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  Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, 20th Anniversary Edition

  by Al Ries, Jack Trout

  Ries and Trout taught me everything I know about branding, marketing, and product management. When I had the idea of creating a very large thematic community on the Web, I first thought of Positioning....--David Bohnett, Chairman and Founder of GeoCities A handsome edition of the original 1981 text, this 20th Anniversary Edition makes available to business and marketing professionals--including tens... (more)
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  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.
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  Small Business Kit for Dummies

  by Richard D. Harroch

  Imagine everything you'd ever need to start up and run your own small business packed into one convenient, easy-to-read book. Throw in a CD-ROM with more than 250 documents and forms, along with trial versions of great small business software programs, and you've got the new Small Business Kit For Dummies, your perfect resource for the daunting process of starting a small business venture. Small Business Kit... (more)
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  Pour Your Heart into It : How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

  by Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang

  The "BusinessWeek" bestseller, now in paperback. "Pour Your Heart Into It" tells the story of how small-company values, passion, and integrity turned six local coffee stories into the Starbucks chain.--"Fortune".
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  Costume and Fashion: A Concise History, Fourth Edition (World of Art)

  by James Laver, Amy De La Haye

  From the momentous invention of the needle some 40,000 years ago to the development of blue denim; from Neolithic weavers to the biggest names in the fashion industry today—this classic guide covers the landmarks of costume history, the forms and materials used through the ages, as well as the underlying motives of fashion and the ways in which clothes have been used to protect, to express identity, and to attract... (more)
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  The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams

  by Ken Blanchard

  This book is an invaluable addition to The One Minute Manager library because "it is clear that high-performing teams are the most important business trend for the 1990s," according to Dr. Ken Blanchard and his collaborators explain the four states of development all groups move through and reveal how a manager can help any group become fully effective. 6 charts.
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  ESPRESSO! Starting and Running Your Own Specialty Coffee Business

  by Joe Monaghan

  Based on the authors' 25 years of experience in the specialty coffee industry, this outstanding guide details every step in the startup process including operational options (shop, free-standing cart, concession, add-on to another restaurant or food service), location, leases, landlords, marketing, menus and financing. Contains time-saving organizers such as sample lease and useful business forms; insider tips on... (more)
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  Just Do It: The Nike Spirit in the Corporate World

  by Donald Katz

  An award-winning author penetrates Nike--a company of the future, a dream machine that seeks to redefine culture through the power of sports--to provide this portrait of Phil Knight, who pioneered the company from a two-man operation into a four billion-dollar corporation.
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  Technobrands: How to Create and Use, Brand Identity to Market, Advertise and Sell Technology Products

  by Chuck Pettis

  In TechnoBrands , Chuck Pettis introduces the first published step-by-step process for building brands. While modern day “branding” has been around for more than a century—everybody knows the power of names such as Coca-Cola, Microsoft, GE, Disney, Intel, or Nokia—very few people know the “secrets” of branding and how to successfully apply branding. Filled with examples and insights from successful... (more)
• How to prepare your portfolio : a guide for students and professionalsEd Marquand

  

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  How to prepare your portfolio : a guide for students and professionals

  by Ed Marquand

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  Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change

  by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony

  A Framework for Predicting Industry Winners and Losers Every day, individuals take action based on how they believe innovation will change industries. Yet these beliefs are largely based on guesswork and incomplete data, and lead to costly errors in judgment. Now, internationally renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen and his research partners Scott D. Anthony and Erik A. Roth present a... (more)
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  The One Minute Manager Anniversary Ed: The World's Most Popular Management Method

  by Ken Blanchard

  The original, best-selling blockbuster which has transformed businesses world-wide. Now available in audiobook on both cassette and CD. The blockbuster number 1 international bestselling phenomenon is back! not that it ever really went away. An easy to absorb story, which quickly demonstrates three very practical management techniques. It also includes information on several studies in medicine and in the... (more)
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  The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey

  by Ken Blanchard, William Oncken

  When a person goes to the boss with a problem and the boss agrees to do something about it, the monkey is off his back and onto the boss's. How can managers avoid these leaping monkeys? Here is priceless advice from three famous experts: how managers can meet their own priorities, give back other people's monkeys, and let them solve their own problems.