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Ice Cream Social: The Struggle for the Soul of Ben & Jerry's

Brad Edmondson · Berrett-Koehler
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback

Ben & Jerry's has always been committed to an insanely ambitious three-part mission: making the world's best ice cream, supporting progressive causes, and sharing the company's success with all stakeholders: employees, suppliers, distributors, customers, cows, everybody....
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The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment

Todd Kashdan
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Two mavericks in the field of positive psychology deliver a timely message Happiness experts have long told us to tune out our negative emotions and focus instead on mindfulness, positivity, and optimism. Researchers Todd Kashdan, Ph.D., and Robert Biswas-Diener, Dr. Philos., disagree....
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Millennial Money: How Young Investors Can Build a Fortune

Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Palgrave MacMillan Trade
Format: Hardcover

Fact: the Millennial Generation will not be able to rely on pensions and social security in retirement. Instead, they will have to save and invest in the global stock market to meet their goals. When it comes to thinking about money, Millennials are, as a generation, different from their...
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Fascinate, Revised and Updated: How to Make Your Brand Impossible to Resist

Sally Hogshead · Harper Business
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A newly revised and updated edition of the influential guide that explores one of the most powerful ways to attract attention and influence behavior - fascination - and how businesses, products, and ideas can become irresistible to consumers.In an oversaturated culture defined by limited...
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Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World

Brian J. Robertson · Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Holacracy is a revolutionary management system that redefines management and turns everyone into a leader.Holacracy distributes authority and decision-making throughout an organization, and defines people not by hierarchy and titles, but by roles. Holacracy creates organizations that are fast,...
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Dead Companies Walking: How A Hedge Fund Manager Finds Opportunity in Unexpected Places

Scott Fearon · Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover

Unlike most investors, who live in fear of failure, Scott Fearon actively seeks it out. He has earned millions of dollars for his hedge fund over the last thirty years shorting the stocks of businesses he believed were on their way to bankruptcy. In Dead Companies Walking, Fearon describes...
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Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel

Tom Wainwright · PublicAffairs
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

This is a unique look into the huge and fascinating multi-billion dollar international drug industry. Rather than reporting it as a "war," Wainwight looked at the drug trade as a business, with a quarter billion customers and worldwide revenues of about $300 billion a year - with...
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Transform: How Leading Companies are Winning with Disruptive Social Technology

Christopher Morace · McGraw-Hill; 1 edition

Transform . . . or Be Left Behind Create unprecedented business value with social technologies Chief Strategy Officer at Jive Software, Christopher Morace was one of the first people to arrive at the intersection of social technology and business strategy. He has overseen more than 800 deployments...
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The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy

Mervyn King · W W Norton, 2016.
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

"Mervyn King may well have written the most important book to come out of the financial crisis. Agree or disagree, King's visionary ideas deserve the attention of everyone from economics students to heads of state." -- Lawrence H. SummersSomething is wrong with our banking system....
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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Angela Duckworth · Scribner
Pages: 333
Format: Print book

In this instant New York Times bestseller, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed - be it parents, students, educators, athletes, or business people - that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a special blend of passion and persistence...
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