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A guide to the wisdom of business and commerce includes tip lists from such business leaders as Charles Schwab on mutual funds, Peter F. Drucker on leadership, and Andrew Carnegie on business success.

Here, in a wittily told and deeply insightful history, is a complete set of portraits of America's greatest generators of wealth. Only such a collective study allows us to appreciate what makes the great entrepreneurs really tick. As H.W. Brands shows, these men and women are driven, they are focused, they deeply identify with the businesses they create, and they possess the charisma necessary to persuade other talented people to join them. They do...

"Starting, funding, and growing a new venture are significant challenges for every entrepreneur. For women, the hurdles are even higher, due to widely held perceptions about them, their capabilities, and their businesses. Now, five leading experts on women entrepreneurs offer systematic solutions to the challenges, offering timely advice to women dedicated to achieving success and claiming the rewards." "Clearing the Hurdles draws on five years of...

To succeed in the global marketplace for new goods and services, American corporations must learn how to innovate and develop new businesses better and faster than their competition. To do this requires a special culture - one that is much different from the traditional culture of American business. Oden's unique book looks, for the first time, at the relationships among these elements - innovation, intrapreneurship, and corporate culture - and points...

"As a teacher, Leo Helzel dedicated his life to showing others, especially young people, how to make their dreams of success come true, as many of his have."--BOOK JACKET. "One of the best ways to help people achieve their goals, he discovered, was with brevity and humor. So he gathered the hundreds of aphorisms in this book to benefit others yearning to succeed in business. These pithy sayings from Leo and his friends - who include the CEOs of the...

"The Weightless Society shows why entrepreneurship will become a mass activity, companies will need to be structured as if they were brains, ownership must be broadly spread, networks will become the main way of organizing the knowledge economy, and truth and collaboration will be the new ethics of the new economy. Perhaps most compellingly, he shows how the same principles are being applied in the public sector. Leadbeater argues for a radical overhaul...

This book presents innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline that explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial economy. The author explains what established businesses, public service institutions, and new ventures need to know and do to succeed in today's economy.

This book presents the voice and vision of General Electric's CEO and Chairman of the Board Jack Welch as he gives the insights, visions, and philosophies that have guided Welch throughout his extraordinary career at GE and his post-GE life. This book offers an objective assessment of Welch-from the management principles that helped him soar to the controversy surrounding his compensation package and provides lessons in leadership that cannot be found...