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A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service
Robert Michael Gates · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 239
Format: Print book
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From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 best-selling memoir Duty, a characteristically direct, informed, and urgent assessment of why big institutions are failing us and how smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement regardless of scale. Across the realms... |
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Modernize Your Resume: Get Noticed? Get Hired
Wendy Enelow · Emerald Career Pub
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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Based on today?s real-world job search trends, MODERNIZE YOUR RESUME shows you how to craft a winning resume to meet the complexities of today?s highly competitive and technologically driven employment market. The 2nd edition has been updated with new resume samples, new designs, and new ATS and e-resume... |
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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Kevin Kelly · Viking
Pages: 328
Format: Print book
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A New York Times BestsellerFrom one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our livesMuch of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological... |
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Mathematical Finance: A Very Short Introduction
Mark H. A. Davis · Oxford University Press
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
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In recent years the finance industry has mushroomed to become an important part of modern economies, and many science and engineering graduates have joined the industry as quantitative analysts, with mathematical and computational skills that are needed to solve complex problems of asset... |
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How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story
Billy Gallagher · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The improbable and exhilarating story of the rise of Snapchat from a frat boy fantasy to a multi-billion dollar internet unicorn that has dramatically changed the way we communicate.In 2013 Evan Spiegel, the brash CEO of the social network Snapchat, and his co-founder Bobby Murphy stunned... |
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Idiot's Guides: Introductory Accounting
David H Ringstrom · Alpha Books, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Accurate accounting is the key to a successful business. But when you're dealing with assets and liabilities, profit and loss, and debits and credits, juggling all the numbers can quickly get confusing. Introductory Accounting gives you everything you need to know about basic financial... |
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Great at Work: How Top Performers Work Less and Achieve More
Henri Vernes · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Great by Choice comes an authoritative, practical guide to individual performance - based on analysis from an exhaustive, groundbreaking study.Why do some people perform better at work than others? This deceptively simple question continues... |
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Connect: How Companies Succeed by Engaging Radically with Society
John Browne · Public Affairs
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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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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101 Smart Questions to Ask on Your Interview, 4th Edition
Ron Fry · Career Press, 2016.
Pages: 192
Format: Print book
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Don't become tongue-tied during the most crucial phase of the interview process.101 Smart Questions to Ask on Your Interview is for every job candidate who thinks the question "Do you have any questions for me?" marks the end of an interview. In Fry's view, it marks the beginning... |
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Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
Douglas Rushkoff · Portfolio Penguin, 2016.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Digital technology was supposed to usher in a new age of distributed prosperity, but so far it has been used to put industrial capitalism on steroids. It's not technology's fault, but that of an extractive, growth-driven, economic operating system that has reached the limits of its ability... |
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Making It: Why Manufacturing Still Matters
Louis Uchitelle · The New Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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From the longtime New York Times economics correspondent, a closely reported argument for the continuing importance of industry for American prosperity In the 1950s manufacturing generated nearly 30 percent of U.S. income. Over the past fifty-five years that share has gradually declined... |
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Energy: A Human History
RICHARD RHODES · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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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 power... |
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The Art of Relevance
Nina Simon · Museum 2.0
Pages: 191
Format: Print book
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What do the London Science Museum, California Shakespeare Theater, and ShaNaNa have in common? They are all fighting for relevance in an often indifferent world. The Art of Relevance is your guide to mattering more to more people. You'll find inspiring examples, rags-to-relevance case... |
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