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No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Workplace Drama, End Entitlement, and Drive Big Results

CY WAKEMAN · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Reality-Based Leadership rejects the current fad of "engaging" employees and the emotional drama of "meeting their needs"--returning leadership to leaders and productivity to businesses.For years now, leaders in almost every industry...
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How to Spot the Next Starbucks, Whole Foods, Walmart, or McDonald's BEFORE Its Shares Explode: A Low-Risk Investment You Can Pretty Much ... to Retire to Florida or the South of France

Mark Tier · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Everyone knows the basic golden rule of investing: "Buy Low, Sell High," but how many of us ever really understand the stock market, how to recognize the "next big thing," and how to capitalize off of it once you do? ...the truth is not many or we'd all be millionaires....

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At Your Best as a Painter: Your Playbook for Building a Successful Career and Launching a Thriving Small Business as a Painter

Juan Carosso · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback

The only series of step-by-step guides to succeeding in the skilled trades and achieving the American dream.

At Your Best as a Painter is your playbook for learning if a career as a painter is right for you, progressing from pre-apprentice to journeyman to master painter,...
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Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic

Barry Meier · Random House
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The origin story of the opioid epidemic: From a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter comes an inside story of corporate greed and government negligence. Between 1999 and 2017, an estimated 250,000 Americans died from overdoses involving prescription painkillers, a plague ignited...
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Stop Guessing: The 9 Behaviors of Great Problem Solvers

NAT GREENE · Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Become the greatest problem solver you can be!Bad problem solving costs individuals and society incalculable amounts of time, money, and sanity. In this book Nat Greene - who's been solving hard problems professionally for over twenty years - shares nine behaviors anyone can adopt to find...
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Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil

Hamish McKenzie · Dutton
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"You'll tell me if it ever starts getting genuinely insane, right?"
--Elon Musk, TED interview

Hamish McKenzie tells how a West Coast start-up's audacious dream came true. Elon Musk created a car company that would go up against not only the might of the government-backed...
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Attitude: Develop a Winning Mindset on and off the Court

Jay Wright · Ballantine
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

In this behind-the-scenes look at the making of a champion, the coach of the Villanova University men's basketball team shares his competitive and cooperative philosophy, along with lessons from his coaching career and the story of his personal road to success.

When Kris Jenkins...
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Starting & Running a Marijuana Business

Debby Goldsberry · Alpha
Pages: 316
Format: Paperback

The most comprehensive and easy-to-understand guide to starting and running a marijuana business.Legal marijuana is one of the fastest growing industries on the planet, and aspiring entrepreneurs are chomping at the bit to get in on the "green rush". However, while starting any new business...
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You Don't Own Me: How Mattel v. MGA Entertainment Exposed Barbie's Dark Side

Orly Lobel · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 271
Format: Hardcover

Are your ideas your own or does your employer own them? This is the question that set off the greatest toy war of our time.

When Carter Bryant began designing what would become the billion-dollar line of Bratz dolls, he was taking time off from his job at Mattel, where he designed...

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Corporate Records Handbook, The: Meetings, Minutes & Resolutions

Anthony Mancuso Attorney · NOLO
Pages: 600
Format: Paperback

Keep your corporate status -- and avoid personal liability Incorporating your business is an important first step in obtaining limited liability status. To keep that status, you must observe a number of legal formalities, including holding and documenting shareholder and director meetings....
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Management Diseases and Disorders: How to Identify and Treat Dysfunctional Managerial Behavior

Steven A. Danley · Lulu Publishing Services
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback

Organizational "insiders" Steven A. Danley and Dr. Peter Hughes explore the most common dysfunctions preventing managers from promoting healthy, vibrant, and sustainable workplaces in this field manual written in the form of a medical encyclopedia. They identify toxic behaviors...
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The Myth of Independence: How Congress Governs the Federal Reserve

Sarah A Binder · Princeton University Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover

Born out of crisis a century ago, the Federal Reserve has become the most powerful macroeconomic policymaker and financial regulator in the world. The Myth of Independence traces the Fed's transformation from a weak, secretive, and decentralized institution in 1913 to a remarkably...

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The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations

James M Kouzes · Jossey-Bass
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The most trusted source of leadership wisdom, updated to address today's realities The Leadership Challenge is the gold-standard manual for effective leadership, grounded in research and written by the premier authorities in the field. With deep insight into the complex interpersonal...
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Accounting 101: From Calculating Revenues and Profits to Determining Assets and Liabilities--an Essential Guide to Accounting Basics

MICHELE CAGAN · ADAMS MEDIA Corporation
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

A quick and easy guide to help you learn the basics of accounting.

The ability to negotiate a deal. Confidence to oversee staff. Complete and accurate monitoring of expenses.

In today's business climate, these are must-have skills. But all too often, comprehensive business...
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Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life

Hal Gregersen · HarperBusiness
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

What if you could unlock a better answer to your most vexing problem - in your workplace, community, or home life - just by changing the question?

Talk to creative problem-solvers and they will often tell you, the key to their success is asking a different question.

Take...

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