Crown Business imprint: 386 books
Debt Free For Life
The Finish Rich Plan for Financial Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
GOODBYE DEBT—HELLO FREEDOM!
Most of us grew up with the idea that there is good debt and there is bad debt. Good debts are generally considered to be debts you incur to buy things that can go up in value—like a home or college education. Bad debts are things like credit card balances,...
Safety Net
The Strategy for De-Risking Your Investments in a Time of Turbulence
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
How can you construct a financial investment strategy to protect yourself … yet still get the growth to ensure a solid financial future and comfortable retirement during these turbulent times?
By building an investing safety net that gives you the gains needed for growth – though more modest...
Makers
The New Industrial Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
**3D Robotics co-founder and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. **
In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design...
The Map of Innovation
Creating Something Out of Nothing
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2003
How did Kevin O’Connor help create DoubleClick, the innovative marketing technology company...two software companies...dozens of products...and now the “disappearing” DVD, a product that will turn the home video market on its head?
Sheer brilliance? While O’Connor is very smart indeed,...
You Need a Leader--Now What?
How to Choose the Best Person for Your Organization
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
** Solving the Leadership Jigsaw Puzzle**
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You have a key leadership job to fill. You want the very best person.
What exactly does this really mean?
How often have you seen someone with great credentials and terrific buzz take an important job, but before long people are wondering “what...
by Bill Butterworth
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2006
Life is more like a marathon than a sprint. Here’s how to stay well conditioned.
Bill Butterworth will make you laugh–and learn while you’re doing it! In the opening chapter of this powerful little book, Bill shares with you how, while running his rotund body in a nightmarish 440-yard...
How to Retire the Cheapskate Way
The Ultimate Cheapskate's Guide to a Better, Earlier, Happier Retirement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Unlike most retirement planning and lifestyle books that focus on investing – or at the other end of the spectrum, on how to get the senior discount on a Grand Slam Breakfast at Denny’s – this new book from Jeff Yeager, America’s favorite cheapskate, makes the compelling case that you...
The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers
The Guide for Achieving Success and Satisfaction
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2003
What is different about the careers of people like Lou Gerstner, the acclaimed, recently retired chairman and CEO of IBM? Or Senator Elizabeth Dole, Yahoo! COO Dan Rosensweig, and Tom Freston, chairman and CEO of MTV Networks?
Why did they ascend to the top and prosper—why did they have extraordinary...
1,001 Ways to Keep Customers Coming Back
WOW Ideas That Make Customers Happy and Will Increase Your Bottom Line
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Sure-Fire, Can't-Miss Tips, Techniques, and Ideas for Building Lifelong Customer Loyalty
Imagine having the customer-service secrets of the world's most successful businesses right at your fingertips. With this book you can! Authors Donna Greiner and Theodore Kinni spent five years uncovering how...
Charles Schwab's New Guide to Financial Independence Completely Revised and Upda ted
Practical Solutions for Busy People
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“There are dozens of primers on investing, but Schwab’s is straightforward and carefully organized. . . . The glimmers of his personal life are gems. . . . By now, Schwab is a financial brand name, and the lessons from his rich life make for good reading—and good investing.” —Suze Orman,...
You're Fifty-Now What?
Investing for the Second Half of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
Every eight seconds someone in this country turns 50, an age at which even baby boomers can no longer put off becoming fiscally responsible and planning for the future. For everyone who finds that thought daunting (and that's an awful lot of us), Charles R. Schwab, America's most trusted figure in...
It Pays to Talk
How to Have the Essential Conversations with Your Family About Money and Investing
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2002
Does your family talk about money?
Do your kids understand your money values?
Do you and your mate agree on how you spend and invest your money?
Do you know if your parents are financially secure?
These are the questions that Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz and her father, Charles...
Friend & Foe
When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
What does it take to succeed? This question has fueled a long-running debate. Some have argued that humans are fundamentally competitive, and that pursuing self-interest is the best way to get ahead. Others claim that humans are born to cooperate and that we are most successful when we collaborate...
The Unfair Trade
How Our Broken Global Financial System Destroys the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
A wake-up call for middle class Americans who feel trapped in a post-crisis economic slump, The Unfair Trade is a riveting exposé of the vast global financial system whose flaws are the source of our economic malaise. Our livelihoods are now, more than ever, beholden to the workings of its imbalances...