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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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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