What's the secret to a company's continued growth and prosperity? Internationally known marketing expert Al Ries has the answer: focus. His commonsense approach to business management is founded on the premise that long-lasting success depends on focusing on core products and eschewing the temptatio[...]

"The most powerful and instructive change manual you'll ever read. It will persuade and inspire you to change your business, your work, and maybe your life."
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In The Shoemaker's Wife Adriana Trigiani swept her readers across generations of an Italian family, from the Italian Alps at the turn of the twentieth century to the cobblestone streets of Little Italy. In The Supreme Macaroni Company, she weaves a heartbreaking story that begins on the eve of a wed[...]

For over a hundred years, the Angelini Shoe Company in Greenwich Village has relied on the leather produced by Vechiarelli & Son in Tuscany. This ancient business partnership provides the twist of fate for Valentine Roncalli to fall in love with Gianluca Vechiarelli, a tanner with a complex past . .[...]

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Seize the competitive advantage with today's most powerful strategic tool: mergers and acquisitions Driven by rapid globalization, technological advances, and dramatic changes in public policy, industry restructuring has become "business as usual". Yet the failure rates in M&A have been high. The b[...]

Outlines a simple six-part shared manager/employee model for increasing engagement: Shaping, Connecting, Learning, Stretching, Achieving, and Contributing. Emphasizing shared manager and personal responsibility, coupled with intrinsic motivation, this title helps you to dramatically increase employe[...]

The C-level guide to succeeding with Lean. "With 30 years of accumulated experience, Art Byrne is one of the rare few people who can speak with authority about the pitfalls of financial measurement systems, the importance of respect for people, the power of Lean in the marketplace, and the leverage [...]

Helps you to address the longevity of your enterprise beyond your ownership of it - one of the important issues for any business owner thinking about management and ownership transition. The author offers the wisdom that he has gleaned from hundreds of transactions over 30 years, exemplifying the be[...]

At a time of shortages and sudden death, even a lieutenant can find himself faced with tasks and decisions more suitably given to officers of greater experience. And, as the Trojan, an eighty-gun ship of the line, goes about her affairs, the threat to Bolitho and his companions makes itself felt fro[...]

Winner of a Betty Trask Award Introducing...Odeline Milk, an unusual young lady from a sleepy market town. She's on her way to London, to make her name. She hopes. And with the small inheritance left her by her mother, she's bought herself a home, an old canal boat. What she doesn't know yet is that[...]

For undergraduate/graduate courses in auditing. The cases in The Lakeside Company create a realistic view of auditing by putting the abstract concepts into practice.[...]

“Definitely, a game changer! Design experience is the power shift to our era what mass marketing was to the last century.”John Sculley former CEO, Pepsi and Apple“Great design is about creating a deep relationship with your customers. If you don’t, you’re roadkill. This book[...]