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The Leader Architect: The Right People in the Right Places Doing the Right Stuff at the Right Time

Jim Grew · Career Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Business books fall into two categories: theory and impractical protocols. Both provide either ideas without applications or applications without proven theoretical frames. They are like concept cars that no one expects to drive to work.The Leader Architect provides the bridge to proven...
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The Surprising Science of Meetings: How You Can Lead Your Team to Peak Performance

Steven G. Rogelberg · Oxford University Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

A recent estimate suggests that employees endure a staggering 55 million meetings a day in the United States. This tremendous time investment yields only modest returns. No organization made up of human beings is immune from the all-too-common meeting gripes: those that fail to engage,...
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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

Kate Raworth · Chelsea Green Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality, and other environmental and social challenges that define our times. Pity then, or more like...
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Europe's Orphan: The Future of the Euro and the Politics of Debt

Martin Sandbu · Princeton University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Originally conceived as part of a unifying vision for Europe, the euro is now viewed as a millstone around the neck of a continent crippled by vast debts, sluggish economies, and growing populist dissent. In Europe's Orphan, leading economic commentator Martin Sandbu presents a compelling...
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Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity

Condoleezza Rice · Twelve
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Political risk -- the chance that political action could impact a company's business -- is changing fast. Here are the essential lessons, corrective measures, and counterintuitive insights for executives, entrepreneurs and investors to navigate an uncertain, volatile world.From New York...
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The Science of Growth: How Facebook Beat Friendster--and How Nine Other Startups Left the Rest in the Dust

Sean Ammirati · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

The lean entrepreneurship movement has captivated Silicon Valley and entrepreneurs across the country. It's provided an agile framework to develop the right product solution for a given target market, and is now used by almost every fledgling company to do just that.The next challenge...
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Power Relationships: 26 Irrefutable Laws for Building Extraordinary Relationships

Andrew Sobel · Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The Relationship Laws that Drive Success There are powerful but invisible laws that determine whether your relationships —with your clients, colleagues, and friends—will thrive or wither. These relationship laws are ever-present. When you align with them, the results are dramatic. Your...
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The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe

Joseph E Stiglitz · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Can Europe prosper without the euro?In 2010, the 2008 global financial crisis morphed into the "eurocrisis." It has not abated. The 19 countries of Europe that share the euro currency -- the eurozone -- have been rocked by economic stagnation and debt crises. Some countries have...
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Mind over Money: The Psychology of Money and How to Use It

Claudia Hammond · Harper Perennial
Pages: 372
Format: Print book

"The acclaimed author of Time Warped tackles the very latest research in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and biology to provide a fresh, fascinating, and thought-provoking look at our relationship with money-- perfect for fans of Dan Ariely and Freakonomics. We know we need...
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