books by Doubleday Business     books:       The Heart Aroused : Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America20 reviews David Whyte Doubleday Business, 1996 The Heart Aroused David Whyte writes in a truly inspiring way. When I worked at the Monterey Bay Aquarium many of us read this book as we struggled to grow better as an organization. This book was the catalyst to many personal "AH HA!" moments. Not just for me, but for many of my colleagues as well. From there I found myself in love with poetry again too. David's poetry is powerful and meaningful. The heart ...             Startup Nation: America's Leading Entrepreneurial Experts Reveal the Secrets to Building a Block buster ...21 reviews Doubleday Business, 2007 Startup Nation I am starting a small business and have read many of the books on the market for my startup. This by far has been the most helpful. The book is clear and concise on the basics you need to start a business. The Sloan brothers have a great sense of humor and their writing is enjoyable on a subject that at times can be a little dry. Their section on writing a life plan is something I have not read ...             The Pampered Chef: The Story of One of America's Most Beloved Companies41 reviews Doris Christopher Doubleday Business, 2005 Insights on how the company expanded and handled its challenges In 1980 author Doris Christopher, former home economist and teacher, wanted to return to the workforce after raising her children: she began selling high-quality kitchen tools through cooking demonstrations and began her company, The Pampered Chef, from her basement. Twenty-five years later it's a corporation specializing in kitchen shows - and The Pampered Chef: The Story Of One Of America's ...             The Great Game of Business23 reviews Jack Stack, Bo Burlingham Doubleday Business, 1994 This Is A Must On Your Bookshelf! I was recommended to read this from a good friend and mentor. I fell in love with the concepts and even hired them to implement the things inside this book! If you are in business and want to take it to another level. I could not tell you a better book to read then this! Matt Bacak Author of Secrets of the Internet Millionaire Mind and The Ultimate Lead Generation Plan             The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook19 reviews Peter M. Senge, Art Kleiner, ... Doubleday Business, 1994 The Fifth Discipline This book is a collection of theoretical summaries, reports, analyses, and strategies all quite useful to anyone interested in generating some thinking and action around change. The team of five writers (Peter Senge, Richard Ross, Bryan Smith, Charlotte Roberts, and Art Kleiner) provide some original work, but also serve as editors to a vast quantity of material drawn from practitioners, ...             The Art of Worldly Wisdom29 reviews Baltasar Gracian Doubleday Business, 1992 Valuable insights This compact volume is a compilation of realistic and ethical insights about the foibles of human relations. Just reading a few entries at a sitting offers thoughtful and encouraging tools in our dealings with one another.             Warfighting22 reviews U. S. Marine Corps Staff Doubleday Business, 1995 Absolutely Brilliant, Simple and Profound This is the best book that I've ever read regarding military doctrine-- it elegantly sums up the most relevant points of Clausewitz and Boyd's OODA Loop to come to sound military principle in less than 100 pages. It also includes a number of references to the Eastern military philosophy (think Art of War and the Book of Five Rings, both required reading for the Japanese businessman) and ties them ...             The Art of Influence: Persuading Others Begins With You22 reviews Doubleday Business, 2008 A parable where you really care about the characters Read THE ART OF INFLUENCE by Chris Widener . . . it is a short but powerful parable about a recent college graduate who learns valuable lessons from one of the country's wealthiest men. What made it so good was the fact that I really cared about the characters . . . they were believable, and their stories were interesting too. I also liked how the author revealed each of the four key ...             House Lust: America's Obsession With Our Homes15 reviews Daniel McGinn Doubleday Business, 2008 A Revealing Look at Americans and How We feel About Our Homes Daniel McGinn delivers an exceptionally well researched book that is both informative and enjoyable to read. His training as a journalist is significant, as he provides a plethora of facts, stories, and fascinating information. In the introduction, he states his case about why so many Americans have house lust: 1. The High-five Effect: "From 2001-2006 the average U.S. home rose in value by ...             Good in a Room14 reviews Doubleday Business, 2008 For everyone - not just sales, not just business We don't often see everyone giving a book 5 stars - this one deserves it. The other reviewers have touched on some of the important points in the book, don't assume that you can extrapolate and get all the benefits just by reading the reviews - read, re-read, and study this book! Although the book is focused on business applications specifically sales and moving up the corporate ladder - its ...             The Republic of Tea: The Story of the Creation of a Business, as Told Through the Personal Letters of Its ...9 reviews Mel Ziegler, Patricia Ziegler Doubleday Business, 1994 My Model for Writing Business Plans Mel & Patricia Zeigler are geniuses at creating raving fan businesses. They were the originators of the greatest store I've ever been in, Banana Republic. They sold it to the Gap and it is NOTHING like it's former self, which was reminescent of an Indiana Jones adventure complete with jungle headquarters and a jeep. This book documents their next venture and details how they developed the ...             A Little Book on Love (Little Books on Big Questions/Jacon Needleman, 1)6 reviews Jacob Needleman Doubleday Business, 1996 Needleman is the Einstein of practical wisdom- this is proof There are plenty of brilliant people in the world today, but if someone speaks of "wise men" we immediately think of ancient history. They seem to have somehow dissappeared after three of them followed the Christmas star. Don't believe it. As long as Jacob Needleman is alive, there are wise men in the world today. Needleman is the Einstein of practical wisdom - this book is ample proof. If ...             Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About ...10 reviews Peter M. Senge, Nelda H. Cambron McCabe, ... Doubleday Business, 2000 A great resource book for educators This is an essential book for anyone interested in education. Its comprehensive coverage gives much background, even at the risk of being distracting when you want to follow-up on the leads to so many interesting source-books and links. Though you are told to dip in anywhere, you must read the first section, esp. "The Industrial Age System of Education" by Senge and "A Primer to the Five ...             Negotiation Boot Camp: How to Resolve Conflict, Satisfy Customers, and Make Better Deals12 reviews Doubleday Business, 2006 Ethical and well written I liked this book a lot. Most negotiating books are either so complicated that you'd have to be an ambassador to understand them or so aggressive in their tactics that you wouldn't want to use them. This book is a perfect balance of ethical methods that will make you a winner. Ed Brodow is a competitor of mine on the negotiating lecture circuit and he has done an excellent job of distilling his ...             Fifth Discipline10 reviews Peter M. Senge Doubleday Business, 1995 Groundbreaking book The Fifth Discipline is a seminal book by the famous author Peter M. Senge. The book teaches the concept of the learning organization namely that the successful organization must continually adapt and learn in order to respond to changes in the environment effectively and therefore to grow and prosper. I have read the book a number of times and keep on referring to it as is filled with a lot ...             Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go Beyond Making a Profit to Making a ...8 reviews Tim Sanders Doubleday Business, 2008 The Power of One So many of the "social responsibility" and "go green" books make it hard to see how the average guy on the street could possibly make a difference. In "Saving the World at Work" Tim brings it on home. One person can make a difference. The last chapter of "Saving the World at Work" is "If Not You, Then Who? -- It took my breath away and is a stark wake-up call to our personal ...             Decision Traps11 reviews J. Edward Russo Doubleday Business, 1989 Practical and Insightful, In a newer version I read this book as part of a class in graduate school, and I found it to be quite practical, not only providing insights into ways that decisions can go wrong, but also steps that can be taken to reduce biases in your decisions due to errors in the process, although some of the strategies can only be effectively implemented at the organizational level. I consulted this book because it was ...             The Art of Follow Through: The Indispensible Guide to Making Sure That Everyone in Your Company Executes ...10 reviews Laurence Haughton Doubleday Business, 2006 Getting it done Great customer service is based on emapthy but how do you teach empahty to service workers? Haughton's chapter of Reading Between the Lines does it. It's the best, most practical, business-centered writing I've seen teaching empathy as part of customer servise. He draws on the example of the Union Square Hospitality Group in New York. But his concepts and examples are easily transferable. In ...             A Stake in the Outcome: Building a Culture of Ownership for the Long-Term Success of Your Business8 reviews Jack Stack, Bo Burlingham Doubleday Business, 2003 A good story, instructive Jack Stack has become well-known in some circles as the poster boy of open book management. He and his colleagues at SRC (Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation) have built a company and set of business practices (Great Game of Business) around the concept of sharing numbers with your employees. Yes, it's more than just sharing numbers, it's empowering the employees to be true team members, ...             Make the Impossible Possible: One Man's Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the ...9 reviews Bill Strickland Doubleday Business, 2007 Passion, Potentials, and Orchid Dreams If you have found yourself far enough down a path of curiosity to be reading a review of this book, waste no more time, and buy it or borrow it now. Bill Strickland is an artist extraordinaire, and his medium is life. Yes, Frank Ross, a high school ceramics teacher, turned a desperate street kid into an inspired and aspiring student by introducing him to pottery, which gave him direction and a ...              search for books companies, conflict, corporate, customers, decision, difference, discipline, education, educators, entrepreneurial, executes, extraordinary, fieldbook, founders, impossible, indispensible, individuals, influence, long-term, needleman, negotiation, obsession, ownership, personal, persuading, preservation, questions, republic, successfully, warfighting books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen kitchen: Curvy Tuscan Wrought Iron Wine Rack Tower home  impressum - about us