Current Projects

Your Brain at Work

Your Brain at Work

David Rock

Meet Emily and Paul, the parents of two young children. Emily is a newly promoted executive in a large corporation, while Paul has his own business as a consultant. Their lives, like all of ours, are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, yet more emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. For them, just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task. In this book, we travel inside the brains of Emily and Paul as they attempt to sort the vast quantities of information they're presented with and figure out how to prioritize, organize, and act on it. Fortunately for Emily and Paul—and for readers of Your Brain at Work—they're in good hands: David Rock knows how the brain works—and more specifically, how it works in a work setting. Rock shows how it's possible not only to survive in today's overwhelming work environment but to succeed in it—and still feel energized at the end of the day, with a sense of accomplishment.

How to Relax Without Getting the Axe

How to Relax Without Getting the Axe

Stanley Bing

The ultimate satirist of corporate America, bestselling author Stanley Bing (Sun Tzu Was a Sissy, Crazy Bosses) now offers an outrageous “Survival Guide to the New Workplace” with How to Relax Without Getting the Axe—an eminently useful handbook that shows you how to retire on the job while still taking up (window) office space and drawing a huge salary.

Working for You Isn't Working for Me

Working for You Isn't Working for Me

Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster

Is your boss behaving badly? Sooner or later, we all have to work for someone we can’t stand. When that happens, some people quit, some suffer in silence, and others cope by sulking, obsessing, avoiding or retaliating. Instead of acting out, you can take charge of this crucial workplace relationship. Whether it’s an inept supervisor, an undermining department head, a raging CEO or some other infuriating authority figure, WORKING FOR YOU ISN’T WORKING FOR ME offers a groundbreaking approach to managing your boss. Filled with concrete examples of bad boss scenarios, and proven techniques for improving each situation Working for You Isn’t Working for Me offers a practical, powerful program.

Reinvent Your Enterprise: Through Better Knowledge Work

Reinvent Your Enterprise: Through Better Knowledge Work

Jack Bergstrand

A must-read for business managers, teachers, students, and policy makers, Reinvent Your Enterprise builds upon the insights of legendary management thinker Peter F. Drucker to help readers improve the next frontier of management – knowledge work productivity. This breakthrough book fuses extensive research, practical application, and a proven knowledge work productivity management system.

Collateral Damaged: The Marketing of Consumer Debt to America

Collateral Damaged: The Marketing of Consumer Debt to America

Charles R. Geisst

Sometime in the 1970s and 1980s, the use of credit cards, which had begun as a convenience, began to grow into an addiction. Collateral Damaged: The Marketing of Consumer Debt to America explains how a nation of savers became a nation of consumers and how Wall Street used consumers' addiction to spending to create the "toxic securities" that threaten to bring about the collapse of the global economy. Geisst looks at the policy implications of the credit crisis and describes how the United States can get its fiscal house in order.

The Heretics of Finance

The Heretics of Finance

Andrew Lo and Jasmina Hasanhodzic

The Heretics of Finance provides extraordinary insight into both the art of technical analysis and the character of the successful trader. Distinguished MIT professor Andrew W. Lo and researcher Jasmina Hasahodzic interviewed thirteen highly successful, award-winning market professionals who credit their substantial achievements to technical analysis. The result is the story of technical analysis in the words of the people who know it best; the lively and candid interviews with these gurus of technical analysis.

The Only Guide to Alternative Investments You'll Ever Need

The Only Guide to Alternative Investments You'll Ever Need

Larry Swedroe

In times of uncertainty, investors look for ways to protect their principal and still earn a good return. Financial advisers Larry Swedroe and Jared Kizer say the best approach is to add carefully chosen alternative investments to traditional stock and bond portfolios. In this, the third book in the popular The Only Guide Youll Ever Need series, the authors detail twenty alternative investments, explaining which to consider seriously and which to avoid entirely. They make specific recommendations about the best ways to access each investment, address tax and liquidity issues, and create an allocation and implementation strategy.

Investing 101

Investing 101

Kathy Kristof, Los Angeles Times reporter and nationally syndicated columnist

People wanting basic advice about investments are often frustratedd by information overload. "Investing 101" is the answer, putting them on a path they can understand and stick with. Kathy Kristof is renowned for taking the mystery and anxiety out of investing by keeping choices manageable. Guesswork is taken out of investing in this informative and easy-to-follow guidebook. Subjects covered include investing through mutual funds, diversifying investments, and more.

Noble Paths: Stories of People Who Serve

Noble Paths: Stories of People Who Serve

James M. Davy

In NOBLE PATHS: Stories of People Who Serve, James Davy presents sixteen vignettes of ordinary people who have done the extraordinary in helping others. From a mother and her teenage daughters who have routinely volunteered to help abused children and cancer patients to a young artist who has helped incarcerated boys and those with mental illness express themselves through painting, the inspiring stories in Noble Paths celebrate and honor those who have helped the abused, neglected, medically fragile, homeless, or suffering from mental illness or addiction. “These people are not just helping others,” Davy writes, “but are changing the quality of those others’ lives and, in some cases, even saving them.”