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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)

Restoring the American Dream: A Working Families' Agenda for America

Restoring the American Dream: A Working Families' Agenda for America

by Thomas A. Kochan

Many American families have not prospered in the new "knowledge economy." The layoffs, restructurings, and wage and benefit cuts that have followed the short-lived boom of the 1990s threaten our deeply held values of justice, fairness, family, and work. These values—and not those superficial ones political pollsters ask about—are the foundation of the American dream of good jobs, fair pay, and opportunities for... (more)

Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People

Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People

by Charles A. O'Reilly

Discover How the Best Companies Win Not By Acquiring the Right People—But By Building the Right Organization The "war for talent" is one battle every company believes it should be waging. But while competitors are busy chasing after the same "hot" individuals, smart companies are doing something infinitely more useful and far more difficult to copy—they're building organizations that make it possible for... (more)

Building Leaders: How Successful Companies Develop the Next Generation (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series)

Building Leaders: How Successful Companies Develop the Next Generation (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series)

by Jay Alden Conger

Base your leadership development programs on proven-to-work techniques. In Building Leaders , authors Conger and Benjamin examine the very best practices of American and foreign companies to present a comprehensive plan for developing leadership talent at every organizational level. Here, readers will find an in-depth presentation of the specific skill sets that individual managers need in order to lead. They'll... (more)

Peak Performance: Aligning the Hearts and Minds of Your Employees

Peak Performance: Aligning the Hearts and Minds of Your Employees

by Jon R. Katzenbach

Outperforming the Competition with Employees' Positive Emotional Energy It takes a fired-up workforce to deliver consistently higher levels of performance than its competition. What fuels the fire? Emotional commitment to company success, says Jon Katzenbach. Drawing on an in-depth study of twenty-five enterprises -including Marriott International, The Home Depot, Hewlett-Packard, Southwest Airlines, and the... (more)

The Maslow Business Reader

by Deborah C. Stephens

Includes Original Essays & Letters "The more evolved and psychologically healthy people get, the more will enlightened management policy be necessary in order to survive in competition and the more handicapped will be an enterprise with an authoritarian policy."-Abraham Maslow In a world in which each new day brings a new management theory or strategic proposition, the timeless ideas of Abraham... (more)

The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker

The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker

by Mike Rose

As did the national bestseller Nickel and Dimed , Mike Rose’s revelatory book demolishes the long-held notion that people who work with their hands make up a less intelligent class. He shows us waitresses making lightning-fast calculations, carpenters handling complex spatial mathematics, and hairdressers, plumbers, and electricians with their aesthetic and diagnostic acumen. Rose, an educator who is... (more)

Health and Economic Growth: Findings and Policy Implications

Health and Economic Growth: Findings and Policy Implications

Although human capital is a clear determinant of economic growth, it is only recently that health's role in this process has become a focus of serious academic inquiry. By marrying the separate fields of health economics and macroeconomic growth theory, this groundbreaking book explores the explicit mechanisms by which a population's individual and collective health status affects a nation's economic development... (more)

Wisdom from the Ancients: Enduring Business Lessons from Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and the Illustrious Leaders of Ancient Greece and Rome

Wisdom from the Ancients: Enduring Business Lessons from Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and the Illustrious Leaders of Ancient Greece and Rome

by Thomas J. Figueira

Timeless business wisdom from the brilliant strategists of ancient Greece and Rome. Ancient Greece, the culture that brought us democracy, philosophy, comedy and tragedy, and the Olympic Games, and ancient Rome, best known for its military prowess, technological achievements, and imperial administration, are justly renowned for their contributions to Western civilization. Wisdom from the Ancients brings alive... (more)

Ten Commandments of Business and How to Break ThemWilliam Fromm

Ten Commandments of Business and How to Break Them

by Bill Fromm

In this "how I do it better" book, Fromm identifies ten statements of conventional business wisdom that he believes should be broken. For example, the first commandment he suggests to break is "Thy Customer Is King." Instead Fromm says, "if you want your people to deliver outstanding customer service, then you need to treat them as if they were more important than customers." He takes other theories like "Rank... (more)

Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We are Way Above Average

Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We are Way Above Average

by Joseph T. Hallinan

We forget our passwords. We pay too much to go to the gym. We think we’d be happier if we lived in California (we wouldn’t), and we think we should stick with our first answer on tests (we shouldn’t). Why do we make mistakes? And could we do a little better? We human beings have design flaws. Our eyes play tricks on us, our stories change in the retelling, and most of us are fairly sure we’re way above... (more)

Linkage Inc.'s Best Practices in Leadership Development Handbook (A Jossey Bass Title)David Giber (Editor), Louis Carter (Editor), Marshall Goldsmith (Editor) Warren Bennis (Foreword)

Linkage Inc.'s Best Practices in Leadership Development Handbook (A Jossey Bass Title)

by David Giber (Editor), Louis Carter (Editor), Marshall Goldsmith (Editor) Warren Bennis (Foreword)

Race and Entrepreneurial Success: Black-, Asian-, and White-Owned Businesses in the United States

Race and Entrepreneurial Success: Black-, Asian-, and White-Owned Businesses in the United States

by Robert W. Fairlie

Thirteen million people in the United States—roughly one in ten workers—own a business. And yet rates of business ownership among African Americans are much lower and have been so during the last 100 years. In addition, and perhaps more importantly, businesses owned by African Americans tend to have lower sales, fewer employees and smaller payrolls, lower profits, and higher closure rates. In contrast, Asian... (more)

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