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Think on Your Feet: Tips and Tricks to Improve Your Impromptu Communication Skills on the Job

Jen Oleniczak Brown - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Hardcover

"[Think on Your Feet] is a helpful maven's guide ideal for anyone who views a podium with fear and trembling." -- Publishers WeeklyGet out of your own way!Our professional lives are full of situations outside of our control. A job interviewer asks a question out of left...
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Starting an Online Business All-in-One For Dummies

Shannon Belew - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

The tools you need to follow your dream of starting and running an online business! With the right knowledge and resources, you can take action to start the online business you've been dreaming of. This comprehensive guide provides tips and tricks for turning your dream into a reality....
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100 Side Hustles: Unexpected Ideas for Making Extra Money Without Quitting Your Day Job

CHRIS GUILLEBEAU - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

Best-selling author Chris Guillebeau presents an ideabook featuring 100 stories of regular people launching successful side businesses that almost anyone can do. This unique guide features the startup stories of regular people launching side businesses that almost anyone can do: an urban...
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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

Adam M Grant - Viking
Format: Print book

The #1 New York Times bestseller that examines how people can champion new ideas - and how leaders can fight groupthink, from the author of Give and Take"Reading Originals made me feel like I was seated across from Adam Grant at a dinner party, as one of my favorite...
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The 30 Day MBA: Your Fast Track Guide to Business Success

Colin Barrow - Kogan Page
Format: Paperback

If you want to accelerate your career development and transform your skillset, but without the price tag and two-year commitment of the MBA, this is the book for you. The 30 Day MBA covers the 12 core disciplines of business: accounting, finance, marketing, organizational behaviour, business...
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

Charles Duhigg - Random House; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Wall Street Journal Financial TimesNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work....
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Financial Freedom: A Proven Path to All the Money You Will Ever Need

Grant Sabatier - Avery
Format: Hardcover

Money is unlimited. Time is not. Become financially independent as fast as possible.In 2010, 24-year old Grant Sabatier woke up to find he had $2.26 in his bank account. Five years later, he had a net worth of over $1.25 million, and CNBC began calling him "the Millennial Millionaire."...
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Small Data: The Tiny Clues That Uncover Huge Trends

Martin Lindstrom - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

Martin Lindstrom, a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, harnesses the power of "small data" in his quest to discover the next big thingHired by the world's leading brands to find out what makes their customers tick, Martin Lindstrom spends 300 nights a year in strangers' homes, carefully...
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Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

Jake Knapp - Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Format: Print book

From three partners at Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at more than a hundred companies.Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What's the most important place to focus your effort, and how do you start? What will your idea...
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How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life

Caroline Webb - Crown Business
Format: Hardcover

In How to Have a Good Day, economist and former McKinsey partner Caroline Webb shows readers how to use recent findings from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to transform our approach to everyday working life. Advances in behavioral sciences are giving us an ever...
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Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent

Sydney Finkelstein - Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

Based on years of research, Sydney Finkelstein, professor at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and author of Why Smart Executives Fail, looks at how a select few visionaries develop the most successful talent in every industryAfter meeting chef Alice Waters at her legendary restaurant,...
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Best Job Ever!: Rethink Your Career, Redefine Rich, Revolutionize Your Life

Dr. CK Bray - Wiley
Format: Hardcover

An action-based plan for building the career of your dreams Best Job Ever! is the ultimate guide to creating your dream career and increasing your financial success by providing you with valuable and insightful career information, personal stories and examples of others who have...
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Contagious: Why Things Catch On

Jonah Berger - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestseller and named Best Marketing Book of 2014 by the American Marketing Association What makes things popular? Why do people talk about certain products and ideas more than others? Why are some stories and rumors more infectious? And what makes online content go viral?If...
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Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It

Dorie Clark - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

A guide to becoming a recognized expert in your field Too many people believe that if they keep their heads down and work hard, they'll be recognized as experts on the merits of their work. But that's simply not true anymore. To make a name for yourself, you have to capitalize on your...
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All about Them: Grow Your Business by Focusing on Others

Bruce Turkel - Da Capo
Format: Print book

The best companies and most successful salespeople live by a three-word mantra - "all about them" - because when they relentlessly focus their brand on their customers instead of themselves, their businesses flourish. All about Them shows readers how to use this simple but extremely...
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Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck

Jon Acuff - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

It took me sixteen years to write this book. That breaks down to a brisk twelve words per day. But it wasn't the writing that took so long. . . . It was the working.I had to work at big companies and small companies. I had to get hired and fired several times. I had to find my dream...
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The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs

Amy Wilkinson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Each of us has the capacity to spot opportunities, invent products, and build businesses - even $100 million businesses.How do some people turn ideas into enterprises that endure? Why do some people succeed when so many others fail? The Creator's Code unlocks the six essential skills...
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