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Leading the Starbucks Way: 5 Principles for Connecting with Your Customers, Your Products and Your People

Joseph A Michelli · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 286
Format: Hardcover

Lead Your Business the Starbucks Way Foreword by Herve Humler, President and COO, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C. One of the best-recognized and admired brands in the world, Starbucks singlehandedly transformed the ordinary delivery of coffee into a cultural phenomenon--a result...
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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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How to Make It: 25 Makers Share the Secrets to Building a Creative Business

Erin Austen Abbott · Chronicle Books
Pages: 212
Format: Print book

This is the ultimate tell-all, show-all guide to making a living by making things. Featuring 25 profiles of illustrators, jewelry designers, ceramicists, painters, clothing designers, and printmakers, How to Make It provides a behind-the-scenes look at the daily rituals and best practices...
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The Case Against Sugar

Gary Taubes · Knopf
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

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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End Unemployment Now: How to Eliminate Joblessness, Debt, and Poverty Despite Congress

Ravi Batra · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The year 2010 marked when the National Bureau of Economic Research declared an end to the Great Recession. The economy had shed over six million jobs in 2008 and 2009, but few had been recalled to work by 2010. Today, government policies have yet to make a significant dent in unemployment....
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Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don't Know What You're Eating and What You Can Do about It

Larry Olmsted · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

"Impressive . . . Readers will be inspired by Olmsted's intensity and clarity, and floored by how far some counterfeiters go to fool consumers and some historic food institutions go to protect their products and their names. Olmsted's sharp language will hopefully put fires under counterfeiters...
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Business Without the Bullsh*t: 49 Secrets and Shortcuts You Need to Know

Geoffrey James · Grand Central Pub
Pages: 288
Format: Book

Contrary to popular belief, the business world is not that complicated. While every industry and every profession requires specific expertise, the truth is that the "business of business" is relatively simple. For the past seven years, Geoffrey James has written a daily blog that's...
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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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Power Your Happy: Work Hard, Play Nice & Build Your Dream Life

Lisa Sugar · Dutton
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Lisa Sugar has an amazing job. She spends her days creating content about pop culture, must-have handbags and makeup, healthy recipes, and Instagram-worthy sweets. She manages an enormously successful, growing company with employees who love what they do. And her life is just as great at home....
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What Great Brands Do: The Seven Brand-Building Principles that Separate the Best from the Rest

Denise Lee Yohn · Jossey-Bass
Pages: 262
Format: Print book

Discover proven strategies for building powerful, world-class brands in this 800CEOREAD bestseller It's tempting to believe that brands like Apple, Nike, and Zappos achieved their iconic statuses because of serendipity, an unattainable magic formula, or even the genius of a single...
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The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom's Guide to Style, Sanity, and Big Success After Baby

Lauren Smith Brody · Doubleday
Pages: 319
Format: Hardcover

The Fifth Trimester is your new best friend: a brilliant, tells-it-like-it-is guide that helps moms cope with the demands of the real world after the baby arrives The first three trimesters (and the fourth - those blurry newborn days) are for the baby, but the Fifth Trimester is when...
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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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The Mortgage Wars: Inside Fannie Mae, Big-Money Politics, and the Collapse of the American Dream

Timothy Howard · McGraw-Hill,
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

THE REAL STORY OF THE MELTDOWN THAT LED TO THE FINANCIAL CRISIS "Required reading" -- SeekingAlpha.com Many books have been written about the financial crisis and its causes, but none of them has been written by one of the key figures intimately involved in the drama. At last,...
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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

Walter Scheidel · Princeton University Press
Pages: 504
Format: Print book

Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully....
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High Performance Habits

Brendon Burchard · Hay House, Inc.
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

THESE HABITS WILL MAKE YOU EXTRAORDINARY.Twenty years ago, author Brendon Burchard became obsessed with answering three questions:1. Why do some individuals and teams succeed more quickly than others and sustain that success over the long term?2. Of those who pull it off, why are some...
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