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Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice

Clayton M. Christensen · Harperbusiness
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay premium prices for.How do companies know...
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The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

Tim Wu · Knopf
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch and who coined the phrase "net neutrality"--a revelatory look at the rise of "attention harvesting," and its transformative effect on our society and our selves. Attention merchant: an industrial-scale harvester...
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Something for Nothing: Arbitrage and Ethics on Wall Street

Maureen O'Hara · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

From a leading financial economist, a searching examination of the ethics of modern finance.In 2001, Goldman Sachs structured a complex financial contract so that its client, the government of Greece, would appear to have far less debt than it actually did. When news of this transaction...
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Content trap.

Bharat Anand · Random House
Pages: 480
Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats

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America the Anxious: How Our Pursuit of Happiness Is Creating a Nation of Nervous Wrecks

Ruth Whippman · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Are you happy? Right now? Happy enough? As happy as everyone else? Could you be happier if you tried harder?After she packed up her British worldview (that most things were basically rubbish) and moved to America, journalist and documentary filmmaker Ruth Whippman found herself increasingly...
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The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan

Sebastian Mallaby · Penguin Books
Pages: 800
Format: Print book

The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of our time Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research based on untrammeled access to his subject and his closest professional and personal intimates, brings...
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Why Simple Wins: Escape the Complexity Trap and Get to Work That Matters

Lisa Bodell · Bibliomotion Inc
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Imagine what you could do with the time you spend writing emails every day.Complexity is killing companies' ability to innovate and adapt, and simplicity is fast becoming the competitive advantage of our time. Why Simple Wins helps leaders and their teams move beyond the feelings of frustration...
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Grace Meets Grit: How to Bring Out the Remarkable, Courageous Leader Within

Daina Middleton · Bibliomotion Inc
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

There is no mistaking that inequality in the workplace is still prevalent in the form of salary inequity and unequal representation in leadership and board positions. Too often conversations about inequality can lead to men and women believing they are alike. Women and men are not the same,...
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The Thing About Work: Showing Up and Other Important Matters

Richard Moran · Bibliomotion Inc
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

Why does a CEO who has already made hundreds of millions of dollars continue to work? Why does a rock star who has made a bundle continue to tour? Why do retirees' miss work as soon as they stop doing it? Why do we all wrestle with our life's work and talk about it incessantly?...
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How to Be a Financial Grownup: Proven Advice from High Achievers on How to Live Your Dreams and Have Financial Freedom

Bobbi Rebell · Maven House Press
Pages: 203
Format: Print book

Bobbi Rebell, award-winning TV anchor and personal finance columnist at Thomson Reuters, taps into her exclusive network of business leaders to share with you stories of the financial lessons they learned early in their lives that helped them become successful. She then uses these stories...
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