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True Alignment: Linking Company Culture with Customer Needs for Extraordinary Results

Edgar Papke · Amacom
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Alignment is the single most critical business challenge for any organization and its leaders. Without it, inefficiency, conflict, and disengagement will cripple your ability to provide value to your customers. Companies live or die based on their ability to communicate and deliver on the promise...
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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...
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Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Sad History of American Business Schools

Steven Conn
Format: Hardcover


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Women with Money: The Judgment-Free Guide to Creating the Joyful, Less Stressed, Purposeful

Jean Chatzky · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Audiobook

Women have more money--and power--than ever before. So why are we still so conflicted, and unsure, of what or how to deal with it? Today show financial editor and bestselling author Jean Chatzky provides the much-needed answers in WOMEN WITH MONEY.

Ask successful women what they...
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Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency

Charles Rappleye · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 554
Format: Print book

"A deft, filled-out portrait of the thirty-first president...by far the best, most readable study of Hoover's presidency to date." - Publishers Weekly

Rappleye's surprising portrait of a Depression-era president Herbert Hoover reveals a very different figure than...
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Let Me Out: Unlock Your Creative Mind and Bring Your Ideas to Life

Peter Himmelman · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning musician turned communications expert Peter Himmelman, science-based techniques and simple exercises to get unstuck and unlock your creative potential.

Do you want to stop procrastinating? Would you love to be more creative? Is there an idea you've dreamt of making...
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The Conscience Economy: How a Mass Movement for Good Is Great for Business

Steven Overman · Bibliomotion
Format: Hardcover

A generation of people around the world, from Boston to Bangkok, from New York to New Delhi, are making everyday choices in ways that defy traditional logic. They are judging where and how their clothes were made, not just how they fit. They are thinking global but buying local. They are spending...
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Power Cues: The Subtle Science of Leading Groups, Persuading Others, and Maximizing Your Personal Impact

Nick Morgan · Harvard Business Review Press,
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Take control of your communications - before someone else doesWhat if someone told you that your behavior was controlled by a powerful, invisible force? Most of us would be skeptical of such a claim - but it's largely true. Our brains are constantly transmitting and receiving signals...
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The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society

Binyamin Appelbaum · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

In this fascinating character-driven history, a New York Times editorial writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist spotlights the American economists who championed the rise of markets and fundamentally reshaped the modern world.

Before the 1960s, American politicians had never...
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For-Profit Democracy: Why the Government Is Losing the Trust of Rural America

LOKA ASHWOOD · Yale University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating sociological assessment of the damaging effects of the for?profit partnership between government and corporation on rural Americans Why is government distrust rampant, especially in the rural United States? This book offers a simple explanation: corporations and the government...
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Edison

Edmund Morris
Format: Audiobook


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The Enlightened Capitalists: Cautionary Tales of Business Pioneers Who Tried to Do Well by Doing Good

James O'Toole · HarperBusiness
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover

An expert on ethical leadership analyzes the complicated history of business people who tried to marry the pursuit of profits with virtuous organizational practices - from British industrialist Robert Owen to American retailer John Cash Penney and jeans maker Levi Strauss to such modern-day...
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55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Life

Elizabeth White · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

For the millions of people in their fifties and sixties who find themselves out of work, unable to find a job, and financially incapable of retiring, here's a practical plan for getting past any blame or shame, overcoming denial, and finding a path to a new normal.

Elizabeth White...
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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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Selling Your House: Nolo's Essential Guide

Ilona M Bray · Nolo
Pages: 246
Format: Print book

What's the best way to get the highest return if you want to sell your home now? With pent-up demand for homes, you hope yours will inspire multiple offers; but want to make sure to choose a solid one that will proceed successfully to closing. Selling Your House: Nolo's Essential Guide...
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