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The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand Out From The Crowd

Allan Dib - Page Two
Format: Paperback

Warning: do not listen to this book if you hate money. To build a successful business, you need to stop doing random acts of marketing and start following a reliable plan for rapid business growth. Traditionally, creating a marketing plan has been a difficult and time-consuming process,...
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Financial Accounting For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Maire Loughran
Format: Paperback

Learn to speak fluent finance - and ace your exams! Warren Buffett said that "accounting is the language of business.'' And for many accounting and business students, the obscure terminology of accounting makes fluency hard to achieve. Financial Accounting For Dummies can help...
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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

Henry Grabar - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American life - the humble parking spot. Parking, quite literally, has a death grip on America: each year a handful of Americans are tragically killed by their fellow...
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Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?

Aaron Dignan - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

"This is the management book of the year. Clear, powerful and urgent, it's a must read for anyone who cares about where they work and how they work." - Seth Godin, author of This is Marketing "This book is a breath of fresh air. Read it now, and make sure your boss...
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Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley

Angel Au-Yeung - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Wonder Boy is a riveting investigation into the turbulent life of Zappos visionary Tony Hsieh, whose radical business strategies revolutionized both the tech world and corporate culture, based on rigorous research and reporting by two seasoned journalists.. Tony Hsieh's first successful...
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Engine of Inequality: The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America

Karen Petrou - Wiley; 1st edition
Format: 1st Edition

The first book to reveal how the Federal Reserve holds the key to making us more economically equal, written by an author with unparalleled expertise in the real world of financial policyFollowing the 2008 financial crisis, the Federal Reserve's monetary policy placed much greater focus...
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Rising Together: How We Can Bridge Divides and Create a More Inclusive Workplace

Sally Helgesen - Hachette Go
Format: Hardcover

In this follow-up to her international bestseller How Women Rise, Sally Helgesen draws on three decades of work with executives and aspiring leaders around the world to offer practical ways to build more inclusive relationships, teams, and workplaces. Participants at leadership conferences...
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Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream

Alissa Quart - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilledThe promise that you can "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is central to the story of the American...
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The Brompton: Engineering for Change

William Butler-Adams - The Experiment
Format: Hardcover

The story of how Brompton, the iconic folding bicycle that you can take anywhere - and that can take you anywhere - grew from a small cult bike company to a multimillion-dollar business Lightweight, compact, distinctively styled, and now, electric: The Brompton isn't the only folding...
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The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies

Mariana Mazzucato - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industry - and what to do about it. There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today that must change. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington...
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