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The Entrepreneur's Playbook: More than 100 Proven Strategies, Tips, and Techniques to Build a Radically Successful Business

Leonard C Green · AMACOM
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

When failure is not an option. Big new ideas rarely make great businesses . . . Laboring on a business plan can be a waste of time . . . You are going to need dramatically more start-up money than you think you do. Counterintuitive concepts like these have helped the world's best...
 
 
Secret Sauce: How to Pack Your Messages with Persuasive Punch

Harry Mills · AMACOM
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

When it comes to messaging, what worked in the past won't work today. Our noisy, digital world has undermined our ability to focus. For a message to grab attention and persuade, it now has to pass the SAUCE test and be: Simple, Appealing, Unexpected, Credible, and Emotional. Secret...
 
 
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

Mehrsa Baradaran · Belknap Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States' total wealth. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. The Color of Money pursues the persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators...
 
 
The Compassionate Achiever: How Helping Others Fuels Success

Christopher L Kukk · Harper One
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

A powerful, practical guide for cultivating compassion - the scientifically proven foundation for personal achievement and success at work, at home, and in the community.For decades, we've been told the key to prosperity is to look out for number one. But recent science shows that to achieve...
 
 
Surviving the 21st Century: Humanity's Ten Great Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them

Julian Cribb · Springer
Pages: 255
Format: Paperback

The book explores the central question facing humanity today: how can we best survive the ten great existential challenges that are now coming together to confront us? Besides describing these challenges from the latest scientific perspectives, it also outlines and integrates the solutions,...
 
 
Toybox Time Machine: A Catalog of the Coolest Toys Never Made

MARTY BAUMANN · IDW Publishing
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

Recapture an innocent era of boundless commercial creativity in a beautifully illustrated tome featuring some of the greatest toys NEVER made (but wouldn't your world have been a better place if they had been?) . "Toybox Time Machine" is also a tribute to the unbridled imaginations...
 
 
Leading from the Front: No-Excuse Leadership Tactics for Women

ANGIE MORGAN · MCGRAW-HILL EDUCATION
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

THE LEADERSHIP BESTSELLER FOR WOMEN--FROM TWO MARINE CORPS CAPTAINS "A brilliant, original, practical, profound, human, energetic book written by two remarkable women. It's one of the best books on leadership published in the last several years." -- Tom Peters, author of In Search...
 
 
From Global to Local: The Making of Things and the End of Globalization

FINBARR LIVESEY · Pantheon
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

This brilliantly original book dismantles the underlying assumptions that drive the decisions made by companies and governments the world over to show that our shared narrative of the global economy is deeply flawed and, if left unexamined, will lead corporations and countries astray, with...
 
 
The New Wild West: Black Gold, Fracking, and Life in a North Dakota Boomtown

BLAIRE BRIODY · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Williston, North Dakota was a sleepy farm town for generations -- until the frackers arrived. The oil companies moved into Williston, overtaking the town and setting off a boom that America hadn't seen since the Gold Rush. Workers from all over the country descended, chasing jobs that promised...
 
 
Megatech: Technology in 2050

Daniel Franklin · The Economist
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

In the not-too-distant future, we'll be plugging our brains into the internet, replacing our worn-out body parts, and eating meat grown in a lab. If we're lucky, we'll be living in a world of more productivity, more energy, and more equality - and if we're not, we'll be facing the profound...
 
 
The Path to Personal Power

NAPOLEON HILL · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

This true lost manuscript from the "grandfather of self-help," Napoleon Hill provides timeless wisdom on how to attain a more successful and wealthy life using simple principles. Napoleon Hill first wrote The Path to Personal Power in 1941, intending it as a handbook for people...
 
 
Whiskey Business: How Small-Batch Distillers Are Transforming American Spirits

Tom Acitelli · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Discover the underdog story of the improbable rise of small-batch distilling in America. This bracingly written, fast-paced work traces the relationship of Americans to spirits such as bourbon, scotch, vodka, gin, and rum. And it presents the full story of a plucky band of entrepreneurs...
 
 
The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

Brad Stone · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover

A look deep inside the new Silicon Valley, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Everything Store Ten years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger's car, or a walking into a stranger's home, would have seemed bizarre and dangerous, but today it's as common as ordering a book...
 
 
One Minute Mentoring: How to Find and Work With a Mentor-And Why You'll Benefit from Being One

Ken Blanchard · William Morrow
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling co-author of the legendary The One Minute Manager® and a former Twitter executive join forces to create the ultimate guide to creating powerful mentoring relationships.While most people agree that having a mentor is a good thing, they don't know how to find one or use one....
 
 
Work Pause Thrive: How to Pause for Parenthood without Killing Your Career

Lisen Stromberg · Benbella Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

In today's work-first culture, career women with children are told they have two options: lean in or opt out. Pouring all your energy into work can mean compromising your commitment to your family. Leaving your job can mean sacrificing the career you've spent years cultivating.Work...