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  • 11 Immutable Laws of Internet by Al Ries & Laura Ries (ISBN 1-86197-600-3)
  • 22 Immutable Laws of Branding by Al Ries & Laura Ries (ISBN 1-86197-605-4)
  • 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries & Laura Ries (ISBN 1-86197-610-0)

A

  • After Image by John Grant (ISBN 1-86197-640-2)
  • Alexander the Great's Art of Strategy by Partha Bose (ISBN 1-86197-432-9)
  • Anatomy of Buzz by Emmanuel Rosen (ISBN 1-86197-615-1)
  • Art of Innovation by Thomas Kelley (ISBN 1-86197-583-X)
  • The Art of War by Sun Tzu, translated by Samuel B. Griffith, (Oxford University Press, 1963)
  • Atlas of Management Thinking by Edward De Bono (Penguin Books, 1981)

For other uses, see The Art of War (disambiguation). ... The Age of Unreason is a series of four books written by Gregory Keyes. ... American Pastoral is a Philip Roth novel concerning Seymour Swede Levov, an all-around good guy whose life is ruined by the indigenous American berzerk. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 and was included in All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels. ...

B

  • Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, (Harcourt Brace & Company, 1922)
  • Backing Winners by Bernice Cohen (ISBN 1-86197-446-9)
  • Beyond Reengineering by Michael Hammer (ISBN 1-86197-518-X)
  • Big Idea by Robert Jones (ISBN 1-86197-568-6)
  • Biography of a Buick (aka Motor City) by Bill Morris, (Granta Books, 1992)
  • Boards at Work: How Corporate Boards Create Competitive Advantage by Ram Charan, (Jossey-Bass Inc. Publishers, 1998)
  • Bombardiers by Po Bronson, (Random House Inc., 1995)
  • Borderless World by Kenichi Ohmae (ISBN 1-86197-584-8)
  • Brand Warriors of China by Fiona Gilmore & Serge Dumont (ISBN 1-86197-699-2)
  • Britain's Top Employers by Corporate Research Foundation (ISBN 1-86197-635-6)
  • Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras, (HarperCollins Publishers, HarperBusiness, 1994)
  • Business Wargames by Barrie James (Abacus Press, 1984)

Babbitt is a classic novel by the American novelist and playwright Sinclair Lewis, first published in 1922. ... Big Idea can refer to: The Big Idea TV programme, UK. An Advertiser Funded Programme for Vodafone, 2006. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

C

  • Challenge of Change by Jim Hirst (ISBN 1-86197-539-2)
  • Character of a Corporation by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones (ISBN 1-86197-639-9)
  • China Dream by Joe Studwell (ISBN 1-86197-336-5)
  • Chocolate Wars by Joel G Brenner (ISBN 1-86197-512-0)
  • City State (pb) by Richard Roberts & David Kynaston (ISBN 1-86197-416-7)
  • Clausewitz on Strategy: Inspiration and Insight from a Master Strategist edited by Tiha von Ghyczy, Bolko von Oetinger, and Christopher Bassford, (John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2001)
  • Corporate Strategy: An Analytic Approach to Business Policy for Growth and Expansion by H. Igor Ansoff, (McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1965; out of print)
  • Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market — and How to Successfully Transform Them by Richard N. Foster and Sarah Kaplan, (Random House Inc., Currency, 2001)
  • Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High by Kerry Patterson (McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 2002, ISBN 0-07-140194-6)
  • Co-opetition by Barry J Nalebuff & Adam M Brandenburger (ISBN 1-86197-507-4)
  • Company of the Future (pb) by Frances Cairncross (ISBN 1-86197-556-2)
  • Corporate Boards: New Strategies for Adding Value at the Top by Jay A. Conger, Edward E. Lawler III, and David L. Finegold, (John Wiley & Sons Inc., Jossey-Bass, 2001)
  • Cultures and Organizations by Geert Hofstede and Bob Garratt (ISBN 1-86197-543-0)
  • Customer Intimacy by Fred Wiersema (ISBN 1-86197-630-5)
  • Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M. Mitchell Waldrop, (Touchstone Books, 1992)
  • Creating Customer Evangelists: How Loyal Customers Become a Volunteer Sales Force by Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba (ISBN 0-7931-5561-4)
  • Customers.com by P. Seybold, Crown Business Books (Random House)

Christopher Bassford (b. ... Co-opetition is a buzzword coined to describe cooperative competition. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

D

  • Daily Mail Tax Guide by Jane Vass (ISBN 1-86197-489-2)
  • Developing Strategic Thought by Bob Garratt (ISBN 1-86197-659-3)
  • Direct from Dell by Michael Dell (ISBN 1-86197-557-0)

Cover to the Penguin Group edition. ... De la démocratie en Amérique (published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840) is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville on the United States in the 1830s and its strengths and weaknesses. ...

E

  • Easy Money (pb) by Philip Coggan (ISBN 1-86197-293-8)
  • Enterprise by Roger Parry (ISBN 1-86197-634-8)
  • Evolution by Faith Popcorn with Lys Marigold (ISBN 1-86197-599-6)
  • The End of Shareholder Value: Corporations at the Crossroads by Allan A. Kennedy, (Perseus Publishing, 2000)
  • Extreme Management by Mark Stevens (ISBN 1-86197-620-8)
  • Experiment at Work by Andy Law (ISBN 1-86197-437-X)
  • The Embezzler by Louis Auchincloss, (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1966)
  • Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Charles Burck (ISBN 978-0609610572)

The Experience Economy, according to B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore in their 1999 book of the same name, is an advanced service economy which has begun to sell mass customization services that are similar to theatre, using underlying goods and services as props. ... This article is about evolution in biology. ... Spoiler warning: On the one hand, the novel is the fictional biography of Martha Cochrane, a clever and ambitious Englishwoman with a rural lower middle-class background who, after graduating from university, attempts to climb the ladder of success within corporate Britain. ...

F

  • Funky Business by Kjell Nordstrom & Jonas Ridderstrale, (Pearson, 2000)
  • Finance Directors by Rupert Merson (ISBN 1-86197-454-X)
  • Fish Rots from the Head by Bob Garratt (ISBN 1-86197-616-X)
  • Fusion Manager by Robert Heller (ISBN 1-86197-646-1)
  • Futurewise by Patrick Dixon (ISBN 1-86197-710-7)
  • From Worst to First: Behind the Scenes of Continental’s Remarkable Comeback by Gordon Bethune with Scott Huler, (John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1998)
  • A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalization by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, (Crown Business, 2000)

TANSTAAFL is an acronym for the adage There Aint No Such Thing As A Free Lunch, popularized by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein and promulgated in his 1966 novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, a libertarian utopia. ... Futurewise is a non-profit charitable organization in Washington State that works to keep overdevelopment and urban sprawl from consuming farms, forests and rural areas. ... The Financier is a novel by Theodore Dreiser, first published in 1912. ... Gordon M. Bethune (born August 1941) is the chairman of the board of Aloha Airgroup, parent company of Aloha Airlines. ...

G

  • Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don’t by Jim Collins, (HarperCollins Publishers, HarperBusiness, 2001)
  • Goldfinger by Robert Heller (ISBN 1-86197-533-3)
  • Gain by Richard Powers, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998)
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond, (W.W. Norton & Co., 1997)

Example of guerrilla marketing in São Paulo, Brazil promoting the Hopi Hari amusement park. ... In electronics, gain is usually taken as the mean ratio of the signal output of a system to the signal input of the system. ...

H

  • Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People by Charles A. O’Reilly III and Jeffrey Pfeffer, (Harvard Business School Press, 2000)
  • House of All Nations by Christina Stead, (Simon & Schuster Inc., 1938; out of print)
  • The Hucksters by Frederic Wakeman, (Rinehart & Co., 1946; out of print)
  • The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company by David Packard, edited by David Kirby with Karen Lewis, (HarperCollins Publishers, HarperBusiness, 1995)

The Hucksters is a 1947 film directed by Jack Conway and starring Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, and Ava Gardner. ... How to Make Friends and Influence People is the second album by the rock band Terrorvision, released in 1994 on Total Vegas Recordings. ...

I

  • Infectious Greed by Frank Partnoy (ISBN 1-86197-438-8)
  • The Individualized Corporation: A Fundamentally New Approach to Management by Sumantra Ghoshal and Christopher A. Bartlett, (HarperCollins Publishers, HarperBusiness, 1997)
  • The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen, (Harvard Business School Press,1997)
  • Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., (Simon & Schuster Inc., Free Press, 2001)
  • Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy by Carl Shapiro and Hal R. Varian, (Harvard Business School Press, 1999)

In Search of Excellence is an international bestselling book written by Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr, first published in 1982. ...

J

K

  • Karaoke Capitalism by Kjell Nordstrom & Jonas Ridderstrale, (Pearson, 2004)
  • The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation by Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, (Oxford University Press, 1995)

L

  • Learning Organization by Bob Garratt (ISBN 1-86197-587-2)
  • Leadership A to Z: A Guide for the Appropriately Ambitious by James O’Toole, (Jossey-Bass Inc. Publishers, 1999)
  • The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, (Jossey-Bass Inc. Publishers, 1987)
  • The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level by Noel M. Tichy with Eli Cohen, (HarperCollins Publishers, HarperBusiness, 1997)
  • Leadership without Easy Answers by Ronald A. Heifetz, (Harvard University Press, 1994)
  • Leadership Is an Art by Max DePree, (Doubleday & Co., 1989)
  • The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999)
  • The Long Boom: A Vision for the Coming Age of Prosperity by Peter Schwartz, Peter Leyden, and Joel Hyatt, (Perseus Publishing, 1999)
  • The Ladies’ Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) by Emile Zola, translated by Brian Nelson, (Librairie Charpentier, 1883)

The Loyalty Effect (Revised edition, 2001) The Loyalty Effect is a 1996 book by Fred Reichheld of the consulting firm Bain & Company, and the books title is also sometimes used to refer to the broader loyalty business model as a whole. ... Fred Reichheld (undated photograph) Frederick F. Reichheld is a business author and business strategist best known for his research and writing on the loyalty business model. ...

M

  • Making it Happen by John Harvey-Jones
  • Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices by Peter F. Drucker, (Harper & Row, 1974)
  • Marketing Warfare by Al Ries and Jack Trout (McGraw-Hill, 1986)
  • Market Panic by Stephen Vines (ISBN 1-86197-403-5)
  • Maximum Success by Timothy Butler & James Waldroop (ISBN 1-86197-517-1)
  • Microsoft Secrets by Michael A. Cusumano & Richard w. Selby (ISBN 1-86197-532-5)
  • The Mind of the Strategist: Business planning for competitive advantage by Kenichi Ohmae (Penguin Books, 1982) ISBN 0-14-006722-1
  • Megatrends by John Naisbitt (Warner Books, 1982) ISBN 0-446-51251-6
  • Microserfs by Douglas Coupland, (ReganBooks, 1995)
  • Money by Martin Amis, (Penguin Books Ltd., 1984)
  • The Money Game by Adam Smith (Dell Publishing, 1967)
  • Moments of Truth: New Strategies for Today’s Customer-Driven Economy by Jan Carlzon, (Ballinger Publishing Co., 1987)
  • Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers by Robert Jackall (Oxford University Press, 1988)
  • My Years with General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., edited by John McDonald with Catharine Stevens, (Macfadden-Bartell Books, 1963)
  • The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando de Soto, (Basic Books, 2000)

A Man in Full is a novel by Tom Wolfe, published in 1998 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. ... The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, by Sloan Wilson, is a novel about the American search for purpose in world dominated by business. ... John Naisbitt (born Jan. ... Microserfs, published by HarperCollins in 1995, is a novel by Douglas Coupland. ... Money (full title: Money: A Suicide Note) is a 1984 novel by Martin Amis. ...

N

  • Non-Executive Directors by Rupert Merson (ISBN 1-86197-499-X)
  • Nice Work by David Lodge, (Penguin Books Ltd., 1988)
  • A New View of Society by Robert Owen, (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813)

Nice Work (published in 1988) is a book by David Lodge which was also made into a television series. ... Front cover of No Logo. ...

O

  • Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew Grove (ISBN 1-86197-513-9)
  • On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis, (Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1989)

Dr. Andrew Stephen Grove (born September 2, 1936 in Budapest, Hungary) is an American businessman. ... Warren Bennis is a lecturer, management and leadership theorist and writer. ... Oil! book cover Oil! is a novel by Upton Sinclair published in 1927. ... Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. ...

P

  • Peak Performance by Clive Gilson, Mike Pratt, Kevin Roberts & Ed Weymes (ISBN 1-86197-503-1)
  • Positioning: The battle for your mind, Al Ries and Jack Trout, (Warner Books - McGraw-Hill Inc., 1981 ISBN 0-446-34794-9)
  • The Patton Mind: The Professional Development of an Extraordinary Leader by Roger H. Nye, (Avery Publishing Group, 1992)
  • Pawns or Potentates: The Reality of America’s Corporate Boards by Jay W. Lorsch with Elizabeth MacIver, (Harvard Business School Press, 1989)
  • The Popcorn Report by Faith Popcorn (Harper Business Books, 1992) ISBN 0-88730-594-6
  • Plain Talk: Lessons from a Business Maverick by Ken Iverson with Tom Varian, (John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1997)
  • Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment by David F. Swensen, (John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1997)

Thomas J. Peters (born November 7, 1942) is an American writer and expert on business management practices, best-known for co-writing the classic book, In Search of Excellence, with Robert H. Waterman, Jr. ... Nancy K. Austin (born c. ... Personal History is the autobiography of Katharine Graham. ...

Q

R

  • Right Side Up by Alan Mitchell (ISBN 1-86197-574-0)
  • Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution by Michael Hammer and James A. Champy (ISBN 0-06-662112-7)
  • Rise and Fall of Marks & Spencer (pb) by Judi Bevan (ISBN 1-86197-431-0)
  • The Representation of Business in English Literature edited by Arthur Pollard, (Institute of Economic Affairs, 2000)

To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Burton Gordon Malkiel (born August 28, American economist and writer, most famous for his classic finance book A Random Walk Down Wall Street (now in its 8th edition, 2003). ... Room at the Top is a 1959 film which tells the story of a young man in a dreary English factory town who thinks that he might be able to move up the ladder if he marries the bosss daughter. ...

S

  • Sand to Silicon by Jeff Sampler & Saeb Eigner (ISBN 1-86197-627-5)
  • Seven Deadly Sins of Management by Jonathan Ellis & Rene Tissen (ISBN 1-86197-526-0)
  • The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, (Harvard Business School Press, 2001)
  • Small is Beautiful: A study of economics as if people mattered by E. F. Schumacher (Abacus, 1973)
  • Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Strategic Management by Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand, and Joseph Lampel, (Simon & Schuster Inc., Free Press, 1998)
  • Strategy of the Dolphin, Scoring a win in a chaotic world by D. Lynch and P. Kordis (Ballantine Books, 1988) ISBN 0-449-90529-2
  • Surpetition by Edward de Bono (ISBN 1-86197-547-3)
  • The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy by Noreena Hertz, (Heinemann Publishing, 2001)
  • The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser, (Crowell, 1947; out of print)
  • Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions by Gary Klein, (MIT Press, 1998)

The Stoic is a novel by Theodore Dreiser, the final in his trilogy based on the real life of streetcar tycoon Charles Yerkes. ... In their 2000 book The Social Life of Information, John Seely Brown (the former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and director of Xerox PARC) and Paul Duguid, (Adjunct professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information) discuss recently developed practices in the transmission of information in social and business context. ...

T

  • Tactics by Edward de Bono (ISBN 1-86197-537-6)
  • Tao of Coaching by Max Landsberg (ISBN 1-86197-650-X)
  • Tao of Motivation by Max Landsberg (ISBN 1-86197-655-0)
  • Tao of Leadership by Max Landsberg (ISBN 1-86197-660-7)
  • Twelve Organizational Capabilities by Bob Garratt (ISBN 1-86197-572-4)
  • The Titan by Theodore Dreiser, (John Lane Co., 1914)
  • Tono-Bungay by H.G. Wells, (Duffield & Co., 1908)
  • Turn of the Century by Kurt Andersen, (Random House Inc., 1999)

The Titan is a novel written by Theodore Dreiser in 1914. ... Tono-Bungay is arguably H.G. Wells best novel and certainly his most under-rated. ... Fin de siècle is French for End of the Century. The term turn-of-the-century is sometimes used as a synonym, but is more neutral (lacking some or most of the connotations described below), and can include the first years of a new century. ...

U

  • Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits by Robert Townsend, (Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1970; out of print)
  • Unchained Value: The New Logic of Digital Business by Mary J. Cronin, (Harvard Business School Press, 2000)

V

  • Value Migration: How to think several moves ahead of the competition by Adrian Slywotzky (Harvard Business School Press, 1996) ISBN 0-87584-632-7
  • The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., (P.B. Belknap Press, 1977)

W

  • What the CEO Wants You to Know: How Your Company Really Works by Ram Charan (ISBN 0-609-60839-8)
  • Warriors on the High Wire by Fiona Gilmore (ISBN 1-86197-611-9)
  • War or Peace by BDO Stoy Hayward (ISBN 1-86197-524-4)
  • The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner, (Simon & Schuster Inc., 1953)
  • What Management Is (pb) by Joan Magretta (ISBN 1-86197-645-3)
  • What They don't Teach you at Harvard Business School by Mark McCormack (ISBN 1-86197-564-3)
  • What You'll Never Learn on the Internet by Mark McCormack (ISBN 1-86197-569-4)
  • Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, MD; Copyright 1998 by G.P. Putnam's Sons (ISBN 0-399-14446-3)

The Way We Live Now is a scathing satirical novel published in London in 1875 by the prolific Anthony Trollope, after a popular serialization. ... Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life, published in 1998, is a motivational book by Dr. Spencer Johnson written in the style of a parable. ...

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