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The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future
The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future

Steve Case · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 221
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER One of America's most accomplished entrepreneurs - a pioneer who made the Internet part of everyday life and orchestrated the largest merger in the history of business - shares a roadmap for how anyone can succeed in a world of rapidly...
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Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation
Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation

Adam Bryant · St. Martin's Griffin
Format:  Print book : English : First St. Martin's Griffin editionView all editions and formats

More than two hundred CEOs reveal their candid insights on how to build and foster a corporate culture that encourages innovation and drives results In Quick and Nimble, Adam Bryant draws on interviews with more than two hundred CEOs to offer business leaders the wisdom and guidance to move...
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Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2016-2017, Paperbound
Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2016-2017, Paperbound

U. S. Department Of Labor. · Claitors Publishing
Pages: 1322
Format: Print book

The Occupational Outlook Handbook, the federal government s premier career guidance publication since the 1940s, is used by millions of people including counselors, students, jobseekers, employment training specialists, and researchers. The 2016 2017 edition of OOH reflects the latest employment...
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The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage
The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage

Daymond John · Crown Business
Pages: 269
Format: Print book

Daymond John has been practicing the power of broke ever since he started selling his home-sewn t-shirts on the streets of Queens. With no funding and a $40 budget, Daymond had to come up with out-of-the box ways to promote his products. Luckily, desperation breeds innovation, and so he hatched...
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Not Pretty Enough: The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown
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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Leadership 2030: The Six Megatrends You Need to Understand to Lead Your Company into the Future
Leadership 2030: The Six Megatrends You Need to Understand to Lead Your Company into the Future

Georg Vielmetter · AMACOM
Format: Book

The tumultuous changes of the past decade, including China's economic rise and the financial meltdown, were just the beginning. The next cataclysmic wave is surging relentlessly ahead, demanding leaders who can steer their companies through complexity and change. Drawn from original...
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The Case Against Sugar
The Case Against Sugar

Gary Taubes · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent...
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Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers in the Age of
Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers in the Age of

Itamar Simonson · HarperCollins
Pages: 232
Format: Print book

Going against conventional marketing wisdom, Absolute Value reveals what really influences customers today and offers a new framework - the Influence Mix, a totally new way of thinking about consumer decision making and marketing, and about developing more effective business strategies.How...
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Water Plant Operator
Water Plant Operator

National Learning Corporation. Civil Service Division. · National Learning Corp.
Pages: 1
Format: Paperback

The Water Plant Operator Passbook® prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: plant maintenance...
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Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality
Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality

James Kwak · Pantheon Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and misleading half-truths.Economism: an ideology that distorts the valid principles and tools of introductory college economics,...
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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

William Burnett · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 238
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times Bestseller At last, a book that shows you how to build - design - a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home - at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding...
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Self-Made: How to Become Self-Reliant, Self-Realized, and Rich in Every Way
Self-Made: How to Become Self-Reliant, Self-Realized, and Rich in Every Way

Nely Galán · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 214
Format: Print book

For readers of #GIRLBOSS and viewers of Shark Tank - a global revolution in entrepreneurship is under way, inspiring women to blaze a trail of financial self-reliance and become self-made. Featuring a foreword by Suze Orman. What does it mean to be self-made? It's not just about having...
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Grounded: How Leaders Stay Rooted in an Uncertain World
Grounded: How Leaders Stay Rooted in an Uncertain World

Bob Rosen · Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A provocative, personal approach to leadership based on in-depth research with hundreds of executives around the world Confronted by disruptive change and economic turbulence, many of today's leaders find themselves ill-equipped to manage the hazards they now face. They must contend...
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Winning the Long Game: How Strategic Leaders Shape the Future
Winning the Long Game: How Strategic Leaders Shape the Future

Steven Krupp · PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

Are you winning the battle but losing the war?Every leader has to deliver the goods—make budget, meet deadlines, and deftly manage people—to provide the inspirational fuel that keeps their business running day-in and day-out. But therein lies the danger of winning today’s...
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When Buyers Say No: Essential Strategies for Keeping a Sale Moving Forward
When Buyers Say No: Essential Strategies for Keeping a Sale Moving Forward

Tom Hopkins · Business Plus, 2014.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

This is a complete and practical guide which highlights the authors' new strategic approaches to selling when the buyer initially declines or is resistant on a sales opportunity. Hopkins and Katt explain that most sales reps take a traditional linear approach to selling, but that the trick...
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