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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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Jim Cramer's Get Rich Carefully

James J. Cramer · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Tired of phony promises about getting rich quickly, promises that lead to reckless decisions (the stepping stones to the poor house) ? How about trying something different? How about going for lasting wealth - and doing it the cautious way? In Get Rich Carefully, Jim Cramer uses his thirty-five...
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The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace

Lynn Povich · PublicAffairs
Pages: 264
Format: Print book

The inspiration for the original television seriesIt was the 1960s--a time of economic boom and social strife. Young women poured into the workplace, but the "Help Wanted" ads were segregated by gender and the "Mad Men" office culture was rife with sexual stereotyping...
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Starting a Business: Learn What You Need in 2 Hours

Michael F. O'Keefe · Nova Vista
Format: Book

You have a brilliant idea and a pocketful of ambition. Now what? Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? Are you a self-motivated dynamo ready to dive into the business jungle and seize your turf? Do you really know what you're getting into? In this essential guide, you'll...
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Pensionless: The 10-Step Solution for a Stress-Free Retirement

Emily Brandon · Adams Media Corporation, 2016.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Get the most out of your retirement! If you're one of the millions of Americans without a pension plan, your retirement years might seem like a huge financial question mark. Pensionless, by U.S. News Senior Editor for Retirement Emily Brandon, addresses the retirement benefits that...
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Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women

W Brad Johnson · Bibliomotion Inc
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Increasingly, new employees and junior members of any profession are encouraged - sometimes stridently - to "find a mentor!" Four decades of research reveals that the effects of mentorship can be profound and enduring; strong mentoring relationships have the capacity to transform...
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Brokenomics: 50 Ways to Live the Dream on a Dime

Dina Gachman · Seal Press (CA)
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

In Brokenomics, author Dina Gachman shares the lessons she's learned about how to live large in the cheap seats. Through stories both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny that anyone can relate to, Dina reveals all the tricks you need to live the good life without spending a ton of money.Brokenomics...
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Sun Power: How Energy from the Sun Is Changing Lives Around the World, Empowering America, and Saving the Planet

Neville Williams · Doherty Associates
Pages: 384
Format: Book

America is on the brink of a green energy revolution that can save the planet, and increase peace and prosperity, by harnessing the unlimited solar power. After decades of promise, the technology for alternative energy solutions now exists to replace our dangerous addiction to fossil fuels...
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Answering Tough Interview Questions For Dummies - UK

Rob Yeung · Wiley & Sons Canada
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

A guide to stunning your interviewer with perfect answers to stumping questions In today's competitive job market, a stellar interview lends you an edge over the competition, which can make or break your chances at a new career. Answering Tough Interview Questions For Dummies, 2nd Edition...
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A History of the United States in Five Crashes: Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation

SCOTT NATIONS · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In this absorbing, smart, and accessible blend of economic and cultural history in the vein of the works of Michael Lewis and Andrew Ross Sorkin, a financial executive and CNBC contributor examines the five most significant stock market crashes in the United States over the past century,...
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The Business Book

DK Publishing · DK
Format: Hardcover

Packed with innovative graphics and simple explanations of business concepts, from managing risk and alternative business models to effective leadership and thinking outside the box, The Business Book covers every facet of business management. Big ideas make great business thinkers and leaders....
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The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance

Jim Whitehurst · Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover

TODAYS LEADERS KNOW THAT SPEED and agility are the keys to any companys success, and yet many are frustrated that their organizations cant move fast enough to stay competitive. The typical chain of command is too slow internal resources are too limited people are already executing beyond...
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How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say--and What It Really Means

John Lanchester · W W Norton
Pages: 268
Format: Hardcover

An entertaining and indispensable guide to the language of finance and economics by the writer hailed for "explain[ing] complex stuff in a down-to-earth and witty style" (The Economist) .To those who don't speak it, the language of money can seem impenetrable and its ideas...
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Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud

David Dayen · New Press
Pages: 385
Format: Print book

In the depths of the Great Recession, a cancer nurse, a car dealership worker, and an insurance fraud specialist helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history - a scandal that implicated dozens of major executives on Wall Street. They called it foreclosure fraud: millions...
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Thank You for Being Late: Finding a Job, Running a Country, and Keeping Your Head in an Age of Accelerations

Thomas L Friedman · Farrar
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

A field guide to the twenty-first century, written by one of its most celebrated observersIn his most ambitious work to date, Thomas L. Friedman shows that we have entered an age of dizzying acceleration--and explains how to live in it. Due to an exponential increase in computing power,...
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