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How They Blew It Oliver, Jamie | Goodwin, Tony Kogan-Page Limited , 2012 Business Biographies, Business Strategy

In How They Blew It, Jamie Oliver and Tony Goodwin investigate 16 of the world’s greatest business failures in order to help readers avoid similar situations. To be successful entrepreneurs or CEOs,...

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Little Bets Sims, Peter Free Press , 2011 Innovation

Experimental innovators use trial and error based approaches to reach breakthroughs in iterative ways. Peter Sims, a former venture capital investor, believes that most successful entrepreneurs work in this nonlinear...

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It's Your Biz Solovic, Susan Wilson | Kadin, Ellen AMACOM , 2012 Entrepreneurship

A large number of people start businesses every day, and many more dream about becoming their own bosses. All of these people are talented and skilled, and they have great ideas; but, without a strong knowledge about...

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The Innovation Killer Barton Rabe, Cynthia AMACOM , 2006 Innovation

Forget conventional wisdom. Forget the thought that the more you know, the better off you’ll be. Forget the idea that knowledge and expertise are the only true routes to success and innovation in business. Education...

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The 48 Laws Of Power Greene, Robert | Elffers, Joost Penguin Group , 2000 Personal Growth

A comprehensive, well-researched synthesis of timeless philosophies-from Machiavelli to Suntzu, as applied in real-life situations by powerful figures in history such as Queen Elizabeth I and Henry Kissinger. Absorbing...

 
 
Going for Broke Rothchild, John Simon & Schuster , 1991 Business Biographies, Leadership

The 1980s were full of outlandish wheeling and dealing, mystical accounting, and phenomenal financial calamities. Incomprehensible greed and stupidity ravaged the economy, and Going for Broke is a...