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Iron Ambition: My Life with Cus D'Amato

Mike Tyson · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the former heavyweight champion and New York Times-bestselling memoirist comes an intimate look at the life and leadership lessons of Cus D'Amato, the legendary boxing trainer and Mike Tyson's surrogate father. When Cus D'Amato first saw thirteen-year-old Mike Tyson spar in the ring,...
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Writing to Win Federal Grants -The Workbook

Cheryl L Kester · CharityChannel Press
Pages: 249
Format: Print book

Writing to Win Federal Grants - The Workbook was conceived when the coauthors, Cheryl L. Kester, CFRE, and Karen L. Cassidy, GPC, were writing their book, Writing to Win Federal Grants: A Must-Have for your Fundraising Toolbox. They simply had too many tools to share in the book, which...
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Starting an Etsy Business For Dummies

KATE SHOUP · For Dummies
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Etsy.com continues to be one of the most popular markets for artists, crafters, and curators. Launched in 2005, Starting an Etsy Business For Dummies, 3rd Edition, guides readers through the process of setting up a successful shop and effectively marketing their products. New content includes:...
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Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter

Cass R. Sunstein · Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover

Why are group decisions so hard? Since the beginning of human history, people have made decisions in groupsfirst in families and villages, and now as part of companies, governments, school boards, religious organizations, or any one of countless other groups. And having more than one person...
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Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior

Jonah Berger · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of Contagious explores the subtle, secret influences that affect the decisions we make - from what we buy, to the careers we choose, to what we eat - in this fascinating and groundbreaking work.If you're like most people, you think that your choices...
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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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How Money Works: The Facts Visually Explained

Dk. · Dk Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

A user-friendly guide to understanding key financial concepts, How Money Works takes a highly visual approach to this topic, using bold infographics with clear, jargon-free text to make finances and economics easy to understand.How Money Works looks at how governments control money, how companies...
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The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline

Jonathan Tepperman · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A provocative look at the world's most difficult, seemingly ineradicable problems - and the surprising stories of the countries that solved them. We all know the bad news. The heady promise of the Arab Spring has given way to repression, civil war, and an epic refugee crisis. Economic growth...
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Better and Faster: The Proven Path to Unstoppable Ideas

Jeremy Gutsche · Crown Business
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

What great ideas are you missing that are so close within your grasp? In our world of chaos and change, what are you overlooking? If you knew the answer, you'd be a better innovator, better manager, and better investor.This book will make you BETTER by teaching you how to overcome 3 neurological...
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Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties

Beth Kobliner · Touchstone
Pages: 330
Format: Paperback

A completely revised and updated fourth edition of the New York Times bestseller, designed to guide younger adults through the world of personal finance.More than ever before, people in their twenties and thirties need help getting their financial lives in order. And who could blame them?...
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Plan Your Estate

Denis Clifford · Nolo
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

Turn to Plan Your Estate for straightforward, plain-English explanations of each of your estate-planning options, so you can make the best decisions for you and those you love. Attorney Denis Clifford shows you how to: avoid probate leave property through a will or trust use life insurance...
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Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data

VIKTOR MAYER-SCHONBERGER · Basic Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

For the past century and more, the story of capitalism has been a story of firms and financiers. Thanks to the Big Data revolution, soon, it won't be. As Viktor Mayer-Sch?nberger, bestselling author of Big Data, and Thomas Ramge show, data is replacing money as the driver of market...
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Switchers: How Smart Professionals Change Careers -- and Seize Success

Dawn Marie Graham · AMACOM
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Don't settle . . . SUCCEED in the right career! Are you stuck in an unsatisfying job? In the wrong profession? An industry that just isn't a fit? Get unstuck! Land a new career - one you're genuinely passionate about. Switchers helps you realize that dream. Written by celebrated...
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A Colorful Way of Living: How to Be More, Create More, Do More the Vera Bradley Way

Barbara Bradley Baekgaard · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

From the co-founder of the Vera Bradley empire, a practical and inspiring book that shows women how to awaken their full potential, at any age."This place could use some color!" That's what Barbara Bradley said to her friend Pat during an airport layover. It was 1982 and all the women...
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The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers

ALEX BANAYAN · Currency
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The larger-than-life journey of an 18-year-old college freshman who set out from his dorm room to track down Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, and dozens more of the world's most successful people to uncover how they broke through and launched their careers.The Third Door takes readers on an unprecedented...
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Fully Alive: Using the Lessons of the Amazon to Live Your Mission in Business and Life

TYLER GAGE · Atria Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of Adam Braun's The Promise of a Pencil and Blake Mycoskie's Start Something That Matters, Fully Alive tells the story of an astoundingly successful young entrepreneur's immersion in Amazonian indigenous spirituality and how he integrated the lessons he learned to build a successful,...
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