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The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership

Richard Branson · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

While building the Virgin Group over forty years, Richard Branson has never shied away from seemingly outlandish challenges that others (including his own colleagues on several occasions) considered sheer lunacy. He has taken on giants like British Airways and won, and monsters like Coca-Cola...
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Strategize to Win: The New Way to Start Out, Step Up, or Start Over in Your Career

Carla A Harris · Hudson Street Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The Wall Street powerhouse and author of Expect to Win offers a new way to conceptualize career strategies and gives us proven tools for successful changeWhether we're starting out, striving toward a promotion, or looking for a new opportunity, the working world isn't what it used...
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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2017: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

Richard N. Bolles · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 355
Format: Hardcover

The world's most popular job-search book, with over 10 million copies sold across all annual editions! New for 2017 with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today's job-hunters and career-changers.WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? is the world's most popular job-hunting guide. In this...
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The Art of Money: A Life-Changing Guide to Financial Happiness

Bari Tessler · Parallax Press
Pages: 296
Format: Print book

This is the book your money savvy best friend, therapist, and accountant would write if they could. It s the book about money for people who don t even want to think about money, until the arrival of that inevitable day when we all realize "we must come to terms with this thing called...
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Hijacking the Runway: How Celebrities Are Stealing the Spotlight from Fashion Designers

Teri Agins · Gotham
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating chronicle of how celebrity has inundated the world of fashion, realigning the forces that drive both the styles we covet and the bottom lines of the biggest names in luxury apparel. From Coco Chanel's iconic tweed suits to the miniskirt's surprising comeback in the late...
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MOXIE: The Secret to Bold and Gutsy Leadership

John Baldoni · Bibliomotion
Format: Hardcover

Leaders today need to be mindful of their circumstances as well as mindful of their own strengths and shortcomings. They need to have the disposition to succeed as well as the inner resourcefulness to persevere. Leaders must be willing to do things differently but also draw on tried and true...
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A First-Class Catastrophe: The Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day in Wall Street History

DIANA B HENRIQUES · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The definitive account of the crash of 1987, a cautionary tale of how the U.S. financial system nearly collapsed--from the bestselling author of The Wizard of LiesMonday, October 19, 1987, was by far the worst day in Wall Street history. The market fell 22.6 percent - almost twice as bad as the worst...
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The Moment of Clarity: Using the Human Sciences to Solve Your Toughest Business Problems

Christian Madsbjerg · Harvard Business School Press
Pages: 214
Format: Hardcover

Businesses need a new type of problem solving. Why? Because they are getting people wrong.Traditional problem-solving methods taught in business schools serve us well for some of the everyday challenges of business, but they tend to be ineffective with problems involving a high degree of uncertainty....
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The Vanity Fair Diaries

OCTAVIA MANN · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Today they provide an incendiary portrait of the flash and dash and power brokering of the Excessive Eighties in New York and Hollywood.The Vanity Fair Diaries is the story...
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How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation

Anthony Mancuso · Nolo
Pages: 332
Format: Print book

A guide that provides the forms and information needed to turn your group into a tax-exempt nonprofit. With this book, you can form a nonprofit corporation in any state and gain 501(c) (3) tax-exempt status with the IRS. Includes step-by-step instructions for both IRS Form 1023 and the new streamlined...
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The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact

CHIP HEATH · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us - and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work.What if a teacher could design a lesson that he knew his students...
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The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World

Ruchir Sharma · W W Norton
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

This pioneering work demystifies the drivers behind political, economic, and social change. Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world, and enlivened by encounters with villagers from Rio to Beijing, tycoons, and presidents, Ruchir Sharma's The Rise and Fall of Nations rethinks...
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The Evolved Eater: A Quest to Eat Better, Live Better, and Change the World

NICK TARANTO · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

In early 2012, Nick Taranto was twenty-seven years old, recently married, and fresh out of the Marine Corps. He moved back to New York City, started working on Wall Street, and put on twenty pounds in under six months. He was pasty, overweight, and depressed - and he knew there had to be a better...
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Raise Your Team's Employee Engagement Score: A Manager's Guide

Richard P Finnegan · AMACOM
Pages: 116
Format: Paperback

Want employees that go the extra mile? Love them or hate them, employee engagement surveys are here to stay. As manager, you're expected to digest the data and come up with a plan for improving the numbers. But it's not just busy work. Raising engagement scores matters because...
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Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion

David Zweig · Portfolio Penguin
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover

An inspiring look at the hidden stars in every field who perform essential work without recognition In a culture where so many strive for praise and glory, what kind of person finds the greatest reward in anonymous work? Expanding from his acclaimed Atlantic article, "What Do Fact-Checkers...
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