Product Description: In 2007 Starbucks stood on shaky ground. The previous years had been dominated by an expansionist business policy which steered the company away from its founding tenets, high quality products and a close connection to its partners and customers; in other words, the Starbucks experience...read more

Product Description: In this #1 New York Times bestseller, the CEO of Starbucks recounts the story and leadershiplessons behind the global coffee company’s comeback In 2008, Howard Schultz decided to return as the CEO of Starbucks to help restore its financial health and bring the company back to its core values...read more

Product Description: Expert advice and examples show how managers can inspire high levels of commitment When people are truly engaged in their work they give more “discretionary effort” and make a huge difference to their company. They ask, “What’s in it for us?” instead of “What’s in it for me?” Yet an engaged workforce is as rare as it is valuable...read more

Shares the stories of men and women, including filmmakers and CEOs, who have set their own paths toward the careers of their dreams.

An editor at Forbes magazine draws on interviews with one hundred women who are happy in their choices of careers, explaining why they are satisfied with their jobs, the decisions they have made, and the ways in which other women can make better career and employment choices. Originally published as Be Happy at Work. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

An editor at Forbes magazine draws on interviews with one hundred women who are happy in their choices of career, explaining why they are satisfied with their jobs, the decisions they have made, and the ways in which other women can make better career and employment choices. 30,000 first printing.

Shares the stories of men and women, including filmmakers and CEOs, who have set their own paths toward the careers of their dreams.

Product Description: Contents General Editor's Note, Kimball King; Introduction, Joanne Gordon; Chronology; Broadway Babies: Images of Women in the Musicals of Stephen Sondheim Laura Hanson; Comedy Tonight!: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Lois Kivesto; Company 25 Years Later John Olson; Nixon's America and Follies: Reappraising a Musical Theater Classic,James Fisher; The Last of Sheila: Sondheim as a Master Games-Player, Douglas Braverman; On Performing Sondheim (A Little Night Music Revisited), David Craig; "More Beautiful than True" or "Never Mind the Small Disaster": The Art of Illusion in Pacific Overtures, Leonard Fleischer; Psychology, Evil and Sweeney Todd or, "Don't I Know You,Mister?"Judith Schlesinger; Sondheim: The Idealist, Mari Cronin; "Let the Pupil Show the Master" Stephen Sondheim and Oscar Hammerstein II, Andrew Milner; Portrait of the Artist: Sunday in the Park with George and "Revolutionary" Musical Drama, Edward T...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)