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Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less

Michael Hyatt · Baker Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

THE REVOLUTIONARY PRODUCTIVITY SYSTEM TRUSTED BY OVER 25,000 PROFESSIONALS.Get more done and get your life back.Many professionals work as much as 70 hours a week, leaving little time for rest, exercise, family, and friends. Work is invading their personal life.The common understanding...
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Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons

Ben S. Bernanke · Penguin Books
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

From the three primary architects of the American policy response to the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression, a magnificent big-picture synthesis--from why it happened to where we are now.In 2018, Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, and Hank Paulson came together to reflect on the lessons...
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Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells

Pico Iyer · Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From one of our most astute observers of human nature, a far-reaching exploration of Japanese history and culture and a moving meditation on impermanence, mortality, and grief.For years, Pico Iyer has split his time between California and Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife, Hiroko,...
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Playing with FIRE

Scott Rieckens · New World Library
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback

What if the one thing that could make you happy was a few simple choices away? A successful entrepreneur living in Southern California, Scott Rieckens felt like he had a dream life: A happy marriage, a two-year-old daughter, a membership to a boat club, and a BMW in the driveway. But underneath...
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The Enlightened Capitalists: Cautionary Tales of Business Pioneers Who Tried to Do Well by Doing Good

James O'Toole · HarperBusiness
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover

An expert on ethical leadership analyzes the complicated history of business people who tried to marry the pursuit of profits with virtuous organizational practices - from British industrialist Robert Owen to American retailer John Cash Penney and jeans maker Levi Strauss to such modern-day...
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Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

Safi Bahcall · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"This book has everything: new ideas, bold insights, entertaining history and convincing analysis. Not to be missed by anyone who wants to understand how ideas change the world." -- Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow What do James...
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The Billionaire Boondoggle: How Our Politicians Let Corporations and Bigwigs Steal Our Money and Jobs

Pat Garofalo · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"An alarming, fact-driven jeremiad urging change and action." -KirkusThe first comprehensive look at how politicians let the entertainment industry bilk taxpayers, hijack public policy and hurt economic investment, starting and ending with Trump. From stadiums and movie productions...
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Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

Clive Thompson · Penguin Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Hello, world.Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code--and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological...
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Hustle and Float: Reclaim Your Creativity and Thrive in a World Obsessed with Work

Rahaf Harfoush · Diversion Books
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

OUR CULTURE HAS BECOME OBSESSED WITH HUSTLING. As we struggle to keep up in a knowledge economy that never sleeps, we arm ourselves with life hacks, to-do lists, and an inbox-zero mentality, grasping at anything that will help us work faster, push harder, and produce more.There's just...
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From the Ground Up: A Journey to Reimagine the Promise of America

Howard Schultz · Random House
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From the longtime CEO and chairman of Starbucks, a bold, dramatic work about the new responsibilities that leaders, businesses, and citizens share in American society today - as viewed through the intimate lens of one man's life and work. What do we owe one another? How do we channel...
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