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The Job Search Navigator: An Expert's Guide to Getting Hired, Surviving Layoffs, and Building Your Career
The Job Search Navigator: An Expert's Guide to Getting Hired, Surviving Layoffs, and Building Your Career

Matt Durfee · B2 Books
Pages: 265
Format: Print book

The Job Search Navigator is a comprehensive guide to finding a new job in today's evolving career marketplace. Author Matt Durfee writes from the perspective of someone who has both recruited for some of America's biggest companies and navigated his way through nine of his own job losses.The...
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To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History
To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History

Lawrence Levy · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

The never-before-told story of Pixar's improbable success. "Hi, Lawrence?" the caller asked. "This is Steve Jobs. I saw your picture in a magazine a few years ago and thought we'd work together someday." After Steve Jobs was unceremoniously dismissed from Apple, he turned...
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Data for the People: How to Make Our Post-Privacy Economy Work for You
Data for the People: How to Make Our Post-Privacy Economy Work for You

Andreas Weigend · Basic Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Every time we Google something, Facebook someone, Uber somewhere, or even just turn on a light, we create data that businesses collect and use to make decisions about us. In many ways this has improved our lives, yet, we as individuals do not benefit from this wealth of data as much as we could....
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The Millionaire Master Plan: Your Personalized Path to Financial Success
The Millionaire Master Plan: Your Personalized Path to Financial Success

Roger James Hamilton · Business Plus
Format: Hardcover

The Millionaire Master Plan is a unique and fresh approach as to how individuals can not only get a sense of where they stand on the spectrum of personal wealth, but more importantly, how they can learn to ascend from their present state to a higher level. Roger James Hamilton, himself...
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Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor
Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor

Tren Griffin · Columbia University Press
Pages: 209
Format: Print book

Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway's visionary vice chairman and Warren Buffett's indispensable financial partner, has outperformed market indexes again and again, and he believes any investor can do the same. His notion of "elementary, worldly wisdom" -- a set of interdisciplinary...
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Making It in America: A 12-Point Plan for Growing Your Business and Keeping Jobs at Home
Making It in America: A 12-Point Plan for Growing Your Business and Keeping Jobs at Home

John Bassett · Center Street
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Everyone knows you can't build things in America anymore. Everyone, that is, except John D. Bassett III. While one corporation after another exported their manufacturing to high-volume factories in low-wage locations overseas, Bassett's traditional wood bedroom furniture manufacturing company...
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The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence
The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence

Dacher Keltner · Penguin Books
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

A revolutionary and timely reconsideration of everything we know about power. Celebrated UC Berkeley psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner argues that compassion and selflessness enable us to have the most influence over others and the result is power as a force for good in the world.It is taken...
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Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I Learned from Online Dating
Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I Learned from Online Dating

Paul E Oyer · Boston, MA : Harvard Business Review Pr., 2014
Pages: 241
Format: Hardcover

Conquering the dating market - from an economist's point of viewAfter more than twenty years, economist Paul Oyer found himself back on the dating scene - but what a difference a few years made. Dating was now dominated by sites like Match.com, eHarmony, and OkCupid. But Oyer had a secret...
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Contagious Culture: Show Up, Set the Tone, and Intentionally Create an Organization that Thrives
Contagious Culture: Show Up, Set the Tone, and Intentionally Create an Organization that Thrives

Anese Cavanaugh · McGraw-Hill
Pages: 292
Format: Print book

GET INSPIRED. GET EXCITED. GET RESULTS.A proven approach to corporate culture that's positively contagiousYou are about to enter a new era of leadership. With more competiton, more connectedness, and more opportunities than ever before, this exciting new era demands a workplace culture...
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The New Retirementality: Planning Your Life and Living Your Dreams...at Any Age You Want
The New Retirementality: Planning Your Life and Living Your Dreams...at Any Age You Want

Mitch Anthony · Wiley; 4th Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Stop making a living and start making a life with The New RetirementalityWhen Mitch Anthony first presented the concept of a new way of thinking about retirement in 2000, it was novel and many critics didn't buy into it. Originally written to get the attention of baby boomers who were...
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Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America
Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America

Tamara Draut · Doubleday
Pages: 257
Format: Print book

There was a time when America's working class was seen as the backbone of the American economy, having considerable political, economic, and moral authority. But the working class we have now - far more female and racially diverse and employed by the fast food, retail, health care, and other...
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Kidding Ourselves: The Hidden Power of Self-Deception
Kidding Ourselves: The Hidden Power of Self-Deception

Joseph T Hallinan · Crown Publishers
Pages: 260
Format: Print book

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Why We Make Mistakes, an illuminating exploration of human beings' astonishing ability to deceive themselves. To one degree or another, we all misjudge reality. Our perception - of ourselves and the world around us - is much more...
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The Truth About Retirement Plans and IRAs
The Truth About Retirement Plans and IRAs

Ric Edelman · Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

From the #1 independent financial advisor in America, ranked three times by Barron's: a guide to making the most of your retirement plans and assuring long-term financial security.Everyone knows that saving for your retirement is important. Yet only half of all eligible Americans contribute...
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All You Need to Know About the Music Business: Ninth Edition
All You Need to Know About the Music Business: Ninth Edition

Donald S Passman · Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Pages: 516
Format: Print book

"The industry bible" (Los Angeles Times) , now updated, essential for anyone in the music business - musicians, songwriters, lawyers, agents, promoters, publishers, executives, and managers - trying to navigate the rapid transformation of the industry.For more than twenty years,...
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The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream
The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream

Amy Webb · Public Affairs
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Amy Webb is a noted futurist who combines curiosity, skepticism, colorful storytelling, and deeply reported, real-world analysis in this essential book for understanding the future. The Signals Are Talking reveals a systemic way of evaluating new ideas bubbling up on the horizon - distinguishing...
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