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Intentional Conversations: How to Rethink Everyday Conversation and Transform Your Career

Ken Tucker · Familius; First edition
Format: Print book

Using six steps and a SECRET formula, international speaker, Fortune 500 strategist, and bestselling management author Ken Tucker reveals how changing everyday conversation can have a dramatic impact on conflict, results, and success. Drawing upon decades of experience in the corporate...
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The Snowball System: How to Win More Business and Turn Clients into Raving Fans

Mo Bunnell · PublicAffairs
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Mo Bunnell's comprehensive system will help you win more clients, build stronger relationships, and bring in more business.If you're good at doing something, and you need to connect with paying clients in order to keep doing it, this book is for you. There are more of us out there...
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The Age of Inequality: Corporate America's War on Working People

Jeremy Gantz · Verso
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

The stories behind the inequality crisisForty years ago, the richest 1 percent controlled 25 percent of America's wealth. Today it's 40 percent, and the richest one-tenth of 1 percent have as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. Launched in Chicago in 1976, the muckraking, progressive...
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The Crowdfunding Handbook: Raise Money for Your Small Business or Start-Up with Equity Funding Portals

Cliff Ennico · AMACOM
Pages: 265
Format: Print book

Ever wish your company could raise capital the Kickstarter(R) way? Equity crowdfunding is finally here, opening new funding avenues for small businesses and start-ups. In April 2012, President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups--or JOBS--Act into law. This groundbreaking...
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1,001 Ways to Engage Employees: Help People Do Better What They Do Best

BOB NELSON · Career Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Employee engagement has been consistently cited as a top and growing priority by CEOs, managers, and human resources leaders across the country. This new title from best-selling author Dr. Bob Nelson will help move any organization from just measuring the need to engage employees to actually...
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Virtual Collaboration

Harvard Business Review Press · Harvard Business Review Press
Pages: 121
Format: Print book

Working remotely gives you flexibility and independence. But it can pose challenges when you need to team up with colleagues or coworkers. Virtual Collaboration covers the basics of working productively - and collaboratively - from anywhere. You'll learn to:* Communicate clearly over...
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Start Your Own eLearning or Training Business: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success

The Staff of Entrepreneur Media · Entrepreneur Press
Format: Print book

Possibly credited to advancements in technology or learning behaviors, or a rise in focus on personal development, the education and training industry is steadily growing, creating a demand for eager entrepreneurs. Exploring varied opportunities aspiring business owners will be given business...
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

Kim Malone Scott · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

"I raced through RADICAL CANDOR--It's thrilling to learn a framework that shows how to be both a better boss and a better colleague. RADICAL CANDOR is packed with illuminating truths, insightful advice, and practical suggestions, all illustrated with engaging (and often funny) stories...
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High Performance Habits

Brendon Burchard · Hay House, Inc.
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

THESE HABITS WILL MAKE YOU EXTRAORDINARY.Twenty years ago, author Brendon Burchard became obsessed with answering three questions:1. Why do some individuals and teams succeed more quickly than others and sustain that success over the long term?2. Of those who pull it off, why are some...
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The Retirement Bible: Learn Strategies to Successfully Manage Your Money Decisions For the Rest of Your Life

Stephen Lomsdalen · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Print book

The “Retirement Bible” cuts through the confusion and breaks down personal finance into 5 financial principles steeped in wisdom. Learn how to avoid common mistakes that could put your retirement at risk and create a vision for your future with clear, common sense money moves.
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The Complete Guide to Fundraising Management

Stanley Weinstein · John Wiley & Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The real-world guide to successfully funding your nonprofit program The Complete Guide to Fundraising Management is the comprehensive handbook for successful fundraising, with a practical focus that applies across the nonprofit sector. With a focus on planning, self-assessment, continual...
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I Am Not a Tractor!: How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won

Susan Lynn Marquis · ILR Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover

I Am Not a Tractor! celebrates the courage, vision, and creativity of the farmworkers and community leaders who have transformed one of the worst agricultural situations in the United States into one of the best. Susan L. Marquis highlights past abuses workers suffered in Florida's...
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All You Can Pay: How Companies Use Our Data to Empty Our Wallets

Anna Bernasek · Nation Books
Format: Hardcover

You don't care who can access your data because you have nothing to hide. But what if corporations were using that data to control your decisions?As millions of consumers carry on unaware, powerful corporations race to collect more and more data about our behaviors, needs, and desires....
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Videocracy: How YouTube Is Changing the World . . . with Double Rainbows, Singing Foxes, and Other Trends We Can't Stop Watching

Kevin Allocca · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From YouTube's Head of Culture and Trends, a rousing and illuminating behind-the-scenes exploration of internet video's massive impact on our world.Whether your favorite YouTube video is a cat on a Roomba, "Gangnam Style," the "Bed Intruder" song, an ASAPscience explainer,...
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