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The evidence of the Christmas debate is presented for you to decide: was Clement C. Moore the actual author of The Night Before Christmas?You know the poem, but do you know its controversy? Inventing Santa Claus presents all the details of the heated argument surrounding one of the most celebrated Yuletide poems of all time. Learn both sides of the story and all the evidence supporting either Clement C. Moore or Henry Livingston Jr. or other potential authors! Input from the experts, as well as the rulings of Troy, New York's own mock trial, are presented in full for your own deductions. Who really wrote "The Night Before Christmas"?

Your company's success hinges on hiring, inspiring, and keeping the right people. You can't afford to not get staffing right!

For history buffs, patriots, and business people alike, this detailed narrative spans centuries in its recounting of the fascinating successes and failures of our nation's most notable entrepreneurs to teach readers about the founding and evolution of the American economy.

The Real Estate Investor's Guide to Financing shows readers how to get the right financial package for the biggest return on their investment. Complete with essential advice on financing and a glossary of investment terms, this is the one guide that will help readers start making real money.

This book delivers just what it promises: a one-stop guide to the challenges of buying, owning, living in, and ultimately selling these homes. It's critical to understand all factors before sealing your deal: the search, negotiations, taxes, HOA/co-op boards, repairs, flip rules, and more---and it's all here.

Job seekers are struggling to find work in today's changing job market. Learn what employers really want and discover the seven new powerful rules proven to help you land a great job.

How can bigger companies experience the same exceptional growth as popular startups? By tapping into the entrepreneurial mind-set. This easy-to-follow action plan shows any company how to build a profit-generating army of motivated and dedicated employees.

Are conflicts crushing your team's productivity? This step-by-step guide for managers provides the tools to get employees get back on track and turn disagreements into positive results.

Every business can benefit from public relations. Arm yourself with the same tactics the pros use!

How do you meet the demand to produce more with less? Discover the secret to quickly transforming a group of average performers into a high-functioning team capable of achieving tremendous results.

The majority of companies are oblivious to the wealth of intellectual property rights they are entitled to. Discover the hidden revenue-producing opportunities you could--and should--be taking advantage of.

Millions have been inspired by the Bible's spiritual lessons. Now, Lorin Woolfe provides a unique way to view the Bible . . . for leadership lessons that can be applied to our modern business world.

Great leaders have many talents, but one critical skill -- often unrecognized -- is the ability to ask and answer questions. This unique book offers 78 questions that leaders at all levels need to ask and answer both inside and outside the organization.

All too often, solving tough work issues can become a tug of war as clashing departments, priorities, personality styles, and other concerns threaten to destroy any possibility of a successful conclusion. How Great Decisions Get Made shows how to bring out the best in people, so that the process of decision making cements groups together rather than pulling them apart. The book gives readers a simple 10-step process to help their people overcome seemingly intractable differences.

Trust or Consequences shows what makes such strategies work, and reveals the eye-opening results of a survey of over 700 business professionals. Al Golin has helped create trust strategies for global business leaders including The Walt Disney Company, Hewlett-Packard, McDonald's, Toyota, Owens-Corning, and many others.

First-time buyers often feel overwhelmed by the amount of maintenance their new home requires. Finally, author and real estate guru Sid Davis provides the antidote for the common worries that plague every new owner.

It is often said that the only true source of sustained competitive advantage is people.The New Human Capital Strategy is a roadmap for delivering measurable business results by systematically improving the performance of those in roles most important to customers and shareholders.

How old is your best customer? This number will change as your customers grow--and as a marketer, it's your responsibility to stay ahead of them and their money. Learn how to effectively anticipate your buyers' future demand.

Whether you were born a leader or have had leadership thrust upon you, you're in for a whole new set of challenges when managing other leaders. Leading Leaders breaks the challenge down into the Seven Daily Tasks of Leadership, and shows you how to carry out each task when you have to manage other leaders.

For most supply chains, cost reduction is imperative to long-term survival. Yet identifying the costs that can be eliminated---and then doing so effectively---can prove impossible without the right method. This book introduces the same process the author has used to save companies like IBM, Kodak, and DuPont billions of dollars, simply by harnessing the knowledge of suppliers

In their book Winning Behavior, Terry Bacon and David Pugh showed how great companies outperform good ones through ''behavioral differentiation' The Behavioral Advantage broadens the concept, applying behavioral differentiation to the business-to-business arena.

Absolute Honesty shows how to establish and maintain a culture where honest communication is the norm, and employees can speak openly without fear of retribution. The book illustrates the impact that truthfulness and accountability can have on organizations, attacking the sort of passivity that allows little lies to grow into giant disasters.

All day long, managers deal with one challenge or another: complaints from staff, delegating work no one wants to do, jealousy and hurt feelings, performance reviews, even 'small' problems like telephone abuse. It's exhausting! This book gives time-pressed managers succinct, pragmatic tools for taking action instantly on more than 65 common problems.

Many first-time supervisors are unprepared for the demands of their new role. They quickly become overwhelmed -- to the detriment of the organization, their co-workers, and themselves. This friendly guide is full of field-tested help for novice supervisors.