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Start Your Own Consulting Business: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success

Eileen Figure Sandlin · Entrepreneur Press; Fourth Edition edition
Format: Book

Leading entrepreneurs into the multi-billion dollar consulting industry, the experts at Entrepreneur show you how to capitalize on your talents to help others achieve their business goals. Coached by experts, learn to define your market, find and keep clients, obtain licenses, set rates,...
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Uninvested: How Wall Street Hijacks Your Money and How to Fight Back

Bobby Monks · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Bobby Monks is blowing the whistle on Wall Street, giving middle class Americans the low down on how they're being fleeced of their retirement money - and what they can do about itEvery month our financial statements arrive, and every month we glance at them, trying to understand, hoping...
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Collaborative Grant-Seeking: A Practical Guide for Librarians

Bess G de Farber · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 147
Format: Print book

A collaborative approach to grant seeking can stimulate and reshape the culture of your library organization. The exciting and rewarding activities of developing a successful grants program can yield enormous dividends for the benefit of your staff, patrons, and community. Collaborative...
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Managing Talent: Recruiting, Retaining, and Getting the Most from Talented People

Marion Devine · The Economist
Format: Hardcover

Survey after survey confirms how the success of a business has become increasingly dependent on the ability and skills of its staff. And because talented people are in short supply the hunt for people of unusual ability will continue in earnest.Hiring such people is the relatively easy...
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The 10 Laws of Trust: Building the Bonds That Make a Business Great

Joel Peterson · Amacom
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

Trust is the glue that holds an organization together. It turns deflection into transparency, suspicion into empowerment, and conflict into creativity. With it, a tiny company like John Deere grew into a worldwide leader. Without it, a giant corporation like Enron toppled. In "The...
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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

JOCKO WILLINK · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

An updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield...
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Tax Guide for Short-Term Rentals: Airbnb, HomeAway, VRBO and More

Stephen Fishman · NOLO
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback

Understanding taxes is an essential part of any profit-making endeavor -- including short-term rental hosting through Airbnb and similar online platforms. If you don't understand the unique tax issues that arise when you rent your property short term, you can miss out on many valuable...
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GMAT Reading Comprehension

Manhattan Prep · Manhattan Prep Publishing; Sixth Edition edition
Format: Book

Adapting to the ever-changing GMAT exam, Manhattan Preps 6th Edition GMAT Strategy Guides offer the latest approaches for students looking to score in the top percentiles. Written by active instructors with 99th-percentile scores, these books are designed with the student in mind. The Reading...
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Managing your Team through Change

Richard Newton · FT Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book

How do you make change work? What skills and resources do you need? From understanding and planning, to implementing and assessing the impact, this book covers all aspects of managing change using simple, practical steps and strategies, each one of which has been developed, tested and proven...
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Win at Losing: How Our Biggest Setbacks Can Lead to Our Greatest Gains

Sam Weinman · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

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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The Courage to Take Command: Leadership Lessons from a Military Trailblazer

Jill Morgenthaler · McGraw-Hill; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

POWERFUL LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM A TRAILBLAZING FEMALE COLONEL IN THE U.S. ARMY When Jill Morgenthaler arrived at boot camp in 1975 as part of the inaugural class of women in the Army, she was one of 83 female cadets . . . on a base of 50,000 men. So she knows a thing or two about conquering...
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Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why

Paul Tough · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 125
Format: Print book

In How Children Succeed, Paul Tough introduced us to research showing that personal qualities like perseverance, self-control, and conscientiousness play a critical role in children's success. Now, in Helping Children Succeed, Tough takes on a new set of pressing questions: What does...
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