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Why the Rich Are Getting Richer

Robert T. Kiyosaki · Plata Publishing
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback

It's Robert Kiyosaki's position that "It is our educational system that causes the gap between the rich and everyone else." He laid the foundation for many of his messages in the international best-seller Rich Dad Poor Dad - the #1 Personal Finance book of all time - and in Why the Rich...
 
 
Get Better: 15 Proven Practices to Build Effective Relationships at Work

TODD DAVIS · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A practical guide for anyone looking to create a competitive advantage in any size and type of organization by building effective relationships - from the performance improvement experts at FranklinCovey.In Get Better: 15 Proven Practices to Build Effective Relationships, FranklinCovey's...
 
 
The Great Equalizer: How Main Street Capitalism Can Create an Economy for Everyone

David M Smick · PublicAffairs
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

The experts say that America's best days are behind us, that mediocre long-term economic growth is baked in the cake, and that politically, socially, and racially, the United States will continue to tear itself apart. But David Smick - hedge fund strategist and author of the 2008 bestseller...
 
 
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,...
 
 
Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics

Kim Phillips-Fein · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

An epic and riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster--and an anatomy of the politics of austerity that continues to shape the world todayWhen the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible: how could the capital...
 
 
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

Douglas Rushkoff · Portfolio Penguin, 2016.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Digital technology was supposed to usher in a new age of distributed prosperity, but so far it has been used to put industrial capitalism on steroids. It's not technology's fault, but that of an extractive, growth-driven, economic operating system that has reached the limits of its ability...
 
 
A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service

Robert Michael Gates · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 239
Format: Print book

From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 best-selling memoir Duty, a characteristically direct, informed, and urgent assessment of why big institutions are failing us and how smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement regardless of scale. Across the realms...
 
 
Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done

Laura Vanderkam · Portfolio
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Learn to savor life's best moments--no matter how busy you are--through mindset shifts that alter your perception of time.Laura Vanderkam, the acclaimed author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, isn't like other time-management gurus. She's not trying to shave off 30 seconds...
 
 
The Kings of Big Spring: God, Oil, and One Family's Search for the American Dream

BRYAN MEALER · Flatiron Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"Think of it as a Texas version of Hillbilly Elegy." -- Bryan Burrough, New York Times bestselling author of THE BIG RICH and BARBARIANS AT THE GATE"Bryan Mealer has given us a brilliant, and brilliantly entertaining, portrayal of family, and a bursting-at-the-seams chunk...
 
 
Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual

JOCKO WILLINK · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

FIND YOUR WILL, FIND YOUR DISCIPLINE--AND YOU WILL FIND YOUR FREEDOMJocko Willink's methods for success were born in the SEAL Teams, where he spent most of his adult life, enlisting after high school and rising through the ranks to become the commander of the most highly decorated special...
 
 
The Truth About Your Future: The Money Guide You Need Now, Later, and Much Later

RIC EDELMAN · SIMON & SCHUSTER
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author and legendary investment guru Ric Edelman reveals his forward-thinking guide on how technology and science will reshape the way we save, invest, and plan for the future.Technology and science are evolving at a blistering, almost incomprehensible pace. The Human...
 
 
Attitude: Develop a Winning Mindset on and off the Court

Jay Wright · Ballantine
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

In this behind-the-scenes look at the making of a champion, the coach of the Villanova University men's basketball team shares his competitive and cooperative philosophy, along with lessons from his coaching career and the story of his personal road to success. When Kris Jenkins sank...
 
 
Why Wall Street Matters

WILLIAM D COHAN · RANDOM HOUSE
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

For readers of Michael Lewis comes a counterintuitive defense of the banks. One of America's most respected financial journalists debunks all the misinformed arguments against Wall Street - while acknowledging the greed and excess that fuel those feelings - and argues persuasively that,...
 
 
Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business

Rana Foroohar · Crown Business
Pages: 388
Format: Print book

Eight years on from the biggest market meltdown since the Great Depression, the key lessons of the crisis of 2008 still remain unlearned - and our financial system is just as vulnerable as ever. Many of us know that our government failed to fix the banking system after the subprime mortgage...
 
 
Habit Changers: 81 Game-Changing Mantras to Mindfully Realize Your Goals

M J Ryan · Crown Business
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

What would you like to change in your life? Be more focused at work? Communicate more effectively? Find work-life balance? Make smarter decisions? Be more patient with your team or family? Have greater self-confidence? Less stress? Just . . . be happier? Often, the biggest obstacle to change...