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|  | Getting Fired by Steven Mitchell Sack
In this age of downsizing, you could lose your job--tomorrow. But now veteran attorney Steven Sack, host of the national radio show Jobs and Careers with Attorney Steven Sack and author of THE LIFETIME LEGAL GUIDE, arms you with everything you need to keep your self-respect, protect your rights, and obtain the money that justly belongs to you. Backed with his knowledge of the law and actual case histories, GETTING FIRED shows you, step by step, how to get what's yours. Get the very best settlement you can--usually more money and benefits than you thought possible. Get savvy--learn how the law protects you and what to do before you are fired. Get the antidiscrimination laws to work for you. Get a lawyer if you have to--and know when and how to fight your case without one. Get the unemployment compensation that you're entitled to. Get the solid-gold references you'll need for the future. Includes samples of actual termination agreements and important demand letters, as well as a resource section listing scores of agencies and organizations. AUTHOR: Steven Mitchell Sack
PUBLISHER: Warner Books, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Business 
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 | The Malt Whiskey File by John Lamond, Robin Tucek
For all those who appreciate fine spirits, The Malt Whisky File is the most complete reference available to the whiskies of the world, including those from the distilleries of New Zealand, Ireland, Japan, and, of course, Scotland. Offering a label-by-label analysis of each whisky, John Lamond and Robin Tucek offer helpful casting notes, a history of each brand, and a rating based upon a proprietary scale of sweetness, peatiness, and availability (based on each label's total production). AUTHOR: John Lamond, Robin Tucek
PUBLISHER: Globe Pequot Press, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Business
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 | Corporate Culture & Performance by John P. Kotter
Going far beyond previous empirical work, John Kotter and James Heskett provide the first comprehensive critical analysis of how the culture of a corporation powerfully influences its economic performance, for better or for worse. Through painstaking research at such firms as Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, ICI, Nissan, and First Chicago, as well as a quantitative study of the relationship between culture and performance in more than 200 companies, the authors describe how shared values and unwritten rules can profoundly enhance economic success or, conversely, lead to failure to adapt to changing markets and environments. With penetrating insight, Kotter and Heskett trace the roots of both healthy and unhealthy cultures, demonstrating how easily the latter emerge, especially in firms which have experienced much past success. Challenging the widely held belief that strong corporate cultures create excellent business performance, Kotter and Heskett show that while many shared values and institutionalized practices can promote good performances in some instances, those cultures can also be characterized by arrogance, inward focus, and bureaucracy -- features that undermine an organization's ability to adapt to change. They also show that even contextually or strategically appropriate cultures -- ones that fit a firm's strategy and business context -- will not promote excellent performance over long periods of time unless they facilitate the adoption of strategies and practices that continuously respond to changing markets and new competitive environments. Fundamental to the process of reversing unhealthy cultures and making them more adaptive, the authors assert, is effective leadership. At the heart of this groundbreaking book, Kotter and Heskett describe how executives in ten corporations established new visions, aligned and motivated their managers to provide leadership to serve their customers, employees, and stockholders, and thus created more externally focused an AUTHOR: John P. Kotter
PUBLISHER: Free Press, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Business
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 | Competing for the Future by C. K. Prahalad, Gary Hamel
With Competing for the Future, managers have seen how they can reshape their industries. Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad offer a masterful blueprint for what your company must be doing today if it is to occupy the competitive high ground of tomorrow. By showing that the key to future industry leadership is to develop an independent point of view about tomorrow`s opportunities and build capabilities that exploit them, Hamel and Prahalad reveal an entirely new definition of what it means to be strategic - and successful. AUTHOR: C. K. Prahalad, Gary Hamel
PUBLISHER: Harvard Business School Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Business
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 | Power Money Fame Sex by Gretchen Craft Rubin
Description not available.The author dissects the tactics of Warren Buffett, Muhammad Ali, Gwyneth Paltrow, Richard Nixon, Princess Diana, and other successful people to reveal how power plays are made in the real world. Reprint. AUTHOR: Gretchen Craft Rubin
PUBLISHER: Pocket Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Business
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 | The Unsettling of America
Description not available.A critical inquiry into the ways Americans have exploited and continue to exploit the land that sustains them, tracing attitudes toward and methods of farming from the eighteenth century to the present
CATEGORY: Business
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