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Heads I Win, Tails I Win: Why Smart Investors Fail and How to Tilt the Odds in Your Favor
Heads I Win, Tails I Win: Why Smart Investors Fail and How to Tilt the Odds in Your Favor

Spencer Jakab · Portfolio Penguin
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

INVESTING IS ONE OF THE FEW AREAS IN LIFE WHERE EVEN VERY SMART PEOPLE LET HOPE TRIUMPH OVER EXPERIENCE According to Wall Street Journal investing colum­nist Spencer Jakab, most of us have no idea how much money we're leaving on the table - or that the average saver doesn't come...
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Essential Guide to Workplace Investigations, The: A Step-By-Step Guide to Handling Employee Complaints & Problems
Essential Guide to Workplace Investigations, The: A Step-By-Step Guide to Handling Employee Complaints & Problems

Lisa Guerin · Nolo
Pages: 456
Format: Print book

The Essential Guide to Workplace Investigations will help any manager, supervisor, or Human Resources professional sort out workplace problems, quickly and effectively. Use this affordable, step-by-step guide to investigate, document, and resolve every kind of workplace problem, from discrimination...
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Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work
Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work

Andrea S Kramer · Bibliomotion
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

More than fifty years after the beginning of the Women's Movement and forty years after passage of Title IX, women are still not "making it" in traditionally male careers. Women start their careers on parity with men but generally end them far earlier, having achieved less status,...
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The Hidden Leader: Discover and Develop Greatness Within Your Company
The Hidden Leader: Discover and Develop Greatness Within Your Company

Scott K. Edinger · AMACOM
Format: Hardcover

Think you can spot the leaders in your company? Don't assume that you can identify them by their positions. What about those employees who consistently step up: the field agent who solves a previously intractable problem; the service rep who thinks outside the box and creates unshakeable...
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How to Write a Winning Scholarship Essay: 30 Essays That Won Over $3 Million in Scholarships
How to Write a Winning Scholarship Essay: 30 Essays That Won Over $3 Million in Scholarships

Gen S Tanabe · SuperCollege
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Examining the two basic components of scholarship competition - essays and interviews - this vital guidebook offers practical advice and real-life examples to guide students through the entire application process. A roundtable panel of judges and applicants supply inside information regarding...
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Microeconomics Made Simple: Basic Microeconomic Principles Explained in 100 Pages or Less
Microeconomics Made Simple: Basic Microeconomic Principles Explained in 100 Pages or Less

Austin Frakt · Simple Subjects
Pages: 100
Format: Print book

Find all of the following topics, explained in plain-English:...
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Bookkeeping All-In-One For Dummies
Bookkeeping All-In-One For Dummies

Consumer Dummies · For Dummies
Pages: 576
Format: Paperback

Your one-stop guide to mastering the art of bookkeeping Do you need to get up and running on bookkeeping basics and the latest tools and technology used in the field? You've come to the right place! Bookkeeping All-In-One For Dummies is your go-to guide for all things bookkeeping, covering...
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The Great Equalizer: How Main Street Capitalism Can Create an Economy for Everyone
The Great Equalizer: How Main Street Capitalism Can Create an Economy for Everyone

David M Smick · PublicAffairs
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

The experts say that America's best days are behind us, that mediocre long-term economic growth is baked in the cake, and that politically, socially, and racially, the United States will continue to tear itself apart. But David Smick - hedge fund strategist and author of the 2008 bestseller...
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Smart Mom, Rich Mom: How to Build Wealth While Raising a Family
Smart Mom, Rich Mom: How to Build Wealth While Raising a Family

Kimberly Palmer · American Management Association
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Of all life's financial shocks, few compare to bringing home an infant. Just one tiny person costs $250,000 to raise-- not including college! How will you pay for it? That agonizing question fuels mothers' choices about their careers, budgets, and families. Some lean in, some scale back...
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Difficult Conversations Just for Women: Kill the Anxiety. Get What You Want.
Difficult Conversations Just for Women: Kill the Anxiety. Get What You Want.

Sofia Santiago MBA · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 212
Format: Paperback

Every woman intuitively knows that the strategies recommended for men won't work for women. Men will be called decisive leaders and women who do the same things will be called "bossy." If she says "I feel" she maybe considered hormonal. People respond negatively...
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Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration--Lessons from The Second City
Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration--Lessons from The Second City

Kelly Leonard · HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

Executives from The Second City - the world's premier comedy theater and school of improvisation - reveal improvisational techniques that can help any organization develop innovators, encourage adaptable leaders, and build transformational businesses.For more than fifty years, The Second...
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The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power
The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power

Joseph Turow · Yale University Press
Pages: 331
Format: Print book

A revealing and surprising look at the ways that aggressive consumer advertising and tracking, already pervasive online, are coming to a retail store near you By one expert's prediction, within twenty years half of Americans will have body implants that tell retailers how they feel about...
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Home Buying Kit For Dummies
Home Buying Kit For Dummies

Eric Tyson · For Dummies
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

America's #1 bestselling home buying guide Are you looking to buy a house, but don't quite know where to begin? Have no fear! This new edition of Home Buying Kit For Dummies arms you with Eric Tyson and Ray Brown's time-tested advice and strategies for buying a home in current...
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The Quarter-Life Breakthrough: Invent Your Own Path, Find Meaningful Work, and Build a Life That Matters
The Quarter-Life Breakthrough: Invent Your Own Path, Find Meaningful Work, and Build a Life That Matters

Smiley Poswolsky · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Have you ever known that you needed to make a change, but felt unable to do anything about it? Have you ever felt like you aren't where you are supposed to be, and wondered how the people around you managed to find their purpose in life? After realizing that his well-paying, prestigious...
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Earning It: Hard-Won Lessons from Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World
Earning It: Hard-Won Lessons from Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World

Joann Lublin · Harperbusiness
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

More than fifty trailblazing executive women who broke the corporate glass ceiling offer inspiring and surprising insights and lessons in this essential, in-the-trenches career guide from Joann S. Lublin, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and management news editor for The Wall Street...
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