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UNSTUCK: A Story About Gaining Perspective, Creating Traction, and Pursuing Your Passion

DAN WEBSTER · Wiley
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover


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You Can't Know It All: Leading in the Age of Deep Expertise

Wanda T. Wallace · HarperBusiness
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Make the move from star contributor to exceptional leader in this long overdue hands-on guide.Today's organizations are packed full of experts in every area from marketing to sales to IT. Many of these people are also leaders, heading teams or departments. They lead because they know...
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Real Estate License Exams For Dummies

JOHN A YOEGEL · JOHN WILEY
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Your ticket to passing the real estate license exam In order to become a licensed real estate agent, you must pass your state's real estate licensing exam-and with this hands-on guide, you'll get everything you need to succeed. Inside, you'll find the latest and most up-to-date...
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Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior

Jonah Berger · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of Contagious explores the subtle, secret influences that affect the decisions we make - from what we buy, to the careers we choose, to what we eat - in this fascinating and groundbreaking work.

If you're like most people, you think...
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Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

Jim Mattis · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis - the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time - and Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat...
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Thank You for Being Late: Finding a Job, Running a Country, and Keeping Your Head in an Age of Accelerations

Thomas L Friedman · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 496
Format: Audiobook

A New York Times Bestseller

A field guide to the twenty-first century, written by one of its most celebrated observers

We all sense it -- something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your kids. You can't miss it when you read...

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Women in Tech: Take Your Career to the Next Level with Practical Advice and Inspiring Stories

TARAH WHEELER VAN VLACK · Sasquatch Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Geared toward women who are considering getting into tech, or those already in a tech job who want to take their career to the next level, this book combines practical career advice and inspiring personal stories from successful female tech professionals Brianna Wu (founder, Giant Spacekat)...
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Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most


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Discrimination and Disparities

Thomas Sowell · Basic Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover



An empirical examination of how economic and other disparities arise
Economic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with less fortunate outcomes are victims...
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From the Ground Up: A Journey to Reimagine the Promise of America

Howard Schultz · Random House
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From the longtime CEO and chairman of Starbucks, a bold, dramatic work about the new responsibilities that leaders, businesses, and citizens share in American society today - as viewed through the intimate lens of one man's life and work.

What do we owe one another? How do we channel...
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Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

Robert B Cialdini · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

The author of the legendary bestseller Influence, social psychologist Robert Cialdini shines a light on effective persuasion and reveals that the secret doesn't lie in the message itself, but in the key moment before that message is delivered.

What separates effective communicators...
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The Curse of Cash

Kenneth S Rogoff · Princeton University Press
Pages: 248
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of This Time Is Different, "a fascinating and important book" (Ben Bernanke) about phasing out paper money to fight crime and tax evasion--and to battle financial crises by tapping the power of negative interest rates

The...

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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...
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Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud

David Dayen · New Press
Pages: 385
Format: Print book

In the depths of the Great Recession, a cancer nurse, a car dealership worker, and an insurance fraud specialist helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history - a scandal that implicated dozens of major executives on Wall Street. They called it foreclosure fraud: millions...
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Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work

Andrea S Kramer · Bibliomotion
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

More than fifty years after the beginning of the Women's Movement and forty years after passage of Title IX, women are still not "making it" in traditionally male careers. Women start their careers on parity with men but generally end them far earlier, having achieved less status,...
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