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Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
David B. Yoffie · HarperBusiness Format: Hardcover
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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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Be Bad First: Get Good at Things Fast to Stay Ready for the Future
Erika Andersen · Bibliomotion Pages: 240 Format: Print book
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We are operating in a world defined by constant connection, rapid change, and abundant choices. News that once took months, even years, to spread now reaches across the globe in seconds. Advances in medicine and science are pushing boundaries with gene therapy and stem cell transplants.... |
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The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food
Ted Genoways · Harper Format: Hardcover
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A powerful and important work of investigative journalism that explores the runaway growth of the American meatpacking industry and its dangerous consequences.On the production line in American packinghouses, there is one cardinal rule the chain never slows. Every year, the chain conveyors... |
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Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life
Lea Berman · Scribner Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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A guide to personal and professional empowerment through civility and social skills, written by two White House Social Secretaries who offer an important fundamental message - everyone is important and everyone deserves to be treated well.Former White House social secretaries Lea Berman,... |
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The Five Years Before You Retire: Retirement Planning When You Need It the Most
Wes Moss · Adams Media Format: Kindle Edition
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A comprehensive guide to planning your retirement before it's too late! Even though half of all Americans put money aside for retirement, it isn't until they reach their sixties that many realize that they haven't saved enough. With The Five Years Before You Retire, you'll hone in on what... |
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Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
Tim Harford · Riverhead Books Pages: 304 Format: Print book
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From the award-winning columnist and author of the national bestseller The Undercover Economist comes a provocative big idea book about the genuine benefits of being messy: at home, at work, in the classroom, and beyond.Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives celebrates the benefits... |
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Get Better: 15 Proven Practices to Build Effective Relationships at Work
TODD DAVIS · Simon & Schuster Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
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A practical guide for anyone looking to create a competitive advantage in any size and type of organization by building effective relationships - from the performance improvement experts at FranklinCovey.In Get Better: 15 Proven Practices to Build Effective Relationships, FranklinCovey's... |
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Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Christopher Voss · Harperbusiness Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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A former international hostage negotiator for the FBI offers a new, field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations - whether in the boardroom or at home.After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator... |
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Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids--and How to Break the Trance
Nicholas Kardaras · St. Martin's Press Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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We've all seen them: kids hypnotically staring at glowing screens in restaurants, in playgrounds and in friend's houses -- and the numbers are growing. Like a virtual scourge, the illuminated glowing faces -- the Glow Kids -- are multiplying. But at what cost? Is this just a harmless indulgence... |
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