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The Road to Reinvention: How to Drive Disruption and Accelerate Transformation

Josh Linkner · Jossey-Bass; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Companies, communities, and individuals fall for many reasons, but one of the most common—and easily avoidable—is the failure to reinvent. When people and organizations rest on prior successes rather than driving purposeful transformation, they discover too late that they have lost...
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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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Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism

Rosemary Feurer · University of Illinois Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselves as a class to contest labor. Ranging across a spectrum of understudied issues, essayists explore employer anti-labor strategies and offer incisive portraits of people and organizations that aggressively opposed...
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Your One Word: The Powerful Secret to Creating a Business and Life That Matter

Evan Carmichael · Tarcherperigee
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

In this bold and empowering guide, entrepreneur and social media sensation Evan Carmichael shares the secret to turbo-charging your path to success on your own terms. With thought-provoking questions and inspiring, instructive examples, Your One Word will help you nail down your personal...
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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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The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History

David Enrich · Custom House
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

The Wall Street Journal's award-winning business reporter unveils the bizarre and sinister story of how a math genius named Tom Hayes, a handful of outrageous confederates, and a deeply corrupt banking system ignited one of the greatest financial scandals in history.In 2006, an oddball...
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Just Shut Up and Do It: 7 Steps to Conquer Your Goals

Brian Tracy · Simple Truths
Pages: 100
Format: Print book

What makes some people successful in life? In Just Shut Up and Do It, bestselling author and success expert Brian Tracy shares a simple, practical, proven seven-part method that will help you accomplish more in the next few months and years than most people accomplish in a lifetime. In its simplest...
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The Fish Market: Inside the Big-Money Battle for the Ocean and Your Dinner Plate

Lee Van der Voo · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Gulf Wild -- the first seafood brand in America to trace each fish from the sea to the table -- emerged after grouper, the star of fried fish sandwiches, fell off menus due to overfishing. The brand was born when the government privatized the rights to fish to fix the problem. Through...
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Great Teams: 16 Things High Performing Organizations Do Differently

Don Yaeger · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

What makes a team great? Not just good. Not just functional. But great? Over the last six years, long-time Sports Illustrated associate editor Don Yaeger has been invited by some of the greatest companies in the world to speak about the habits of high-performing individuals. Delivering...
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Quantitative Finance For Dummies

Lenny Jordan · For Dummies
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

An accessible, thorough introduction to quantitative finance Does the complex world of quantitative finance make you quiver? You're not alone! It's a tough subject for even high-level financial gurus to grasp, but Quantitative Finance For Dummies offers plain-English guidance on making...
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For the Love of Money: A Memoir

Sam Polk · Scribner
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

In 2014, a former hedge fund trader's New York Times Sunday Review front page article about wealth addicition instantly went viral. This is his unflinching memoir about coming of age on Wall Street, fighting to overcome the ghosts of his past - and the radical new way he now defines...
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The Wealth Management Experience: The Peace Of Mind That Comes When Your Financial Roots Are Strong

Jim Hatton · Archway Publishing
Pages: 228
Format: Print book

Creating a comprehensive plan for managing wealth can be as enjoyable and satisfying as designing a dream house or planning a trip around the world. Jim Hatton-Vice President of Hatton Consulting-provides the blueprint and itinerary you need in this guidebook to growing and managing your...
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A Higher Bid: How to Transform Special Event Fundraising with Strategic Auctions

Kathy Kingston · Jossey-Bass; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Transform fundraising events into long-term revenue with expert auction advice A Higher Bid is the nonprofit school and organization guide to planning and executing more exciting, more lucrative special event fundraisers. In this book, award-winning consultant, fundraiser, speaker, and professional...
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Good People: The Only Leadership Decision That Really Matters

ANTHONY TJAN · PORTFOLIO PENGUIN
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Good people are your organization's most critical asset. But what does it really mean to be good?Leaders love to say that any company is only as good as its people, but tend to evaluate candidates and employees more by their measurable accomplishments than by their "softer" qualities,...
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