Amazon.com The McKinsey Way, by former McKinsey & Company associate Ethan M. Rasiel,
provides a through-the-keyhole perspective on the way this worldwide consulting
institution approaches--and solves--the myriad professional problems encountered by its...Read more
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Sometime during the last 30 years, the service economy emerged as the dominant engine of
economic activity. At first, critics who were uncomfortable with the intangible nature of
services bemoaned the decline of the goods-based economy, which, thanks...Read more
Amazon.com Profit Patterns opens with a series of chaotic paintings by Pablo Picasso. Each
piece is increasingly difficult to recognize; the final portrait is little more than a
jumble of shapes and colors. But what does Picasso have to do with profitability?...Read more
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New millennia, historically, have caused extreme reactions. Something about seeing those
double zeros on the calendar flips people into new realms of logic and mystical belief.
This time, though, the manic millenarians have a scientific basis for...Read more
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So where do you want to go tomorrow? That's the question Bill Gates tries to answer in Business
@ the Speed of Thought. Gates offers a 12-step program for companies wanting to do
business in the next millennium. The book's premise: Thanks to...Read more
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Michael J. Wolf says that all businesses--even banks and supermarkets--will increasingly
need to be entertaining to thrive. In The Entertainment Economy, Wolf, one of the
media industry's top strategists, demonstrates how business is becoming...Read more
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Since its release in 1990, Peter M. Senge's bestselling The Fifth
Discipline has converted readers to its innovative business principles of the
"learning organization," personal mastery, and systems thinking. Published
nearly a decade later, Dance of...Read more
Amazon.com Free, Perfect and Now tells how one CEO nearly quadrupled his company's market
value through the power of the Internet and some daring management. Written by Bob Rodin,
president of electrical distributor Marshall Industries, Inc., the book is about...Read more
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The fortunes generated by America's technology companies--from Hewlett Packard to
PeopleSoft--have created tremendous pressure to generate more fortunes. These financial
windfalls have resulted from efforts to identify markets that haven't yet been...Read more
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The PC business is full of rags-to-riches stories. But perhaps none is as dramatic as the
rise of Dell Computer. In Direct from Dell, founder and CEO Michael Dell tells how
he started his company from a dorm room at the University of Texas with less...Read more
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A new kind of capitalism is raging around the globe--and its economic and social
consequences could be crippling. In Turbo-Capitalism, Edward Luttwak, a noted
international strategist and consultant, warns that the free market has gone amok. He...Read more
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"For as long as engineers have dreamed of building faster and more powerful
computers," writes Fred Moody in his opening to The Visionary Position,
"some among them have dreamed of displaying computer-stored and -generated
information in three...Read more
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Guy Kawasaki, former chief evangelist at Apple Computer and an iconoclastic corporate
tactician who now works with high-tech startups in Silicon Valley, is back in print with
his seventh book: Rules for Revolutionaries: The Capitalist Manifesto for...Read more
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Throughout the '70s and '80s, Xerox Corporation provided unlimited funding to a renegade
think tank called the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Occupying a ramshackle building
adjacent to Stanford University, PARC's occupants would prove to be the...Read more
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The key to building a superior company, an increasing number of observers now agree, is
the ongoing ability to recruit and retain superior personnel. In Topgrading,
industrial psychologist and global consultant Bradford Smart expands upon this idea...Read more