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Seoul man : a memoir of cars, culture, crisis, and unexpected hilarity inside a Korean corporate titan

Frank Ahrens · HarperBusiness
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Recounting his three years in Korea, the highest-ranking non-Korean executive at Hyundai sheds light on a business culture very few Western journalists ever experience, in this revealing, moving, and hilarious memoir.When Frank Ahrens, a middle-aged bachelor and eighteen-year veteran at the Washington...
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A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929–1939

Charles R Morris · Public Affairs
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the cataclysm and the long duration of the collapse scarred generations of Americans. A Rabble of Dead Money is a lucid and fast-paced account...
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Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald's Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away

Lisa Napoli · Dutton
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

The dramatic relationship between Ray Kroc, the man who amassed a fortune as chairman of one of America's most controversial and iconic companies - McDonald's - and the passionate woman, his wife, Joan, who then gave that fortune away.Beginning in the 1950s, salesman Ray Kroc presided...
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7 Quick Cash Fixes: For Any Business in the Next 30 Days

Betsi Bixby · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 153
Format: Paperback

For many smaller or family-run businesses, cash on hand is not a luxury but a need. When business owners are constantly stressed about money, which bills can be paid, or which employees or services are affordable, they don't just miss out on new opportunities - they carry that burden...
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Wait, How Do I Write This Email?

Danny Rubin · News To Live By
Pages: 254
Format: Paperback

In his award-winning guide, communications expert Danny Rubin provides more than 100 email/document templates for networking and the job search. With each template, Rubin saves you time and takes the stress out of professional email writing.Wait, How Do I Write This Email? is a perfect...
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A Truck Full of Money

Tracy Kidder · Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"A perfectly executed, exquisitely reported parable of the Internet age and the wild, mad adventure that is start-up culture." - Charles Duhigg Fortune, mania, genius, philanthropy - the bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains gives us the inspiring story of Paul English,...
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Finerman's Rules: Secrets I'd Only Tell My Daughters About Business and Life

Karen Finerman · Business Plus
Format: Hardcover

Karen Finerman likes to tell people she was raised Calvinist. Or as her mother used to say, I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes... Then when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves. In order to keep herself in Calvin, Karen went to work on Wall...
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Promote Yourself: The New Rules for Career Success

Dan Schawbel · St. Martin's Griffin; Exp Upd edition
Format: Paperback

"Dan will show you how to communicate your unique contribution, so that you make yourself indispensable." - From the Foreword by Marcus Buckingham, New York Times bestselling author of Now, Discover Your Strengths. How people perceive you has always been critical...
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The Mathematical Corporation: Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible

Josh Sullivan · PublicAffairs
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The most powerful weapon in business today is the alliance between the mathematical smarts of machines and the imaginative human intellect of great leaders. Together they make the mathematical corporation, the business model of the future.
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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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A Brief History of Entrepreneurship: The Pioneers, Profiteers, and Racketeers Who Shaped Our World

Joe Carlen · Columbia University Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

A Brief History of Entrepreneurship charts how the pursuit of profit by private individuals has been a prime mover in revolutionizing civilization. Entrepreneurs often butt up against processes, technologies, social conventions, and even laws. So they circumvent, innovate, and violate to obtain...
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The Risk-Driven Business Model: Four Questions That Will Define Your Company

Karan Girotra · Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover

How to outsmart riskRisk has been defined as the potential for losing something of value. In business, that value could be your original investment or your expected future returns.The Risk-Driven Business Model will help you manage risk better by showing how the key choices you make in designing...
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Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm

Christian Madsbjerg · Hachette Books
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover

Based on his work at some of the world's largest companies, including Ford, Adidas, and Chanel, Christian Madsbjerg's Sensemaking is a provocative stand against the tyranny of big data and scientism, and an urgent, overdue defense of human intelligence. Humans have become subservient to algorithms....
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The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact

CHIP HEATH · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us - and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work.What if a teacher could design a lesson that he knew his students...
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The Economists' Diet: The Surprising Formula for Losing Weight and Keeping It Off

Christopher Payne · Touchstone
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Combining the authors' personal weight-loss stories with their passion for economics, this bold new behavioral approach to dieting recommends micro habits and meta-rules that will enable dieters to control their impulses to overeat, approach food in a healthier way, and lose weight once...
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