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The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream

Amy Webb · Public Affairs
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Amy Webb is a noted futurist who combines curiosity, skepticism, colorful storytelling, and deeply reported, real-world analysis in this essential book for understanding the future. The Signals Are Talking reveals a systemic way of evaluating new ideas bubbling up on the horizon - distinguishing...
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Take Command: Lessons in Leadership: How to Be a First Responder in Business

Jake Wood · Crown Business
Format: Hardcover

What do elite members of the military, first responders in the disaster zone, and high-performing leaders in fast-paced, high-pressure, modern day organizations have in common?The ability to have clarity of mind and purpose when surrounded by chaos. To operate at peak performance under...
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Enlightened Negotiation: 8 Universal Laws to Connect, Create, and Prosper

Mehrad Nazari · SelectBooks
Pages: 238
Format: Print book

Enlightened Negotiationâ„¢ is a guide to real-world, mindful negotiation practices drawing on the principles of Eastern wisdom traditions. In the realm of business where self-styled experts teach haggling rather than negotiation, people drink in harmful practices on a daily basis. Mehrad...
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Start Your Own Microbrewery, Distillery, or Cidery: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success

Corie Brown · Entrepreneur Press
Format: Print book

Start Your Own Microbrewery, Distillery, or Cidery and Craft Your Success StoryGrowing each year, this multi-billion dollar industry, driven by consumer preferences, shows no signs of slowing down - giving you the perfect opportunity to start up.Corie Brown of Zester Daily and our experts...
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Negotiating 101: From Planning Your Strategy to Finding a Common Ground, an Essential Guide to the Art of Negotiating

Peter J Sander · Adams Media
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A quick-and-easy guide to core business and career concepts - no MBA required!The ability to negotiate a deal. Confidence to oversee staff. Complete, accurate monitoring of expenses. In today's business world, these are must-have skills. But all too often, comprehensive business books...
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Accounting for the Numberphobic: A Survival Guide for Small Business Owners

Dawn Fotopulos · AMACOM
Format: Book

Why do so many business owners dread looking at the numbers? They make excuses...They don't have time...That's what the accountant is for...But the simple truth is that no one else will ever be as invested in their company as they are - and they need to take control. As a small-business...
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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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Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good

Chuck Collins · Chelsea Green
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

As inequality grabs headlines, steals the show in presidential debates, and drives deep divides between the haves and have nots in America, class war brews. On one side, the wealthy wield power and advantage, wittingly or not, to keep the system operating in their favor -- all while retreating...
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Connect: How Companies Succeed by Engaging Radically with Society

John Browne · Public Affairs
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Drawing on the experiences of John Browne, former CEO of BP, and the insight of two McKinsey experts, Connect explores the recurring rift between business and society and proposes a way in which companies can prosper by connecting with the world around them. In an era of unremitting transparency,...
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Scared speechless : 9 ways to overcome your fears and captivate your audience

Steve Rohr · Career Press
Pages: 224
Format: eBook

"Scared Speechless" is coauthored by talent rep and 2015 Oscar(r) publicist Steve Rohr and Dr. Shirley Impellizzeri, a clinical psychologist who has appeared on The Doctors, Hollywood Exes, Workout, and Dr. Drew. It really is true: What you say and how you say it speaks volumes...
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A square meal : a culinary history of the Great Depression

Jane Ziegelman · Harper
Pages: 314
Format: Print book

From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced - the Great Depression - and how it transformed America's culinary culture.The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts...
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The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe

Joseph E Stiglitz · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Can Europe prosper without the euro?In 2010, the 2008 global financial crisis morphed into the "eurocrisis." It has not abated. The 19 countries of Europe that share the euro currency -- the eurozone -- have been rocked by economic stagnation and debt crises. Some countries have...
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The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World

Sally Denton · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 436
Format: Print book

From the bestselling coauthor of The Money and the Power (which the Los Angeles Times called "one of the most important nonfiction books published in a half century") - the inside story of the Bechtel family and the empire they've controlled since the construction of the Hoover...
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Business Writing: What Works, What Won't

Wilma Davidson · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

First published by Griffin in 1994, Wilma Davidson's clear, practical guide to business writing has established itself as a steady seller and an excellent primer for anyone who writes on the job. Newly revised to cover e-mail, texts, and the latest word social media technology, the book...
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