books by Collins Business     books:       The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent25 reviews Richard Florida Collins Business, 2007 Building On His Thesis, But With A Warning In the first portion of this book, Richard Florida recaps and defends the major ideas in his first book, The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life. He addresses some of his critics and reasserts his thesis, which proposes that the ascendancy of a powerful class of creative, talented workers is making PLACES more important than companies. ...             Threshold Resistance: The Extraordinary Career of a Luxury Retailing Pioneer7 reviews A. Alfred Taubman Collins Business, 2007 The rest of the story.... Having just finished reading A. Alfred Taubman's new book, "Threshold Resistance", I am thoroughly intrigued and amazed with this story. With his entire life focused on doing the right and best things for as many people as possible, how could it be that he ended up on the wrong side of the Government and spent time in our prison system? As with any situation where the primary information comes ...             Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Harper Business Essentials)164 reviews Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras Collins Business, 2002 A clasic must read An absolute must read along with the follow on Built to Last. The extensive research behind this book is evident and the conclusions may surprise you. If your current business isn't everything you want it to be you may find the answers here.             The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised ...157 reviews Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig Collins Business, 2003 A must-read classic on value investing "An investment is one which, upon analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Anything else is a speculation and should be avoided." - Benjamin Graham This quote pretty much sums up Graham's macro perspective on investing. Many investors view Benjamin Graham is the father of value investing and that's not far-fetched. This work is one of the best out there on the topic of ...             The Millionaire in the Mirror: How to Find Your Passion and Make a Fortune Doing It--Without Quitting Your ...9 reviews Gene Bedell Collins Business, 2008 This book completely changes your perspective. This book is fantastic. I recently graduated from college and reading Dr. Bedell's book has changed my perspective on what originally seemed like a good, competitive and prestigious consulting job. It is now clear to me that this position is an almost limbo like holding pattern where I personally will never be able to stand out. I think it is this complete change of perspective that makes ...             The Transparent Leader: How to Build a Great Company Through Straight Talk, Openness and Accountability2 reviews Herb Baum, Tammy Kling Collins Business, 2005 Great read and requirement of business success I read this book and immediately shared with the leaders around me. Nothing is more powerful than complete transparency. Very well written, the examples are plucked straight out of the real world.             Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: Career Strategies for Asians16 reviews Jane Hyun Collins Business, 2006 Highly Recommended! Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling is a great guide on advancing and succeeding in the corporate workplace today. It sheds much needed light on topics relevant to all Asian Americans but virtually unaddressed, in my opinion, by mainstream career advancement books. What makes the book particularly helpful is how it provides not only big-picture strategy guidance, such as the importance of building ...             The Breakthrough Imperative: How the Best Managers Get Outstanding Results5 reviews Mark Gottfredson, Steve Schaubert Collins Business, 2008 The Breakthrough Imperative The Breakthrough Imperative is one of the best business books I have read in the past 10 years. After reading the book I required all my Senior Management Team to read the book and write me a simple two page report. Page One - what did you learn, Page two - how are you going to apply those learning to drive the business forward? Since the reading assignment I follow up with my Executives ...             The Secret Code of Success: 7 Hidden Steps to More Wealth and Happiness33 reviews Noah St. John Collins Business, 2009 The secret Code of Success I found the book to be easy reading, very practical and most beneficial for my needs.             The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (Collins Business Essentials)23 reviews David Packard Collins Business, 2006 A must read classic because of the importance of HP to world business This is a wonderful business classic that should be read and studied by everyone interested in business. David Packard and Bill Hewlett created one of the great American companies and that alone is worth knowing. That it is one of the great foundations of Silicon Valley is another reason that you need to know this story. However, as far as I am concerned, the most important reason to know this ...             Monday Morning Choices: 12 Powerful Ways to Go from Everyday to Extraordinary7 reviews David Cottrell Collins Business, 2008 It is my "choice" to pass on David Cottrell's message We all know the importance of making the right choices in life. In this easy to read book, I learned a method for examining my choices that helps insure my personal success. Each of the 12 choices examined in the book cover an important part of everyday life. I was especially impressed with the chapter on "The Do-Something Choice" because of the strong reminder that action typically trumps ...             Think BIG and Kick Ass in Business and Life72 reviews Donald J. Trump, Bill Zanker Collins Business, 2007 The Trumptser Does it Good A book about success, managing and leading ideas has to include The Donald. This is a very well written book - also a quick and easy read - with many stories about the greatness of Mr. Trump. And when he feigns modesty, Bill Zanker, the founder of the Learning Annex, steps up with some great Trump stories. However, Donald has done and accomplished much - he has been at the top only to fall ...             Management Rev Ed4 reviews Peter F. Drucker Collins Business, 2008 Read it TWICE - and then read it again! EVERY entrepreneur and EVERY small business owner should read this book. If you read it "way back when..."--then read it again! If you've never read it, then order it today! Drucker's advice to go out and TALK to customers and non-customers is key, especially in our email-based and Internet communications era. And Drucker's advice to help others by volunteering for nonprofit agencies is critical ...             Best Practices: Difficult People: Working Effectively with Prickly Bosses, Coworkers, and Clients1 review John Hoover Collins Business, 2007 Affirmation Displaces Anger You can't eliminate the difficult people from your life, especially at work. You can render them harmless. Engage your empathic gland. Nobody is difficult for no reason. Once you understand why people do what they do, your ability to neutralize what is bothering you increases exponentially.             The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management48 reviews Peter F. Drucker Collins Business, 2003 The Essentials of Management The genius of Peter Drucker is on display with this particular book; his uncanny ability to express, in simple terms, very complex ideas makes his writings so engaging and compelling. The messages are clear and are founded in his personal brand of common sense. You don't have to be working in a "management" capacity with an organization to benefit from his words of wisdom; it's certainly ...             The Elements of Persuasion: Use Storytelling to Pitch Better, Sell Faster & Win More Business24 reviews Richard Maxwell, Robert Dickman Collins Business, 2007 The Case for Storytelling as a Business-Critical Skill Most of us would probably not identify storytelling as a business critical skill, and it is not likely to be found in the curriculum of business schools. But the authors are serious business consultants and have worked with some top-notch companies. Moreover, they don't just talk about storytelling, they practice what they preach. The book is filled with engaging, powerful stories about the ...             Deflation: What Happens When Prices Fall11 reviews Chris Farrell Collins Business, 2005 Educational information When the financial experts talk about the threat of inflation, we all understand what it means: prices are going to rise. But few of us really understand what deflation is and what consequences it brings to our economy. The author says that when prices begin to fall, people stop buying non-essential items. Even though we are not experiencing deflation now, it is evident that people do not want to ...             The Complete TurtleTrader: The Legend, the Lessons, the Results100 reviews Michael W. Covel Collins Business, 2007 Best Case Made for Mechanical Trading If you learned of an opportunity to trade a million dollars of a great trader's money, with the condition that you were going to be trained by that great trader, and you were instructed to follow his trading system, would you succeed? In "The Complete Turtle Trader," Michael Covel tells the complete story of a group of traders, who did just that - "The Turtles." The experiment started as a ...             Winning206 reviews Jack Welch, Suzy Welch Collins Business, 2010 The best book on interpersonal relationships within an organization After completing the first few chapters of the book I've got a feeling that mr. Welch is not good teacher, i.e. he cannot lay out the practices that helped him to succeed in GE. But after finishing this book I've changed my mind. Since that, I became sure that it is the best book on interpersonal relationships within an organization, ever written in English. I am familiar with his previous ...             Executricks: Or How to Retire While You're Still Working8 reviews Stanley Bing Collins Business, 2008 Don't listen to the naysayers! I actually am in management and can tell you that Bing hits the nail on the head. In a very entertaining way, he gives great career advice. In fact, some of it helped me understand better the shannigans in my office. This isn't going to be interesting or helpful to someone who isn't in the corporate world at the level of middle management or above.              search for books accountability, breakthrough, companies, competition, coworkers, definitive, deflation, difficult, effectively, essential, essentials, executricks, extraordinary, happiness, imperative, intelligent, investing, management, millionaire, outstanding, persuasion, practical, practices, resistance, storytelling, strategies, successful, threshold, transparent, turtletrader books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God we recommend Pretty Good Game, I didn't want to stop. home  impressum - about us