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The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups By : Daniel Coyle ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : An essential book that unlocks the secrets of highly successful groups and provides readers with a toolkit for building a cohesive, innovative culture, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Talent Code Book Detail : Author : Daniel Coyle Pages : 304 pages Publisher : Bantam Language : ISBN-10 : 0804176981 ISBN-13 : 9780804176989   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting : PC, Android, Apple, Ipad, Iphone, etc. ================*================  

The Qualified Sales Leader: Proven Lessons from a Five Time CRO By : John McMahon ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : The Qualified Sales Leader is written by a five time Chief Revenue Officer in an easy to read conversational and narrative style. The book provides enterprise software sales leaders and their sales reps proven methods to sell more by quantifying business value for the customer and selling major company solutions to C level executives. No tricks, no shortcuts, just simple ways in which sales leaders can help their sales reps sell more software by closing more deals.Almost monthly someone asks me, "When are you going to write a book". When I ask, "Why?", people tell me, "Because no one has written a sales leadership book with practical, solutions to real life issues in enterprise SaaS sales forces", Why:62% of sales reps fail, not because they couldn't sell but because they were assigned the wrong acc...

The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups By : Daniel Coyle ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : What do Pixar, Google and the San Antonio Spurs basketball team have in common?The answer is that they all owe their extraordinary success to their team-building skills. In The Culture Code, Daniel Coyle, New York Times bestselling author of The Talent Code, goes inside some of the most effective organisations in the world and reveals their secrets. He not only explains what makes such groups tick, but also identifies the key factors that can generate team cohesion in any walk of life. He examines the verbal and physical cues that bring people together. He determines specific strategies that encourage collaboration and build trust. And he offers cautionary tales of toxic cultures and advises how to reform them, above all demonstrating the extraordinary achievements that result when we know how to cooperate effectively.Combining cutting-ed...

The Journey to Improved Business Performance By : Stephen J. Thomas ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Written in a way that readers can quickly apply the knowledge gained. Features all of the concepts taught in the author's first two books-Successfully Managing Change in Organizations and Improving Maintenance & Reliability Through Cultural Change. Book Detail : Author : Stephen J. Thomas Pages : 285 pages Publisher : Industrial Press Language : ISBN-10 : 0831133635 ISBN-13 : 9780831133634   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting : PC, Android, Apple, Ipad, Iphone, etc. ================*================  

Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating And Profiting from Technology By : Henry Chesbrough ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : The information revolution has made for a radically more fluid knowledge environment, and the growth of venture capital has created inexorable pressure towards fast commercialisation of existing technologies Companies that don't use the technologies they develop are likely to lose them. Key features Over the past several years, Hank Chesbrough has done excellent research and writing on the commercialisation of technology and the changing role and context for R&D. This book represents a powerful synthesis of that work in the form of a new paradigm for managing corporate research and bringing new technologies to market Chesbrough impressively articulates his ideas and how they connect to each other, weaving several disparate areas of work R&D, corporate venturing, spinoffs, licensing and intellectual pro...

Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching, and Keeping the Best People By : Bradford D. Smart ↑↑ READ BOOK NOW ↑↑   ↑↑ Download BOOK NOW ↑↑   Book Synopsis : "BRAD HELPED US DEVELOP THE TOOLS TO PICK A-PLAYER LEADERS AT GE." --JACK WELCH Great companies, large and small, rise or fall because of their talent; the more high performers on your team, the more successful your organization will be. Of course, that's easier said than done. Research shows that only about 25% of all new hires turn out to be high performers. But companies that have used Brad Smart's Topgrading system over the past two decades have boosted their hiring success rates dramatically--sometimes even to 90%. Three huge problems account for the typical poor results in hiring: dishonesty (via deceptive resumes), incomplete information (via shallow interviews), and lack of verifiability (via biased references). "Topgrading "shows how to solve all three problems. Instead of hir-...

Broken Windows, Broken Business By : Michael Levine ↑↑ READ BOOK NOW ↑↑   ↑↑ Download BOOK NOW ↑↑   Book Synopsis : Once every few years a book comes along with an insight so penetrating, so powerful - and so simply, demonstrably true -that it instantly changes the way we think and do business. Such a book is Broken Windows, Broken Business, a breakthrough in management theory that can alter the destiny of countless companies striving to stay ahead of their competition. "In this vital work, author Michael Levine offers compelling evidence that problems in business, large and small, typically stem from inattention to tiny details. Social psychologists and criminologists agree that if a window in a building is broken and left unrepaired, soon thereafter the rest of the windows will be broken - and the perception will build that crime in that neighborhood is out of control. The same principle applies to business." "Drawing on real-world corporate examples, from JetBlue'...

HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically (HBR Guide Series) By : Harvard Business Review ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Bring strategy into your daily work. As a manager, it's your responsibility to ensure that your work--and the work of your team--aligns with the overarching objectives of your organization. But when you're faced with competing projects and limited time, it's difficult to keep strategy front-of-mind. How do you think about the long term when the short term demands your attention? You need to change the way you think. The "HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically" provides practical tips and advice to help you see the big picture, so you can take that perspective into account in every aspect of your daily work--from making decisions to setting team priorities to attacking your own to-do list. You'll learn how to: Understand your organization's strategy; Align your team with key objectives; Set and execute st...

Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense Approach to a Continuous Improvement Strategy By : Masaaki Imai ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.The definitive, fully up-to-date guide to continuous improvement in the workplaceAn updated version of a classic book that shares a wealth of new healthcare examples and case studies from around the world. The methods in this book will help you improve quality and safety, reduce waiting times, and improve the long-term financial position of your organization. Highly recommended! --Mark Graban, author of Lean Hospitals and coauthor of Healthcare KaizenEvery business faces the iron triangle of quality, cost, and delivery. Conventional thinking claims you cannot have all three. Not only does Mr. Imai turn that thinking on its head, but h...

Countering Cyber Sabotage: Introducing Consequence-Driven, Cyber-Informed Engineering (CCE) By : Andrew A Bochman ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Countering Cyber Sabotage: Introducing Consequence-Driven, Cyber-Informed Engineering (CCE) introduces a new methodology to help critical infrastructure owners, operators and their security practitioners make demonstrable improvements in securing their most important functions and processes.Current best practice approaches to cyber defense struggle to stop targeted attackers from creating potentially catastrophic results. From a national security perspective, it is not just the damage to the military, the economy, or essential critical infrastructure companies that is a concern. It is the cumulative, downstream effects from potential regional blackouts, military mission kills, transportation stoppages, water delivery or treatment issues, and so on. CCE is a validation that engineering first principles...

Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry By : Jason Schreier ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : From the bestselling author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the next definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the video game industry: how some of the past decade's most renowned studios fell apart -- and the stories, both triumphant and tragic, of what happened next. Jason Schreier's groundbreaking reporting has earned him a place among the preeminent investigative journalists covering the world of video games. In his eagerly anticipated, deeply researched new book, Schreier trains his investigative eye on the volatility of the video game industry and the resilience of the people who work in it. The business of videogames is both a prestige industry and an opaque one. Based on dozens of first-hand interviews that cover the development of landmark games -- Bioshock Infinite, Epic Mickey, Dead Space, and more -- on to the s...

Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of "The View" By : Ramin Setoodeh ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Like Fire & Fury, the gossipy real-life soap opera behind a serious show. When Barbara Walters launched The View, network executives told her that hosting it would tarnish her reputation. Instead, within ten years, she?d revolutionized morning TV and made household names of her co-hosts: Joy Behar, Star Jones, Meredith Vieira and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. But the daily chatfest didn?t just comment on the news. It became the news. And the headlines barely scratched the surface.Based on stunning interviews with nearly every host and unprecedented access, award-winning journalist Ramin Setoodeh takes you backstage where the stars really spoke their minds. Here's the full story of how Star, then Rosie, then Whoopi tried to take over the show, while Barbara struggled to maintain control of it all, a modern-day Lear with he...

Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood By : William J. Mann ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true account of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern film industry.By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime and one of the nation's largest industries. Never before had a medium possessed such power to influence; yet Hollywood's glittering ascendancy was threatened by a string of headline-grabbing tragedies - including the murder of William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a legendary crime that has remained unsolved until now.In a fiendishly involving narrative, best-selling Hollywood chronicler William J. Mann draws on a rich host of sources, including re...

Playmakers: How the NFL Really Works (And Doesn't) By : Mike Florio ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : The story of a modern NFL that can?t get out of its own way?and can?t stop making moneyFor almost twenty years now, the NFL has been simultaneously an athletic, financial, and cultural powerhouse?and a league that can?t seem to go more than a few weeks without stumbling into a scandal. Whether it?s about domestic violence, performance-enhancing drugs, racism, or head trauma, the NFL always seems to be in some kind of trouble. Yet no matter the drama, the TV networks keep showing games, the revenue keeps going up, and the viewers keep tuning in.How can a sports league?or any organization?operate this way? Why do the negative stories keep happening, and why don?t they ever seem to affect the bottom line? In this wide-ranging book, Mike Florio takes readers from the boardroom to the locker room, from draft day to Super Bowl night, answering thes...

The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports By : Joshua Robinson ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : The Club is the?inside story of how English soccer?s Premier League became the wildest, richest, most popular sports product on the planet, "a narrative that is part Great Expectations, part Game of Thrones, in equal measure." (Roger Bennett, NBC Sports, Men in Blazers) ? This is a sports and business tale of how money, ambition, and twenty-five years of drama remade an ancient institution into a twenty-first-century entertainment empire. No one knew it when their experiment began, but without any particular genius or acumen, the motley cast of billionaires and hucksters behind the modern Premier League struck gold. Pretty soon, everyone wanted to try their luck, from Russian oligarchs to Emirati sheikhs, American tycoons, and Asian Tiger titans. Some succeeded beyond their wildest...

The Economics of Poverty: History, Measurement, and Policy By : Martin Ravallion ↑↑ READ BOOK NOW ↑↑   ↑↑ Download BOOK NOW ↑↑   Book Synopsis : There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities in access to key resources threaten to stall growth and poverty reduction in many places. The world'spoorest have made only a small absolute gain over those 30 years. Progress has been slow against relative poverty as judged by the standards of the country and time one lives in, and a great many people in the world's emerging middle class remain vulnerable to falling back into poverty.The Economics of Poverty reviews critically past and present debates on poverty, spanning both rich and poor countries. The book provides an accessible new synthesis of current economic thinking on key questions: How is poverty measured? How much poverty is there? Why doe...

The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher By : Harry K. Wong ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : The best-selling book ever on classroom management and teaching for student achievement with over 4 million copies sold. The book walks a teacher, either novice or veteran, through structuring and organizing a classroom for success that can be applied at any time of the year at any grade level, pre-K through college.Includes DVD "You Have Changed My Life" Book Detail : Author : Harry K. Wong Pages : 331 pages Publisher : Harry K. Wong Publications Language : eng ISBN-10 : 0976423383 ISBN-13 : 9780976423386   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting : PC, Android, Apple, Ipad, Iphone, etc. ================*================  

Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love By : Marty Cagan ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : The basic premise of Inspired is that the best tech companies create products in a manner very different from how most companies create products. The goal of the book is to share the techniques of the best companies. This book is aimed primarily at Product Managers working on technology-powered products. That includes the hundreds of "tech companies" like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter and the like, as well as the thousands of companies moving to leverage technology (financial companies, media companies, retailers, manufacturers, nearly every industry). Inspired covers companies from early stage start-ups to large, established companies. The products might be consumer products or devices, business services for small businesses to enterprises, internal tools, and developer platforms.Inspired is secondarily aimed at the designers, en...

Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love By : Marty Cagan ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : The basic premise of Inspired is that the best tech companies create products in a manner very different from how most companies create products. The goal of the book is to share the techniques of the best companies. This book is aimed primarily at Product Managers working on technology-powered products. That includes the hundreds of "tech companies" like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter and the like, as well as the thousands of companies moving to leverage technology (financial companies, media companies, retailers, manufacturers, nearly every industry). Inspired covers companies from early stage start-ups to large, established companies. The products might be consumer products or devices, business services for small businesses to enterprises, internal tools, and developer platforms.Inspired is secondarily aimed at the designers, en...

How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines By : Thomas C. Foster ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : While many books can be enjoyed for their basic stories, there are often deeper literary meanings interwoven in these texts. How to Read Literature Like a Professor helps us to discover those hidden truths by looking at literature with the eyes?and the literary codes?of the ultimate professional reader: the college professor.What does it mean when a literary hero travels along a dusty road? When he hands a drink to his companion? When he's drenched in a sudden rain shower? Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices, and form, Thomas C. Foster provides us with a broad overview of literature?a world where a road leads to a quest, a shared meal may signify a communion, and rain, whether cleansing or destructive, is never just a shower?and shows us how to make our readin...

One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America By : Kevin M. Kruse ↑↑ READ BOOK NOW ↑↑   ↑↑ Download BOOK NOW ↑↑   Book Synopsis : Conventional wisdom holds that America has been a Christian nation since the Founding Fathers. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse argues that the idea of ?Christian America? is nothing more than a myth?and a relatively recent one at that.The assumption that America was, is, and always will be a Christian nation dates back no further than the 1930s, when a coalition of businessmen and religious leaders united in opposition to the FDR?s New Deal. With the full support of Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s, these activists?the forerunners of the Religious Right?propelled religion into the public sphere. Church membership skyrocketed; Congress added the phrase ?under God? to the Pledge of Allegiance and made ?In God We Trust? the country?s official motto. For the first time, America became a thoroughly religious nation. Pr...

Katrina: After the Flood By : Gary Rivlin ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Ten years in the making, Gary Rivlin?s Katrina is ?a gem of a book?well-reported, deftly written, tightly focused?.a starting point for anyone interested in how The City That Care Forgot develops in its second decade of recovery? (St. Louis Post-Dispatch).On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana. A decade later, journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm?s immediate damage, the city of New Orleans?s efforts to rebuild itself, and the storm?s lasting effects not just on the area?s geography and infrastructure?but on the psychic, racial, and social fabric of one of this nation?s great cities. Much of New Orleans still sat under water the first time Gary Rivlin glimpsed the city after Hurricane Katrina as a staff reporter for The New York Times. Four out of every five houses had been flooded. The deluge had drowned almost every power substation ...

The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded By : Richard Florida ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Initially published in 2002, The Rise of the Creative Class was instantly described as a classic work on the forces that were reshaping our economy, our geography, our work, and our whole way of life. Weaving story-telling with original research, Richard Florida traced a fundamental theme through a host of seemingly unrelated changes in American society: the growing role of creativity. Millions of us are beginning to work and live much as creative types like artists and scientists always have. This Creative Class is found in a variety of fields, from engineering to theater, biotech to education, architecture to small business. Their choices have already had a huge economic impact. In the future, they will determine how the workplace is organized, what companies will prosper or go bankrupt, and even which cities will thrive or pro...

The Nature of Economies By : Jane Jacobs ↑↑ READ BOOK NOW ↑↑   ↑↑ Download BOOK NOW ↑↑   Book Synopsis : From the revered author of the classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities comes a new book that will revolutionize the way we think about the economy.Starting from the premise that human beings "exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect," Jane Jacobs has focused her singular eye on the natural world in order to discover the fundamental models for a vibrant economy. The lessons she discloses come from fields as diverse as ecology, evolution, and cell biology. Written in the form of a Platonic dialogue among five fictional characters, The Nature of Economies is as astonishingly accessible and clear as it is irrepressibly brilliant and wise?a groundbreaking yet humane study destined to become another world-altering classic. Book Detail : Author : Jane Jacobs Pages : 208 pages Publisher : Vintage Language : ISBN-10 : 0375702431 ISBN-13 : 978...

Locavesting Paper By : Amy Cortese ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : How individuals and communities can profit from local investing In the wake of the financial crisis, investors are faced with a stark choice: entrust their hard-earned dollars to the Wall Street casino, or settle for anemic interest rates on savings, bonds, and CDs. Meanwhile, small businesses are being starved for the credit and capital they need to grow. There's got to be a better way.In Locavesting: The Revolution in Local Investing and How to Profit from It, Amy Cortese takes us inside the local investing movement, where solutions to some of the nation's most pressing problems are taking shape. The idea is that, by investing in local businesses, rather than faceless conglomerates, investors can earn profits while building healthy, self-reliant communities.Introduces you to the ideas and pioneers behind the local investing movement Profiles the people and communities ...

Farmland Preservation, 2nd Edition: Land for Future Generations By : Wayne Caldwell ==>> READ BOOK NOW   ==>> DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Farmland is an essential resource, meeting one of the most basic of human needs: food. As land is lost to urban sprawl and other non-farm activity, our ability to produce food is diminished and options for future food production are limited. The fourteen essays in the second edition of Farmland Preservation provide a diversity of views and case studies and speak to the need to preserve the agricultural land base. ? Book Detail : Author : Wayne Caldwell Pages : 224 pages Publisher : University of Manitoba Press Language : ISBN-10 : 0887558208 ISBN-13 : 9780887558207   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting : PC, Android, Apple, Ipad, Iphone, etc. ================*================