The Visionary's Handbook: Nine Paradoxes That Will Shape the Future of Your Business
Watts Wacker Howard Means Jim Taylor

Building upon the Age of Possibility first espoused in their provocative and acclaimed The 500 Year Delta, Watts Wacker and Jim Taylor now welcome readers to the Age of Uncertainty, where, because life has never been easier, it has never been more difficult.

In this unprecedented new book, Wacker and Taylor present a vision of the present and future that goes beyond all the chaos and complexity of our times. With a clear and firm grasp of their material, they proceed to chart a method for readers to create a personal course for the future.

This navigational route is premised upon the authors' profound understanding of nine mind-boggling paradoxes that capture the imponderables of modern life, and define the business and social climates of the world as we move forward into the new millennium.

Sandbox Wisdom: Revolutionize Your Brand with the Genius of Childhood
Author: Thomas Eric Asacker

What people think about you or your company is unimportant.

That's just one of the startling insights revealed in this heartwarming parable about a confused and disillusioned CEO whose encounter with an amiable millionaire and an adorable little girl changes his business, and his life, forever. In Sandbox Wisdom, speaker, columnist, and former CEO Tom Asacker delivers a wake-up call designed to challenge conventional wisdom and encourage managers and their associates to reexamine their assumptions about business, success, and the meaning of work.

Find Your Calling, Love Your Life: Paths to Your Truest Self in Life and Work Author: Martha I. Finney, Deborah Dasch

In Find Your Calling, Love Your Life, Martha Finney and Deborah Dasch tell twenty inspirational stories of people who have taken the steps to build a life's happiness out of a life's love. These are everyday men and women who have found their greatness and growth through their work. Each first-person account will help put you on your own path to an authentic life. Whether you're a fifty-seven-year-old organic gardener, a twenty-eight-year-old cafe manager, or a forty-year-old television executive, the journey to your calling asks that you aim high and keep an open mind and a hopeful heart so that you can see even failures and false starts as clues for the great things your calling has in store. Finney and Dasch have found that the search for your calling is both a detective story and a love story. "Your life might have been filled with clues and misleading seductions and disappointments. It's your task to sort all that out to arrive at the conclusion that will crack your case. And that conclusion will also bring you love. Love for the way you spend your days." But perhaps the happiest ending to this tale is that once you find your calling, you will never be out of work.

The Art of Simplicity (2 Cassettes)
Author: Thomas Moore

Moore goes beyond the naive get-back-to-the-country brand of simplicity, suggesting that community as well as technological, medical and economic progress can play a vital role in leading a simple existence. His telling anecdotes and clear suggestions lead one to look for the spiritual in the commonplace and accept guidance from one's intuition and imagination. Moore's voice is comforting and compatible with his message. His pacing is relaxed. His humor is easy and, at times, self-deprecating. All of this creates an intimacy in Moore's delivery that draws in the listener. ŠAudioFile, Portland, Maine.

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement without Giving In
Author: Roger Fisher, William Ury, Bruce Patton (Editor)

In this new edition, two negotiation experts from Harvard offer a universally applicable method for negotiating personal and professional disputes without getting taken--and without getting nasty. Concise, step-by-step, proven strategies aid the reader in coming to mutually acceptable agreements in any type of conflict.

The Information Specialist's Guide to Searching and Researching on the Internet and the World Wide Web
Author:Ernest C. Ackermann, Karen Hartman

Here are techniques and strategies for navigating the World Wide Web, with results in quick, efficient, and in-depth research results. The major databases are covered in detail and the top search engines are described and contrasted. The enclosed CD-ROM contains Netscape Navigator 4.

Strictly Speaking
Author: Reid Buckley

Reid Buckley's Indispensable Handbook on Public Speaking

Strategy and Enterprise Value in the Relationship Economy
Author: Bruce Morgan

Strategy and Enterprise Value in the Relationship Economy represents a major breakthrough in providing enterprise managers, investors, and even economists, with answers to these crucial questions. Bruce Morgan's incisive, read-it-now volume articulates a comprehensive relationship-based business theory, pinpoints common misconceptions about today's economic environment, and offers specific, proven measures for linking and enhancing the relationship between shareholders' value and corporate objectives to the utmost.

Discovering Data Mining
Author: Alessandro Zanasi, Peter Cabena, Rolf Stadler, Jaap Verhees, Pablo Hadjinian

Through extensive case studies and examples, this book provides practical guidance on all aspects of implementing data mining: technical, business, and social. The book also demonstrates IBM's powerful new intelligent Miner tool and shows how it can be applied.

The Knowledge-Creating Company How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation
Author: Ikujiro Nonaka, Hirotaka Takeuchi

The authors contend that Japanese firms are successful because they are innovative--and not merely masters of imitation as some think--and because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. Illustrations.

Creativity Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. The author's objective is to offer an understanding of what leads to these moments, be it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the lab, so that knowledge can be used to enrich people's lives. Drawing on 100 interviews with exceptional people, from biologists and physicists to politicians and business leaders, poets and artists, as well as his 30 years of research on the subject, Csikszentmihalyi uses his famous theory to explore the creative process. He discusses such ideas as why creative individuals are often seen as selfish and arrogant, and why the tortured genius is largely a myth. Most important, he clearly explains why creativity needs to be cultivated and is necessary for the future of our country, if not the world.

Rethinking the Future - Rethinking Business, Principles, Competition, Control and Complexity, Leadership, Markets and the World
Author: Rowan Gibson

In a series of original and inspiring contributions, a celebrated group of authors that includes Stephen Covey and Peter Senge defines the new paradigm that will revolutionize business and society in the 21st century. Rethinking the Future examines the changing role of the leader and the powerful influence in corporate culture. 288 pp.

The Hungry Spirit - Beyond Capitalism: A Quest for Purpose in the Modern World
Author: Charles Handy

Drawing on modern-day gurus as well as timeless thinkers, this book promises to transform the way people live and work by challenging them to insist on self-reliance, action, and creativity. Handy suggests that readers must rediscover their higher selves if life is going to mean more than just survival, and if economic growth is truly going to mean progress in business and society. 288 pp.

Enterprise One to One
Author: Don Peppers and Martha Rogers

In this brave new world of microchip technology, businesses have a great advantage in building unbreakable customer relationships. Peppers and Rogers explain what kinds of strategies are applicable to what kinds of businesses, and under what circumstances -- from cars to credit cards, clothing manufacturers to dry cleaners, long distance phone companies to computer resellers. Suddenly car manufacturers, supermarkets, credit card companies, and fashion houses can compete not on commodity rules and price wars, but on bold new rules. 244 pp.

Leading with Soul - An Uncommon Journey of Spirit
Author: Lee G. Bolman and Terrance E.

Deal This contemporary parable chronicles the journey of a dispirited leader in search of something more satisfying than the bottom line. The authors draw upon spiritual traditions, poetry and philosophy, teachings on leadership and organizations, and their own extensive consulting experience to offer inspiration for today's embattled leaders. 206 pp.