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Own Your Future: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur and Thrive in an Unpredictable Economy

Paul B. Brown · Amacom
Pages: 211
Format: Hardcover

It used to be that if you studied and worked hard, you could be assured of an extremely satisfying career. But in a world of constant layoffs and dying industries, it has become increasingly difficult to "plan" your way to success. So what is the solution? Well, when it comes...
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You Need a Budget: The Proven System for Breaking the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Cycle, Getting Out of Debt, and Living the Life You Want

JESSE MECHAM · HarperBusiness
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Discover four simple rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt, and save more money faster! The You Need A Budget (YNAB) Method has helped tens of thousands of people to turn their financial lives around. It can certainly help you! Whether you're looking to right...
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All about Them: Grow Your Business by Focusing on Others

Bruce Turkel · Da Capo
Pages: 312
Format: Print book

The best companies and most successful salespeople live by a three-word mantra - "all about them" - because when they relentlessly focus their brand on their customers instead of themselves, their businesses flourish. All about Them shows readers how to use this simple but extremely...
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Put Your Intuition to Work: How to Supercharge Your Inner Wisdom to Think Fast and Make Great Decisions

Lynn A Robinson · The Career Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Intuition is the hot buzzword in business, but specific guidelines on how to trust your gut have been sorely lacking. Put Your Intuition to Work provides that missing link.Business is about making money, but it's also about making decisions. There are relatively small decisions, like...
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The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

Daniel J. Levitin · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin shifts his keen insights from your brain on music to your brain in a sea of details.The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we're expected to make more - and faster...
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Raw Deal: How the "Uber Economy" and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers

Steven Hill · Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

"What's going to happen to my job?"That's what an increasing number of anxious Americans are asking themselves. The US workforce, which has been one of the most productive and wealthiest in the world, is undergoing an alarming transformation. Increasing numbers of workers find...
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Leadership in Focus: Bringing Out Your Best on Camera

Vern Oakley · Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

And . . . Action! If a message feels important enough for video, it's likely because you want to move the audience to action - potential investors to take a stake in your company, current employees to embrace a new initiative, prospective employees to bring their talents to your organization....
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The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives

Lisa Servon · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

An urgent, absorbing exposé - why Americans are fleeing our broken banking system in growing numbers, and how alternatives are rushing in to do what banks once did What do an undocumented immigrant in the South Bronx, a high‑net‑worth entrepreneur, and a twenty‑something...
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IRAs, 401(k)s & Other Retirement Plans: Strategies for Taking Your Money Out

Twila Slesnick PhD · NOLO
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Take cash out of your retirement plan while avoiding taxes and penalties If you have a retirement plan, IRAs, 401(k) s & Other Retirement Plans is your comprehensive guide on taking money out of it. Make sense of the complex tax rules governing when you can take money out of your...
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Retire on Real Estate: Building Rental Income for a Safe and Secure Retirement

K Kai Anderson · AMACOM
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Think beyond the nest egg . . . Do you know how you'll fund your retirement? With pensions slashed, savings slim, and Social Security insufficient and unpredictable, most people won't have nearly enough money to last them. But a sustainable solution lies in plain sight: rental...
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Your Credit Score: How to Improve the 3-Digit Number That Shapes Your Financial Future

Liz Weston · Financial Times Pren Hall, 2015.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Improve your credit score, for real, with the #1 best-selling guide you can trust! Today, a good credit score is essential for getting credit, getting a job, even getting car insurance or a cellphone. Now, best selling journalist Liz Pulliam Weston has thoroughly updated her top-selling...
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Credit Repair Kit For Dummies

Steve Bucci · For Dummies; 4 edition
Format: Paperback

Manage and repair your credit Credit card debt is the third largest source of household indebtedness. Credit Repair Kit For Dummies gives you the tools you need to repair your credit. This new edition covers: major changes with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) inquiry...
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Habit Changers: 81 Game-Changing Mantras to Mindfully Realize Your Goals

M J Ryan · Crown Business
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

What would you like to change in your life? Be more focused at work? Communicate more effectively? Find work-life balance? Make smarter decisions? Be more patient with your team or family? Have greater self-confidence? Less stress? Just . . . be happier? Often, the biggest obstacle to change...
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Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business

Rana Foroohar · Crown Business
Pages: 388
Format: Print book

Eight years on from the biggest market meltdown since the Great Depression, the key lessons of the crisis of 2008 still remain unlearned - and our financial system is just as vulnerable as ever. Many of us know that our government failed to fix the banking system after the subprime mortgage...
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Smart Baseball: The Story Behind the Old Stats That Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones That Are Running It, and the Right Way to Think About Baseball

Keith Law · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Predictably Irrational meets Moneyball in ESPN veteran writer and statistical analyst Keith Law's iconoclastic look at the numbers game of baseball, proving why some of the most trusted stats are surprisingly wrong, explaining what numbers actually work, and exploring what the rise of Big Data...
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