Career & Money

Research and Development
The Dumbest Moments in Business History: Useless Products, Ruinous Deals, Clueless Bosses, and Other Signs ofUnintelligent Life in the Workplace
by Adam Horowitz
A bad idea has to start somewhere. It's that old business maxim: You can't make a defective omelet without designing a really inefficient, expensive and dangerous way of breaking some eggs. Welcome to R&D.

Increasing Efficiency In Business: A Contribution to the Psychology of Business
by Walter Dill Scott, Ph.D.
The modern business man is the true heir of the old magicians. Every thing he touches seems to increase ten or a hundredfold in value and usefulness. All the old methods, old tools, old instruments have yielded to his transforming spell

People Who Hit Bottom When They Reach the Top
Reclaiming the Fire: How Successful People Overcome Burnout
by Steven Berglas, Ph.D.
Few highly successful people contact a mental health professional unless they experience a crisis. Actually, most successful professionals, even in the throes of a crisis, are loath to admit to needing a 'shrink.'

Success
by Baron Max Aitken Beaverbrook
Many serious letters and a half-humorous criticism in Punch suggest that I am to be regarded as the apostle of a pure materialism. That is not so. I quite recognise the existence of other ambitions in the walks of Art, Religion, or Literature.

Conscious Choice, Work Is a Way of Being
Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow
by Marsha Sinetar, Ph.D.
The very best way to relate to our work is to choose it. Right Livelihood is predicated upon conscious choice. Unfortunately, since we learn early to act on what others say, value, and expect, we often find ourselves a long way down the wrong road before

Self-Expression, Commitment, Mindfulness
Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow
by Marsha Sinetar, Ph.D.
Work is a natural vehicle for self-expression because we spend most of our time in its thrall. It simply makes no sense to turn off our personality, squelch our real abilities, forget our need for stimulation and personal growth forty hours out of every

The Power of Concentration
by Theron Q. Dumont
It was never intended that man should be poor. When wealth is obtained under the proper conditions it broadens the life. Everything has its value. Everything has a good use and a bad use. The forces of mind like wealth can be directed either for good

The Stanley Works
The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences
by Louis Uchitelle
Several years ago, Donald W. Davis stopped making visits back to New Britain, Connecticut. He felt shame for what had happened to the Stanley Works, the city's largest employer, which he had led from 1966 to 1988-from its best days to the beginning of the

Inside eBay
The Perfect Store
by Adam Cohen
In this brisk, engaging chronicle of one of the most stunning success stories in American business history, Adam Cohen takes us inside eBay the corporation as well as into the community of eBay's passionate users.

Character
by Samuel Smiles
Work is one of the best educators of practical character. It evokes and disciplines obedience, self-control, attention, application, and perseverance; giving a man deftness and skill in his special calling, and aptitude and dexterity

To Work Outside or Not
Dr. Spock On Parenting
by Benjamin Spock, M.D.
Whether a mother of a baby or preschool child should go back to an outside job (caring for a baby can be a full-time inside job) is a complicated matter, as everyone who has tried can tell you. There are many factors to be considered.

Cheerfulness as a Life Power
by Orison Swett Marden
Business is king. We often say that cotton is king, or corn is king, but with greater propriety we may say that the king is that great machine which is kept in motion by the Law of Supply and Demand: the destinies of all mankind are ruled by it.

Stress at Work
by US Department of Veterans Affairs
The nature of work is changing at whirlwind speed. Perhaps now more than ever before, job stress poses a threat to the health of workers and, in turn, to the health organizations.

What the Profession of Selling Really Is
How to Master the Art of Selling
by Tom Hopkins
What turned Tom Hopkins around? The answers are revealed in How To Master The Art Of Selling, as Tom explains what the profession of selling is really about and how to succeed, including: How to create the selling climate, Specific questions and tie-downs

Presence
Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind
by Anna Deavere Smith
Presence. You want to know what it is. Well, you hit on my favorite subject. First of all, even before I became an actress I was told I had 'presence.' 'Stage presence.' I didn't know what that meant. I forgot about it.

The $100k Club Is Open To New Members
The $100,000 Club : How to Make a Six-Figure Income
by Debra A. Benton
The requirements? As I mentioned before, there are several simple things you need to do well and consistently. Here's one of those simple things: You must be willing to add to your self-worth every day. While adding to your self-worth typically means

The Joy of Detached Involvement
Negotiate This! By Caring, But Not T-H-A-T Much
by Herb Cohen
Negotiating is the game of life. Every day, in countless ways, we communicate with others-boss or broker, landlord or customer, spouse or child-in attempts to influence their behavior. In this new book, which will tickle your funny bone as well as open

Spearheading Wealth
Revolutionary Wealth
by Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler
This book is about the future of wealth, visible and invisible — a revolutionary form of wealth that will redesign our lives, our companies and the world in the years now speeding toward us.

The Impossible Question
How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers
by William Poundstone
How Would You Move Mount Fuji? is an indispensable book for anyone in business. Managers seeking the most talented employees will learn to incorporate puzzle interviews in their search for the top candidates. Job seekers competing in today's tight market

Look the Other Way or Face Down the Corruption?
The Book of Hard Choices: How to Make the Right Decisions at Work and Keep Your Self-Respect
by James A. Autry, Peter Roy
All of us like to think that, in any given situation, we'd act with integrity and do the right thing. But what happens when we get to work each morning? Do the same rules we follow in our personal lives apply to our work lives?