Eight Business Books (Kindle)

[koland]

These eight business books should drop to zero on Kindle later today. FT Press is always late with their price dops, so it may be late afternoon or evening before the price changes.

Digging for Disclosure: Tactics for Protecting Your Firm's Assets from Swindlers, Scammers, and Imposters, by Kenneth Springer & Joelle Scott

Book Description
Financial crimes constantly victimize sophisticated companies, executives, and business deal-makers. Whether you’re planning a major investment, acquisition, or merger, don’t let it happen to you! In this book, the leaders of a world-class corporate investigations firm show you exactly how to protect yourself.

Drawing on decades of experience as corporate and criminal investigators, Kenneth S. Springer, a former FBI agent, and Joelle Scott teach powerful techniques for recognizing and exposing fraud and corporate crime. Through dozens of real-world stories, they show how to “think like a swindler”…find a criminal past of an executive…locate former employees who have critical information about the company you are dealing with…uncover colorful regulatory problems of your money manager…understand the true state of a borrower’s finances…find crucial information that only exists offline…perform background checks on people and corporations…and investigate the potential involvement of organized crime.

These days, you must know who you’re dealing with. Digging for Disclosure will help you make sure you do–always.


Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters , by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery & Mark Thompson

Book Description
Chosen by BusinessWeek as one of the top 5 books of 2006 in careers. Read the full story at businessweek.com.

Imagine discovering what successful people have in common, distilling it into a set of simple practices, and using them to transform your life and work. Authored by three legends in leadership and self-help — including Built to Last co-author Jerry Porras — it challenges conventional wisdom at every step. Success Built to Last draws on face-to-face, unscripted conversations with hundreds of remarkable human beings from around the world. Meet billionaires, CEOs, presidents of nations, Nobel laureates and celebrities — the rich, the famous and the unknown. Meet unsung heroes who've achieved lasting impact without obvious power or charisma. Famous or not, most started out ordinary. Discover how successful people "harvest" their strengths and their weaknesses, their victories and their surprising failures. Discover how you can find meaning in your life and work just as they did and summon the courage to follow your passions. Above all, see how they've sustained success for decades and you can too.


Value Investing the Benjamin Graham Way, is a business short from New Word City and FT Press.

Book Description
Benjamin Graham was the father of value investing. In the shadow of the Great Depression, this author, business school professor, and investment firm founder devised a methodical system for measuring a stock's intrinsic value. He took emotion out of investing decisions, replacing it with a sound intellectual framework that remains in use today. Here's how you can put his theories and practices to work.

In 1949, Warren Buffett?widely acknowledged as the most successful investor in history?was rejected for admission by the Harvard Business School. Although his exclusion may have dealt a lasting blow to Harvard's alumni fundraising efforts, it was the best thing that ever happened to him. Why? Because he then enrolled at Columbia Business School, where he studied under Professor Benjamin Graham. It was Graham who introduced Buffett to the principles and applications of value investing, the tenets that have guided Buffett to his estimated $39 billion fortune.

So who was Benjamin Graham, what exactly is value investing, and why is it relevant for today's investor? Let's take a look.


The Truth About Managing Change: The Essential Truths in 20 Minutes , by William S. Kane

Book Description
Change, even for the sake of change, can have many benefits beyond process improvements, market share enhancement, or greater profitability. It offers individual and collective learning opportunities. It may also heighten employee engagement and interest in work, thus increasing productivity and job satisfaction. Likewise, employees will have a greater sense of pride and ownership if they participate. These essential truths will help you to guide yourself and those you lead through change.


It's About More Than the Money (Introduction & Chapter 4): Take Responsibility, by Saly A. Glassman

Book Description
This download is a chapter from It's About More Than the Money: Investment Wisdom for Building a Better Life

In It’s About More Than the Money, award-winning financial advisor Saly A. Glassman shows you how to regain control over your financial life–and stay in control. Glassman brings together 21 fundamental investment principles, illuminates them with actual investor experiences, and guides you through putting each one to work. Drawing on everything she’s learned working with a broad cross-section of investors, Glassman teaches you how to plan your finances strategically, place money in broader context, and make your most important dreams a reality. You’ll focus on what you can control and let go of what you can’t…apply investment rules that work…recognize when to do nothing…assess your progress objectively, and much more. Glassman also helps you decide whether you need professional advice–and, if you do, she shows how to find an advisor who will add real value. Packed with insightful investor stories, this book will help you make wiser, better financial decisions–whatever your goals, whatever your age, and whatever the economy does next.


Insights from Remarkable Businesspeople, a collection of business shorts from FT Press, is a repeat freebie.

Book Description
A brand new collection of essential insights for your business and career from world-renowned experts...now in a convenient e-format, at a great price!

Get it straight from the top: secrets only the world’s best leaders can tell you!

What it takes to lead your team to greatness! Outstanding leaders tell you how to identify and fix even the biggest problems...get buy-in that’s real...balance external customers and internal processes...infuse creativity throughout your organization, and reinvent its future...get results, not salutes!

From world-renowned leaders and experts, including Captain D. Michael Abrashoff, Jim Champy, Fred Wiersema, Dean LeBaron, Michael F. Golden, Gary Hirshberg, and many more.


So What?: How to Communicate What Really Matters to Your Audience, by Mark Magnacca , is a repeat freebie.

Book Description
It’s tough, but true—the people you’re trying to communicate with, sell to, or convince don’t really care about you. Nor do they care what you’re offering them—until they understand exactly how it’ll benefit them. If you recognize that one hard, cold fact—and you know what to do about it—you’ll make more money, achieve greater success, and even have more fun!

In this book, world-renowned sales consultant Mark Magnacca shows you how to answer the “So What?” question brilliantly, every time—no matter who’s asking it or what you’re trying to achieve. This book will transform the way you communicate: You’ll use it every day to get what you want—in business and in life!


Leading at a Higher Level, Revised and Expanded Edition: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations, by Ken Blanchard, is a repeat freebie.

Book Description
From The One Minute Manager® to Raving Fans, Ken Blanchard’s books have helped millions of people unleash their power and the potential of everyone around them. The Ken Blanchard Companies has helped thousands of organizations become more people oriented, customer centered, and performance driven.

Now, in this fully updated edition of Leading at a Higher Level, Blanchard and his colleagues bring together all they’ve learned about world-class leadership. You’ll discover how to create targets and visions based on the “triple bottom line” and make sure people know who you are, where you’re going, and the values that will guide your journey.

Leading at a Higher Level presents the definitive discussion about using Situational Leadership® II to lead yourself, individuals, teams, and entire organizations. More important, you’ll learn how to dig deep within, discover the personal “leadership point of view” all great leaders possess, and apply it throughout your entire life.

[greencat]

All but the first and third are now free for me. Thanks Karen.

[doreenjoy]

Thanks. I've been wanting to read Success Built to Last.

[koland]

I'm watching those last two, but no price movement yet.

[issybird]

Couldn't resist Success Built to Last--I had Jerry Porras as a professor eons ago.

[koland]

Anyone holding out for the last two on the business book list, they are now free. I was actually wanting to read Digging for Disclosure, myself.