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INDIA ARRIVING: How This Economic Powerhouse is Redefining Global Business
By Rafiq Dossani
ISBN#978-08144-74242 $24.00
This former British colony has blossomed into the fastest-growing democracy in the world—and is well on its way to becoming the next economic force to be reckoned with. India has 600 million people under the age of 25 and a thriving middle class. Cities like Mumbai, Bangalore, and Delhi are now becoming the world’s newest centers of cultural and economic growth. Rafiq Dossani provides a unique and unflinching look at the people, history, and culture of an often romanticized, but often misunderstood country, with all of its flaws and all of its beauty. As an expert in Indian business policy, Dossani was influential in helping introduce several reforms to the Indian government. Now, with an insider's eye, he takes us through the rich history of this emerging economic powerhouse, exploring how the forces of history, education, political shifts, and social reform have helped shape modern India. Dossani also reveals how India has overcome corruption, an unwieldy bureaucracy, and a historically unstable economy to become a bastion of higher learning, technological development, and foreign investment.
Check out the Introduction to this fascinating book!
FROM DIFFICULT TO DISTURBED: Understanding and Managing Dysfunctional Employees
By Laurence Miller, Ph.D.
ISBN#978-08144-09220 $24.00
This book catapults you beyond cookie-cutter approaches to management by showing you how to apply the principles of psychology to the complex and often baffling real-world people problems you face every day in the office. Written by a practicing psychologist with a background in treating workplace dilemmas, this serious, practical book gives you down-to-earth strategies for dealing productively with the most challenging bosses and employees. Includes proven advice for managing diagnosable mental disorders such as anxiety, panic, depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, showing you how to take a firm but humane approach with troubled employees. You'll find advice on preventing workplace violence; dealing with stress; and managing unproductive, misbehaving, and hostile employees, no matter what the diagnosis or circumstance.
If you have some employees with “issues” you need to read this.
SOMETHING REALLY NEW: Three Simple Steps to Creating Truly Innovative Products
By Denis J. Hauptly
ISBN#978-08144-00326 $21.95
An innovation expert helps you look at three key approaches to product innovation—appearance, novelty, and utility—and shows you that the first two are short-lived. Competitors can mimic any variation in appearance and, as for novelty, how many people bought two Pet Rocks?
But if your product idea is meant to meet a practical need, you’re in luck. SOMETHING REALLY NEW helps you get right to the heart of utilitarian innovation—efficiency, or the saving of effort, time, money, or all three. This book shows you how to analyze a task—any task—in order to reduce and simplify the steps involved in accomplishing that task. It’s a time-tested innovation process that has brought us everything from the pop-up toaster to E-ZPass.
See why the key to coming up with new ideas involves asking the right questions.
THE MILLION-DOLLAR FINANCIAL SERVICES PRACTICE: A Proven System for Becoming a Top Producer
By David J. Mullen, Jr.
ISBN#978-08144-80526 $30.00
Widely recognized as one of the top producers, managers, and mentors in the industry, after close to thirty years at Merrill Lynch, David J. Mullen, Jr., knows exactly what it takes to build a phenomenally successful practice. Now he shares his career-spanning wealth of knowledge to show how you, too, can become a top producer and take your own business to the million-dollar level and beyond. Providing an invaluable, no-nonsense perspective on what is required to build a million- and multimillion-dollar practice, Mullen gives you an entire step-by-step system based on the same method he has taught at Merrill Lynch and is famous for within the industry. Packed with templates, scripts, letters, and 15 tried-and-true Market Action Plans, the book provides a clear vision for how you can build up your practice from the ground floor, or dramatically increase the profit of your already-established business.
Get an overview of this successful way to grow your business.
SUPPLY CHAIN COST MANAGEMENT: The AIM & DRIVE® Process for Achieving Extraordinary Results
By Jimmy Anklesaria
ISBN#9978-08144-74754 $39.95
Jimmy Anklesaria has spent years helping top companies like IBM, Nokia, Kodak, American Airlines, and Motorola save hundreds of millions of dollars in costs. Now he shows you how you can do the same with his proven, trademarked AIM & DRIVE® process. Filled with examples of companies that have made this process work, this book outlines some of the problems with cost management today and lays out a checklist for successfully implementing the process. With a straightforward, easy-to-understand approach, Anklesaria walks you through the eight-step AIM & DRIVE® process, and shows you how to select the right team to develop strategies and set goals, identify critical costs, and develop and define a comprehensive list of cost drivers.
Preview Anklesaria’s Eight-Step Process.
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BILLY, ALFRED AND GENERAL MOTORS: THE STORY OF TWO UNIQUE MEN, A LEGENDARY COMPANY, AND A REMARKABLE TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY
has won the Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot Award for the book, published in the English language in 2006, that represents the most outstanding writing and original research in automotive history. The Cugnot Award is presented annually by the Society of Automotive Historians (SAH) to both the author and the publisher of the book chosen. The SAH is a unique organization, combining as it does an international group of independent historians, university professors, and auto enthusiasts, and is an affiliate of the American Historical Association.
MORTGAGE CONFIDENTIAL
has been selected by Michelle Singletary for her October “Color of Money Book Club” column in THE WASHINGTON POST which is nationally syndicated in 140 different papers. The column appeared in THE WASHINGTON POST on Sunday, September 30th. The column will be featured online for the entire month of October. On October 24th the author will do an online chat on THE WASHINGTON POST's website answering questions about his book. See great review below!
MORTGAGE CONFIDENTIAL
Michelle Singletary, THE WASHINGTON POST: “The greatest service Reed provides is acting as an interpreter. ‘MORTGAGE CONFIDENTIAL’ is like reading the CliffsNotes for ‘Hamlet.’ You shouldn't substitute the notes for actually reading the play, but reading the notes beforehand can help you understand the language. You feel less intimidated…. If you don't want to be like a third of homeowners who don't know what type of loans they have, get a copy of this book."
THE FIRST-TIME HOMEOWNER’S SURVIVAL GUIDE 
Robert Bruss - Syndicated Real Estate Columnist with INMAN REAL ESTATE NEWS
"Whether you are a first-time home buyer or a long-time homeowner, you will profit from reading THE FIRST-TIME HOMEOWNER'S SURVIVAL GUIDE by Sid Davis. He is both an experienced real estate broker and a home renovator so he knows which home repairs and renovations will reflect well in home enjoyment and increased resale value...Whether you are the do-it-yourself type or you prefer to hire professionals, such as plumbers and electricians, this new book provides profitable information to save money and make the right choices. On my scale of one to 10, this superb book rates a solid 10."
THE GIRLS’ GUIDE TO BUILDING A MILLION-DOLLAR BUSINESS 
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: " …a useful and encouraging guide, providing solid advice and resources to help women achieve and sustain entrepreneurial success."
COMES THE DARKNESS, COMES THE LIGHT 
About.com
“It is a tribute to Vanessa Vega that her account is infused with gentleness. Kindness toward herself was one of the hardest things for Vega to grasp in recovery. Asking that readers view her life with care is a mark of healing and hope. This is perhaps the book's most lasting gift, because it is more than an account of issues that can be horrifying. It's a call to a greater level of compassion. Because Vega has learned more about compassion and forgiveness in her own life, the request she makes of readers feels honoring.”
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