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The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds

Michael Lewis · W W Norton
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Best-selling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making...
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Knock 'Em Dead 2016: The Ultimate Job Search Guide

Martin John Yate · Adams Media
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Take control of your job search, career, and life!New York Times bestseller Martin Yate has helped millions of job seekers improve their job search and career management tactics, changing their lives forever. Featuring his unique, time-tested methods for achieving professional success,...
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Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It

Dorie Clark · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

A guide to becoming a recognized expert in your field Too many people believe that if they keep their heads down and work hard, they'll be recognized as experts on the merits of their work. But that's simply not true anymore. To make a name for yourself, you have to capitalize on your...
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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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Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice

Clayton M. Christensen · Harperbusiness
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay premium prices for.How do companies know...
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Why "A" Students Work for "C" Students and Why "B" Students Work for the Government: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Education for Parents

Robert T. Kiyosaki · Plata
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Kiyosaki expands on his belief that the school system was created to churn out 'Es' / Employees... those "A Students" who read well, memorize well and test well... and not the creative thinkers, visionaries and dreamers -entrepreneurs-in-the-making... those "C Students...
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Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism

Bartow J. Elmore · W W Norton
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

An absorbing history of how Coke's insatiable thirst for natural resources shaped the company and reshaped the globe. How did Coca-Cola build a global empire by selling a low-price concoction of mostly sugar, water, and caffeine? The easy answer is advertising, but the real formula...
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Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead

Rosabeth Moss Kanter · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

"America has been waiting for a call to think big and act big as we envision our transportation future. Kanter's important book is it." -- Deval Patrick, governor of Massachusetts, 2007 -- 2015Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays...
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Making work work : the positivity solution for any work environment

Shola Richards · Sterling Ethos
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Is your office a place of soul-destroying negativity? Shola Richards keynote speaker, award winner, and creator of The Positivity Solution blog is about to change that . . . forever. " My mission was clear: I needed to fix the problems facing the workplace. As quickly as I came up with...
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Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature

Mark R. Tercek · Basic Books
Format: Paperback

What is nature worth? The answer to this question—which traditionally has been framed in environmental terms—is revolutionizing the way we do business.In Nature’s Fortune, Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy and former investment banker, and science writer Jonathan...
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