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A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of... (more)

Professional's Guide to Value Pricing (Professional's Guide to Value Pricing W/CD) (Professional's Guide to Value Pricing W/CD)

Professional's Guide to Value Pricing (Professional's Guide to Value Pricing W/CD) (Professional's Guide to Value Pricing W/CD)

by Ronald J. Baker

Value pricing is becoming more common among attorneys and CPAs across the country. Everyone's talking about it, but very little has been written on how to implement this innovative, lucrative option. This resource is designed to provide CPAs, attorneys, and other professionals with the information needed to evaluate the economics of alternative billing methods. Professional's Guide to Value Pricing is an... (more)

Chasing Daylight

by Eugene O'Kelly

“Must the end of life be the worst part? Can it be made the best?” At 53, Eugene O'Kelly was in the full swing of life. Chairman and CEO of KPMG, one of the largest U.S. accounting firms, he enjoyed a successful career and drew happiness from his wife, children, family, and close friends. He was thinking ahead: the next business trip, the firm's continued success, weekend plans with his wife, his... (more)

Measure What Matters to Customers: Using Key Predictive Indicators (KPIs)

Measure What Matters to Customers: Using Key Predictive Indicators (KPIs)

by Ronald J. Baker

Measure What Matters to Customers reveals how to capitalize on Key Predictive Indicators (KPIs), the innovative measures that define the success of your enterprise as your customers do. If you want to increase your company's profits by working smarter, this is the book for you.

Mind Over Matter: Why Intellectual Capital is the Chief Source of Wealth

Mind Over Matter: Why Intellectual Capital is the Chief Source of Wealth

by Ronald J. Baker

Mind Over Matter: Why Intellectual Capital is the Chief Source of Wealth expands the definition of a knowledge economy to one based on Intellectual Capital and expertly details why it is the most important component in creating wealth.

Pricing on Purpose: Creating and Capturing Value

Pricing on Purpose: Creating and Capturing Value

by Ronald J. Baker

—Reed Holden, founder, Holden Advisors Corp., www.holdenadvisors.com coauthor, The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Profitable Decision Making , Third Edition "With Pricing on Purpose, Ron Baker had made an enormous contribution to the better understanding of pricing that will be accessible to anyone who wants to learn. People are intrigued by instances of what they see as idiosyncratic... (more)

Loyalty Rules! How Leaders Build Lasting Relationships

by Frederick F. Reichheld

Fewer than half of today's employees believe that their companies deserve their loyalty. Web-empowered customers now defect more easily and more quickly than ever. Has loyalty become an outdated notion in today's marketplace? Fred Reichheld, author of the bestselling book The Loyalty Effect, argues that loyalty is still the fuel that drives financial success-even, and perhaps especially, in today's... (more)

Wealth and Poverty (Ics Series in Self-Governance)

Wealth and Poverty (Ics Series in Self-Governance)

by George Gilder

In this acclaimed work, Gilder offers an illuminating discussion of how to increase wealth and curtail poverty, arguing that most welfare programs only serve to keep the poor in poverty as victims of welfare dependency. 9 cassettes.

The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters

The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters

by Peter Block

People keep asking "How?" as a defense against living their life, says best-selling author Peter Block. In this witty, insightful award-winning book, Block shows that many standard solutions and improvement efforts, reinforced by most of the literature, keep people paralyzed. Here he places the "how to" craze in perspective and teaches individuals, workers, and managers ways to act on what they know. This in turn... (more)

The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea (Modern Library Chronicles)

The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea (Modern Library Chronicles)

by John Micklethwait

Chosen by BusinessWeek as One of the Top Ten Business Books of the Year With apologies to Hegel, Marx, and Lenin, the basic unit of modern society is neither the state, nor the commune, nor the party; it is the company. From this bold premise, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge chart the rise of one of history’s great catalysts for good and evil. In a “fast-paced and well-written” work ( Forbes ), the... (more)

The Viewpoints of Stanley Marcus: A Ten-Year Perspective

The Viewpoints of Stanley Marcus: A Ten-Year Perspective

by Stanley Marcus

Marcus, the chairman emeritus of the Neiman Marcus chain, who spent his earlier career in retail, at the age of 90 writes a weekly column on subjects of his choice for the Dallas Morning News. These low-key pieces, published during the past 10 years, emphasize the merchandizing skills Marcus has honed. Believing that "The customer is always right," he repeatedly advises his readers to complain about... (more)

Secrets of Power Negotiating

by Roger Dawson

Secrets of Power Negotiating covers every aspect of the negotiating process with practical, proven advice: from beginning steps to critical final moves, how to recognize unethical tactics, key principles to the Power Negotiating strategy, why money is not as important as everyone thinks, negotiating pressure points, understanding the other party and gaining the upper hand, and analyses of different negotiating... (more)

How to Read a Book

by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Lincoln Van Doren

How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them -- from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading,... (more)

Freakonomics

A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

by Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt

Freakonomics is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning author and journalist. They usually begin with a mountain of data and a simple question. Some of these questions concern life-and-death issues; others have an admittedly freakish quality. Thus the new field of study contained in this book: freakonomics. Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, Levitt and... (more)

Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

by Henry Hazlitt

A simple, straightforward analysis of economic fallacies that are so prevalent they have almost become a new orthodoxy.

The Firm of the Future: A Guide for Accountants, Lawyers, and Other Professional Services

The Firm of the Future: A Guide for Accountants, Lawyers, and Other Professional Services

by Paul Dunn

Praise for The Firm of the Future "In The Firm of the Future, Paul Dunn and Ron Baker create an intellectual challenge for firm leaders. They are truly two of the best critical thinkers today. Together they provide the reader with a wealth of thought-provoking ideas. This is an intellectual masterpiece." –August J. Aquila, PhD Managing Director, American Express Tax and Business Services ... (more)

In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies (Collins Business Essentials)

In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies (Collins Business Essentials)

by Tom Paters, Robert Waterman, Thomas J. Peters

This is an updated edition of the classic bestseller - the most famous book by the world's most trusted management guru. In 1999 Americans rated "In Search of Excellence" one of the 'top three business books of the 20th century'. In 2000 Bloomsbury published an opinion poll ranking it 'The Greatest Business Book of All Time'. Now it is comprehensively updated for the 21st century by the authors.

Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success

Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success

by Kevin Freiberg

Twenty-five years ago, Herb Kelleher reinvented air travel when he founded Southwest Airlines, where the planes are painted like killer whales, a typical company maxim is "Hire people with a sense of humor," and in-flight meals are never served--just sixty million bags of peanuts a year. By sidestepping "reengineering," "total quality management," and other management philosophies and employing its own brand of... (more)

Armchair Economist: Economics And Everyday Experience

Armchair Economist: Economics And Everyday Experience

by Steven E. Landsburg

Witty economists are about as easy to find as anorexic mezzo-sopranos, natty mujahedeen, and cheerful Philadelphians. But Steven E. Landsburg...is one economist who fits the bill. In a wide-ranging, easily digested, unbelievably contrarian survey of everything from why popcorn at movie houses costs so much to why recycling may actually reduce the number of trees on the planet, the University of Rochester professor... (more)

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

by Peter L. Bernstein

A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller "Ambitious and readable . . . an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and fatalism." —The New York Times "An extraordinarily entertaining and informative book." —The Wall Street Journal "A lively panoramic book . . .... (more)

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The Impact of the Highly Improbable

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

by Ronald J. Baker

by Eugene O'Kelly

by Ronald J. Baker

by Ronald J. Baker

by Ronald J. Baker

by Frederick F. Reichheld

by George Gilder

by Peter Block

by John Micklethwait

by Stanley Marcus

by Roger Dawson

by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Lincoln Van Doren

A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

by Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt

by Henry Hazlitt

by Paul Dunn

by Tom Paters, Robert Waterman, Thomas J. Peters

by Kevin Freiberg

by Steven E. Landsburg

by Peter L. Bernstein