All Summaries

All Summaries

 
Unlimited Wealth Pilzer, Paul Zane Crown Publishing , 1990 Economics & Finance, Leadership, Technology

In Unlimited Wealth, Pilzer describes a new theory that challenges the very foundation of conventional economics. He draws sharp contrasts between standard economic theory (based on the scarcity of...

 
 
Infinite Possibility Pine II, B. Joseph | Korn, Kim C. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. , 2011 Economics & Finance, Innovation

As B. Joseph Pine II and Kim C. Korn explain in Infinite Possibility, the predominant offering in today’s economy is experience. Society has progressed from agrarianism, industrialization, and the...

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A Whole New Mind Pink, Daniel Riverhead , 2005 Human Resources, Major Works, Personal Growth

In A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink describes a new era already underway in the global economy - the Conceptual Age. Success in this new era calls for a set of skills and talents that have been largely...

 
 
Free Agent Nation Pink, Daniel H. Warner Books , 2001 Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, Personal Growth

William Whyte’s “Organization Man”-“[The] ones of our middle class who have left home, spiritually as well as physically, to take the vows of organization life …who are the mind and soul of our great self-perpetuating...

 
 
Black Faces in White Places Pinkett, Randal | Robinson, Jeffrey | Patterson, Philana AMACOM , 2011 Diversity, Personal Growth

In Black Faces in White Places, Randal Pinkett and Jeffrey Robinson acknowledge that things have improved in America when it comes to race, but there is still progress to be made to leave a better...

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Business Maharajas Piramal, Gita Viking Penguin India , 1996 Global Business, Management

Ambani, Bajaj, Birla, Goenka, Khaitan, the Shahs, and Tata, eight of India’s most powerful men, are a study in contrasts. Their businesses are distinct and varied. Some are highly educated, others are barely educated...

 
 
Doing Business in China Plafker, Ted Business Plus , 2007 Entrepreneurship, Global Business

Over the past few years, China has transformed itself into a powerful, consumer-oriented culture, and many Western companies have flocked to China to take advantage of this new marketplace. However, entrepreneurs from...

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Supply Chain Optimization Poirier, Charles C. | Reiter, Stephen E. Berrett-Koehler Publishers , 1996 Productivity

A supply chain is a network of interlinked organizations, or constituencies, that has as a common purpose the best possible means of delivering products/services to customers. The chain begins with suppliers that can...

 
 
EVEolution Popcorn, Faith | Marigold, Lys Hyperion Books , 1996 Marketing

For any business to survive today, it needs to understand how to market to women. The fact is women make 80% of all purchasing decisions, are brand loyalists, have complex, multiple lives because of ever-increasing...

 
 
Success Built to Last Porras, Jerry | Emery, Stewart | Thompson, Mark Wharton School Publishing , 2007 Entrepreneurship, Personal Growth

People who make an impact doing what matters most to them have the potential for enduring success. Some of the world’s most enduringly successful people have become so by harvesting their failures and summoning the...

 
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