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Getting to Yes offers a concise, step-by-step, proven strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in every sort of conflict—whether it involves parents and children, neighbors, bosses and employees, customers or corporations, tenants or diplomats. Based on the work of the Harvard Negotiation Project, a group that deals continually with all levels of negotiation and conflict resolution from domestic to business to international, Getting to Yes tells you how to:. * Separate the peop more...

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“The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs reveals the operating system behindany great presentation and provides you with a quick-start guide to designyour ownpassionate interfaces with your audiences.” —Cliff Atkinson, author of Beyond Bullet Points and The Activist Audience. Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s wildly popular presentations have set a new globalgold standard—and now this step-by-step guide shows you exactly how to usehiscrowd-pleasing techniques in your own presentations.The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs is as close as you’ll ever get tohaving the master presenter himself speak directly in your ear.Communications expert Carmine Gallo has studied and analyzed the very bestof Jobs’s performances, offering point-by-point examples, tried-and-truetechniques, and proven presentation secrets that work every time. With thisrevolutionary approach, you’ll be surprised at how easy it is to sell yourideas, share your enthusiasm, and wow your audience the Steve Jobs way. “No other leader captures an audience like Steve Jobs does and, like no other book, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs captures the formula Steve uses to enthrall audiences.”. --Rob Enderle, The Enderle Group. “Now you can learn from the best there is--both Jobs and Gallo. No matter whether you are a novice presenter or a professional speaker like me, you will read and reread this book with the same enthusiasm that people bring to their iPods.". --David Meerman Scott, bestselling author of The New Rules of Marketing & PR and World Wide Rave more...

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A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America’s financial history by an acclaimed New York Times ReporterAndrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the corridors of Washington, Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego and greed, and, ultimately, the fate of the world’s economy.“We’ve got to get some foam down on the runway!” a sleepless Timothy Geithner, the then-president of the Federal Reserve of New York, would tell Henry M. Paulson, the Treasury secretary, about the catastrophic crash the world’s financial system would experience.Through unprecedented access to the players involved, Too Big to Fail re-creates all the drama and turmoil, revealing neverdisclosed details and elucidating how decisions made on Wall Street over the past decade sowed the seeds of the debacle. This true story is not just a look at banks that were “too big to fail,” it is a real-life thriller with a cast of bold-faced names who themselves thought they were too big to fail. more...

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The second edition of this bestseller examines the tumultuous history of America’s best-known Silicon Valley start-up, from its legendary founding almost 30 years ago, through a series of disastrous executive decisions, to its return to profitability, including Apple’s recent move into the music business. This updated and expanded edition is full of juicy quotes, timelines, charts, and photos. more...

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The essential complement to the pathbreaking book Competitive Strategy, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Advantage explores the underpinnings of competitive advantage in the individual firm. With over 30 printings in English and translated into thirteen languages, this second volume in Porter's landmark trilogy describes how a firm actually gains an advantage over its rivals. Competitive Advantage introduces a whole new way of understanding what a firm does. Porter's groundbreaking concept of the value chain disaggregates a company into "activities," or the discrete functions or processes that represent the elemental building blocks of competitive advantage. more...

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