Don Hagen

A definitive study of executive failures-why they happen and how to prevent them. There's a scenario that keeps repeating itself in today's business climate. A company is voted one of the most admired in the world. Then three or four years later, it's in dire financial trouble. A CEO is celebrated on the covers of BusinessWeek, Forbes, and Fortune. Soon after, the company is in the midst of a disastrous merger or some other fiasco. What goes wrong...

Describes the true story of a Nazi party member and serial killer who attacked women riding on trains at night in World War II-era Berlin.

More than just the most influential chef of the late- twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries, Ferran Adrià is arguably the greatest culinary revolutionary of our time. Hailed as a genius and a prophet by fellow chefs, worshipped (if often misunderstood) by critics and lay diners alike, Adrià is imitated and paid homage to in professional kitchens, and in more than a few private ones, all over the world. A reservation at his restaurant, El Bulli,...

"A more powerful innovation, which seeks to discover not how things work but why we need things. The standard text on innovation advises would-be innovators to conduct creative brainstorming sessions and seek input from outsiders--users or communities. This kind of innovating can be effective at improving products but not at capturing bigger opportunities in the marketplace. In this book Roberto Verganti offers a new approach - one that does not set...

In a nutshell, doesn't so much of business boil down to whether or not you can persuade others around you? Whether it is a customer, a contractor, a board of directors, or your loyal staff, your ability to persuade others toward your point of view is absolutely essential if you are to find success. Merging research and real-world application, Persuasion Equation reveals what really drives decisions and introduces readers to the key formula for developing...

Over the past two decades, Michael Fullan has written influentially about the change that school and district leaders must bring about as formalized achievement standards and new technology transform how schools are run. What he hasn't done until now is explore and discuss in detail how and why the principal's role itself must change. Principals are often called the second most crucial in-school influencers (after teachers) of student learning. But...

With the explosion in Web, mobile, and social media marketing channels, you have an extraordinary array of new marketing options to choose from. Which ones work? How do you make them work--without wasting a fortune on trial and error? Get this audio book, that's how! Top Web marketing consultant Michael Tasner has written the definitive practical guide to driving maximum value from next-generation Web, online, mobile, and social marketing. Drawing...

Need money? Attract Money Now is the perfect blueprint for breaking free from debt, lack, struggle and fear. This is the exact same blueprint Dr. Joe Vitale used to go from a homeless nobody to a multimillionaire celebrity. It is a spiritual and practical system that will work for YOU. Attract Money Now reveals an easy, proven, 7-step formula you can use today to begin attracting money, getting out of debt, and ending the struggle once and for all....

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -ALBERT EINSTEIN In The Miracle, Joe helps us unearth the cause behind our deepest unconscious beliefs and shows us how to transform them. He offers several practical, hands-on processes for overcoming counterintentions. He teaches many methods for manifesting what we want to have, do, or be. He teaches us the difference...

Once a homeless man, poor and desperate, scrounging on the streets to get by, Dr. Vitale's could have been just another unremarkable life. Alone broke and far from home, he could have given up and thrown in the towel but his faith kept him going. Instead, he has gone from poverty on the streets of Houston, Texas in the 1970's to being able to influence millions with his own rags to riches story. In Faith, Dr. Joe Vitale reaches out again to his fans...