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The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead: Dos and Don'ts of Right Behavior, Tough Thinking, Clear Writing, and Living a Good Life
The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead: Dos and Don'ts of Right Behavior, Tough Thinking, Clear Writing, and Living a Good Life

Charles Murray · Crown Business
Pages: 144
Format: Book

For those starting out in their careers - and those who wish to advance more quickly - this is a delightfully fussy guide to the hidden rules of the road in the workplace and in life. As bestselling author and social historian Charles Murray explains, at senior levels of an organization...
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Long-term care : how to plan and pay for it
Long-term care : how to plan and pay for it

J L Matthews · Nolo
Pages: 371
Format: Print book

Get the best care, in the right place, at the right price To find the right kind of long-term care, you may need to make difficult personal, medical, and financial decisions during emotionally tough times. Long-Term Care helps you and your family understand the range of available choices....
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The Power of Noticing: What the Best Leaders See
The Power of Noticing: What the Best Leaders See

Max Bazerman · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A "must-read" (BOOKLIST ) from Harvard Business School Professor and Codirector of the Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership: A guide to making better decisions, noticing important information in the world around you, and improving leadership skills.Imagine...
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201 Killer Cover Letters Third Edition
201 Killer Cover Letters Third Edition

Sandra Podesta · McGraw-Hill Education; 3 edition
Format: Paperback

THE BESTSELLING GUIDE TO WRITING COVER LETTERS THAT MAKE YOU STAND OUT FROM THE COMPETITION With hundreds of ready-to-download letters--updated with strategies for networking online, social media, and responding to Internet job postings. Wow, wow, and wow! Letters like these are what...
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Getting to Yes with Yourself: And Other Worthy Opponents
Getting to Yes with Yourself: And Other Worthy Opponents

William Ury · Harper One
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

William Ury, coauthor of the international bestseller Getting to Yes, returns with another groundbreaking book, this time asking: how can we expect to get to yes with others if we haven't first gotten to yes with ourselves?Renowned negotiation expert William Ury has taught tens of thousands...
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Flex: The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences
Flex: The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences

Jane Hyun · Harper Business
Pages: 303
Format: Hardcover

Renowned executive coaches and global leadership strategists Jane Hyun and Audrey S. Lee offer lessons on the vital skill of "Flexing" - the art of switching leadership styles to more effectively lead people who are different from you, allowing managers to successfully manage...
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Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice

Clayton M. Christensen · Harperbusiness
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay premium prices for.How do companies know...
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Get It Together: Organize Your Records So Your Family Won't Have To
Get It Together: Organize Your Records So Your Family Won't Have To

Melanie Cullen · Nolo
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Get your life organized with the best workbook available! Paperwork, personal information, and passwords aren't always easy to find, and organizing your records can seem like an intimidating task. But, whether you need to get a handle on records for yourself, your family or your executor,...
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Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

David B. Yoffie · HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

The authors of the bestselling Competing on Internet Time (a Business Week top 10 book) analyze the strategies, principles, and skills of three of the most successful and influential figures in business - Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs - offering lessons for all managers and entrepreneurs...
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Overcoming Bias: Building Authentic Relationships across Differences
Overcoming Bias: Building Authentic Relationships across Differences

Tiffany Jana · Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Control, Conquer, and Prevail! Everybody's biased. The truth is, we all harbor unconscious assumptions that can get in the way of our good intentions and keep us from building authentic relationships with people different from ourselves. Tiffany Jana and Matthew Freeman use vivid stories...
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The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs
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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Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream
Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream

Sara Goldrick-Rab · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

If you are a young person, and you work hard enough, you can get a college degree and set yourself on the path to a good life, right? Not necessarily, says Sara Goldrick-Rab, and with Paying the Price, she shows in damning detail exactly why. Quite simply, college is far too expensive...
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What Color Is Your Parachute? Guide to Rethinking Interviews: Ace the Interview and Land Your Dream Job
What Color Is Your Parachute? Guide to Rethinking Interviews: Ace the Interview and Land Your Dream Job

Richard Nelson Bolles · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 99
Format: Print book

The first interview book from the What Color Is Your Parachute? career guru Richard Bolles.Interviews instill fear in many a job-hunter, but this empowering guide from legendary career expert Richard N. Bolles reveals that interviews are really just conversations to determine if the work...
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