Kitchen Confidential

After 25 years of sex drugs bad behaviour and haute cuisine chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From dishwasher to chef from the Rainbow Room in the Rockerfeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village his tales are as unpredictable as they are funny and shocking.[]

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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

This celebrated New York Times bestseller -- now poised to reach an even wider audience in paperback -- is a book that is changing the way Americans think about selling products and disseminating ideas.

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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

The Challenge:
Built to Last the defining management study of the nineties showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning.

But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies mediocre companies even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?

The Study:
For years this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?

The Standards:
Using tough benchmarks Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies including Coca-Cola Intel General Electric and Merck.

The Comparisons:
The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good?

Over five years the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't.

The Findings:
The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include:

• Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness.
• The Hedgehog Concept: (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence.
• A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology.
• The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap.

“Some of the key concepts discerned in the study” comments Jim Collins "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will quite frankly upset some people.”

Perhaps but who can afford to ignore these findings?

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The Psychology of Wealth: Understand Your Relationship with Money and Achieve Prosperity

The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller!

“The Psychology of Wealth is a pertinent and comprehensive overview of the skills and mindset necessary for success. Prosperity can be achieved by anyone and Dr. Richards shows the way.”
—Donald J. Trump

“What’s in your head determines what’s in your wallet. Dr. Richards gives you the mental hard-drive upgrade you need to finally achieve the greater prosperity and success you desire.”
—Darren Hardy Publisher SUCCESS magazine

“Dr. Richards shakes up our preconceptions about wealth by examining the psychological aspects of how we relate to money. When you understand the real sources of wealth in your life you’ll find it much easier to achieve a more prosperous and happy life.”
—Jordan E. Goodman America’s Money Answers Man at MoneyAnswers.com and Author of Master Your Money Type

“This might be one of the most important books you’ll ever read. If you feel like your life has been stuck in neutral—or even worse put in reverse—Dr. Richards will set you on a clear path to success.”
—Barnet Bain Producer What Dreams May Come

About the Book:

Why do some people feel a perpetual state of lack and fear about money while others feel genuinely prosperous regardless of the size of their bank accounts? Why do some people shudder with dread when it comes to setting financial goals while others embrace it with enthusiasm and confidence?

What makes the difference? Could it be in their relationship with money itself?

People who enjoy a healthy relationship with money share common habits and traits. So how do they think and what do they do differently? Are these behaviors hardwired in an individual’s psyche or can they be learned?

In this provocative book psychotherapist Dr. Charles Richards provides unexpected and encouraging answers to these questions. Based on his research and expert interviews Dr. Richards shows how each of us can develop a thriving relationship with money and create a rich and rewarding life.

A t the book’s heart are the stories of people who have faced adversity with courage and created extraordinary lives. Their accounts—along with Dr. Richards’ interviews with finance professors legislators entrepreneurs and mavens of success—pave a path to a brighter future for us all.

Today we live in a trying economic environment. Every day popular financial advisors exhort us to hunker down play it safe and protect ourselves from an uncertain future. To the voices who promote fear and doubt Dr. Richards answers with balance wisdom and optimism.

The Psychology of Wealth is for anyone interested in succeeding personally or professionally and in achieving true prosperity. It offers golden steps on the path to a better life.

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Greedy Bastards: How We Can Stop Corporate Communists Banksters and Other Vampires from Sucking America Dry

Dylan Ratigan is mad as hell. Infuriated by government corruption and corporate communism incensed by banksters shaking down taxpayers and despairing of an ailing health care system an age-old dependency on foreign oil and a failing educational system Ratigan sees an America that has allowed itself to be swindled and robbed. In this book his first he rips the lid off our deeply crooked system—and offers a way out.

This country now more than ever needs passionate debate and smart policy a brazen willingness to scrap what doesn’t work and the entrepreneurial spirit to try what does. Ratigan has compiled brash and fresh solutions for building a new and better America and with this book he has started the debate America deserves.

With you he wants to take back the country from the six vampires sucking this nation dry:

• A political system in which lobbyists write legislation lawmakers place “secret holds” to create more pork for their districts and money drives the whole process.

• A banking system that uses capital for speculation and debt creation rather than productive investment.

• A “master-slave” relationship with our Chinese bankers making our corporations and politicians complicit in a system that rigs our currency and leaves us with permanent joblessness and massive trade deficits.

• A health care system that is among the priciest and least sustainable in the industrialized world.

• An educational system that prizes prestige but produces mediocrity.

• An addiction to foreign oil that has sapped us of our willingness to innovate made us reliant on inefficient technologies and left us supportive of corrupt governments.

To combat these vampires and to isolate the systematic ways in which our once productive industries and our government have been breached Ratigan does not offer a grab bag of flimsy suggestions or useless hot air. Instead he provides readers with a set of values that together form the answer for how each of us can not only understand what has gone wrong—but join together to make it right.[]

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The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable.  The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a successful path to a sustainable business.

The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively.  Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing it relies on “validated learning” rapid scientific experimentation as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics and learn what customers really want. It enables a company to shift directions with agility altering plans inch by inch minute by minute.

Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs - in companies of all sizes - a way to test their vision continuously to adapt and adjust before it’s too late. Ries provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in a age when companies need to innovate more than ever.

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Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired--and Secretive--Company Really Works

INSIDE APPLE reveals the secret systems tactics and leadership strategies that allowed Steve Jobs and his company to churn out hit after hit and inspire a cult-like following for its products.

If Apple is Silicon Valley's answer to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory then author Adam Lashinsky provides readers with a golden ticket to step inside. In this primer on leadership and innovation the author will introduce readers to concepts like the "DRI" (Apple's practice of assigning a Directly Responsible Individual to every task) and the Top 100 (an annual ritual in which 100 up-and-coming executives are tapped a la Skull & Bones for a secret retreat with company founder Steve Jobs).

Based on numerous interviews the book offers exclusive new information about how Apple innovates deals with its suppliers and is handling the transition into the Post Jobs Era. Lashinsky a Senior Editor at Large for Fortune knows the subject cold: In a 2008 cover story for the magazine entitled The Genius Behind Steve: Could Operations Whiz Tim Cook Run The Company Someday he predicted that Tim Cook then an unknown would eventually succeed Steve Jobs as CEO.

While Inside Apple is ostensibly a deep dive into one unique company (and its ecosystem of suppliers investors employees and competitors) the lessons about Jobs leadership product design and marketing are universal. They should appeal to anyone hoping to bring some of that Apple magic to their own company career or creative endeavor.


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Up Down or Sideways: How to Succeed When Times Are Good Bad or In Between

In Up Down or Sideways Mark Sanborn author of the bestselling book The Fred Factor prepares you for life’s inevitable cycles of up and down—and too often sideways. We tend to be surprised when downturns hit us and treat them as the exception—and when times are good we act as if they will never change. In this book Mark shows us what we should always be doing to be prepared for these cycles and events in our lives in order to make the most of them. Mark tells his own story of a downturn he experienced. Then he identifies the principles and practices that will help you discover opportunities in both good times and bad in up and sideways years. Mark provides timely wisdom that can’t be ignored no matter where you are in your personal or professional life.[]

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The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition

A modern edition on the 150th anniversary of the Manifesto.

The Communist Manifesto drafted on the eve of the 1848 revolutions is the most brilliant and incisive political text ever written; a work of great literary power as well as historical insight. Eric Hobsbawm whose writing has brilliantly described the century and a half of history that has been both shaped and illuminated by the Manifesto presents it here.

As the "age of extremes" draws to an end and capitalism seems everywhere to be triumphant as it did one hundred and fifty years ago Eric Hobsbawm critically appraises a work which he argues is now more timely than ever. Hobsbawm notes the curious fact that the Manifesto remained a subterranean text for many decades and did not circulate on a mass scale or achieve a canonical status until comparatively recently. He argues that only the complete unfolding of capitalism on a global scale in recent times allows us to take the full measure of Marx and Engels's truly astounding mixture of passion science and poetry.[]

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Great by Choice: Uncertainty Chaos and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

The new question
Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work this time to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty even chaos and others do not? Based on nine years of research buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories Collins and his colleague Morten Hansen enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable tumultuous and fast-moving times.

The new study
Great by Choice distinguishes itself from Collins’s prior work by its focus not just on performance but also on the type of unstable environments faced by leaders today.

With a team of more than twenty researchers Collins and Hansen studied companies that rose to greatness—beating their industry indexes by a minimum of ten times over fifteen years—in environments characterized by big forces and rapid shifts that leaders could not predict or control. The research team then contrasted these “10X companies” to a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to achieve greatness in similarly extreme environments.

The new findings
The study results were full of provocative surprises. Such as:

• The best leaders were not more risk taking more visionary and more creative than the comparisons; they were more disciplined more empirical and more paranoid.
• Innovation by itself turns out not to be the trump card in a chaotic and uncertain world; more important is the ability to scale innovation to blend creativity with discipline.
• Following the belief that leading in a “fast world” always requires “fast decisions” and “fast action” is a good way to get killed.
• The great companies changed less in reaction to a radically changing world than the comparison companies.

The authors challenge conventional wisdom with thought-provoking sticky and supremely practical concepts. They include: 10Xers; the 20 Mile March; Fire Bullets Then Cannonballs; Leading above the Death Line; Zoom Out Then Zoom In; and the SMaC Recipe.

Finally in the last chapter Collins and Hansen present their most provocative and original analysis: defining quantifying and studying the role of luck. The great companies and the leaders who built them were not luckier than the comparisons but they did get a higher Return on Luck.

This book is classic Collins: contrarian data-driven and uplifting. He and Hansen show convincingly that even in a chaotic and uncertain world greatness happens by choice not chance.

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StrengthsFinder 2.0

Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day?

Chances are you don't. All too often our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths.

To help people uncover their talents Gallup introduced the first version of its online assessment StrengthsFinder in 2001 which ignited a global conversation and helped millions to discover their top five talents.

In its latest national bestseller StrengthsFinder 2.0 Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular assessment language of 34 themes and much more (see below for details). While you can read this book in one sitting you'll use it as a reference for decades.

Loaded with hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths this new book and accompanying website will change the way you look at yourself--and the world around you--forever.

Available exclusively in StrengthsFinder 2.0:
(using the unique access code included with each book)

* A new and upgraded edition of the StrengthsFinder assessment
* A personalized Strengths Discovery and Action-Planning Guide for applying your strengths in the next week month and year
* A more customized version of your top five theme report
* 50 Ideas for Action (10 strategies for building on each of your top five themes)

• Published by Gallup in 2007


• Renowned author Tom Rath

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Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil

The sacred history and profane present of a substance long seen as the essence of health and civilization.

For millennia fresh olive oil has been one of life's necessities-not just as food but also as medicine a beauty aid and a vital element of religious ritual. Today's researchers are continuing to confirm the remarkable life-giving properties of true extra-virgin and "extra-virgin Italian" has become the highest standard of quality.

But what if this symbol of purity has become deeply corrupt? Starting with an explosive article in The New Yorker Tom Mueller has become the world's expert on olive oil and olive oil fraud-a story of globalization deception and crime in the food industry from ancient times to the present and a powerful indictment of today's lax protections against fake and even toxic food products in the United States. A rich and deliciously readable narrative Extra Virginity is also an inspiring account of the artisanal producers chemical analysts chefs and food activists who are defending the extraordinary oils that truly deserve the name "extra-virgin." 25 black-and-white illustrations[]

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic integrated principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness integrity service and human dignity -- principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.[]

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