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Superconnector: Stop Networking and Start Building Business Relationships that Matter

SCOTT GERBER · Da Capo Lifelong Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Abandon the networking-for-networking's-sake mentality in favor of a more powerful and effective approach to creating and enhancing connections.Superconnectors are a new category of tradespeople born out of the social media era. They are highly valuable community-builders who make things...
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Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less

Tiffany Dufu · Flatiron Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto from a renowned voice in the women's leadership movement who shows women how to cultivate the single skill they really need in order to thrive: the ability to let go.

Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first...

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SPARK: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success

Angie Morgan · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 210
Format: Print book

Leadership isn't about a job title - it's about action and behavior.

In SPARK, entrepreneurs, business consultants and military Veterans Angie Morgan, Courtney Lynch, and Sean Lynch show how anyone can become an extraordinary leader by embracing seven key behaviors.

Many...
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The Power of Noticing: What the Best Leaders See

Max Bazerman · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A "must-read" (BOOKLIST ) from Harvard Business School Professor and Codirector of the Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership: A guide to making better decisions, noticing important information in the world around you, and improving leadership skills.Imagine...
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A Colorful Way of Living: How to Be More, Create More, Do More the Vera Bradley Way

Barbara Bradley Baekgaard · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

From the co-founder of the Vera Bradley empire, a practical and inspiring book that shows women how to awaken their full potential, at any age.

"This place could use some color!" That's what Barbara Bradley said to her friend Pat during an airport layover. It was 1982...

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The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis

James Rickards · Portfolio Penguin
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The bestselling author of The Death of Money on how investors can prepare for the next financial panic - and why it's coming sooner than you think.

The global economy has made what seems like an incredible comeback after the financial crisis of 2008. Yet this comeback is artificial....
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Champions Way: Football, Florida, and the Lost Soul of College Sports

MIKE MCINTIRE · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A searing exposé of how the multibillion-dollar college sports empire fails universities, students, and athletes. College sports have never been bigger. Once a roughneck intercollegiate pastime, football now commands millions of fans and generates massive revenues. New York Times investigative...
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Everyday Millionaires: How Ordinary People Built Extraordinary Wealth?and How You Can Too

Chris Hogan · Ramsey Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Everywhere we turn, we hear negative financial news - that the American Dream is dead or that the little man can't get ahead. Our culture feeds us the lie that it's impossible to become a millionaire in America today, but it's time you heard the truth.

In his newest book, Everyday...

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Excuse Me: The Survival Guide to Modern Business Etiquette

Rosanne J Thomas · AMACOM
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"Both novice and experienced workers will find a wealth of business etiquette in a book that, instead of excusing bad behavior, could help prevent it from happening in the first place." -Foreword Reviews, 5 Star Review In today's workplace, good manners matter more than ever....
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Smart Women Love Money: 5 Steps to Financial Empowerment

Alice Finn · Regan Arts
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

How can women achieve true independence and powerful freedom, and follow their passions if they don't understand money? In Smart Women Love Money, wealth management adviser Alice Finn gives women a blueprint of how to make millions - by investing their money the smart way.Two-thirds...
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Cathy O'Neil · Crown
Pages: 259
Format: Print book

"A former Wall Street quantitative analyst sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling, a pervasive new force in society that threatens to undermine democracy and widen inequality,"--NoveList.

"We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives--...

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Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life

Lea Berman · Scribner
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A guide to personal and professional empowerment through civility and social skills, written by two White House Social Secretaries who offer an important fundamental message - everyone is important and everyone deserves to be treated well.

Former White House social secretaries Lea Berman,...
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Killing It: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Head Without Losing Your Heart

Sheryl O'Loughlin · Harper Business
Pages: 290
Format: Print book

The former CEO of Clif Bar, Co-founder of Plum, and serial entrepreneur offers insights about launching and growing a business while maintaining a fulfilled life in this practical guide filled with hard-won advice culled from the author's own sometimes dark, raw experiences. With a foreword...

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The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order

Paul Vigna · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 357
Format: Book

Bitcoin became a buzzword overnight. A cyber-enigma with an enthusiastic following, it pops up in headlines and fuels endless media debate. You can apparently use it to buy anything from coffee to cars, yet few people seem to truly understand what it is. This raises the question: Why should...

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Not Pretty Enough: The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown

Gerri Hirshey · Sarah Crichton Books ; Farrar
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

A bold and deeply researched biography of a complicated cultural icon

When Helen Gurley Brown published Sex and the Single Girl in 1962, it sold more than two million copies in just three weeks, presaging the self-help boom and helping to usher in the unapologetic self-affirmation...

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