Selections from current business titles and best-sellers


10.9.00    Turning Around the Inevitable Failure
Soul Food: Fifty-Two Principles for Black Entrepreneurial Success -- Part 2

10.2.00    Making Use of Your Down Time
Soul Food: Fifty-two principles for black entrepreneurial success -- Part 1

9.25.00    Mark Breier: Don't Forget to Have Fun
The 10-Second Internet Manager -- Survive, Thrive & Drive Your Company in the Information Age (Part Three)

9.18.00    Mark Breier: Make Feedback Your Friend
The 10-Second Internet Manager -- Survive, Thrive & Drive Your Company in the Information Age (Part Two)

9.11.00    Moving at Warp Speed
The 10-Second Internet Manager -- Survive, Thrive & Drive Your Company in the Information Age (Part One)

8.28.00    Finding the Right Balance
Take this test from:"Act On It! Solving 101 of the Toughest Management Challenges" )

8.21.00    Moving from Doer to Manager
from:"Act On It! Solving 101 of the Toughest Management Challenges"

8.14.00    Earning Employees' Admiration
Act On It! Solving 101 of the Toughest Management Challenges

8.7.00    Victory from Defeat
Workplace Warrior: Insights and Advice for Winning on the Corporate Battlefield (Part 3)

7.31.00    The Manager's Arsenal
Workplace Warrior: Insights and Advice for Winning on the Corporate Battlefield (Part 2)

7.24.00    The First Battle: Finding Investors
Workplace Warrior: Insights and Advice for Winning on the Corporate Battlefield (Part 1)

7.17.00    Finally Up and Running
The Leap, A memoir of love and madness in the Internet gold rush (Part 3)

7.10.00    The Leap
A memoir of love and madness in the Internet gold rush (Part 2)

6.26.00    "The Leap, A Memoir of Love and Madness in the Internet Gold Rush" (Part 1)
Tom Ashbrook was a longtime writer and editor for the Boston Globe. In this first-person tale, he tells how he became one of the founders of HomePortfolio.Inc. with college friend Rolly Rouse.

6.12.00    Jack Trout: Differentiation Often Requires Sacrifice
From"Differentiate or Die: Survival in Our Era of Killer Competition"

6.5.00    Price Cutting Is Poor Marketing
From"Differentiate or Die: Survival in Our Era of Killer Competition"

5.22.00    Jack Trout: An Overload of Choices Can Kill Your Company
From "Differentiate or Die: Survival in Our Era of Killer Competition"

5.12.00    A Manifesto for a Work-Family Truce
From "Work and Family — Allies Or Enemies?"

5.5.00    I Make a Great Living. How Come I Feel Like a Lousy Parent?
From "Work and Family — Allies Or Enemies?"

4.28.00    Rigid Gender Roles Thwart Efforts to Balance Home and Career
Excerpt from "Work and Family — Allies Or Enemies?"

4.14.00    Is the CEO Whose IPO Hit It Big a Mythical Creature?
Excerpt from Net Slaves: True Tales of Working the Web

4.7.00    The Social Workers of Cyberspace: Hosts, Guides, and Experts in Obscure Lore
Excerpt from Net Slaves: True Tales of Working the Web

3.31.00    The Net Business Is a Caste System
Excerpt from Net Slaves: True Tales of Working the Web

3.24.00    Your Offices Speak Volumes About Your Company's Culture
Excerpt from Care to Compete?

3.17.00    Bending without Breaking: How One Company Embraced Flexibility
Excerpt from Care to Compete?

3.10.00    Modeling A Travel Company after the Family Farm
Excerpt from Care to Compete?

3.3.00    In-Laws, Heirs, and Spouses: The Ants at the Family-Biz Picnic
Excerpt from Keep the Family Baggage out of the Family Business

2.25.00    It Can Be as Controversial to Replace Long-time Employees as Relatives
Excerpt from Keep the Family Baggage out of the Family Business

2.18.00    When Family Conflicts Come to the Office
Excerpt from Keep the Family Baggage out of the Family Business

2.11.00    She Followed Her Heart and Built a Business with a Greater Purpose
Excerpts from Women's Ventures, Women's Visions

2.4.00    How Belinda Guadarrama Challenged the Defense Industry
Excerpts from Women's Ventures, Women's Visions

1.28.00    Wake Up, and Smell the Coffee: People Flock to Family-Friendly Companies
Excerpts from Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay

1.21.00    It's No Mystery Why Some People Lose Staff — They're Jerks
Excerpts from Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay

1.14.00    Keep Employees in the Dark, and They'll Go Where It's Light
Excerpts from Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay

1.7.00    Why Guess What Will Keep Your Employees? Ask Them!
Excerpts from Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay

12.10.99    Will You Be Holding the Bag When Web Investors Regain Their Senses?
Excerpts from The Internet Bubble: Inside the Overvalued World of High-Tech Stocks and What You Need to Know to Avoid the Coming Shakeout

12.3.99    Hey, Kid...Want to See My Web Site?
Excerpts from Clicking Through: A Survival Guide for Bringing Your Company Online

11.19.99    Liability without Borders: International Advertising on the Web
Excerpts from Clicking Through: A Survival Guide for Bringing Your Company Online

11.11.99    Who Owns Your Web Site Anyway? The Surprising Truth...
Excerpts from Clicking Through: A Survival Guide for Bringing Your Company Online

11.5.99    For a Fee, We'll Defraud You
Excerpt from Fraud! How to Protect Yourself from Schemes, Scams, and Swindles

10.29.99    Have I Got a Franchise for You! Be Your Own Boss, Easy Money...
Excerpt from Fraud! How to Protect Yourself from Schemes, Scams, and Swindles

10.22.99    Fabulous "High-Tech" Business Opportunities that Will Cost You Dearly
Excerpt from Fraud! How to Protect Yourself from Schemes, Scams, and Swindles

10.15.99    The Wild Side of Management Theory Is Where the Money Is
Excerpts from The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus

10.8.99    Have Management Gurus Made Us Slaves or Superheroes?
Excerpts from The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus

10.1.99    Management Gurus: Charlatans or Visionaries?
Excerpts from The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus

9.24.99    China's Environmental Crisis of 2012 Spurs an Entrepreneurial Japan
Excerpts from The Long Boom: A Vision for the Coming Age of Prosperity

9.17.99    Looking Back from 2050: New Politics for a New Economy
Excerpts from The Long Boom: A Vision for the Coming Age of Prosperity

9.10.99    How the World Got Networked, and Bill Gates Became a Good Guy
Excerpts from The Long Boom: A Vision for the Coming Age of Prosperity

9.3.99    Could Anyone Have Thought Up Hotmail?
Excerpts from The Nudist on the Late Shift

8.27.99    A Parisian in America Braves Silicon Valley's Ultracapitalist Ethos
Excerpts from The Nudist on the Late Shift

8.20.99    The Line between Work and Play Vanishes in Silicon Valley
Excerpts from The Nudist on the Late Shift

8.13.99    Why the Old Excuses for Not Hiring Women and Minorities Don't Wash
Excerpts from Race, Gender & Rhetoric

8.6.99    It's Hard to Ignore a Bill When the Collector Is Looking Right at You
Excerpts from How To Collect Debts (And Still Keep Your Customers)

7.30.99    Time is the Debtor's Weapon
Excerpts from How To Collect Debts (And Still Keep Your Customers)

7.23.99    Unpaid Bills? Don't Rush to Throw Stones at Your Collections Staff
Excerpts from How To Collect Debts (And Still Keep Your Customers)

7.16.99    Selfish Reasons Not to Sell Your Customers' Information
Excerpts from Permission Marketing

7.9.99    Applying the Old Marketing Rules to the Cyber World
Excerpts from Permission Marketing

7.2.99    How Technology Can Trump In-Your-Face Selling
Excerpts from Permission Marketing

6.25.99    Why Microsoft Keeps Betting the Company on Something New
Excerpts from The 12 Simple Secrets of Microsoft Management

6.18.99    Big Bill Is Watching You
Excerpts from The 12 Simple Secrets of Microsoft Management

6.11.99    The Code at Microsoft: What Have You Done for Us Lately?
Excerpts from The 12 Simple Secrets of Microsoft Management

6.4.99    How Sherrie Myers Made Lansing Love Her Baseball Team
Excerpts from Women Entrepreneurs Only: 12 Women Entrepreneurs Tell the Stories of Their Success

5.28.99    How Jenny Craig Turned a Weight Problem into a Business Colossus
Excerpts from Women Entrepreneurs Only: 12 Women Entrepreneurs Tell the Stories of Their Success

5.21.99    How Mary Ellen Sheets Fell into the Macho Moving Business
Excerpts from Women Entrepreneurs Only: 12 Women Entrepreneurs Tell the Stories of Their Success

5.14.99    What to Do When Your Suitor Starts Slashing the Bid
Excerpts from How to Sell Your Business — and get what you want!

5.7.99    When Your Company's on the Market, Play It Close to the Vest
Excerpts from How to Sell Your Business — and get what you want!