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  How The Mighty Fall

  And Why Some Companies Never Give In

  by Jim Collins

  Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed. Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable and unshakable? How can companies reverse course? In How the Mighty Fall , Collins confronts these... (more)
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  A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

  by J. Kevin Sheehan

  A Leader Becomes a Leader opens with a window on history: Henry David Thoreau riding a borrowed horse and wagon into the woods around Concord, Massachusetts to Walden Pond in 1845. There, he writes a classic work that has a powerful effect on the lives and philosophies of seminal leaders in the next century as diverse as Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Thoreau believed that a... (more)
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  Blue Ocean Strategy: Creating Blue Oceans

  by W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne

  In today's overcrowded industries, companies constantly struggle for a share of the market. Competition is fierce--a bloody "red ocean"--and the profit pool is forever shrinking. This chapter introduces a new approach to success by creating "blue oceans"--uncontested market spaces within undefined boundaries. The chapter sets out the basic principles of blue ocean strategy.
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  Marketing 2.0: Bridging the Gap between Seller and Buyer through Social Media Marketing

  by Bernie Borges

  Endorsements " Marketing 2.0 is an essential online playbook for any small or medium-sized business executive. Bernie teaches how to create and develop winning strategies on the web that will attract people to your company and your employees through relationship building and content marketing. If you implement the strategies and tactics in this book you'll reduce or eliminate outdated marketing practices and... (more)
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  Good to Great

  Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

  by Jim Collins

  The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years,... (more)
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  The Innovator's Dilemma

  When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

  by Clayton M. Christensen

  In this revolutionary bestseller, Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen says outstanding companies can do everything right and still lose their market leadership, or worse, disappear completely. And he not only proves what he says, he tells others how to avoid a similar fate. Focusing on "disruptive technology" of the Honda Supercub, Intel's 8088 processor, and the hydraulic excavator, Christensen shows why... (more)
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  Basic Guitar Lessons: Play Guitar With Happy Traum Omnibus Edition (Guitar Books)

  by Happy Traum

  Books 1, 2, 3, and 4 all brought together in one complete volume.