Getting to Yes offers a proven strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in every sort of conflict. Thoroughly updated and revised, it offers readers a straight-forward method for negotiating personal and business disputes without getting angry or getting taken.
Through inspiring stories of those who have successfully landed their dream career, as well as actionable tools, exercises, and thought experiments, Born for This will guide you through today’s vast menu of career options to discover the work perfectly suited to your unique interests, skills, and experiences.
Financial success, Dale Carnegie believed, is fifteen percent due to to business knowledge and eighty-five percent to "the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people." How to Win Friends & Influence People teaches these skills through underlying principles of dealing with people so that they feel important and appreciated.
Josh Kaufman shares the essentials of entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, negotiation, operations, productivity, and much more. The Personal MBA distills the most valuable business lessons into simple, memorable mental models that can be applied to real-world challenges. Your business library must contain this guidebook.
New York Times bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell says we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Outliers: The Story of Success explains the secrets of software business billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and so much more.
Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Thinking, Fast and Slow reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives.
Any person or organization can explain what they do; some can explain how they are different or better; but very few can clearly articulate why. Start With Why is not about money or profit--those are simply results. WHY is the thing that inspires us and inspires those around us.
What does it really take to run a company, or to ascend today’s corporate ladder? Knowledge, hard work, contacts, and more for starters. Our choice for the best books on business focus on the knowledge we need. If you plan on becoming successful while at the helm of your company, or by managing a team someday, the keen principles found in these business books will help you to reach that goal.
