| Books by Karl Albrecht |
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These books by Karl Albrecht are available in a variety of forms, as shown in the individual listings below.
Most are older titles, but all are still relevant to today's challenges.
Some titles are available on Amazon (shipping is added) and some are available only through this website (shipping is free).
To see these and other books by Karl, visit his Author's Page on Amazon.
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| General Interest |
| Brain Power |
| Learn to Improve Your Thinking Skills |
| One of the all-time classics in the field of practical thinking,
Brain Power is a gold mine of concepts, skills, tips, tricks, thinking games and exercises,and wisdom for everyday life.
Used by countless business organizations to develop the critical and creative skills of their people.
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$21.95
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| Brain Snacks |
| Fast Food for Your Mind |
| ". . . being a collection of peculiar ideas, curious questions, oddball observations, pithy quotations, factoids, lame jokes, quirky definitions, mysteries, weird news stories, rants, witticisms and nitwitticisms, strange speculations, and other stuff you didn't know you didn't know"
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$15.95
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| Blueprint for a New America |
| Can We Save the World's Most Admired Republic? |
| Blueprint for a New America is intended to shake up America’s national conversation.
With an introduction by esteemed journalist Major Garrett and written by best-selling author and strategic thinking expert Karl Albrecht, it takes a fresh new look at the American Republic—from the big picture, human systems perspective.
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$17.76
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| Personal / Professional Skills |
| Social Intelligence |
| The New Science of Success |
| Best-selling introduction to the latest concepts of social intelligence, and the broader topic of "multiple intelligences." Karl's "S.P.A.C.E." formula is rapidly becoming the most popular approach to assessing and developing the skills of SI. |
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$15.95
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| Practical Intelligence |
| The Art & Science of Common Sense |
| The definitive handbook for becoming smarter. Shows how to understand and use your biocomputer more effectively, with four key "software upgrades" and four key "mega-skills" you need to develop. Lots of illustrations, examples, exercises, and practical tips.
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$15.95
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| Added Value Negotiating |
| By Karl Albrecht & Steve Albrecht |
| A completely new "clean sheet of paper" approach to making deals. Out with the old adversarial, game-playing approach; in with a new five-step process that's based on a cooperative search for joint value. "Don't start with an offer — start with a question." |
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$15.95
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| Stress and the Manager |
| Making it Work For You |
| This was the first major book to focus on the issue of workplace stress, and to show managers how to recognize and manage it. With a foreword contributed by Dr. Hans Selye, the pioneering leader in the medical study of stress, it helps managers cope with stress, both personally and organizationally.
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$15.95
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| Strategy / Management / Leadership |
| Service America |
| Doing Business in the New Economy |
| The classic best-seller that launched the "service revolution" in the US and around the world. Service America sold over 500,000 copies and was translated into seven languages. The first book to recognize and explain the shift from manufacturing thinking to service thinking. |
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$15.95
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| The Northbound Train |
| Finding the Purpose... |
| The classic masterwork on business strategy. Provides a systematic, step by step process for scanning the business environment, formulating a clear vision and direction, and deploying the strategy throughout the organization. |
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$15.95
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| Your Strategic Radar |
| Tracking the Forces... |
| The definitive guide for the "environmental scan" — the systematic search of the business environment for the trends, events, and opportunities that are shaping your business. Based on Karl's "strategic radar" model of the eight key sectors of the environment. | \m |
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$15.95
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| Organizational Culture |
| The Power of Minds at Work |
| Organizational Intelligence in Action |
| Practical advice for people who run organizations, based on Karl's 30-plus years of experience as a consultant. Introduces the primal certainty of "Albrecht's Law," and provides a framework for assessing organizational intelligence, in terms of seven key dimensions of performance. |
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$15.95
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| Service Within |
| Solving the Middle Management ... |
| In this unique and compelling book, Karl introduces the concept of internal service, the idea that all internal departments and functions have their own cusomers — one another. He shows middle managers how to stop being bureaucrats and start acting as internal service leaders. |
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$15.95
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| The Only Thing that Matters |
| Bringing the Power of the Customer... |
| The best-selling practical handbook for getting your business truly focused on customer value. Using his universal "Total Quality Service" model, Karl shows you how to discover the key truths of your customers' motivations; build a customer focused strategy, and make it work in your organization. |
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$15.95
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