Business

Nine years ago, bestselling author and business consultant Mark Sanborn introduced the world to Fred, his postman, who delivered extraordinary service in simple but remarkable ways. Fred’s story inspired millions. Companies—even, cities—were inspired to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary each day. Today, with stiff competition from the networked global economy, delivering extraordinary results is ...

Risky Is the New Safe is a different kind of book for a different kind of thinking—a thought-provoking manifesto for risk takers. It will challenge you to think laterally, question premises, and be a contrarian. Disruptive technology, accelerating speed of change and economic upheaval are changing the game. The same tired, old conventional thinking won’t ...

Cut the Crap, Get a Job! A New Job Search Process for a New Era is a revolutionary job search book that takes an insightful approach to help everyone from college graduates to senior executives make their next career moves in the 21st century. You’ll learn an effective approach to the latest employment practices and ...

BECOME THE ENVY OF YOUR INDUSTRY WITH A CUSTOMER-CENTRIC CULTURE For the first time, this groundbreaking guide unlocks the secrets used by Amazon, Virgin, Apple, Starbucks, and salesforce.com. It creates a guide for success based on three years of scientific study drawing insights from more than 100 businesses to identify seven key factors. When implemented ...

The bestselling business classic on the power of relationships, updated with in-depth advice for making connections in the digital world. Do you want to get ahead in life? Climb the ladder to personal success? The secret, master networker Keith Ferrazzi claims, is in reaching out to other people. As Ferrazzi discovered in early life, what ...

From the ABC hit show “Shark Tank,” Shark Tank Jump Start Your Business is filled with practical advice on how to start or grow a business. Full of tips for navigating the confusing world of entrepreneurship, the book intersperses words of wisdom with inspirational stories from the show. Throughout the book, readers will learn how ...

Thomas Edison’s innovations contributed a whopping 3% of global GDP at the time of his death in 1931. Edison created six multi-billion dollar industries that still exist today, ranging from document duplication to electrical power generation, recorded sound, the storage battery, and the movies. What many people don’t realize is that his innovations were generated ...

About The Barefoot Spirit It is hard to believe that such an iconic brand as Barefoot Wines began in a laundry room of a rented farmhouse in the Sonoma County hills. Even more surprising is that the people who started it were just an average business couple, Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey, with no money and ...

A new data-driven approach to building customer relationships that fuel sustainable business growth Igniting Customer Connections explores how organizations of all sizes can build powerful and profitable customer relationships in a today’s increasingly complex, fast-paced, and fragmented marketplace. Written by the president of one of the world’s largest marketing firms, the book provides expert insights about ...