"This book explains how Billy Beene, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, is using a new kind of thinking to build a successful and winning baseball team without spending enormous sums of money. The author examines the fallacy behind the major league baseball refrain that the team with the biggest wallet is supposed to win. Over the past four years the Oakland Athletics, a major league team with a minor league payroll, have had one of the...

Explains how to transform ideas into action, offering a step-by-step approach to launching great products, services, and companies and demonstrating how managers can unleash a creative approach to business at established companies.

The author recounts his decision to earn an MBA from a prestigious Ivy League school to become a management consultant, recalling how his first two years in corporate America were marked by misguided advice, politics, and power struggles.

Solutions for falling sales and faltering retailers In Winning at Retail, two prominent retail consultants offer strategies for retailers and chains suffering at the hands of decreased sales numbers. Using case studies from such success stories as Costco, Target, and Walgreens, they cover customer service, retail strategy, demographics, and the latest trends in retailing. For retailers to survive, they must adapt to the new realities of the marketplace....

"The NYT-bestselling author of Multipliers explains why some employees are considered Impact Players, what they do differently to become irreplaceable, and how others can emulate them and make teams more productive"--

In this book, New Yorker columnist Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant--better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future. This seemingly counterintuitive notion has major ramifications for how businesses operate, how knowledge is advanced, how economies are (or should be) organized...

On the right-hand pages, you will find the fictional story of a woman who has to make a million dollars in ninety days or lose her two children forever. The left-hand pages give the practical, step-by-step nonfiction strategies and techniques that actually work in the real world ... The lessons here ... are about ... how to ethically make, keep, and share your wealth.-Dust jacket.

When the characters of Busytown put on their spooky costumes for "the best Halloween masquerade ever," you'll never guess who is scaring who.