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The Leadership Playbook: Creating a Coaching Culture to Build Winning Business Teams
The Leadership Playbook: Creating a Coaching Culture to Build Winning Business Teams

Nathan Jamail · Gotham Books
Pages: 210
Format: Hardcover

The successful self-published author of The Sales Leaders Playbook writes his first mainstream leadership book There are enormous differences between managing and coaching. Yet many companies and organizations encourage their leaders to coach teams without ever teaching them how and without...
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Peace Through Entrepreneurship: Investing in a Startup Culture for Security and Development
Peace Through Entrepreneurship: Investing in a Startup Culture for Security and Development

STEVEN R KOLTAI · Brookings Institution Press
Pages: 240
Format: eBook

Joblessness is the root cause of the global unrest threatening American security. Fostering entrepreneurship is the remedy.The combined weight of American diplomacy and military power cannot end unrest and extremism in the Middle East and other troubled regions of the world, Steven Koltai...
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How You Can Trade Like a Pro: Breaking into Options, Futures, Stocks, and ETFs
How You Can Trade Like a Pro: Breaking into Options, Futures, Stocks, and ETFs

Sarah Potter · McGraw-Hill; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

DO YOU WANT TO TAKE YOUR TRADING TO THE NEXT LEVEL? To earn a living as a trader, even part time, takes consistency. Most first-time investors find today's turbulent markets are anything but consistent. To keep from throwing your money away following obsolete trading strategies,...
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Fearless Performance Reviews: Coaching Conversations that Turn Every Employee into a Star Player
Fearless Performance Reviews: Coaching Conversations that Turn Every Employee into a Star Player

Jeff Russell · McGraw-Hill
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback

Turn the performance review process into a performance enhancement process Fearless Performance Reviews introduces a groundbreaking new framework that transforms not just the review process but the entire relationship between coach and employee. Experts Jeffrey and Linda Russell replace...
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PopUp Republic: How to Start Your Own Successful Pop-Up Space, Shop, or Restaurant
PopUp Republic: How to Start Your Own Successful Pop-Up Space, Shop, or Restaurant

Jeremy Baras · Wiley
Pages: 224
Format: eBook

Find out how to get in on the booming pop-up scene PopUp Republic: How to Start Your Own Successful Pop-Up Space, Shop, or Restaurant is your comprehensive guide to the new world of pop-ups. This fresh text dives into the details of the pop-up industry, offering you a first-hand glimpse...
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The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them—And They Shape Us
The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them—And They Shape Us

Raymond Fisman · PublicAffairs
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

America's economic revolution isn't just driven by technology. It's about markets.The past twenty-five years have witnessed a remarkable shift in how we get the stuff we want. If you've ever owned a business, rented an apartment, or shopped online, you've had a front-row seat for this revolution-in-progress....
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The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

Peter F Drucker · Harperbusiness
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

A handsome, commemorative edition of Peter F. Drucker's timeless classic work on leadership and management, with a foreword by Jim Collins.What makes an effective executive?For decades, Peter F. Drucker was widely regarded as "the dean of this country's business and management...
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The Secret Club That Runs the World: Inside the Fraternity of Commodity Traders
The Secret Club That Runs the World: Inside the Fraternity of Commodity Traders

Kate Kelly · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"Commodity players are a shrewd and indomitable lot. And the contracts they trade are still so loosely regulated that the correct combination of money and skill creates irresistible opportunity. That's why I'm only half joking when I call them the secret club that runs the world."When...
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Import / Export Kit For Dummies
Import / Export Kit For Dummies

John J Capela · For Dummies, a Wiley brand,
Pages: 243
Format: eBook

Your easy-to-follow primer on the exciting world of import/export With an increased focus on global trade, this new edition of Import/Export Kit For Dummies provides entrepreneurs and small- to mid-sized businesses with the critical, entry-point information they need to begin exporting...
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The Direct Mail Solution: A Business Owner's Guide to Building a Lead-Generating, Sales-Driving, Money-Making Direct-Mail Campaign
The Direct Mail Solution: A Business Owner's Guide to Building a Lead-Generating, Sales-Driving, Money-Making Direct-Mail Campaign

Craig Simpson · Entrepreneur Press
Pages: 227
Format: Paperback

Fact: More commerce and wealth is created by direct mail than by any other media (true before the internet and true now) Reported in 2013 as the marketing channel that "delivers the best ROI for customer acquisition and retention" by Target Marketing's Seventh Annual Media...
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Happy as a Dane: 10 Secrets of the Happiest People in the World
Happy as a Dane: 10 Secrets of the Happiest People in the World

Malene Rydahl · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

This international bestseller shows why the Danes are happy and how we can be, too.For decades Denmark has ranked at the top of the world's happiness surveys. How is it that these 5.6 million Danes are so content when they live in a country that is dark and cold nine months of the year...
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The Project Management Tool Kit: 100 Tips and Techniques for Getting the Job Done Right
The Project Management Tool Kit: 100 Tips and Techniques for Getting the Job Done Right

Tom Kendrick · Amacom
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Today's projects are more challenging than ever - and project managers need all the help they can get to succeed amid shifting priorities, budget cuts, interruptions, and other obstacles. Now in its third edition, The Project Management Tool Kit is a must-have strategic partner, filled...
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The Dollar Trap: How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance
The Dollar Trap: How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance

Eswar Prasad · Princeton University Press
Pages: 408
Format: Print book

The U.S. dollar's dominance seems under threat. The near collapse of the U.S. financial system in 2008-2009, political paralysis that has blocked effective policymaking, and emerging competitors such as the Chinese renminbi have heightened speculation about the dollar's looming...
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Music Business Handbook and Career Guide
Music Business Handbook and Career Guide

David Baskerville · SAGE Publications
Pages: 616
Format: Print book

This powerhouse best-selling text maintains is the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide to the music industry. The breadth of coverage that Music Business Handbook and Career Guide 11e by David Baskerville and Tim Baskerville offers is unlike that of any other resource available. Music...
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The Purpose Economy, Expanded and Updated: How Your Desire for Impact, Personal Growth and Community Is Changing the World
The Purpose Economy, Expanded and Updated: How Your Desire for Impact, Personal Growth and Community Is Changing the World

Aaron Hurst · Elevate
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

In 2014 Aaron Hurst, Ashoka fellow and founder of Imperative and Taproot Foundation, published The Purpose Economy, the book that catalyzed the purpose revolution. With his prediction that purpose was the next major economic era, many are now racing to find answers and direction toward...
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