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It's Not the How or the What but the Who: Succeed by Surrounding Yourself with the Best
Claudio Fernández-Aráoz · Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Succeed by mastering the art of the whoWhy surround yourself with the best? Because it matters - in all aspects of life.In fact, in professional environments, getting people right - what global leadership authority Claudio Fernández-Aráoz calls "the art of great 'who' decisions"... |
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The Vanity Fair Diaries
OCTAVIA MANN · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Today they provide an incendiary portrait of the flash and dash and power brokering of the Excessive Eighties in New York and Hollywood.The Vanity Fair Diaries is the story... |
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The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. · Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Book
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Leadership is struggleThe question of how to lead successfully and responsibly is crucially important in our uncertain, high-pressure, turbulent world. In this book, Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Badaracco answers this question in practical and, at times, provocative ways.Leaders... |
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Sports Betting and Bookmaking: An American History
Arne K. Lang · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover
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Horse racing in America dates back to the colonial era when street races were a common occurrence. The commercialization of horse racing produced a sport that would briefly surpass all others in popularity, with annual races such as the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes growing... |
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The Power of a Single Number: A Political History of GDP
Philipp Lepenies · Columbia University Press
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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Widely used since the mid-twentieth century, GDP (gross domestic product) has become the world's most powerful statistical indicator of national development and progress. Practically all governments adhere to the idea that GDP growth is a primary economic target, and while criticism... |
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Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow
Joshua Spodek · AMACOM
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Leadership literature is full of principles and ideas--but they rarely leave the page. Practice is what turns abstract concepts into useful skills. Leadership Step by Step walks readers through what to do and how to do it in an integrated and comprehensive progression of exercises designed... |
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The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
James Rebanks · Flatiron Books
Pages: 293
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestseller and International PhenomenonOne of the Top Ten Books of 2015, Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times."It's bloody marvelous." - Helen Macdonald, New York Times bestselling author of H IS FOR HAWK"Captivating... A book about continuity and roots... |
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Finerman's Rules: Secrets I'd Only Tell My Daughters About Business and Life
Karen Finerman · Business Plus
Format: Hardcover
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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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Pitch Perfect: How to Say It Right the First Time, Every Time
Bill McGowan · HarperBusiness
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover
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Media guru and Emmy Award-winning correspondent Bill McGowan - coach to some of the biggest names in business and entertainment, including Eli Manning, Kelly Clarkson, Jack Welch, Thomas Keller and Kenneth Cole teaches you how to get your message across and get what you want with pitch... |
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Hamburgers in Paradise: The Stories behind the Food We Eat
Louise O Fresco · Princeton Univ Pr
Pages: 656
Format: eBook
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For the first time in human history, there is food in abundance throughout the world. More people than ever before are now freed of the struggle for daily survival, yet few of us are aware of how food lands on our plates. Behind every meal you eat, there is a story. Hamburgers in Paradise... |
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