Business & Economics
Explore the best business and economics books, including top entrepreneur reads, finance essentials, and foundational texts. Browse our online bookstore for bestsellers and highly recommended books in business and economics.
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Mind Over Money: The Psychology of Money and How to Use It BetterThe acclaimed author of Time Warped tackles the very latest research in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and biology to provide a fresh, fascinating, and thought-provoking look at our relationship with money--perfect for fans of Dan Ariely and Freakonomics.We know we need money and...
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The Stress Effect: Why Smart Leaders Make Dumb Decisions--And What to Do about ItReveals the powerful and undermining effects of stress on good decision making-and what leaders can do about it The ability to make sound and timely decisions is the mark of a good leader. But when leaders with otherwise strong track records suddenly begin making...
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Vuca Tools for a Vuca World: Developing Leaders and Teams for Sustainable ResultsRelentless change is a reality. VUCA, an acronym for Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous, has created challenges for all of us. How do we rise to the challenge? VUCA Tools for a VUCA World off ers four powerful approaches--Values, Us, Curiosity, and Aspirations--that will...
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The IABC Handbook of Organizational CommunicationPraise for The IABC Handbook of Organizational Communication "Looking to expand your professional abilities? Learn new skills? Or hone your area of expertise? This book delivers an amazing and practical study of our profession--and a guidebook for strategic communication best practices. The Handbook explores...
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Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a DayNearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and...
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Money: Whence It Came, Where It WentMoney is nothing more than what is commonly exchanged for goods or services, so why has understanding it become so complicated? In Money, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith cuts through the confusions surrounding the subject to present a compelling and accessible account of a...
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Financial Freedom: My Only Hope: The bestselling guide to mastering the 'game of money'Many people work hard all their lives scrimping and saving in order to achieve the American dream of financial freedom. The unfortunate reality, however, is that success is fleeting, and debt, loss, and corruption are all too common. Whether unemployed, underemployed, or still trying...
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Essential Business Skills for Social Work Managers: Tools for Optimizing Programs and OrganizationsMany social workers find themselves in management positions within a few years of graduating from MSW programs. Most of these jobs are in nonprofit human service organizations in which, increasingly, business acumen is necessary to maintain grants and donations, start new programs, market services...
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Secular CyclesMany historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change. Century-long periods of population expansion come before long periods of stagnation and decline; the dynamics of prices mirror population oscillations; and states go through strong expansionist phases followed by periods of state failure, endemic sociopolitical instability,...
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Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United StatesListen to a short interview with Stephen MihmHost: Chris Gondek - Producer: Heron & CraneFew of us question the slips of green paper that come and go in our purses, pockets, and wallets. Yet confidence in the money supply is a recent phenomenon: prior...
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Supply Chain Management Best PracticesLearn what it takes to develop and have a best-in-class supply chain This new edition shows you how to build supply chains that work by illustrating how leading companies are doing it. Identifying world-class supply chains in more than a dozen different industries and...
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Project Management (MSEL)Lead change through strategic alignment of project and process performance Practical and filled with expert advice, Strategic Project Portfolio Management: Enabling a Productive Organization presents a clear framework for your organization to complete impactful strategic projects. Providing executive-level guidance to build a powerful and...
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The Wise Advocate: The Inner Voice of Strategic LeadershipLeadership is the habit of making good choices. Even in difficult and uncertain circumstances, the most effective leaders focus their attention and overcome entrenched patterns of behavior to push an organization to new heights of success. This capability is no fluke: the latest research...
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Ownership Thinking: How to End Entitlement and Create a Culture of Accountability, Purpose, and ProfitIt's an insidious disease that is crippling companies, destroying our economy, and crushing potential. It's infecting the very roots of business performance, and it's spreading fast. It isn't the recession, market volatility, scandal, or greed. It's entitlement.And it may be killing your business. In...
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Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural OrderIt is widely believed today that the free market is the best mechanism ever invented to efficiently allocate resources in society. Just as fundamental as faith in the free market is the belief that government has a legitimate and competent role in policing and...
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Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared ProsperityInequality is a choice.The United States bills itself as the land of opportunity, a place where anyone can achieve success and a better life through hard work and determination. But the facts tell a different story--the U.S. today lags behind most other developed nations...
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Leadership Lessons of the Navy Seals: Battle-Tested Strategies for Creating Successful Organizations and Inspiring Extraordinary ResultsIn today's superheated business climate, executives and managers are under increasing pressure to squeeze every last drop of productivity out of their people. Built around inspiring stories from both the military and business worlds, Leadership Lessons of the Navy SEALS outlines a step-by-step approach...
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Skadden: Power, Money, and the Rise of a Legal EmpireIn this unprecedented look at the culture of American lawyering, Lincoln Caplan shows us Skadden's origins in the white-shoe postwar legal world and its rise to preeminence in the era of Drexel Burnham Lambert - the firm's largest client in the eighties. Skadden is...
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The Great Texas Wind Rush: How George Bush, Ann Richards, and a Bunch of Tinkerers Helped the Oil and Gas State Win the Race to Wind PowerIn the late 1990s, West Texas was full of rundown towns and pumpjacks, aging reminders of the oil rush of an earlier era. Today, the towns are thriving as 300-foot-tall wind turbines tower above those pumpjacks. Wind energy has become Texas's latest boom, with...
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The People Principle: A Revolutionary Redefinition of LeadershipIn the last decade, billions of dollars have been spent on process improvement and reorganization, most of which generally failed to achieve the desired increases in productivity. Sadly, the result was fear, distrust, paranoia, and low employee and manager morale. Business's greatest blunder of...
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