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Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation

Adam Bryant · Times Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

More than two hundred CEOs reveal their candid insights on how to build and foster a corporate culture that encourages innovation and drives resultsIn Quick and Nimble, Adam Bryant draws on interviews with more than two hundred CEOs to offer business leaders the wisdom and guidance to move...
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The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity from Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters and Other Informal Entrepreneurs

Alexa Clay · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A book that argues that lessons in creativity, innovation, salesmanship, and entrepreneurship can come from surprising places: pirates, bootleggers, counterfeiters, hustlers, and others living and working on the margins of business and society.Who are the greatest innovators in the world?...
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Mogul, Mom, & Maid: The Balancing Act of the Modern Woman

Liz O'Donnell · Bibliomotion
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

The state of working women has been declared, debunked and debated since the days of Rosie the Riveter. The headlines, and the statistics behind them, however, don't tell the whole story. The truth is, many women today are breadwinners; and these breadwinners are struggling. They are caught...
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The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future

Steve Case · Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

One of America's most accomplished entrepreneurs - a pioneer who made the Internet part of everyday life and orchestrated the largest merger in the history of business - shares a roadmap for how anyone can succeed in a world of rapidly changing technology.Steve Case's career began when...
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Mean Girls at Work: How to Stay Professional When Things Get Personal

Katherine Crowley · McGraw-Hill Education; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

One of the New York Posts Top 10 Career Books of 2012 and a Booklist Top 10 Business Book DO YOU WORK WITH A MEAN GIRL? A womans field guide to the new frontier of professional developmentworking with other women Women-to-women relationships in the workplace are . . . complicated. When...
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Driving Honda: Inside the World's Most Innovative Car Company

Jeffrey Rothfeder · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

For decades there have been two iconic Japanese auto companies. One has been endlessly studied and written about. The other has been generally underappreciated and misunderstood. Until now.Since its birth as a motorcycle company in 1949, Honda has steadily grown into the world’s fifth...
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The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets

Brant Cooper · Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times Bestseller The New York Times Monthly Business BestsellerxAUSA Today BestsellerxAAmazoncom Editors Picks for Best Books of the Month in Business and Leadership
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I Don't Want to Go to College: Other Paths to Success

Heather Z. Hutchins · Huron Street Press

The route to career success is mapped out here for those who want to forgo the time and expense of a college education and dive directly into the workplace. As college tuitions soar and the job market tightens, many young adults are questioning the value of a college degree. The pros...
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Michael Jackson, Inc.: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of a Billion-Dollar Empire

Zack O'Malley Greenburg · Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

The surprising rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches story of how Michael Jackson grew a billion-dollar business.Michael Jackson is known by many as the greatest entertainer of all time, but he was also a revolutionary when it came to business. In addition to famously buying the Beatles'...
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