Archive for March, 2008

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership FableThe Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable Once again using an astutely written fictional tale to unambiguously but painlessly deliver some hard truths about critical business procedures, Patrick Lencioni targets group behavior in the final entry of his trilogy of corporate fables. And like those preceding it, The Five Dysfunctions of a ...
March 31st, 2008 - Posted in Business & Investing

Stop the 401(k) Rip-off!: Eliminate Costly Hidden Fees to Improve Your Life

Stop the 401(k) Rip-off!: Eliminate Costly Hidden Fees to Improve Your LifeStop the 401(k) Rip-off!: Eliminate Costly Hidden Fees to Improve Your Life -- How would you spend an extra $4,000 a year for the next twenty-five years? -- How much more secure would your retirement be with an extra $100,000 or more? -- How much more time could you spend at your family dinner table if you could work an hour less each day? -- What would you do ...
March 31st, 2008 - Posted in Business & Investing

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded PlanetCommon Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet From one of the world's greatest economic minds, author of The New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty, a clear and vivid map of the road to sustainable and equitable global prosperity and an augury of the global economic collapse that lies ahead if we don't follow it The global economic ...
March 31st, 2008 - Posted in Business & Investing

Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter)

Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter)Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter) FOREWORD BY GUY KAWASAKI Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the net -- presentationzen.com -- shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, ...
March 31st, 2008 - Posted in Business & Investing

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without ThinkingBlink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes ...
March 31st, 2008 - Posted in Business & Investing

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Third Edition (PMBOK Guides)

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Third Edition (PMBOK Guides)A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Third Edition (PMBOK Guides) A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)—2000 Edition is now available in eight additional languages to help project managers around the world. Each of PMI's official translations includes a bilingual glossary of newly translated and standardized project ...
March 31st, 2008 - Posted in Business & Investing

Your Complete Retirement Planning Road Map: A Comprehensive Action Plan for Securing IRAs, 401(k)s, and Other Retirement Plans for Yourself and Your Family

Your Complete Retirement Planning Road Map: A Comprehensive Action Plan for Securing IRAs, 401(k)s, and Other Retirement Plans for Yourself and Your FamilyYour Complete Retirement Planning Road Map: A Comprehensive Action Plan for Securing IRAs, 401(k)s, and Other Retirement Plans for Yourself and Your Family Corporate pensions are disappearing. Social Security is in trouble. And the sizable postwar generation is reaching retirement age. With the futures of millions of Americans at stake, Ed Slott, the country’s foremost retirement planning adviser, now offers expert advice on weathering the ...
March 31st, 2008 - Posted in Business & Investing

The Official Guide for GMAT Review, 11th Edition

The Official Guide for GMAT Review, 11th EditionThe Official Guide for GMAT Review, 11th Edition
March 31st, 2008 - Posted in Business & Investing

The Retirement Savings Time Bomb . . . and How to Defuse It: A Five-Step Action Plan for Protecting Your IRAs, 401(k)s, and Other RetirementPlans from Near Annihilation by the Taxman

The Retirement Savings Time Bomb . . . and How to Defuse It: A Five-Step Action Plan for Protecting Your IRAs, 401(k)s, and Other RetirementPlans from Near Annihilation by the TaxmanThe Retirement Savings Time Bomb . . . and How to Defuse It: A Five-Step Action Plan for Protecting Your IRAs, 401(k)s, and Other RetirementPlans from Near Annihilation by the Taxman The premier guide for retirement and investment planning by “America’s IRA Expert” (Mutual Funds magazine)—fully updated to reflect the recent tax rule changes With the possible e xception of home property, the most valuable asset for most Americans is their retirement fund. Yet most ...
March 31st, 2008 - Posted in Business & Investing

The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash

The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit CrashThe Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash We are living in the most reckless financial environment in recent history. Arcane credit derivative bets are now well into the tens of trillions. According to Charles R. Morris, the astronomical leverage at investment banks and their hedge fund and private equity clients virtually ...
March 31st, 2008 - Posted in Business & Investing

The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness

The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial FitnessThe Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness The success stories speak for themselves in this book from money maestro Dave Ramsey. Instead of promising the normal dose of quick fixes, Ramsey offers a bold, no-nonsense approach to money matters, providing not only the how-to but also a grounded and uplifting hope for getting out of debt ...
March 31st, 2008 - Posted in Business & Investing

Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of EverythingFreakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists ...
March 31st, 2008 - Posted in Business & Investing