Fit To Succeed: Make Health and Wellness Your Competitive Advantage: Steve Heussner

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Every day across America, companies are losing money because of poor employee health. It’s a crisis of decreased productivity, higher absenteeism, multiplying health care claims and skyrocketing insurance costs.
But there’s a way to fight back, take control of your healthcare insurance, and increase your market competitiveness. [...]

The Everything Personal Finance in Your 40s and 50s Book: A comprehensive strategy to ensure you can retire when you want and live well (Everything Series): Jennifer Lane, Bill Lane

Every day, more than 10,000 people turn forty in the United States, moving toward retirement without traditional pension plans backing them up. Lacking the safety net that protected their parents and grandparents, they’re forced to take the initiative for their own financial security. They need a source of information that doesn’t scare [...]

Developing Business Strategies: David A. Aaker

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Unless you know where your company is going, chances are it won’t get very far in today’s global marketplace. That’s why every business needs the strong vision and keen sense of direction that come from the development, evaluation, and implementation of business strategiesand why every business owner or manager should have [...]

Trust: The Secret Weapon of Effective Business Leaders: Kathy Bloomgarden

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TRUST: The Secret Weapon of Effective Business Leaders taps into a powerful current in American business – the importance of trust in a business’s corporate strategy. In today’s environment, leaders who add the most value to their companies tend to make decisions based not on short-term financial goals, but on strongly-held [...]

CEO Capital: A Guide to Building CEO Reputation and Company Success: Leslie Gaines-Ross

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“This is an excellent book of dos and don ts for CEOs, potential CEOs and especially for the PR people who must help them get their message out to their various publics.” (Public Relations Quarterly, Summer 2003)
“This is an excellent book of dos and don’ts [...]

Quantum Leadership: A Resource for Healthcare Innovation, Second Edition: Tim Porter-O’Grady, Kathy Malloch

This text provides leaders in the health care industry with the skills they need to ensure that their organizations are guided accurately and effectively through periods of transformation. It offers strategies for handling challenges that arise in health care organizations that better assist leaders [...]

What Management Is: How It Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business: Joan Magretta, Nan Stone

What Management Is, by former Harvard Business Review editors Joan Magretta and Nan Stone, identifies management as the driving force behind key innovations of the past century and presents a jargon-free look at the way its core principles work. Designed to promote “managerial literacy” up and down the business food chain, as well [...]

In Search of Leadership: How Great Leaders Answer the Question "Why Lead?": Phil Harkins, Phil Swift

What truly drives a leader?
The role of leadership is crucial to every occupation-whether you’re in business, or government, whether you’re a parent or a teacher, and whether you’re at the early stages of your career, or are at a crossroads after decades of success.
Linkage CEO Phil Harkins and ARC Financial Corp cofounder Phil Swift have [...]

The Shadow Negotiation: How Women Can Master the Hidden Agendas That Determine Bargaining Success: Deborah Kolb, Judith Williams

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William Ury Coauthor of Getting to Yes and Author of Getting Past No Whether at work or at home, negotiation has become the preeminent process for making decisions. Every woman can benefit from this wise and practical guide to the hidden dimensions of negotiation — and [...]

Pension Dumping: The Reasons, the Wreckage, the Stakes for Wall Street: Fran Hawthorne

Pension plans in America no longer represent commitments that financially troubled companies will honor. Neither bankruptcy courts, nor Washington, nor unions have the clout to make them do so. The disposition of these plans is instead left to serve the needs of big investors. Often these investors are a company’s best hope of [...]