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Good to Greatby Jim Collins
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 14.99The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research... more...
Business the Bill Gates Wayby Des Dearlove
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 1999; US$ 8.25Bill Gates is the richest man in the world. His company, Microsoft, which he has headed since he was 20, is the world's biggest company. Worth something in the region of $50 billion, his wealth is beyond the comprehension of most people. For this he attracts both our envy and our curiosity. more...
Ultimate Book of Business Brandsby Stuart Crainer; Des Dearlove
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2003; US$ 29.95The Ultimate Book of Business Brands contains a unique summary of the breakthrough brands that have captured the hearts and minds of people throughout the world. The Ultimate Book of Business Brands shows how apparently ordinary products and services are transformed into business legends. Brands have become one of the most powerful competitive weapons in the business arsenal, and this book will give you the inside track on just how these winning brands have been created and sustained. more...
Apple Confidential 2.0by Owen W. Linzmayer
No Starch Press 2004; US$ 12.95The second edition of this bestseller examines the tumultuous history of America?s best-known Silicon Valley start-up, from its legendary founding almost 30 years ago, through a series of disastrous executive decisions, to its return to profitability, including Apple?s recent move into the music business. This updated and expanded edition is full of juicy quotes, timelines, charts, and photos. more...
The Master Switchby Tim Wu
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 13.99In this age of an open Internet, it is easy to forget that every American information industry, beginning with the telephone, has eventually been taken captive by some ruthless monopoly or cartel. With all our media now traveling a single network, an unprecedented potential is building for centralized control over what Americans see and hear. Could history repeat itself with the next industrial consolidation? Could the Internet—the entire flow of American information—come to be ruled by one corporate leviathan in possession of “the master switch”? That is the big question of Tim Wu’s pathbreaking book. As Wu’s sweeping history shows, each of the new media of the twentieth century—radio, telephone,... more...
The Idea Factoryby Jon Gertner
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 14.99The definitive history of America’s greatest incubator of innovation, the birthplace of some of the 20th century’s most influential technologies, including the integrated circuit, the communications satellite and the cell phone. From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs—officially, the research and development wing of AT&T—was the biggest, and arguably the best, laboratory for new ideas in the world. From the transistor to the laser, it’s hard to find an aspect of modern life that hasn’t been touched by Bell Labs. Why did so many transformative ideas come from Bell Labs? In The Idea Factory , Jon Gertner traces the origins of some of the twentieth century’s... more...
Nikeby Tracy Carbasho
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 35.00This compelling book provides a comprehensive examination of Nike, utilizing never-before-heard interviews with top sports celebrities and the informed perspectives of marketing gurus to explain why Nike has ruled the sports world for more than four decades. more...
Corporate Man to Corporate Skunkby Stuart Crainer
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2005; US$ 19.99"The first biography of a management phenomenon, Tom Peters - guru, corporate messiah, author and fashion accessory - Corporate Man to Corporate Skunk uncovers the truth behind the hype, the reality behind the Peters mythology. Crainer traces the rise of a one-man industry from Vietnam, McKinsey and the Pentagon to a corporate Billy Graham." "Stuart Crainer gained unique access to Tom Peters, obtaining many hours of revealing interviews. He builds a complete picture by talking to Peters's former associates, his contemporaries, acolytes and opponents." "Corporate Man to Corporate Skunk is a searching account of a management icon which simultaneously demystifies the whole guru industry and explains why managers continue to put such faith and... more...
Business the Rupert Murdoch Wayby Stuart Crainer
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2002; US$ 8.25Rupert Murdoch is probably the most famous businessman in the world. His power and influence are matched only by his profits and ambition. The Washington Post has called him 'the global village's de facto communications minister'. Although viewed by some with deep suspicion and regarded by others with fear and loathing, his global success is beyond compare. His company, News Corporation, has total assets of over $30 billion and annual sales of over $12 billion. The News Corp empire spans 780 businesses in 52 companies including BskyB, News International, the Los Angeles Dodgers, 20th Century Fox and Star TV. more...
The Age of Hereticsby Art Kleiner
Nicholas Brealey Publishing 1988; US$ 18.25The Age of Heretics is a magisterial cultural history of postwar business in which Art Kleiner shows how the corporate mavericks of the 1950s, 60s and 70s pioneered self-managing work teams, responsiveness to customers, grassroots organizing and other ways to imbue corporations with a sense of the value of human relationships. While protesters stormed the streets in the sixties, an equally radical group of 'corporate heretics' was fighting for change within major corporations such as Shell Oil, General Foods, and Proctor & Gamble. more...









