Biographies & Primers Books


Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic who Turned a Bright Idea Into One of America's Best CompaniesCopy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic who Turned a Bright Idea Into One of America's Best Companies
Best Price: $0.49
BUT... "...you can't take care of your customers unless you take care of your...
Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great BusinessHarvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business
Best Price: $3.93
With the passing of Robert Mondavi I felt compelled to learn more about the man who has done...
Call Me TedCall Me Ted
Best Price: $19.80
"Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise!" These words of...
The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean ProductionThe Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production
Best Price: $16.19
Lean production (now frequently called Lean manufacturing) has melded into several industries...
The Wow Factor: How I Turned One Idea and My Unbridled Enthusiasm Into a Golf RevolutionThe Wow Factor: How I Turned One Idea and My Unbridled Enthusiasm Into a Golf Revolution
Best Price: $12.47
"The WOW Factor" is a well-designed business book that tells the story of how Barney...


Citizen Hughes : The Power, the Money and the MadnessCitizen Hughes : The Power, the Money and the Madness
Best Price: $4.99
In his blacked-out Desert Inn Las Vegas suite, with only Mormon aides under the strictest of...
Unlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet StoryUnlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet Story
Best Price: $5.00
I recommend this book to all fans of the Lonely Planet travel guides. I love how the travel...
The New Financial Capitalists: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the Creation of Corporate ValueThe New Financial Capitalists: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the Creation of Corporate Value
Best Price: $18.99
If you're relatively new to the subject and want a good primer/introduction to LBOs, as well as...
Cracking the Corporate Code: The Revealing Success Stories of 32 African-American ExecutivesCracking the Corporate Code: The Revealing Success Stories of 32 African-American Executives
Best Price: $8.70
Over 250 Black men and women have risen to senior positions in major corporations. Along their...
Tupperware Unsealed: Brownie Wise, Earl Tupper, and the Home Party PioneersTupperware Unsealed: Brownie Wise, Earl Tupper, and the Home Party Pioneers
Best Price: $18.40
Our family is one of the original Tupperware pioneers mentioned in this book. I was very...


Appetite for Profit: How the food industry undermines our health and how to fight backAppetite for Profit: How the food industry undermines our health and how to fight back
Best Price: $4.24
This book is amazing if you are interested in food and health and want to know everything about...
Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?: How Reginald Lewis Created a Billion-Dollar Business EmpireWhy Should White Guys Have All the Fun?: How Reginald Lewis Created a Billion-Dollar Business Empire
Best Price: $11.77
Have you ever read a book that you had to struggle to get through, yet you were still glad you...
Damn Right! Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie MungerDamn Right! Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger
Best Price: $29.18
This was a great read. Author Janet Lowe did a fine job explaining how Charlie Munger became a...
The Chasm Companion: Implementing Effective Marketing Strategies for High-Technology CompaniesThe Chasm Companion: Implementing Effective Marketing Strategies for High-Technology Companies
Best Price: $6.11
The Chasm Companion is written in a more academic style than the books written by Geoffrey...
Studebaker: America's Most Successful Independent AutomakerStudebaker: America's Most Successful Independent Automaker
Best Price: $25.63
This is a super book for the Studebaker fan! Looking forward to the reaction of the person I'm...

Baruch: My Own StoryBaruch: My Own Story
Best Price: $22.40
You may not agree with many of his philosophies on life, markets or politics. Like Soros, he...
The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and GreedThe House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed
Best Price: $7.24
I absolutely loved this book. I only wish I had been more cognizant of the events as they were...
How Did You Do It, Truett?How Did You Do It, Truett?
Best Price: $5.34
Wonderful book about a wonderful man and company! Very practical and understanding, anyone in...
"This business has legs": How I Used Infomercial Marketing to Create the$100,000,000 ThighMaster Craze"This business has legs": How I Used Infomercial Marketing to Create the$100,000,000 ThighMaster Craze
Best Price: $22.14
I found this a fascinating look inside the world of marketing and infomercials, as well as a...
The America We DeserveThe America We Deserve
Best Price: $10.00
One the regular of trump. No doubt an excellent reading. His reviews on the present american...

Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food RevolutionAlice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution
Best Price: $6.95
I just finished the book and although I was engaged in the story the first half of the book, the...
Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public, 6)Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public, 6)
Best Price: $19.72
"Lawsuits... against some of the largest chemical and petrochemical companies in the world...
Tearing Down the Walls: How Sandy Weill Fought His Way to the Top of the Financial World. . .and Then Nearly Lost It All (Wall Street Journal Book)Tearing Down the Walls: How Sandy Weill Fought His Way to the Top of the Financial World. . .and Then Nearly Lost It All (Wall Street Journal Book)
Best Price: $3.78
I read this book to get some insight into Sandy's right hand man Jammie Diamond who was about to...
Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial RevolutionsCreating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions
Best Price: $31.00
In writing my book: "The day when politician will debate about our genes, Understanding the...
Jack Welch & The G.E. Way: Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEOJack Welch & The G.E. Way: Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEO
Best Price: $2.00
I bought this book before reading Jack's "Straight from the Gut". When I read this...

Startup: A Silicon Valley AdventureStartup: A Silicon Valley Adventure
Best Price: $3.84
More than twenty years have passed since GO Corporation was founded (1987), but the lessons...
Blood Diamonds: Tracing The Deadly Path Of The World's Most Precious StonesBlood Diamonds: Tracing The Deadly Path Of The World's Most Precious Stones
Best Price: $4.99
Yes this is the book that the recent movie was based on. No I have not seen the movie. The...
Wild Ride: The Rise and Fall of Calumet Farm Inc., America's Premier Racing DynastyWild Ride: The Rise and Fall of Calumet Farm Inc., America's Premier Racing Dynasty
Best Price: $2.00
A fantastic book that provides thrills and suspense from cover to cover. The book details the...
Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of FinanceFischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance
Best Price: $15.99
Revolutions spring from unlikely sources. Fischer Black was an unlikely revolutionary. He...
Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States: A Reader (Philanthropic Studies)Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States: A Reader (Philanthropic Studies)
Best Price: $17.95
For civic activists, students of nonprofitdom, and practitioners, David Hammack's reader is an...

One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic OrganizationOne from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
Best Price: $10.99
If, lets imagine, the library of Management Literature would be destoyed tomorrow, there's three...
Chris-Craft BoatsChris-Craft Boats
Best Price: $24.39
A well written and informative book on the early years of Chris Craft through the sale of the...
Hotel: An American HistoryHotel: An American History
Best Price: $14.90
While this comprehensive history of the American hotel surely will become required reading for...
Direct from Dell: Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry (Collins Business Essentials)Direct from Dell: Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry (Collins Business Essentials)
Best Price: $4.03
This book gives an excellent overview of Dell's strategy up until Rollins became CEO....
Trump: Think Like a Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and LifeTrump: Think Like a Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life
Best Price: $1.50
If your looking for a book about a guy that's full of himself, this is it. If your looking for...

How I Retired at 26! A Step-by-Step Guide to Accessing Your Freedom and Wealth at Any AgeHow I Retired at 26! A Step-by-Step Guide to Accessing Your Freedom and Wealth at Any Age
Best Price: $10.75
"How I retired at 26" was certainly a book that recapped numerous success principles...
The Education of an Accidental CEO: Lessons Learned from the Trailer Park to the Corner OfficeThe Education of an Accidental CEO: Lessons Learned from the Trailer Park to the Corner Office
Best Price: $12.49
The priniciple problem with this book is that it reads more as an autobiography on the life and...
The Houses That Sears BuiltThe Houses That Sears Built
Best Price: $19.94
We moved in our present home 10 years ago. We begin searching for our home some knowledge...
AMERICAN DREAMERS: The Wallaces and The Reader's Digest: An Insider's StoryAMERICAN DREAMERS: The Wallaces and The Reader's Digest: An Insider's Story
Best Price: $46.95
Peter Canning succinctly tells the history of The Reader's Digest, from its humble beginnings to...
OrganizationsOrganizations
Best Price: $32.21
This book has become a classic in management science, or more specifically with the branch of...

Make It Plain: A Life of SpeakingMake It Plain: A Life of Speaking
Best Price: $17.16
Black Americans have always relied on the oral tradition—storytelling, preaching, and...
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our CultureThe Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
Best Price: $2.58
It's a great overiview of the search industry and its brief but intense history. However,...
Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the BeatlesHere, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles
Best Price: $6.87
I have read many Beatles books (from the massive BEATLES ANTHOLOGY to less ambitious works, to...
Big Brown: The Untold Story of UPSBig Brown: The Untold Story of UPS
Best Price: $13.84
My dad worked for UPS his whole life and loved the company. When he passed away I bought...
Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial RadioRight of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio
Best Price: $11.70
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Minding the Store: A MemoirMinding the Store: A Memoir
Best Price: $6.89
I guess it was my Business degree & marketing background I brought to the Architecture...
The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (Collins Business Essentials)The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (Collins Business Essentials)
Best Price: $5.99
Heard the recorded version of THE HP WAY: HOW BILL HEWLETT AND I BUILT OUR COMPANY by David...
How Toyota Became #1: Leadership Lessons from the World's Greatest Car CompanyHow Toyota Became #1: Leadership Lessons from the World's Greatest Car Company
Best Price: $2.22
The subtitle of this book, "Leadership Lessons from the World's Greatest Car Company",...
The Age of Oil: What They Don't Want You to Know About the World's Most Controversial ResourceThe Age of Oil: What They Don't Want You to Know About the World's Most Controversial Resource
Best Price: $10.41
The Prize is still the classic book on the history of the Oil industry, but Yergin's masterpiece...
DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC: The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment CorporationDEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC: The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation
Best Price: $13.70
If you did a global replace of "Packard" for "Olsen" and "H-P" for...

How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone ElseHow Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
Best Price: $10.40
Now in paperback, the national bestselling riches-to-rags true story of an advertising executive...
Leadership is an ArtLeadership is an Art
Best Price: $1.10
As CEO Coach, Poet and author of a leadership book that helps leaders learn how to unleash the...
Innovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron's CollapseInnovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron's Collapse
Best Price: $16.50
Although much has already been written about the rise and fall of Enron, four important...
Start Your Own Personal Training Business (Startup)Start Your Own Personal Training Business (Startup)
Best Price: $8.98
I found this book to be a great read. Very well-written, easy to read-nice and to the point. I...
 
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