Proposes applying the author's business strategies for transforming companies to nonprofit and public organizations to help them increase efficiency and most benefit the clients they serve.

With Leadership Lessons from West Point as a guide, leaders in the business, nonprofit, and government sectors can learn leadership techniques and practices from contributors who are teaching or have taught at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and have served in positions of leadership that span the globe. These military experts cover a broad range of topics that are relevant to any leadership development program in any sector. The articles in this important resource offer insight into what leadership means to these experts—in both war and peacetime—and describe their views on quiet leadership, mission, values, taking care of people, organizational learning, and leading change.

A collection of favorite articles published by the popular business magazine throughout the past ten years includes 'The Brand Called You' by Tom Peters, 'The Six Myths of Creativity' by Bill Breen, and 'In Search of Courage' by John McCain. 25,000 first printing.

A portrait of one of the business world's most esteemed women executives describes her emotionally impoverished childhood, takeover of The Washington Post after her husband's suicide, and controversial leadership decisions during her publication of the Pentagon Papers and coverage of Watergate. 20,000 first printing.

The co-authors of Good to Great present a hardcover edition of a business guide based on six years of research at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, during which they examined eighteen successful companies and identified hundreds of specific, applicable ways to promote exceptional performance.

Product Description: Empresas que perduran, el libro definitorio de administración de los años 90, mostró cómo triunfan a la larga las grandes compañías y cómo se preparan para producir resultados sostenidos. Pero, ¿qué pasa con las compañías que no tienen esa disposición innata? ¿Cómo pueden las compañías buenas, las mediocres, o aun las malas, alcanzar grandeza perdurable? Durante varios años estos interrogantes preocuparon a Jim Collins...read more

Product Description: An exploration by nine key thinkers of the popularization of elite tastes for mass audiences, High-Pop challenges the project of cultural studies to focus on all-but-ignored forms of mainstream culture. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Discusses the many mysterious, unexplained losses of ships and planes in the area of the Atlantic Ocean between Florida and Bermuda. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A special 15th anniversary edition of this principle-centred approach for solving personal and professional problems.

Product Description: First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Adrian Saxe, the contemporary Californian ceramist, takes his inspiration from such diverse sources as Chinese bronzes, French porcelain garnitures and American pop culture, to produce pieces which are astonishing and entertaining technical tours de force...read more

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Product Description: Film Theory Goes to the Movies fills the gap in film theory literature which has failed to analyze high-grossing blockbusters. The contributors in this volume, however, discuss such popular films as The Silence of the Lambs, Dances With Wolves, Terminator II, Pretty Woman, Truth or Dare, Mystery Train, and Jungle Fever...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A discussion of several UFO sightings including a description of the objects and speculations about their origins.

Discusses numerous firsts in outer space exploration including the Apollo, Sputnik, and Explorer flights.

Explores the amazing powers of the Israeli psychic who seems to transform mental energy into a physical force