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Library of Business Books from G to M

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Business Books A-F G-M N-S T-Z
Economic and Policy Books* A-F G-M N-S T-Z

Good To Great
Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't
By Jim Collins
Co-author of 'Built To Last'
Random House, Inc, London 2001
ISBN: 0066620996
300 pages

Collins and his team explore what goes into a company's transformation from mediocre to excellent. Based on empirical evidence and volumes of data, the team uncovers timeless principles on how the Good to Great companies produced sustained great results and achieved enduring greatness, evolving into companies that were indeed 'Built to Last'.

Gung Ho!
Increase Productivity, Profits, and Your Own Prosperity
By Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles
1998 Harper Collins Business
ISBN 0 00 653068 0
187 pages

From a classic story about a plant called Walton Works #2, here are invaluable management lessons on increasing productivity by fostering high morale. It will work for any type of organization! Based on three core ideas: work must be seen as important, workers must be in control of their own production, and managers must cheer workers on. This is a tried and tested Native American recipe for surefire success. Follow the step-by-step game plan to implementing each idea, and boost your company's profit, energy, enthusiasm and performance!

High Trust Selling
Make more money in less time with less stress
By
Todd Duncan
Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville 2002
ISBN 0 7852 6393 4
252 pages

If you’re serious about the business of selling, if you are tired of living from one sale to the next, and you want to keep clients for life, then read this book and apply these valuable lessons that add value to what you are selling, and to your life. The whole premise is to serve fewer clients a high quality experience and build long-lasting relationships, resulting in more free time to spend with your family and friends, less stress, greater income, and genuine success for you!

How Hits Happen
Forecasting Predictability in a Chaotic Marketplace

By Winslow Farrell
Harper Business 2000
ISBN 0-88-730978-X
252 pages

Winslow Farrell applies the theories of complexity to modern business systems. How Hits Happen explains how media hits like the film “Titanic”, or high-demand phenomena like Tickle-Me-Elmo dolls or Tomagotchi occur, much like predictable natural phenomena as weather. Farrell’s group specializes in building market behavior simulators on computers. PriceWaterhouse Coopers clients come to Farrell and the Emergent Solutions Group, asking for strategic models of their new products and ideas, to scientifically study and test whether their business idea will become the next big thing, or an expensive flop.

How to Become A Rainmaker
The Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients
By Jeffrey J. Fox

ISBN 0 7868 6595 4
Hyperion New York 2000
169 pages

Inspired by Native American tradition, the Rainmaker is one who uses his power to bring rain to nourish crops that feed the tribe. In sales, a rainmaker is the revenue-bringer to a company. She brings the very lifeblood of the organization and makes the cash register ring. Here are the rules to being the Rainmaker, the salesperson that gets and keeps customers.

How To Sell And Manage In Tough Times and Tough Markets
You can thrive, not just survive, in tough times!
By Tom Reilly
Motivation Press, August 2001
ISBN 0-944448-22-4
135 pages

This book offers practical tips and advice on how salespeople and managers can effectively steer their way through times

Tough times happen when you have an extended period of declining economic activity. In business terms, tough times happen when supply is greater than demand, creating the proverbial buyer’s market. It’s a different kind of tough times when demand is greater than supply. It then becomes a “seller’s market.” Though sounding great, it brings with it another set of problems for sales people. It’s tough times when you must work harder, finding it difficult to get ahead. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a full-blown recession: if your company can’t ship products for whatever reason, the times may be rough.

How To Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci
Seven Steps To Genius Everyday
By Michael Gelb
Dell Publishing, 1998 ISBN: 0385323816
322 Pages

Leonardo da Vinci is recognized as one of the greatest geniuses of all time. He excelled in many areas such as the creation of the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and other classic works. Besides art, Leonardo was an architect, mathematician, philosopher, and military planner. Michael Gelb reviews and explains Leonardo’s notebooks, inventions, and works of art. He introduces readers to the Seven da Vincian Principles, essential elements of genius that can be developed. The book is a collection of illustrations, passages and exercises designed to stimulate anyone’s awareness of their own creativity. This summary will briefly explain the seven principles and provide several of the sample creative exercises.

How To Work With Just About Anyone
"A THREE-STEP SOLUTION FOR GETTING DIFFICULT PEOPLE TO CHANGE"
By Lucy Gill
A Fireside Book/ Simon and Schuster 1999
ISBN 0-684-85527-5
206 pages

Because every office has that one difficult person to work with, who affects overall productivity due to a terrible attitude, chronic tardiness, or simply drives everyone else up the wall. Here is the answer to common problems in conflict management. Dealing with negative behavior whether at work or at home can be solved with three steps:

Get to the heart of the matter. Determine what problem-solving methods to avoid so you don't perpetuate the conflict. Choose a different, surprising approach to solve the problem and keep it solved.

Finally, here is your key to sanity in the workplace, drawn from forty years of research and professional experience in consulting on the prevention and management of nonproductive behavior.

Identity Is Destiny
Leadership and the Roots of Value Creation

By Laurence D. Ackerman
Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc. 2000
ISBN 1-57675-068-X
220 pages

Is your company suffering from an identity crisis?

Corporate identity goes deeper than simply having a logo design updated, or hiring an agency to create a snappy tagline and ad campaign. Organizations can achieve their full potential by living according to their true identity. The core values create a corporate identity that every individual in the organization should believe in and stand up for. A logo design may be updated with every passing trend, but core values and practices are timeless and transcend the organization.

If Life Is A Game These Are The Rules
Ten Rules For Being Human

By Cherie Carter-Scott, PhD
Broadway Book, New York, 1998 ISBN: 0767902386
139 Pages

This #1 New York Times bestseller offers some useful and understandable advice that can be applied to many situations. The idea of life as a series of lessons can help to put things into perspective and add to anyone’s ability to deal with setbacks and reach their full potential.

Innervation
Redesign Yourself For A Smarter Future
By Guy Browning
ISBN 1843 04002 6
Pearson Education Limited UK 2001
213 pages

Here is a funny, frank, and refreshing book on how to not only survive but succeed in today’s new economy –or at least get what you want out of life and work while stepping on as few people as possible. This one tackles the big issues like what kind of person do you really want to be (a bastard? there are many of them in business) -are you living for the future or are you stuck in an old economy dinosaur company? Guy Browning says exactly what nobody else dares to say about real-life/work issues, and that’s why it’s so fresh.

Redesigning yourself means working hard on the brand that is You. How do you get out of the rut you’re currently in? What are the new Ten Commandments for the millennium? How do you learn to really listen, relax, work, and be happy? Everything from sexual politics to creativity, to trashing old economy leaders, discovering the real meaning of networking, and making effective, short, and simple communications, to managing people who are “less talented and good looking” than yourself – it’s all in a light and punchy addition to your business library!

Inside Outsourcing
The insider’s guide to managing strategic sourcing

By Charles L. Gay and James Essinger
Nicholas Brealey Publishing 2000
ISBN 1-85788-204-0
245 pages

How can organizations use outsourcing to its full potential, as a strategic business tool?

Maximize your company’s efficiency, profitability, and cost-effective operations while allowing flexibility and building a greater customer franchise. From decision-making to implementation – to identifying what a company does more creatively than its competition- the big idea becomes clear not only through theory but in this book’s practical and detailed examination of strategic outsourcing processes. Backed up by case studies on Rolls Royce, Bethlehem Steel, Pharmacia Upjohn, Gillette, and DuPont, Inside Outsourcing offers points to help streamline your operations and maximize service quality.

Investing In A Post-Enron World
Tactics to help “Enron-proof” your portfolio, a fast course in becoming a “financial sleuth”, methods of learning the true value of stocks
By Paul Jorion
McGraw Hill 2003
ISBN 0 07 140938 6
244 pages

The high-profile implosions of America’s top corporations like Enron, and the questionable accounting methods of Arthur Andersen, forces investors to become wary of a company’s ethical standards, and creates a need for clear warning signals and information to be able to protect oneself. Digging deep into the footnotes of annual reports, and searching for the true story of what really went on with those inflated numbers, this book educates the investor in the complicated game of deception played by the inner circle of this giant. The bigger they are, the harder they fall indeed.

Leading On The Edge of Chaos
The 10 Critical Elements For Success In Volatile Times
By Emmett C. Murphy and Mark A. Murphy
Prentice Hall 2002
ISBN 0 7352 0312 1
226 pages

A timely book for today’s chaotic economy, the Murphy’s suggest 10 key strategies for business leaders. If you fail to deliver, a volatile market can be terribly unforgiving. How you handle uncertainty will determine your company’s success.

Make a Life
10 Timeless Life Skills That Will Maximize Your Real Worth
By Dr. Ron Jenson
“America's Life Coach”
Broadman & Holman Publishers
ASIN 0805419845
232 pages

This book provides us with a healthy number of principles and wisdoms to live by, in order to be happy and truly make a life, especially in today's highly materially oriented world. These principles on how to live happily and contentedly, according to Dr. Jenson, the book's author, are intended to serve as a map or a model in order to look at life afresh and where it matters.

Management of The Absurd
Paradoxes in Leadership
By
Richard Farson
Simon & Schuster1997
ISBN 0 684 80080 2
172 pages

To understand basic human behavior and relations, we must first recognize that most often it is irrational, and we cannot simply answer leadership problems with trendy, simplistic formulas. This artfully written and unique book is fresh in its perspective, offering an out-of-the-box approach and exploring a new way of looking at things.

Managing At The Speed Of Change
How Resilient Managers Succeed And Prosper Where Others Fail

By Daryl R. Conner
Villard books/Random House 1992
ISBN 0-679-40684-0
282 pages

Written a decade ago but still very useful for today’s world, this book will help you if you need to know:

Why do some people absorb change quicker and adapt faster than others?
Why do some companies flourish during turbulent times while others flounder?
Why software systems changes may cause less havoc than moving the paper clips and envelopes to the other room?

With key insights into the fear of change many of us encounter, and many important lessons to understanding how humans, the most controlling type of species on the planet, can better work with change when it happens.

MONEY
"Who Has How Much and Why"
By Andrew Hacker
Simon&Schuster/1997
ISBN 0-684-19646-8 /0-684-84662-4 paperback
254 pages

America's gulf between the rich and poor has grown wider than ever. The disparity between the income of men and women, white and black is still evident, while the number of self-made millionaires has grown along with the number of individuals who take home $100,000 a year. Indeed, there are more millionaires, but there are also more neglected children, more single mothers, and more citizens in prison. The founding fathers of the United States Constitution outlined how the nation would grow with an economy that would acknowledge "diversity in the faculties of men" and such has occurred in the years that followed the statements of James Madison and Alexander Hamilton. Here are the facts about who has the money in the world's most powerful nation.

Mind Your Own Business
A Maverick's Guide to Business, Leadership and Life
By Sidney Harman
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 2003
ISBN 0-385-50959-6
208 pages

A maverick is an independent person who will not go along with the other members of a group (Oxford ESL Dictionary). This book provides priceless stories and insights from a maverick of the business world; an exemplary business leader who prefers not to follow orthodox beliefs in business, nor be eaten by the hyped up ideas of the present. Instead, he chooses the course of action that is appropriate for the changing times.

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