Stall Points: Most Companies Stop Growing–Yours Doesn’t Have To: Matthew S. Olson, Derek van Bever

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“About 87% of businesses will hit what [the authors] call a stall point. . . . This book offers a useful checklist in how not to do it, a cost-effective way to learn from other people’’s mistakes.”-Stefan Stern, Los Angeles Times — Harvey Schacter “Toronto [...]

The Lombardi Rules: 26 Lessons from Vicni Lombardi–The World’s Greatest Coach (The McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series): Vince Lombardi

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“The Lombardi Rules”: Vince Lombardi - loved by some, feared by others, but respected by all - was first and foremost a winner. The greatest sports coach of his time, perhaps of all time, Lombardi was also a thoughtful man with uncommon passion, a motivator with uncompromising values, and a leader [...]

Investing in a Secular Bear Market: Michael A. Alexander

How to Invest in a Secular Bear Market is a sequel to Alexander’s 2000 book Stock Cycles, which forecast the start of a secular bear market, a lengthy period of poor investment performance. Alexander describes the structure of a secular bear market and explains why they happen. He then shows what an [...]

Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values: Fred Kofman

More and more business leaders are catching on to an often-overlooked fact: consciousness is our basic faculty for survival and success. Without it, we forget what’s important to us and lose sight of the steps we might take to reach those goals. “Conscious business,” explains Fred Kofman, means shining this awareness on every [...]

Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values: Fred Kofman

More and more business leaders are catching on to an often-overlooked fact: consciousness is our basic faculty for survival and success. Without it, we forget what’s important to us and lose sight of the steps we might take to reach those goals. “Conscious business,” explains Fred Kofman, means shining this awareness on [...]

Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values: Fred Kofman

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An uncommonly articulate professor and consultant explains the importance of being engaged emotionally when doing business. Though apparently extemporaneous, the talk offers reasoning that is concise and coherent. Originally from Argentina, Kofman speaks with uncommon wisdom about the truth of our emotions and about healthy [...]

TRUE PROFESSIONALISM : The Courage to Care About Your People, Your Clients, and Your Career: David H. Maister

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Maister sets out to help professionals align their real-world actions with their true (espoused) values. His frame of reference throughout the book is the professional firm–law firms and others in the service sector. He tells us that successful firms are clearly differentiated by a strict [...]