From journalists Agnes Hooper Gottlieb and Henry Gottlieb, and Brent Bowers and Barbara Bowers, the acclaimed co-authors of 1,000 Years, 1,000 People, comes a new book that celebrates the reasons we’re proud to call America home—from jazz and the Gettysburg Address to baseball and the White Castle hamburger. Chock full of anecdotes and often surprising insights and historical information, 1,000 Things to Love About America is a smart, breezy, and unabashed love song to the good old U.S.A.

1,000 Things to Love About America: Celebrating the Reasons We're Proud to Call the U.S.A. Home

History

Bowers, Brent

Bowers, Barbara

Gottlieb, Henry

Gottlieb, Agnes

Americas

Harper-perennial

The business genius who turned a few small corporations into the $22 billion industrial empire known as ITT shares his observations about what is wrong with American companies today and how every American citizen can help fix the problems.

The Synergy Myth: And Other Ailments Of Business Today

Business & Money

Geneen, Harold

Management & Leadership

St.Martin's Press

Harold Geneen is widely hailed as one of the greatest innovators the business world has ever known. In his final book, the father of the conglomerate who called himself "just plain Harold" took on the popular beliefs and practices in the business world today, and championed the no-nonsense values that served him so well. The result is the equivalent of a master class with one of the most accomplished businessmen of our time.

Synergy and Other Lies: Downsizing, Bureaucracy, and Corporate Culture Debunked

St. Martin's: Griffin

At age nine, Cameron Johnson started an Internet company. Pete Amico quit his job on his first day because he didn’t feel like taking orders from his boss. Greg Herro built a successful business selling diamonds made from the carbon extracted from ashes. If any of these people remind you of yourself, you just might have the kind of personality to take the small business world by storm. In If at First You Don't Succeed..., Brent Bowers, the small-business editor for the New York Times reveals the eight patterns that highly successful entrepreneurs share – and what we can learn from them. Brent Bowers, in covering small business for decades at the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, has chronicled the rise and fall of hundreds of start-ups. In If at First You Don’t Suceed…, he analyzes the common characteristics shared by dozens of successful small-business owners and their companies. Drawing on extensive interviews and research, as well as on the experiences and expertise of business consultants, venture capitalists, academics, and the entrepreneurs themselves, he describes the key traits that successful entrepreneurs have in common. Among them: • The ability to spot and seize opportunities • An overwhelming urge to be in charge coupled with a gift for leadership • The flexibility to come up with creative, out-of the-box solutions to problems or obstacles • Incredible energy and tenacity in the pursuit of their goals • Unwavering faith in their business • The ability to take smart risks • The ability to bounce back from setbacks and see failure as just one step on the path to ultimate success For anyone thinking about starting a business, or attempting a start-up a second or third time, this book offers invaluable lessons and insights.

If at First You Don't Succeed...: The Eight Patterns of Highly Effective Entrepreneurs

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Broadway Business

“As unique as it is valuable, [8 Patterns of Highly Effective Entrepreneurs] achieves where so many business books fail. It provides practical advice for individuals . . . [I]t delivers what few business books ever aspire to achieve—wisdom regarding business and decision making, within a special context: start-up firms.” —From the Foreword by Carl Schramm, president and CEO, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation At age seven, Cameron Johnson sold tomatoes door-to-door from his family’s farm. Pete Amico quit his job on his first day because he didn’t feel like taking orders from his boss.Greg Herro built a successful business selling diamonds made from the carbon extracted from ashes. If any of these people remind you of yourself, you just might have the kind of personality to take the small business world by storm. In 8 Patterns of Highly Effective Entrepreneurs, Brent Bowers reveals the eight patterns that highly successful entrepreneurs share—and what we can learn from them. In covering small business for decades at the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, Bowers has chronicled the rise and fall of hundreds of start-ups. In this book, he draws on extensive interviews and research, as well as on the experiences and expertise of business consultants, venture capitalists, academia, and the entrepreneurs themselves, to describe the key characteristics shared by dozens of successful small-business owners and their companies. Among them: The ability to spot and seize opportunities An overwhelming urge to be in charge coupled with a gift for leadership The flexibility to come up with creative, out-of-the-box solutions to problems or obstacles Incredible energy and tenacity in the pursuit of their goals Unwavering faith in their business The ability to take smart risks The ability to bounce back from setbacks and see failure as just one step on the path to ultimate success This book offers invaluable lessons and insights for anyone thinking about starting a business or attempting a start-up a second or third time.

8 Patterns of Highly Effective Entrepreneurs

Currency

From George Washington to Babe Ruth, Adolf Hitler to Mother Teresa, this fascinating study profiles--and rates--the one thousand individuals, including philosophers, artists, statesmen, inventors, and explorers, who have shaped the history of the last one thousand years. Simultaneous.

1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium

Gottlieb, Agnes Hooper

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Kodansha USA Inc

Ranks individual in the arts, the sciences, government, religion, business, and other fields according to their positive or negative contributions, contemporary and lasting influences, uniqueness, and fame

Cut Man: Ringside Reflections of Boxing’s Greatest Comeback

Baker, Steven

Biographies & Memoirs

Independently published

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