life. As you know, most people are programmed early in life to"Go to school and get a job."
Three young doctors-their hopes, their dreams, theirunexpected desires... Dr. Paige Taylor: She swore it waseuthanasia, but when Paige inherited a million dollars from apatient, the D.A. called it murder. Dr. Kat Hunter: She vowed neverto let another man too close again-until she accepted the challengeof a deadly bet. Dr. Honey Taft: To make it in medicine, she knewshe'd need something more than the brains God gave her. Racing fromthe life-and-death decisions of a big major hospital to thetension-packed fireworks of a murder trial, Nothing Lasts Foreverlays bare the ambitions and fears of healers and killers, loversand betrayers. And proves once again that no reader can outguessSidney Sheldon, the master of the unexpected.
If you don't plan on working hard all your life this is thebook for you. If you're ready to retire (or would like to retireearly enough to enjoy the retirement years) you can learn fromRobert's story of how he and his wife Kim started with nothing and'retired' financially free in less than 10 years.
THE DREAM She is twenty, beautiful, dirt-poor, and hoping for a better lifefor her infant daughter when LuAnn Tyler is offered the gift of alifetime, a $100 million lottery jackpot. All she has to do ischange her identity and leave the U.S. forever. THE KILLER It's an offer she dares to refuse...until violence forces herhand and thrusts her into a harrowing game of high-stakes,big-money subterfuge. It's a price she won't fully pay...until shedoes the unthinkable and breaks the promise that made herrich. THE WINNER For if LuAnn Tyler comes home, she will be pitted against thedeadliest contestant of all: the chameleonlike financial mastermindwho changed her life. And who can take it away at will...
Malcolm Gladwell is the master of playful yet profound insight. His ability to see underneath the surface of the seemingly mundane taps into a fundamental human impulse: curiosity. From criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell takes everyday subjects and shows us surprising new ways of looking at them, and the world around us.Are smart people overrated? What can pit bulls teach us about crime? Why are problems like homelessness easier to solve than to manage? How do we hire when we can't tell who's right for the job? Gladwell explores the minor geniuses, the underdogs and the overlooked, and reveals how everyone and rything contains an intriguing story. What the Dog Saw is Gladwell at his very best - asking questions and seeking answers in his inimitable style.
It's hard to think of a CEO that commands as much respect as Jack Welch。 Under his leadership， General Electric reinvented itself several times over by integrating new and innovative practices into its many lines of business。 In Jack: Straight from the Gut， Welch， with the help of Business Week journalist John Byrne， recounts his career and the style of management that helped to make GE one of the most successful companies of the last century。 Beginning with Welch's childhood in Salem， Massachusetts， the book quickly progresses from his first job in GE's plastics division to his ambitious rise up the GE corporate ladder，which culminated in 1981。 What comes across most in this autobiography is Welch's passion for business as well as his remarkable directness and intolerance of what he calls ”superficial congeniality”--a dislike that would help earn him the nickname ”Neutron Jack。” In spite of its 496 pages， Jack: Straight from the Gut is a quick read that any student or manage
Managing your boss: Isn't that merely manipulation? Corporate cozying up? Not according to John Gabarro and John Kotter. In this handy guidebook, the authors contend that you manage your boss for a very good reason: to do your best on the job--and thereby benefit not only yourself but also your supervisor and your entire company. Your boss depends on you for cooperation, reliability, and honesty. And you depend on him or her for links to the rest of the organization, for setting priorities, and for obtaining critical resources. By managing your boss--clarifying your own and your supervisor's strengths, weaknesses, goals, work styles, and needs--you cultivate a relationship based on mutual respect and understanding. The result? A healthy, productive bond that enables you both to excel. Gabarro and Kotter provide valuable guidelines for building this essential relationship--including strategies for determining how your boss prefers to process information and make decisions, tips for communicating mutual expect
这本畅销经典受到无数人的喜爱，它揭示出古老的“巴比伦寓言”的成功秘诀，被誉为关于节俭、理财和个人财富成功的励志书。 THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING CLASSIC Read by millions, this timeless book holds the key to success-in the secrets of the ancients. Based on the famous "Babylonian principles," it's been hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift and financial planning. ACHIEVE PERSONAL WEALTH... This celebrated bestseller offers an understanding of-and a solution to-personal money problems.This is the original classic that reveals the secrets to acquiring money, keeping money, and making money earn even more money. Simply put: the original money-management favorite is back!
As director of an inner-city woman's shelter, Dana Dupinskysafeguards many secrets. Some are new identities; some are newaddresses; and some are even hidden truths about herself.Passionately dedicated to Hanover House and the women she protects,Dana has always been reluctant to look for love. But now, just as acase puts her and a child in mortal danger, it seems that love hascome looking for her. Security expert Ethan Buchanan learned to stalk men in the Afghandesert. Now he vows to track down the ruthless woman who kidnappedhis godson-and falling for Dana is not in the plan. Yet her verypresence seems to chase away the ghosts that haunt him, and herskillful evasion of personal questions raises his huntinginstincts. For there's a deadly new secret at Hanover House. Abrutal killer is weaving a web of revenge with a stolen boy at itscenter. And Dana is the next victim on the list...
This boastful, boyishly disarming, thoroughly engaging personal history offers an inside look at aspects of financing, development and construction in big-time New York real estate. "I don't do it for the money," maintains Trump, the son of a Queens realtor who, at age 27, bought and transfigured the colossal Hotel Commodore at Grand Central Terminal. Now 40, he has built, among other projects, and owns outright, Fifth Avenue's retail and residential Trump Tower (where he occupies a double-triplex suite); owns and operates Trump's Castle, a casino in Atlantic City; is arguably the most visible young man on Manhattan's celebrity circuit ("Governor Cuomo calls. . . . dinner at St. Patrick's Cathedral. . . . I call back Judith Krantz"); and is currently developing a controversial 100-acre West Side "Television City" project that is planned to include the world's tallest building. For those who would do likewise, Trump articulates his secrets for success: imagination, persistence, skill at "juggling provisional c
Nobody likes performance appraisals. To make the most of them,though, managers and supervisors can take advantage of this guide,complete with the phrases and words they need to confidentlyconduct clear, objective performance reviews. Phrases are given forcommon behavior and skill categories as well as for commonfunctional areas—and they work, regardless of appraisal type.
In all his years in the Chicago Fire Department, LieutenantReed Solliday has never experienced anything like this recentoutbreak of house fires--devastating, vicious, and,in one case,homicidal. He has another problem--his new partner, Detective MiaMitchell. She's brash, bossy, and taking the case in a direction henever imagined. Mia's instincts tell her the arsonist is making this personal.And as the infernos become more deadly, one look at the victims'tortured faces convinces her and Reed that they must work closer tocatch the killer. With each new blaze, the villain ups the ante,setting firetraps for the people Reed and Mia love. The truth isalmost too hot to handle: This monster's desire for death anddestruction is unquenchable...and for Mia he's started thecountdown to an early grave.
How Full Is Your Bucket? reveals how even the briefestinteractions affect your relationships, productivity, health andlongevity. Organized around a simple metaphor of a dipper and abucket , and grounded in 50 years of research, this book will showyou how to greatly increase the positive moments in your work andyour life - while reducing the negative. Filled with powerfulstrategies and engaging stories, How Full Is Your Bucket? is sureto inspire lasting changes and has all th emakings of a timelessclassic.
The most finite resource any manager has is time. Thishandbook teaches readers how to save and preserve their time byfirst understanding its limitations, and then showing them how toguard it. Practical guidance includes ways of limiting interactionwith subordinates ("Don't sit down if you are followed into youroffice." "Place your chair out of view if your door is open."), thebenefits of keeping a time log, and how to chose the best timeplanner. The book also takes full advantage of modern technology byexplaining how to maximize e-mail, voicemail and other toolsavailable to save precious time. The Essential Manager have soldmore than 1.9 million copies worldwide! Experienced and novicemanagers alike can benefit from these compact guides that slipeasily into a briefcase or a portfolio. The topics are relevant toevery work environment, from large corporations to smallbusinesses. Concise treatments of dozens of business techniques,skills, methods, and problems are presented with hundreds ofphotos, charts,
