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Smart Risk: Invest Like The Wealthy To Achieve A Work-Optional Life

Maili Wong · Advantage Media Group
Pages: 173
Format: Print book

Start Your Journey to A Work-Optional Life Investing is risky, and successful investors know what it means to take smart risks. In SMART RISK, leading wealth catalyst and portfolio manager Maili Wong shares her techniques to help you build an investment strategy and roadmap leading to a work-optional...
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How Women Decide: What's True, What's Not, and What Strategies Spark the Best Choices

Therese Huston · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

A definitive playbook for making stronger, wiser choices that thoughtfully addresses how the cultural landscape - and the research - defines how women decide Books about decision making are often inadvertently tailored primarily to men. Meanwhile, books about women in business overlook...
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To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History

Lawrence Levy · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

The never-before-told story of Pixar's improbable success. "Hi, Lawrence?" the caller asked. "This is Steve Jobs. I saw your picture in a magazine a few years ago and thought we'd work together someday." After Steve Jobs was unceremoniously dismissed from Apple, he turned...
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Win at Losing: How Our Biggest Setbacks Can Lead to Our Greatest Gains

Sam Weinman · Tarcherperigee
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

An engaging, inspiring exploration of the surprising value of setbacks - and how we can use them to succeed As an award-winning sports journalist, Sam Weinman has long studied the ripple effects of losing. But as a father of two competitive boys, he struggled to convince them that failing...
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501+ Great Interview Questions for Employers and the Best Answers for Prospective Employees Revised 2nd Edition

Dianna Podmoroff · Atlantic Publishing Group Inc.; 2 Revised edition
Format: Print book

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Ernst & Young Tax Guide 2017

Ernst & Young Llp. · John Wiley & Sons
Pages: 1032
Format: Print book

Authoritative, user-friendly tax help from a global leader in tax services The EY Tax Guide 2017 is the American taxpayer's essential companion, providing the answers you need alongside trusted advice from EY professionals and turning filing your taxes into a simple process. This book brings...
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High-Hanging Fruit: Build Something Great by Going Where No One Else Will

Mark Rampolla · Portfolio
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

ZICO founder Mark Rampolla is building a social good movement: how to make money starting a company that is good for you, your colleagues, customers, and the worldWhen Mark Rampolla filled a notebook with potential startup ideas, his wife asked him some tough questions. What about this...
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First, Break All The Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

Gallup Press. · Gallup Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Gallup presents the remarkable findings of its revolutionary study of more than 80,000 managers in First, Break All the Rules, revealing what the world's greatest managers do differently. With vital performance and career lessons and ideas for how to apply them, it is a must-read for managers...
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Breaking Rockefeller: The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil Empire

Peter B Doran · Viking
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The incredible tale of how ambitious oil rivals Marcus Samuel, Jr., and Henri Deterding joined forces to topple the Standard Oil empire Marcus Samuel, Jr., is an unorthodox Jewish merchant trader. Henri Deterding is a take-no-prisoners oilman. In 1889, John D. Rockefeller is at the peak...
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Fix It: Getting Accountability Right

Roger Connors · Portfolio
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

From the world's leading experts on workplace accountability comes the most comprehensive study on the subject, revealing the cure that could fix low employee engagement in the workplace once and for all One factor, more than any other, causes the problems business leaders fear most. Lackluster...
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The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe

Joseph E Stiglitz · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Can Europe prosper without the euro?In 2010, the 2008 global financial crisis morphed into the "eurocrisis." It has not abated. The 19 countries of Europe that share the euro currency -- the eurozone -- have been rocked by economic stagnation and debt crises. Some countries have...
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Making work work : the positivity solution for any work environment

Shola Richards · Sterling Ethos
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Is your office a place of soul-destroying negativity? Shola Richards keynote speaker, award winner, and creator of The Positivity Solution blog is about to change that . . . forever. " My mission was clear: I needed to fix the problems facing the workplace. As quickly as I came up with...
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Chickenizing Farms and Food: How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Animals, and Consumers

Ellen K Silbergeld · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Over the past century, new farming methods, feed additives, and social and economic structures have radically transformed agriculture around the globe, often at the expense of human health. In Chickenizing Farms and Food, Ellen K. Silbergeld reveals the unsafe world of chickenization -- big agriculture's...
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An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization

Robert Kegan · Harvard Business Review Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

A Radical New Model for Unleashing Your Company's PotentialIn most organizations nearly everyone is doing a second job no one is paying them for - namely, covering their weaknesses, trying to look their best, and managing other people's impressions of them. There may be no greater...
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