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

Editorial Reviews

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Politics of Fortune: A New Agenda For Business Leaders: Jeffrey E. Garten

From Publishers Weekly
With headlines about fiscal malfeasance becoming as normal as weather reports, Garten delivers a timely and well-reasoned rationale for executives to become better public citizens, and not only to improve their public image. He presents a range of public policy challenges that business leaders should [...]

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

Review
“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 for CEOs, [...]

Guts!: Companies that Blow the Doors off Business-as-usual: Kevin Freiberg, Jackie Freiberg

From Publishers Weekly
The recent corporate scandals and layoffs may have damaged the public’s trust in business, but corporate consultants Kevin and Jackie Freiberg could well restore some of that lost confidence with their inspiring descriptions of “gutsy leaders” who “have dismantled fear-based management and replaced it with [...]

How to Succeed in Business Without Working So Damn Hard: Rethinking the Rules, Reinventing the Game: Robert J. Kriegel

As more of us come to understand the hefty personal price that often accompanies major professional success, fewer of us are willing to blindly sacrifice so much in order to attain it. How to Succeed in Business Without Working So Damn Hard is a combination pep talk and handbook for those facing [...]