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Open for Business: Building the New Cuban Economy

Richard E Feinberg · Brookings Institution Press
Pages: 264
Format: Print book

90 miles off the coast of Florida a new revolution is afoot. This time instead of guerillas marching through the streets of Havana, it is a global economy that will revolutionize Cuba. Now open to the world, how will this nascent economy develop?Open for Business: The Cuban Economy after...
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Peace Through Entrepreneurship: Investing in a Startup Culture for Security and Development

STEVEN R KOLTAI · Brookings Institution Press
Pages: 240
Format: eBook

Joblessness is the root cause of the global unrest threatening American security. Fostering entrepreneurship is the remedy.The combined weight of American diplomacy and military power cannot end unrest and extremism in the Middle East and other troubled regions of the world, Steven Koltai...
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LinkedIn For Dummies

Joel Elad · For Dummies; 3 edition
Format: Paperback

Dont be left out—link up with this fully updated introduction to the Internets hottest professional networking tool With more than 225 million members from over 200 countries and territories worldwide, LinkedIn.com is an unbeatable self-marketing tool. LinkedIn For Dummies teaches you how to make...
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The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives

Lisa Servon · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

An urgent, absorbing exposé - why Americans are fleeing our broken banking system in growing numbers, and how alternatives are rushing in to do what banks once did What do an undocumented immigrant in the South Bronx, a high‑net‑worth entrepreneur, and a twenty‑something...
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Million Dollar Women: The Essential Guide for Female Entrepreneurs Who Want to Go Big

Julia Pimsleur · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The essential guide for female entrepreneurs who want to "go big," which shows you how to turn that creative idea into a million-dollar-plus business.American women are starting businesses at nearly twice the rate that men are, but only three percent of female business owners...
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Good for the Money: My Fight to Pay Back America

Bob Benmosche · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 271
Format: Print book

In 2009, at the peak of the financial crisis, AIG - the American insurance behemoth - was sinking fast. It was the peg upon which the nation hung its ire and resentment during the financial crisis: the pinnacle of Wall Street arrogance and greed. When Bob Benmosche climbed aboard...
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Making Social Security Work for You: Advice, Strategies, and Timelines That Can Maximize Your Benefits

Emily Guy Birken · Adams Media
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

A guide to getting the most out of Social Security Despite reports of Social Security's impending bankruptcy, Social Security remains an important part of most Americans' retirement plans. But will it be enough? Making Social Security Work for You teaches you what you need to know...
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The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification

Paul Roberts · Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

It's something most of us have sensed for years--the rise of a world defined only by "mine" and "now." A world where business shamelessly seeks the fastest reward, regardless of the long-term social consequences; where political leaders reflexively choose short-term...
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Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

Joi Ito · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 318
Format: Print book

Today, not only is everything digital getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, we also have the Internet. When these two revolutions-one in technology and the other in communications-joined, an explosive force was unleaded that changed the very nature of innovation....
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Unti on creative artists agency.

James Andrew Miller · William Morrow
Pages: 704
Format: Print book

An astonishing - and astonishingly entertaining - behind-the-curtain history of Hollywood's transformation over the past five decades as seen through the agency at the heart of it all, from the #1 bestselling co-author of Live from New York and Those Guys Have All the Fun.In 1975, five...
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The Purpose Is Profit: The Truth about Starting and Building Your Own Business

Ed Mclaughlin · Greenleaf Book Group Llc
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Do you feel the pull to start your own business? Tired of working for others and dealing with office politics, eager for control and more money, Ed ''Skip'' McLaughlin certainly felt it. When he left his high-level corporate position to start not one but two new businesses,...
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Project Management In a Week

Martin Manser · John Murray Learning
Pages: 124
Format: Print book

Understand project management fast, without cutting cornersThe ability to run successful projects from start to finish is a skill that nobody in business should be without. In this short, accessible book, Martin Manser shares a lifetime of hard-earned wisdom and practical advice, giving...
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Building Wealth One House at a Time, Updated and Expanded, Second Edition

John Schaub · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Make your first million and earn a steady income with this updated, essential guide to real estate investingThe collapse in real estate prices from 2007 through 2012 was the most significant event in the real estate industry since the Great Depression. But today, with the real estate market...
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Smart Baseball: The Story Behind the Old Stats That Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones That Are Running It, and the Right Way to Think About Baseball

Keith Law · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Predictably Irrational meets Moneyball in ESPN veteran writer and statistical analyst Keith Law's iconoclastic look at the numbers game of baseball, proving why some of the most trusted stats are surprisingly wrong, explaining what numbers actually work, and exploring what the rise of Big Data...
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Leading with Character and Competence: Moving Beyond Title, Position, and Authority

Timothy R Clark · Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

Leading with Character and CompetenceMoving beyond Title, Position, and Authority "Leadership is an applied discipline, not a foamy concept to muse about," says three-time CEO, Oxford-trained scholar, and consultant Timothy R. Clark. "In fact, it's the most important...
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