Few companies in history have ever been as successful and as admired as Google, the company that has transformed the Internet and become an indispensable part of our lives. How has Google done it? Veteran technology reporter Steven Levy was granted unprecedented access to the company, and in this revelatory book he takes readers inside Google headquarters — the Googleplex — to show how Google works. While they were still students at Stanford, Google cofounders...

Malcolm Gladwell goes on an intellectual journey through the world of "Outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. He explains...

Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communication expert Garr Reynolds, creator of PresentationZen.com – shares his experiences in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with Power Point or Keynote. Presentation Zen challenges the controversial wisdom of making “slide presentations” in today’s world and encourages you to think...

First time in paperback from the New York Times bestselling author of Reposition Yourself--the man Time magazine called "America's best preacher." For those dealing with an abusive boss, gossiping coworkers, demanding deadlines, or the sheer boredom of unfulfilling work, T. D. Jakes offers reassurance that God has placed everyone where they are for a reason. And when people learn to work with Him, they'll fulfill their true purpose- while feeling strength instead...

The Snowball recounts the life and times of one of the most respected, well-known men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor now has allowed one writer, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as “The Oracle of Omaha.” Buffett has never told his full life...

With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live. Now, with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that make his columns among the most read in the nation, Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success happens. It is told through the...

With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live. Now, with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that make his columns among the most read in the nation, Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success happens. It is told through the...

An icon, Donald J. Trump is the very definition of the American success story. The star of The Apprentice and developer of some of the planet's most prestigious real estate, he's been on the bottom and risen to become one of the world's wealthiest men.   Bill Zanker started with $5,000 and created a $5 million a year company. That was before he met Donald Trump. Thirty months later, after Zanker learned to think BIG himself. He is now generating over $100 million a year in sales—and...