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  The Effective Executive

  The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

  by Peter F. Drucker

  What makes an effective executive? The measure of the executive, Peter F. Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that mold them into results. Drucker identifies... (more)
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  Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have

  by Justin Menkes

  What differentiates a "star" executive from his or her peers? This is no idle question because experts like Peter Drucker, Jim Collins, and Jack Welch agree that great talent builds great companies. So, finding and assembling a critical mass of the very best people should be the first priority of every business. But how do you recognize a star? What distinguishes them? Over the years, we've heard vague answers... (more)
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  Inside Delta Force

  The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit

  by Eric L. Haney

  Now the inspiration for the CBS Television drama, "The Unit." Delta Force. They are the U.S. Army's most elite top-secret strike force. They dominate the modern battlefield, but you won't hear about their heroics on CNN. No headlines can reveal their top-secret missions, and no book has ever taken readers inside—until now. Here, a founding member of Delta Force takes us behind the veil of secrecy and into the... (more)
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  78 Important Questions Every Leader Should Ask And Answer

  by Chris Clarke-Epstein

  "Great leaders have many talents, but one critical skill -- often unrecognized -- is the ability to ask and answer questions. This unique book offers 78 questions that leaders at all levels need to ask and answer both inside and outside the organization. Leaders who master this question-response technique will gain much useful information about what is really going on in their businesses, as well as the... (more)
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  Virgin River: Book 14

  Wild Man Creek

  by Robyn Carr

  Colin Riordan came to Virgin River to recuperate from a horrific helicopter crash, the scars of which he bears inside and out. His family is wonderfully supportive, but it's his art that truly soothes his troubled soul. Stung personally and professionally by an ill-advised affair, PR guru Jillian Matlock has rented an old Victorian with a promising garden in Virgin River. She's looking forward to cultivating... (more)
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  Ignite the Third Factor

  by Peter Jensen

  How do you get someone else committed to reaching their full potential? It’s a question that challenges new managers and seasoned executives alike, echoes through coaches’ heads as they watch a gifted athlete underachieve, and keeps parents up at night.In Igniting the Third Factor, Peter synthesizes his life’s work into the five core practices exceptional leaders use to ignite the Third Factor in... (more)
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  Executive Thinking: From Brightness to Brilliance

  by Morris Graham

  Life is about how much we think. Thinking is about how much mental capacity we possess. Capacity, in addition to our abilities and conscientiousness, is about how much we can process combinations of verbal height, quantitative width, and spatial depth with decisiveness, direction, and speed. No matter where we go or what we do as executives, we take our thinking with us. That may spoil everything, because,... (more)
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  And I Shall Have Some Peace There: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road [Hardcover]

  by Margaret Roach (Author)

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  The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success

  by Scott Eblin

  Much as Good to Great described what separates top companies from the rest, The Next Level shows new, current, and future executives what differentiates success and failure at the executive level. Every day, high performers are tapped to be executives and then left alone to figure out how to function successfully in their new role. When this happens, most new executives rely on strengths that served them well... (more)
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  How to Act Like a CEO: 10 Rules for Getting to the Top and Staying There

  by D. A. Benton

  In the follow-up to her bestselling How to Think Like a CEO , #1 executive coach Debra Benton's work with top-level executives from AT&T, Colgate, Pepsi, Mobil Oil, N abisco, and American Express, and her interviews with 100 CEOs worldwide reveal: 10 "rules of the game" for managers Rules CEOs apply for everyday success Managerial pointers for readers on how to apply each rule in their professional... (more)
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  Crafting & Executing Strategy: The Quest for Competitive Advantage: Concepts and Cases

  by Arthur A. Thompson

  Thompson, Strickland and Gambles’, CRAFTING AND EXECUTING STRATEGY, 17e presents the latest research findings from the literature and cutting-edge strategic practices of companies have been incorporated to keep step with both theory and practice. The chapter content continues to be solidly mainstream and balanced, mirroring both the best academic thinking and the pragmatism of real-world strategic management. ... (more)
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  The Executive Mystic: Intuitive Tools For Cultivating The Winning Edge In Business

  by Barrie Dolnick

  You're about the launch a major new product. Or present a hot idea to a large group including your boss, his boss, and her boss. Or meet the new CEO of a competing company about your dream job. You've prepared. You're confident. You're also wishing there was something you could do to stack the deck in your favor. There is. The first completely accessible and practical guide to getting ahead in business... (more)
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  Only the Paranoid Survive

  How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company

  by Andrew S. Grove

  Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel has become the world's largest chip maker and one of the most admired companies in the world. In Only the Paranoid Survive , Grove reveals his strategy of focusing on a new way of measuring the nightmare moment every leader dreads--when massive change occurs and a company must, virtually overnight, adapt or fall by the wayside. Grove calls such a moment a Strategic Inflection... (more)
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  Tough Calls

  by Harlan Steinbaum

  “Tough Calls from the Corner Office” is a great read for anyone who is interested in the interplay between character, luck, and talent in the lives of successful people. ” (Bill DeWitt III, President, St. Louis Cardinals ) “Refreshingly intimate and candid, these personal reflections from some of America’s top business leaders offer insight into their choices and decisions. CEOs and those aspiring to lead will... (more)
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  We the people : an introduction to American politics

  by Benjamin Ginsberg, Theodore J. Lowi, Margaret Weir, Robert J. Spitzer

  The new Essentials Edition incorporates popular features from the Full Edition, including the What Government Does and Why It Matters chapter introductions and the new Get Involved units, in a significantly briefer format. With two chapters on domestic and foreign policy, and a built-in study guide at the end of every chapter, the Essentials Edition is the perfect choice for courses where a concise but... (more)
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  The Walk Series: Book 1

  The Walk

  by Richard Paul Evans

  The first novel in an inspiring new series about an executive who loses everything and embarks on a walk that takes him across America
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  Sedona O'Hala Mystery Series: Book 2

  Executive Retention

  by Maria E. Schneider

  After solving one case of corporate crime, Sedona expected to get her peaceful life back. Problem: She is still a manager at Strandfrost, and there is still rampant jealousy over her promotion. Is the danger of being railroaded by her not-so-illustrious colleagues worse than taking a new undercover job from Steve Huntington? Crooks are coming out of the woodwork and family troubles are stewing. Sedona needs to... (more)
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  Management Challenges for the 21st Century

  by Peter F. Drucker

  Peter F. Drucker discusses how the new paradigms of management have changed and will continue to change our basic assumptions about the practices and principles of management. Forward-looking and forward-thinking, Management Challenges for the 21st Century combines the broad knowledge, wide practical experience, profound insight, sharp analysis, and enlightened common sense that are the essence of Drucker's... (more)
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  Leadership

  by Rudolph W. Giuliani

  Rudolph Giuliani demonstrates how the leadership skills he practices can be employed successfully by anyone who has to run anything. Opens with a gripping account of Giuliani's immediate reaction to the September 11 attacks, including a narrow escape from the original crisis command headquarters, and closes with the efforts to address the aftermath during his remaining tenure.