Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

Insights from MIT's Lean Aerospace Initiative

Lean Enterprise Value boldly redefines lean production as a framework for enterprise transformation. Extending the prevailing view of lean to one of "eliminating waste with the goal of creating value", the authors explore the core challenge for technically complex industries in the new century. The nine-year Lean Aerospace Initiative study at MIT has provided a "living experiment" for the principles and the value creation framework that is developed and explored in this book.The book's team of authors is comprised of noted scholars and practitioners in the aerospace field. Bringing decades of experience to this critical discussion which faces industries today, their credentials include three members of the US National Academy of Engineering; fellows and past presidents of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a former secretary of the US Air Force; a former head of MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics; a former deputy dean of MIT's Sloan School of Management; and several authors with significant careers in the aerospace industry and US Navy, many of whom are authors of other books and numerous journal articles. Lean Production transformed the way that companies think about production and manufacturing. This book provides a new challenge. It arises from the work of the Lean Aerospace Initiative at MIT and provides a new agenda and bold vision for the aerospace industry to take it out of crisis. It also redefines and develops the concept of Lean as a framework for enterprise transformation and this will be relevant and critical for all industries and enterprises. [Source : 4e de couv.].

Lean Enterprise Value

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George Gilder

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Massachusetts

The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fullest philosophical decibel... Mr. Gilder sounds less like a tech guru than a poet, and his words tumble out in a romantic cascade." “Google’s algorithms assume the world’s future is nothing more than the next moment in a random process. George Gilder shows how deep this assumption goes, what motivates people to make it, and why it’s wrong: the future depends on human action.” — Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies and author of Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future The Age of Google, built on big data and machine intelligence, has been an awesome era. But it’s coming to an end. In Life after Google, George Gilder—the peerless visionary of technology and culture—explains why Silicon Valley is suffering a nervous breakdown and what to expect as the post-Google age dawns. Google’s astonishing ability to “search and sort” attracts the entire world to its search engine and countless other goodies—videos, maps, email, calendars….And everything it offers is free, or so it seems. Instead of paying directly, users submit to advertising. The system of “aggregate and advertise” works—for a while—if you control an empire of data centers, but a market without prices strangles entrepreneurship and turns the Internet into a wasteland of ads. The crisis is not just economic. Even as advances in artificial intelligence induce delusions of omnipotence and transcendence, Silicon Valley has pretty much given up on security. The Internet firewalls supposedly protecting all those passwords and personal information have proved hopelessly permeable. The crisis cannot be solved within the current computer and network architecture. The future lies with the “cryptocosm”—the new architecture of the blockchain and its derivatives. Enabling cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ether, NEO and Hashgraph, it will provide the Internet a secure global payments system, ending the aggregate-and-advertise Age of Google. Silicon Valley, long dominated by a few giants, faces a “great unbundling,” which will disperse computer power and commerce and transform the economy and the Internet. Life after Google is almost here. For fans of "Wealth and Poverty," "Knowledge and Power," and "The Scandal of Money."

Life after Google

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#hardcover #economics #business #nonfiction 

Florida

A sense of urgency

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How Strategy Really Works

Explains how companies must pinpoint business strategies to a few critically important choices, identifying common blunders while outlining simple exercises and questions that can guide day-to-day and long-term decisions.

Playing to Win

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Gallup

Minnesota

Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow

Two leadership consultants identify three keys to being a more effective leader: knowing your strengths and investing in others' strengths, getting people with the right strengths on your team, and understanding and meeting the four basic needs of those who look to you for leadership.

Strengths Based Leadership

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Roger Munger

Second Edition Excellent/Like New condition textbook. No highlights, written dictations or marks within the textbook 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Idaho

Business & Economics

Second Edition 

With seven context-rich scenarios and more than 50 sample documents to analyze, revise, and design, this booklet offers students realistic opportunities to practice writing in the workplace. The new edition features a fresh new design and new cases and writing tasks that incorporate online genres and social media tools. A companion Web site provides digital versions of all the documents in the book for students to download and work with as well as new scoring guides for instructors.

Document-Based Cases for Technical Communication

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Bob Burg

John David Mann

A Little Story about a Powerful Business Idea (Go-Giver, Book 1

Updated with a new introduction, author Q&A, and a foreword by Arianna Huffington.

The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition

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South Carolina

How to Use Online Conversations and Customer Communities to Turbo-Charge Your Business!

Secrets of Social Media Marketing is a handbook for marketers and business owners to use in deciding how to employ the new social media for online marketing. Social media has quickly moved from the periphery of marketing into the forefront, but this is a new and quickly-evolving field and there are few established formulas for success. Building on the lessons set out in Gillin's acclaimed and oft-reviewed The New Influencers: A Marketer's Guide to the New Social Media, this book provides practical advice on strategy, tools, and tactics. It is a hands-on manual that will educate marketers on how to extend their brands, generate leads, and engage customer communities using online tools.

Secrets of Social Media Marketing

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Richard Branson

Unread conditions. First printing. Learn from the boss.

New York

Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur

Sir Richard Branson is one of the world's most successful entrepreneurs and his Virgin Group is one of the most recognised lifestyle brands, trusted and enjoyed by many millions of people. Now, in his trademark charismatic and honest style, Richard shares the inside track on some of his greatest achievements over forty years in business as well as the lessons he has learned from his setbacks. In Business Stripped Bare, he discusses why he took on one of the world's biggest superbrands, how he built Virgin Mobile USA into the fastest growing company in history to reach a billion dollars in revenue, faster than Microsoft, Google or Amazon.com, and how Richard is the only person in the world to have built seven billion dollar companies from scratch in seven completely different sectors. Richard tells the story behind the launch of Virgin America, his new airline in the USA, how Virgin Galactic is set to initiate a new era of space tourism from a spaceport deep in the Mojave desert, and what he has learned about business from a diverse group of leaders, including Nelson Mandela, Jack Welch, Herb Kelleher, Steve Jobs and the founders of Google. He also shares his thoughts on the changing face of the global economy and how businesses worldwide need to work together to tackle environmental challenges and invest in the future of our world. Combining invaluable advice with remarkable and candid inside stories, Business Stripped Bare is a dynamic, inspirational and truly original guide to success in business and in life. Whether you are an executive, an entrepreneur or just starting out in the business world, Richard strips down business to show how you can succeed and make a difference.

1st ed./1st * Business Stripped Bare

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William J. Bond

"Going Solo" shows readers how to take their specialized knowledge--gathered from a job, career, education or life experiences--and turn it into a profitable, thriving business. Illustrations.

Going Solo

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Jay Levinson

The Father of Guerrilla Marketing, Jay Conrad Levinson, and marketing master Al Lautenslager equip you with a winning 30-day plan to revolutionize your marketing without depleting your budget. Armed with a daily dose of proven guerrilla principles, and the latest tactics and tools, you can reach your marketing goals, jump-start your sales, and watch your profits soar.

Guerrilla Marketing in 30 Days

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Tony Robbins

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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#nonfiction #hardcover #girlboss #autobiography #business #nastygal #ceo #hustle 

The founder of the Nasty Gal fashion e-tailer shares an irreverent manifesto for ambitious young women that explains how to channel personal passion and energy while overcoming insecurities, outlining straightforward advice on doing meaningful work and garnering recognition.

#Girlboss

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Eliyahu Goldratt

Jeff Cox

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Process of Ongoing Improvement

The Goal

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Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization

Senge's best-selling The Fifth Discipline led Business Week to dub him the "new guru" of the corporate world; here he offers executives a step-by-step guide to building "learning organizations" of their own.

The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook

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Joseph A. Michelli

Discover the secrets of world-class leadership! When it comes to refined service and exquisite hospitality, one name stands high above the rest: The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. With ceaseless attention to every luxurious detail, the company has set the bar for creating memorable customer experiences in world-class settings. Now, for the first time, the leadership secrets behind the company's extraordinary success are revealed. The New Gold Standard takes you on an exclusive tour behind the scenes of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. Granted unprecedented access to the company's executives, staff, and its award-winning Leadership Center training facilities, bestselling author Joseph Michelli explored every level of leadership within the organization. He emerged with the key principles leaders at any company can use to provide a customer experience unlike any other, such as: Understanding the ever-evolving needs of customers Empowering employees by treating them with the utmost respect Anticipating customers' unexpressed needs and concerns Developing and conducting an unsurpassed training regimen Sharing engaging stories from the company's employees--from the corporate office and hotels around the globe--Michelli describes the innovative methods the company uses to create peerless guest experiences and explains how it constantly hones and improves them. The New Gold Standard weaves practical how-to advice, proven leadership tools, and the wisdom of experts to help you create and embed superior customer-service principles, processes, and practices in your own organization.

The New Gold Standard: 5 Leadership Principles for Creating a Legendary Customer Experience Courtesy of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company

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Julie Adair King

This is a book to help you in business in the digital world, with all the technology. This book is in great condition. This book will help you with easy instructions.

If you’re as excited as we are about the Rebel XSi/450D, you probably can’t wait to start shooting. Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D For Dummies will show you how to make every shot count! Even if you’re new to digital SLR cameras or are unfamiliar with general photography terms and techniques, this handy guide will show you how to feel comfortable with the controls and start taking beautiful photographs. Don’t worry if you’ve never heard the words aperture, white balance, or ISO. You’ll soon be switching easily between automatic and manual modes, managing exposure, and using the all-important Quality setting! You’ll learn everything about the lenses, from how to choose the ones you need to how to handle them. You’ll finally know how to push just the right buttons to achieve the results that you desire. In a snap, you will find out how to unleash your creativity by manipulating exposure and lighting. You will find out how to: Control picture quality Adjust resolution for image quality and size Shoot in automatic and manual modes Review photos using Playback Mode and the histogram, delete unwanted photos, and protect valuable photos from accidental deletion Manipulate exposure, color, focus, and lighting Download, organize, archive, print, and share photos with family and friends Complete with lists of ten fast photo-editing tricks and ten special-purpose features to explore on a rainy day, Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D For Dummies is your one-stop guide to setting up, working with, and making the most of your new Canon digital SLR camera.

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D for Dummies

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This is a great self help book for anyone that wants to improve their lives.  This book is in great condition.

The Revolutionary Gallup Program That Shows You How to Develop Your Unique Talents and Strengths, 20th Anniversary Edition

Outlines a program developed by Gallup experts and based on a study of more than two million people to help readers discover their distinct talents and strengths and how they can be translated into personal and career successes. 100,000 first printing.

Now, Discover Your Strengths

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Arkansas

Presents a step-by-step guide for increasing emotional intelligence through four core principles: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationsip management.

Emotional Intelligence 2. 0

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Missouri

Key Strategies for Plant Improvement

Here is a great introduction to the remarkable mind of Shigeo Shingo, indisputably one of the great forces in manufacturing. In this book Dr. Shingo describes his approach to manufacturing improvements, developed and refined over the course of a brilliant career. He called it the Scientific Thinking Mechanism (STM).

The Sayings of Shigeo Shingo leads you through the five stages of STM, with appropriate examples taken from notes Dr. Shingo collected during his consulting trips to American and Japanese plants. It shows how, in many cases, the most brilliant ideas are often so simple they're overlooked. Or they're dismissed because they seem ridiculous:

 * A Japanese plant, after first rejecting the idea as "too silly," finds that unhulled rice is ideal for smoothing the rough surfaces on pressure-formed ebonite switches
 * Granville-Phillips, in Boulder, Colorado, reduced defects to zero in one process after Dr. Shingo suggested illuminating circuit boards from below to reduce errors involved in the insertion of diodes and resistors

The Sayings of Shigeo Shingo is must reading for plant managers and engineers. It formalizes the powerful and creative way of thinking that Shingo himself used time and again to overcome problems that seemed virtually insurmountable.

The Sayings of Shigeo Shingo

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The Shingo System for Continuous Improvement

Shingo, whose work at Toyota provided the foundation for JIT, teaches how to implement non-stock production in your JIT manufacturing operations. The culmination of his extensive writings on efficient production management and continuous improvement, this book is an essential companion volume to his other landmark books on key elements of JIT, including SMED and poka-yoke.

It includes:

 * Fundamental flaws in European and American production philosophies.
 * Basic concepts for improving production systems.
 * The "scientific thinking mechanism" -- a new approach to improvement.
 * Implementing a production method in an age of authorized stock production.
 * Development of production functions in the age of non-stock production.
 * Significance of the different production systems.

Non-Stock Production

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Dale Carnegie

Special Anniversary Edition 

Provides suggestions for successfully dealing with people both in social and business situations

How to Win Friends and Influence People

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Todd Olson

Drive Growth by Putting Product at the Center of Your Customer Experience

A playbook on product-led strategy for software product teams There's a common strategy used by the fastest growing and most successful businesses of our time. These companies are building their entire customer experience around their digital products, delivering software that is simple, intuitive and delightful, and that anticipates and exceeds the evolving needs of users. Product-led organizations make their products the vehicle for acquiring and retaining customers, driving growth, and influencing organizational priorities. They represent the future of business in a digital-first world. This book is meant to help you transform your company into a product-led organization, helping to drive growth for your business and advance your own career. It provides: A holistic view of the quantitative and qualitative insights teams need to make better decisions and shape better product experiences. A guide to setting goals for product success and measuring progress toward meeting them. A playbook for incorporating sales and marketing activities, service and support, as well as onboarding and education into the product Strategies for soliciting, organizing and prioritizing feedback from customers and other stakeholders; and how to use those inputs to create an effective product roadmap The Product-Led Organization: Drive Growth By Putting Product at the Center of Your Customer Experience was written by the co-founder and CEO of Pendo—a SaaS company and innovator in building software for digital product teams. The book reflects the author’s passion and dedication for sharing what it takes to build great products.

The Product-Led Organization

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Steven Schussler

Signed Business Book It’s a Jungle in There by Rainforest Cafe founder Steven Schussler. Good Condition for age. Hardcover has wear along the bottom of the back board as shown. Otherwise Excellent with pages that are like new. Perfect for an Office or Home Library. Medium Size Book. 

Inspiring Lessons, Hard-Won Insights, and Other Acts of Entrepreneurial Daring

The founder of the Rainforest Cafe shares the insight of his experience in the entrepreneurial world.

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