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Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

John Doerr · Portfolio
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Instant New York Times BestsellerLegendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth - and how it can help any organization thrive. In the fall of 1999,...
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Not Pretty Enough: The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown

Gerri Hirshey · Sarah Crichton Books ; Farrar
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

A bold and deeply researched biography of a complicated cultural iconWhen Helen Gurley Brown published Sex and the Single Girl in 1962, it sold more than two million copies in just three weeks, presaging the self-help boom and helping to usher in the unapologetic self-affirmation of second...
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The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy

Chris Bailey · Crown Business
Pages: 292
Format: Print book

A fresh, personal, and entertaining exploration of a topic that concerns all of us: how to be more productive at work and in every facet of our lives. Chris Bailey turned down lucrative job offers to pursue a lifelong dream - to spend a year performing a deep dive experiment into the pursuit...
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The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies

Ben Fritz · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The stunning metamorphosis of twenty-first-century Hollywood and what lies ahead for the art and commerce of film In the past decade, Hollywood has endured a cataclysm on a par with the end of silent film and the demise of the studio system. Stars and directors have seen their power dwindle,...
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The Regal Theater and Black Culture

C. Semmes · Palgrave Macmillan
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Chronicling over forty years of critical changes in African-American expressive and popular culture, covering diverse forms of music, dance, and comedy, the Regal Theater (1928-1968) was the largest and most architecturally splendid movie-stage-show venue ever constructed for a black...
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Bringing Out the Best in People, 3E

Aubrey C Daniels · Mcgraw-Hill Education
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Maximize employee performance with this updated edition of the classic bestseller In Bringing Out the Best in People, 3rd edition, renowned thought leader and internationally recognized workplace expert Aubrey Daniels takes a look at today's rapidly changing work environment, providing...
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The Financial Diet: A Total Beginner's Guide to Getting Good with Money

Chelsea Fagan · Holt Paperbacks
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

*A Refinery29 Best Book of 2018**One of Real Simple's Most Inspiring Books for Graduates* How to get good with money, even if you have no idea where to start.The Financial Diet is the personal finance book for people who don't care about personal finance. Whether you're in need of an overspending...
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Idiot's Guides: Options Trading

Ann Logue · Alpha Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Even for the experienced trader, options trading can be a risky and intimidating investment strategy. However, with the right strategies and approach, it can be an exciting investment option that can pay serious dividends. Through logical, step-by-step guidance Idiot's Guides: Options...
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Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together

Gaby Dunn · Atria Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

The beloved writer-comedian expands on her popular podcast with an engaging and empowering financial literacy book for Millennials and Gen Z. In the first episode of her "Bad With Money" podcast, Gaby Dunn asked patrons at a coffee shop two questions: First, what's your favorite...
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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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Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and Impact

Phil M Jones · Box of Tricks Publishing
Pages: 148
Format: Paperback

Often the decision between a customer choosing you over someone like you is your ability to know exactly what to say, when to say it, and how to make it count. Phil M. Jones has trained more than two million people across five continents and over fifty countries in the lost art of spoken...
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The Power of Your Leadership: Making a Difference with Others

John C Maxwell · Center Street
Format: Audiobook

John C. Maxwell, #1 New York Times bestselling author, shows you how to shift from success to significance by leading with passion and purpose in a compact new book derived from his previous title, Intentional Living. We all want to live a life that matters. But what is true significance?...
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Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro

NOT AVAILABLE. · Ecco
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

"A Perfect Storm for a new generation, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a masterful page-turning account of the El Faro's sinking." - Ben Mezrich, bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook"The one account I've read that solves the riddle...
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When Friday Isn't Payday: How to Plan Start Build and Manage Your Small Business

Randy W Kirk · Independently published
Pages: 417
Format: Paperback

3rd Edition - 25th anniversary revised version - Includes special online members' only contentInc. reviewed 200 business books in search of the small business Bible. Included in the final three they selected was When Friday Isn't Payday. Here's what Inc. said:"My favorite...
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Energy: A Human History

RICHARD RHODES · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond.People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power...
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