Brad. Stone

Slightly crushed corners on dust cover. Signed by author. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire

A Washington Post Notable Book

This New York Times bestseller is a "masterful" (The Washington Post), "juicy tour of the company [Jeff] Bezos built" (The New York Times Book Review), revealing the most important business story of our time by the bestselling author of The Everything Store.

Almost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his bestseller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries, while its workforce has quintupled in size and its valuation has soared to nearly two trillion dollars. It's almost impossible to go a day without encountering the impact of Jeff Bezos's Amazon, between services like Whole Foods, Prime Video, and Amazon's cloud computing unit, AWS, plus Bezos's ownership of The Washington Post. We live in a world run, supplied, and controlled by Amazon and its iconoclast founder.

In Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone presents an "excellent" (The New York Times), deeply reported, vividly drawn portrait of how a retail upstart became of the most powerful and feared entities in the global economy. Stone also probes the evolution of Bezos himself--who started as a geeky technologist totally devoted to building Amazon, but who transformed to become a fit, disciplined billionaire with global ambitions, who ruled Amazon with an iron fist, even as he found his personal life splashed over the tabloids.

Definitive, timely, and "engaging" (Jon Meacham, author of The Soul of America), Stone has provided an unvarnished portrait of a man and company that we couldn't imagine modern life without.

Amazon Unbound

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Don Norman

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Revised and Expanded Edition

Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious—even liberating—book, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores the needs of users and the principles of cognitive psychology. The problems range from ambiguous and hidden controls to arbitrary relationships between controls and functions, coupled with a lack of feedback or other assistance and unreasonable demands on memorization. The Design of Everyday Things shows that good, usable design is possible. The rules are simple: make things visible, exploit natural relationships that couple function and control, and make intelligent use of constraints. The goal: guide the user effortlessly to the right action on the right control at the right time. In this entertaining and insightful analysis, cognitive scientist Don Norman hails excellence of design as the most important key to regaining the competitive edge in influencing consumer behavior. Now fully expanded and updated, with a new introduction by the author, The Design of Everyday Things is a powerful primer on how—and why—some products satisfy customers while others only frustrate them.

The Design of Everyday Things

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Hunter Hastings

Jeff Saperstein

The sleeve has seen some ware and scuff marks, but other than that I haven’t seen any ware, no notes inside after flipping through the pages. 

Arkansas

Business & Economics

Reengineer for Topline Growth

“Marketing is part art and part science. The ‘art era’ was ok in the 20thcentury. If you need to consistently generate growth and increased profitability in this century, you better stick with the science. When cost cutting is not enough to improve the bottom line, it is time to focus again on the consumer.Improve Your Marketing to Grow Your Businessshows how to go from consumer insights to relevant innovation and actionable marketing plans. Metrics to measure marketing effectiveness complete a must-read book.” –ARTURO MASSA Leading Global Marketing Executive, Fortune 500 Company How Marketing CanSystematicallyDrive Profitable Growth, Build Brand Equity, and Maximize Stockholder Value: Rethinking and reengineering your entire marketing organization: processes, technology, metrics, and more New insights from today’s top marketing innovators–including Procter & Gamble, Brown-Forman, Kimberly-Clark, Wachovia, Hyatt, and Gillette How to create a marketing culture of accountability, and empower change throughout your organization Indispensable reading for every marketing leader, manager, and business strategist For the first time, marketing cansystematicallydrive top-line revenue growth and long-term business value. Finally, your organization can have a marketing discipline that begins with customer insight and leverages thefullbenefits of process, creativity, measurement, and collaboration. In this book, legendary marketing innovator Hunter Hastings helps you build that revolutionary marketing organization and use it to achieve unprecedented business results. Discover how to integrate marketing and customer knowledge into everything your company does…leverage technology to identify breakthrough opportunities and marketable innovations…learnfaster,actfaster, and drive maximum value from every marketing investment you make.

Improve Your Marketing to Grow Your Business

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Colleen Garton

Erika McCulloch

Michigan

Computer Science

Successful project management is increasingly vital to all organizations, driven by the demands of global competition, rapid technological growth, and faster time to market (just to name a few). For those in technology fields, project management skills are fast becoming a required core competency. And those who have mastered these skills continue to be in high demand worldwide, commanding higher salaries than those around them. But how does one extend those skills or acquire them in the first place? Fundamentals of Technology Project Management is a great place to start. Of the hundreds of project management books on the market, precious few address the unique needs of the IT project manager. Unlike most other project management books, Fundamentals of Technology Project Management tackles the specific issues that technology professionals must face, such as understanding technology resources, managing project scope and feature creep, and meeting client expectations, among many others. Whether you're a college student, a software engineer, or an IT professional, Fundamentals of Technology Project Management will help you gain a comprehensive understanding of the project management life cycle and learn how to manage it – from first steps on through to intermediate topics (as well as some advanced ones). Author Colleen Garton explains — in easy-to-understand language— not only the what but the how of IT projects. What's more, unlike general project management books, the examples and case studies in this book are all based on technology projects, making them far more relevant to the learner. Also included is a content-rich CD-ROM loaded with features to make the life of any IT project manager (or the IT professional with project management responsibilities) far easier. There are document templates you can use for all phases of the project — from the initial RFP to closing reports. Plus, the author steps you through meeting agendas, status reports, cost analysis, technical specifications, and more. In addition to the document templates, you're provided with PowerPoint slides that can be modified and used for reporting progress to users and management. The continuing rise in importance of project management cannot be denied. Let this book be your guide to becoming a more effective, more efficient IT project manager. With Fundamentals of Technology Project Management you will: - Discover the top ten reasons projects fail - Master the five keys to project success - Explore the six phases of the project lifecycle, step by step - Review the documents necessary for good project management and learn how to complete them - Understand the warning signs of a project in trouble and learn how to get it back on track - Learn Quality Management and Quality Assurance practices in easy-to-understand terms - Acquire practical ways to develop effective leadership and team-building skills

Fundamentals of Technology Project Management

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

We all wish we could sharpen key management skills like writing more effective emails or proposals, focusing to-do lists on what really matters, giving more persuasive presentations, or dealing with a boss who makes you want to scream. But who has the time? The HBR Guides can help.

HBR Guide to Project Management (HBR Guide Series)

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David Traub

Write Emails That Help You Sell Smarter, Sell Better, and Sell More

10 Seconds. That's all the time you have to get your email read, considered, and replied to. By the time they notice your email, if they haven't hit reply within 10 seconds, most likely they aren't going to.What would it mean to your business if you got even just 1 more customer meeting each week because you improved your email skills? In the 10 Second Sale you will learn proven, practical, easy to implement SALES based email principles that get more of your emails read, replied to and get more conversations started and deals closed. You will learn to:- Set up calls and meetings with your target customers and other busy people- Get what you need from a select number of contacts- Follow up while impressing your prospects- Connect easily with the influential- Boost your email productivity dramatically, and - Stand apart from your competition and just about everyone else- And get over 40 pre-written email templates you can easily adapt to your business.

The 10 Second Sale

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Florida

Real Life Success Stories from Real Life People Who Followed the Rich Dad Lessons

Rich Dad's Success Stories

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How Aravind Became the World's Greatest Business Case for Compassion

When a crippling disease shattered his lifelong ambition, Dr. V (Venkataswamy) chose an impossible new dream- to cure the world of blindness. The tiny clinic he founded in India defied conventional business logic and is now the largest provider of eye care on the planet.

At Aravind, patients choose whether to pay or not. Millions are treated for free, yet the organization remains stunningly self-reliant. Serving everyone from penniless farmers to the president, it delivers world-class outcomes at less than a hundredth of what similar services cost in advanced nations. Its model is emulated by organizations everywhere from Rwanda to San Francisco.

Infinite Vision uncovers the radical principles behind Aravind's baffling success. Charged with profound insights and stories, it draws readers to the heart of Dr. V's selfless vision, proving how choices that seem quixotic can, when executed with compassion and integrity, yield incredible results-results that can light the eyes of millions.

Infinite Vision

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Maine

How to Take Control of Your Sales Career and Earn the Respect and Income You Deserve

Not all salespeople plan on a career in sales. Often, sales chooses them and suddenly they find themselves in a profession they arenÆt fully prepared for. The Accidental Salesperson is the answer, providing the advice and inspiration they need to master the essentials and hit the ground running. Fully updated to reflect the changes in the marketplace, the second edition provides a much-needed roadmap anyone can use to excel in sales. Filled with money-generating strategies, humorous yet instructive anecdotes, thought-provoking axioms, and powerful tools, the book includes brand new guidance on: Selling to people who donÆt have time to meet ò Differentiating between infor mation seekers and genuine prospects ò Using social media, Skype, GoToMeeting, WebEx, and other online tools ò Building relation ships competitors canÆt steal Lively, entertaining, and mercifully free of the dull theories, manipulative methods, and high-pressure tactics of most sales booksùthe second edition of The Accidental Salesperson guides readers through every aspect of selling to todayÆs customers.

The Accidental Salesperson

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W. Chan Kim

Renée A. Mauborgne

How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

Argues against common competitive practices while outlining recommendations based on the creation of untapped market spaces with growth potential.

Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition

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Tony Robbins

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom

"Bibliography found online at tonyrobbins.com/masterthegame"--Page [643].

MONEY Master the Game

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Illinois

The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization

An MIT Professor's pathbreaking book on building  "learning organizations" -- corporations that  overcome inherent obstacles to learning and  develop dynamic ways to pinpoint the threats that face  them and to recognize new opportunities. Not only  is the learning organization a new source of  competitive advantage, it also offers a marvelously  empowering approach to work, one which promises that,  as Archimedes put it, "with a lever long  enough... single-handed I can move the world."

The Fifth Discipline

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Roger Connors

Tom Smith

Craig Hickman

The Oz Principle has established itself as the #1 book on workplace accountability. 

Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability

The definitive book on workplace accountability by the New York Times bestselling authors of How Did That Happen? Since it was originally published in 1994, The Oz Principle has sold nearly 600,000 copies and become the worldwide bible on accountability. Through its practical and invaluable advice, thousands of companies have learned just how vital personal and organizational accountability is for a company to achieve and maintain its best results. At the core of the authors' message is the idea that when people take personal ownership of their organization's goals and accept responsibility for their own performance, they become more invested and work at a higher level to ensure not only their own success, but everyone's. Now more than ever, The Oz Principle is vital to anyone charged with obtaining results. It is a must have, must read, and must apply classic business book.

The Oz Principle

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Alannah Moore

 The book is in fair condition, (by my standards) it has coffee marks on the first pages, few scratches , inside pages are very colorful and vibrant.

The Complete Guide to Getting You or Your Business Online

Whether you need a personal site to showcase your work, or a complex webstore with customized features, you can build it yourself without having to code, design or spend a lot of money.

Alannah Moore made a name for herself by demystifying website creation and enabling non-technical people to get themselves up and online using the powerful tools available today - the 'Do-It-Yourself' way. She guides you through every decision, breaking down each step along the way, from planning your pages to getting the most out of social media and search engines. Whether it's WordPress, Weebly, Squarespace, Wix, Shopify or something different, this book will help you choose something for you. In Alannah's capable hands, you will find the process of building your site easy, painless and enjoyable.

Create Your Own Website the Easy Way

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Kim Scott

"I raced through RADICAL CANDOR--It’s thrilling to learn a framework that shows how to be both a better boss and a better colleague. RADICAL CANDOR is packed with illuminating truths, insightful advice, and practical suggestions, all illustrated with engaging (and often funny) stories from Kim Scott’s own experiences at places like Apple, Google, and various start-ups. Indispensable."--Gretchen Rubin author of NYT bestseller THE HAPPINESS PROJECT "Reading Radical Candor will help you build, lead, and inspire teams to do the best work of their lives. Kim Scott's insights--based on her experience, keen observational intelligence and analysis--will help you be a better leader and create a more effective organization."--Sheryl Sandberg author of the NYT bestseller LEAN IN "Kim Scott has a well-earned reputation as a kick-ass boss and a voice that CEOs take seriously. In this remarkable book, she draws on her extensive experience to provide clear and honest guidance on the fundamentals of leading others: how to give (and receive) feedback, how to make smart decisions, how to keep moving forward, and much more. If you manage people?whether it be 1 person or a 1,000--you need RADICAL CANDOR. Now."--Daniel Pink author of NYT bestseller DRIVE From the time we learn to speak, we’re told that if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. When you become a manager, it’s your job to say it--and your obligation. Author Kim Scott was an executive at Google and then at Apple, where she developed a class on how to be a good boss. She has earned growing fame in recent years with her vital new approach to effective management, Radical Candor. Radical Candor is a simple idea: to be a good boss, you have to Care Personally at the same time that you Challenge Directly. When you challenge without caring it’s obnoxious aggression; when you care without challenging it’s ruinous empathy. When you do neither it’s manipulative insincerity. This simple framework can help you build better relationships at work, and fulfill your three key responsibilities as a leader: creating a culture of feedback (praise and criticism), building a cohesive team, and achieving results you’re all proud of. Radical Candor offers a guide to those bewildered or exhausted by management, written for bosses and those who manage bosses. Taken from years of the author’s experience, and distilled clearly giving actionable lessons to the reader; it shows managers how to be successful while retaining their humanity, finding meaning in their job, and creating an environment where people both love their work and their colleagues.

Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

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Russell Brunson

Robert Kiyosaki

The Underground Playbook to Find Your Message, Build a Tribe, and Change the World

Expert Secrets helps people find their message and then create a mass movement of people who will pay them for that advice.

Expert Secrets

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

The Facebook chief operating officer and Fortune top-ranked businesswoman shares provocative, anecdotal advice for women that urges them to take risks and seek new challenges in order to find work that they can love and engage in passionately.

Lean In

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Willie Jolley

Almost New Signed Business Book by Willie Jolley. Excellent Condition. Hardcover. Jacket and Pages are like new. Perfect for an Office or diverse Home Library. Medium Size Book. 

Missouri

An Attitude of Excellence

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Pennsylvania

Korean Businesses and Race Relations in America

The Los Angeles riots shattered Korean immigrants' naive belief in the American dream. As many as 2,300 Korean shopkeepers lost their lifetime investments in one day. Korean immigrants had struggled for years to become economically independent through small businesses of their own. However, the riots made them realize how fragile their economic base is because their businesses are dependent on the impoverished, oppressed, and rebellious classes.

In On My Own, In-Jin Yoon combines an intimate fieldwork account of Korean-black relations in Chicago and Los Angeles with extensive quantitative analysis at the national level. Yoon argues that a complete understanding of the contemporary Korean-American community requires systematic analyses of patterns of Korean immigration, entrepreneurship, and race relations with other minority groups. He explains how small business has become the major economic activity of Korean immigrants and how Korean businesses in minority neighborhoods have intensified racial tensions between Koreans and minorities like blacks and Latinos.

"A groundbreaking study of Korean-black relations. Yoon's insights on immigration, entrepreneurship, and race relations significantly enhance our understanding of urban racial tensions."--William Julius Wilson, Harvard University



On My Own

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Lee Iacocca

A former chief executive of Chrysler Corporation addresses key issues facing today's Americans, from job security and global competition to the war in Iraq and the corporate problems facing the auto industry, in an account throughout which he shares life lessons gleaned from his personal and professional experiences. Reprint. 250,000 first printing.

Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

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South Carolina

How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

Wake up and take control of your life! From the bestselling author of Inner Strength, Unlimited Power, and MONEY Master the Game, Anthony Robbins, the nation's leader in the science of peak performance, shows you his most effective strategies and techniques for mastering your emotions, your body, your relationships, your finances, and your life. The acknowledged expert in the psychology of change, Anthony Robbins provides a step-by-step program teaching the fundamental lessons of self-mastery that will enable you to discover your true purpose, take control of your life, and harness the forces that shape your destiny.

Awaken the Giant Within

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Alexander Osterwalder

Yves Pigneur

Book was purchased new, read once and has been sitting on my bookshelf. 

Utah

A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers

Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation. Co-created by 470 "Business Model Canvas" practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization. It explains the most common Business Model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context. You will learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a game-changing business model--or analyze and renovate an old one. Along the way, you'll understand at a much deeper level your customers, distribution channels, partners, revenue streams, costs, and your core value proposition. Business Model Generation features practical innovation techniques used today by leading consultants and companies worldwide, including 3M, Ericsson, Capgemini, Deloitte, and others. Designed for doers, it is for those ready to abandon outmoded thinking and embrace new models of value creation: for executives, consultants, entrepreneurs, and leaders of all organizations. If you're ready to change the rules, you belong to "the business model generation!"

Business Model Generation

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George S. Clason

Frederick Van Rensselaer

The Richest Man in Babylon, based on "Babylonian parables", has been hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift, financial planning, and personal wealth. In simple language, these fascinating and informative stories set you on a sure path to prosperity and its accompanying joys. A celebrated bestseller, it offers an understanding and a solution to your personal financial problem. Revealed inside are the secrets to acquiring money, keeping money, and making money earn more money. Gold Edition includes bonus material: The Magic Story by Frederick Van Dey. The Magic Story: My task is done. I have written the recipe for "success." If followed, it cannot fail. Wherein I may not be entirely comprehended, the plus-entity of whosoever reads will supply the deficiency; and upon that Better Self of mine, I place the burden of imparting to generations that are to come, the secret of this all-pervading good, - the secret of being what you have it within you to be. It is claimed that many who read or hear this story almost immediately begin to have good fortune - so it is worth a few minutes of your time to find out if it works for you?

The Richest Man in Babylon 

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Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century

A revealing history of the economic and political forces that have shaped the contemporary world argues that the spread of globalization has occurred as a direct result of political choices, tracing the collapse of globalization between 1914 and 1945 and the movement's revival at the end of the twentieth century. Reprint.

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