Tells the story of how CEO Michael Eisner took over the ailing Disney Company and turned it into one of the most profitable corporations in the country. From the drama of Wall Street to the glamour of Hollywood, the author provides an absorbing account of Eisner's wheelings and dealings--including the signing of such major stars as Michael Jackson and Bette Midler--making Disney the number one movie studio in Hollywood.

Prince of the Magic Kingdom: Michael Eisner and the Re-Making of Disney

Flower, Joe

Business & Money

wiley

Biography & History

Based on fifteen years of research by a leading expert on aging, this is the first comprehensive analysis of the consequences of the aging baby-boomer population on society. Examining the choices and challenges for the future, Age Wave discusses topics such as the cyclic lifestyle, reinventing the family, elder power at the polls, and redesigning America. Praise for Age Wave “Provides a glimpse into the future like nothing we’re ever seen.”—USA Today “Age Wave raises questions and consequences we never dreamed of. It will change your view of the future.”—John Naisbitt, author of Megatrends

Age Wave: How The Most Important Trend Of Our Time Will Change Your Future

Dychtwald Ph.D., Ken

Parenting & Relationships

Random House Publishing Group

As it emerges from centuries of social, military, and political strife, China--which represents one fifth of the world's population and its third largest economy--is poised to play a major role in global business. But what will that role be? In this book, two experts, who have created business scenarios for some of the world's largest organizations--including Royal Dutch/Shell, AT&amp;T, IBM, and Motorola--present three very informed versions of how China's future may unfold in the coming years and what it means to the rest of the world. These scenarios provide a foundation on which today's companies can build business strategies for years to come. Click here to read the preface from this book.

China's Futures

Schwartz, Peter

Ogilvy, James

Economics

Jossey-Bass

We can fix healthcare now. We can rebuild the system to give us better, cheaper care for everyone. We now have the tools. This is the moment, while healthcare is already changing rapidly. Who is “we”? Everyone who affects the system, from doctors and nurses to healthcare leaders, health plans, employers, and consumers—you. Along the way, we can each get better healthcare for less for ourselves and our families. Joe Flower’s remarkable new handbook How To Get What We Pay For shows how—complete with checklists and pages of resources. It challenges all our usual ways of thinking about healthcare, and especially the assumption that we personally cannot do anything about it. A veteran healthcare insider, industry analyst and futurist, and author of thousands of articles and the groundbreaking 2012 book Healthcare Beyond Reform: Doing It Right for Half the Cost, Flower presents an in-depth, easy-to-read breakdown of the current system and the seven “levers” that are changing it: <ul>
<li>Shopping</li> <li>Transparency</li> <li>Results</li> <li>Prevention</li> <li>Targeting</li> <li>Trust</li> <li>Tech</li> </ul>
As confusing as today’s healthcare seems, there is hope. This guide puts the tools in your hands to make better, cheaper healthcare available—sooner rather than later. Read up and let’s get started!

How to Get What We Pay For: A Handbook For Healthcare Revolutionaries: Doctors, Nurses, Healthcare Leaders, Inventors, Investors, Employers, Insurers, Governments, Consumers, YOU

Medical Books

Administration & Medicine Economics

Change Project, Incorporated, The

There is a secret inside healthcare, and it’s this: We can do healthcare for a lot less money. The only way to do that is to do it a lot better. We know it’s possible because it is happening now. In pockets and branches across healthcare, people are receiving better healthcare for a lot less. Some employers, states, tribes, and health systems are doing healthcare a little differently. Healthcare Beyond Reform: Doing It Right for Half the Cost explains how this new kind of healthcare is not about rationing and cutbacks. It’s not about getting less, it’s about getting more. Getting better and friendlier healthcare, where you need it, when you need it. How? The answer is mostly not in Washington, it’s not conservative or liberal. The answer is mostly not about who pays for healthcare. The answer is mostly about who gets paid, and what we pay them for. Healthcare Beyond Reform: Doing It Right For Half The Cost shows you how the system works. It explains how we got here, why we pay so much more than anyone else, and why we don’t get what we pay for. You’ll learn the five things healthcare can do to turn this around. You will see what some employers are already doing to make that happen, and what patients, families, doctors, and anyone else who cares about healthcare can do to help make it happen. There are only five and we need all five. All of them can be done right now, with the current healthcare system as it is. Joe Flower shows you how. In 1980, healthcare took no more of a bite out of the U.S. economy than it did in other developed countries. By 2000, healthcare cost twice as much in the U.S. as in most other developed countries. We can change that. ―Joe Flower Joe Flower explains how we can make healthcare better for a lot less. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKvvf5SIS4Y&amp;feature=youtu.be

Healthcare Beyond Reform: Doing It Right for Half the Cost

Industries

Productivity Press

One Day Disney's Prince Did Come
In this revised version of his best-selling book, Joe Flower tells the story of the second most important man in Disney history: Michael Eisner. Flower traces Eisner's career, from his privileged youth to his perch atop the Disney empire, in fair, unflinching detail.
The Disney company was in poor shape when Michael Eisner took the keys to the kingdom. The theme parks were stagnating, the animated films had lost their magic, and most important, Walt was gone. The company seemed to be holding its breath as corporate raiders closed in. 
Eisner brought the pixie dust, but it was the pixie dust not of a dreamer and a visionary, but of a shrewd, ambitious businessman. Soon, new theme parks were opening, new animated films were setting box office records, and the so-called "Disney Decade" had begun.
Despite the success, Eisner was a polarizing figure. In the eyes of many, his unpardonable sin was that he wasn't Walt.
The birth of the modern Disney company, its transformation from a quaint little enterprise to a global goliath, began when Michael Eisner was anointed prince of the Magic Kingdom.

Management & Leadership

Theme Park Press

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