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How to Turn Ideas Into Money

by Phil Baker

Renowned product developer Phil Baker explains how a great idea accounts for only 5 percent of all the factors of success and why the majority of success is dependent upon a myriad of other factors, including the time it takes to get to market, price, marketing and distribution. This book not only shows readers how to take an idea and turn it into a successful product, but also prepares them for what happens after the product’s introduction. It shows them how to stay one step ahead of ...

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Tactical Transparency

How Leaders Can Leverage Social Media to Maximize Value and Build Their Brand

by John C. Havens, Shel Holtz

Tactical Transparency provides a methodology that will help organizations create their own unique plans to bring greater authenticity to their companies and brands. The authors show how organizations can evaluate their readiness for transparency, what they need to do to get ready, and how to effectively communicate their transparency strategy to customers and employees.

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Talent Is Overrated

What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else

by Geoff Colvin

What’s the real solution to the mystery of high performance? According to distinguished journalist Geoff Colvin, what really makes all the difference is a highly specific kind of effort, what he calls “deliberate practice.” It’s difficult. It hurts. But more of it equals better performance. Tons of it equals great performance.

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Leading Change

by James O'Toole

James O'Toole shows that leadership based on integrity, honesty, and respect is the only way to gain the commitment and loyalty of your people and effect change. This is must reading for change agents.

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What Losing Taught Me About Winning

by Fran Tarkenton

Go into a huddle with this football star turned entrepreneur. Learn to produce a profitable home-based business.

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Trust in the Balance

Building Successful Organizations on Results, Integrity, and Concern

by Robert Bruce Shaw

Trust is what makes relationships work. Here's the way to design and operate an organization having high trust. Top leadership backing is essential.

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The World on Time

The 11 Management Principles That Made Fedex an Overnight Sensation

by James Wetherbe

It took FedEx only twenty-three years to grow from inception to worldwide leader in overnight delivery. The key to its remarkable success lies in its eleven guiding principles.

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TeamThink

72 Ways to Make Good, Smart, Quick Decision in Any Meeting

by Ava Butler

Do your meetings produce results or waste time? These seventy-two techniques for planning, conducting, and evaluating meetings will get results.

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Beyond Reengineering

How the Process-Centered Organization Is Changing Our Work and Our Lives

by Michael Hammer

Reengineered corporations focus on processes rather than individuals. Hammer looks at the effect these processes have on corporations, their work forces, and society.

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