Henry Carter Hull

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....

A comprehensive guide to creating a personal estate plan, that offers advice on wills, avoiding probate, guardianship, inheritance issues, living wills, and more.

Sarah, a wedding planner who doesn't believe in love, agrees to organize two more weddings, both on the same day, and enlists the help of friends Elsa, a dress designer, and Bron, a talented hairdresser.

"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center, a women's reproductive health services clinic--its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage....

Wedding planner Sarah, who does not believe in love and has taken on the responsibility of two weddings on the same day, relies on help from her two friends, dress designer Elsa and hairdresser Bron, as she tries to juggle the demands of her sister, who is one client, and the spotlight of her other bride, who is a celebrity.

In today's world of rapid, disruptive change, strategy can't be separate from execution-it has to emerge from execution. You have to continually adjust your strategy to fit new realities. But if your organization isn't set up to be fast on its feet, you could easily go the way of Blockbuster or Borders. Laura Stack shows you how to quickly drive strategic initiatives and get great results from your team. Her LEAD Formula outlines the Four Keys to...

Meg Langslow, roped into being bridesmaid for three summer weddings, is doing an admirable job of helping plan the celebrations, even finding peacocks to strut around the garden during one ceremony, but Meg is thrown off her stride when the unpleasant former sister-in-law of her soon-to-be-stepfather is found dead.