Consider the timing of this wonderful study guide to the best book ever written on money and credit. The book itself was written 100 years ago. The world economy is in the throes of another financial and debt crisis. Keynesianism has completely failed. Fiat money has too. Above it all …

“There is more mythology, misdirection, superstition, and generalized academic babble about leadership than any other business subject,” says management consultant Slap in this must-read for anyone who cares about organizational success. Slap shares the techniques he’s used over several decades to transform the performance of some of the world’s leading …

Administrative Procedures is a capstone course for students majoring in Office Technology. It integrates the software applications skills they have learned previously, business communication skills, critical thinking, and concepts and activities that address the workplace environment, customer service, mail, travel, meetings, and events, records management; Students take this course because …

Mergers, acquisitions, business alliances, and corporate restructuring activities are increasingly commonplace in both developed and emerging countries. Given the frequency with which such activities occur, it is critical for businesspeople and officials at all levels of government to have a basic understanding of why and how such activities take place. …

The machine blasts messages at the world and it does not care who you are or what you have to say or whether its message is relevant to you at all. The machine is a moron. You, however, are not. Which is why your brand needs to rage against the …

Successful leaders know that leadership is less often about having all the answers—and more often about asking the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization’s effectiveness. In What to Ask the …

Our “thirty-is-the-new-twenty” culture tells us the twentysomething years don’t matter. Some say they are a second adolescence. Others call them an emerging adulthood. Dr. Meg Jay, a clinical psychologist, argues that twentysomethings have been caught in a swirl of hype and misinformation, much of which has trivialized what is actually …

For many, Thomas Carlyle’s put-down of economics as “the dismal science” rings true–especially in the aftermath of the crash of 2008. But Diane Coyle argues that economics today is more soulful than dismal, a more practical and human science than ever before. The Soulful Science describes the remarkable creative renaissance …

Pessimism is ubiquitous throughout the Western World as the pressing issues of massive debt, high unemployment, and anemic economic growth divide the populace into warring political camps. Right-and Left-wing ideologues talk past each other, with neither side admitting the other has any good ideas. In American Gridlock, leading economist and …

Annoyances are everywhere: annoying sounds, annoying smells, annoying drivers, annoying friends, annoying strangers, annoying spouses. There’s nowhere to hide, and no one is immune. In Annoying, NPR Science Correspondent Joe Palca and Science Friday’s Flora Lichtman dig through the scientific literature in search of explanations for what gets under …