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Pause: Harnessing the Life-Changing Power of Giving Yourself a Break

Rachael O'Meara · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Feeling overwhelmed, burned out, or stuck? Discover the power of the pause. Sometimes life throws you for a loop. You're stressed out at your job; you're torn between work and family; your motivation and productivity are taking a nosedive. Your impulse might be to lean in and tough it out,...
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End Financial Stress Now: Immediate Steps You Can Take to Improve Your Financial Outlook

EMILY GUY BIRKEN · Adams Media
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

End financial stress for good and learn how to manage your money - without a change to income!Studies have shown time and time again that money is a leading cause of stress - but a life free from financial worry isn't exclusive to the rich and powerful. End Financial Stress Now gives...
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Use Social Media to Find Your Dream Job!: How to Use LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook, Twitter and Other Social Media in Your Job Search

Dan Quillen · Cold Spring Press
Pages: 127
Format: Paperback

Shows readers how to navigate the most important development in job hunting: social media!In today's economy job hunters need to use every tool available to them, and that includes social networking. Building on the author's "Get a Job!" and "The Perfect Resume," and his 20+ years...
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LOADED: Money, Psychology, and How to Get Ahead without Leaving Your Values Behind

Sarah C Newcomb · John Wiley & Sons
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

Research studies over the past few decades reveal an interesting paradox: Lack of money is linked to depression, relationship problems, lower performance on difficult tasks, and even shorter life expectancy, yet just thinking about money can lead to antisocial behavior and reduce compassion....
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The Money-Raising Nonprofit Brand: Motivating Donors to Give, Give Happily, and Keep on Giving

Jeff Brooks · Wiley
Pages: 228
Format: Print book

Why commercial-style branding doesn't work for nonprofits--and what doesThe nonprofit world has increasingly turned to commercial-style branding to raise profiles and encourage giving. It hasn't worked. Written by a longtime industry insider, this book argues that branding strategies...
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The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class

Edward Conard · Portfolio Penguin
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The scourge of America's economy isn't the success of the 1 percent - quite the opposite. The bigger problem is the government's well-meaning but misguided attempt to reduce the payoffs for success. Four years ago, Edward Conard wrote a controversial bestseller, Unintended Consequences,...
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Warren Buffett's Ground Rules: Words of Wisdom from the Partnership Letters of the World's Greatest Investor

Jeremy Miller · Harperbusiness
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Using the letters Warren Buffett wrote to his partners between 1956 and 1970, a veteran financial advisor presents the renowned guru's "ground rules" for investing - guidelines that remain startlingly relevant today.In the fourteen years between his time in New York with value-investing...
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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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Running Virtual Meetings

Harvard Business Review Press · Harvard Business Review Press
Pages: 112
Format: Print book

Whether you're hosting a conference call or running a WebEx meeting, virtual meetings are ripe for problems. Poor call quality, people forgetting to mute, people staying muted rather than participating - the list of things that can and do go wrong is endless. But you can prepare and lead...
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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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The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated

Helaine Olen · Portfolio/Penguin
Pages: 245
Format: Print book

"THE MOST NOTABLE PERSONAL FINANCE WRITING OF 2013 . . . WAS A HANDWRITTEN 4 × 6 INDEX CARD." - MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE TV analysts and money managers would have you believe your finances are enormously complicated, and if you don't follow their guidance, you'll end up in the poorhouse....
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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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Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

Sharon Salzberg · Workman Publishing Company, Inc., 2013. ©2014
Pages: 261
Format: Audiobook

Real Happiness at Work brings the profound benefits of meditation to an area where people could use it most -- the workplace. And it's written by one of the world's leading meditation teachers.A follow-up to Real Happiness, the New York Times bestseller, Sharon Salzberg's Real...
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