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New Power: How Movements Build, Businesses Thrive, and Ideas Catch Fire in Our Hyperconnected World

JEREMY HEIMANS · Doubleday
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From two visionary thinkers and practitioners comes a big idea about how power works differently in our hyperconnected age.

Why do some leap ahead while others fall behind in today's chaotic, connected world? In New Power, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms confront the biggest...
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Facebook Marketing For Dummies

JOHN HAYDON · For Dummies
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Add Facebook to your marketing plan - and watch your sales grow With 2 billion monthly active users across the world, Facebook has evolved into a community of consumers, creating a primary resource for marketers. This presents a demand for knowledge about how to strategically plan, execute,...
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Rug Money: How a Group of Maya Women Changed Their Lives through Art and Innovation

Cheryl Conway-Daly · Thrums Books
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Recognizing the dire need for more income-generating opportunities for Maya women in Guatemala, an accomplished American textile artist volunteered to teach one rug-hooking class. What follows is a surprising and heartening story about artistry, creative economies, and how access to opportunity...
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In Defense of Public Lands: The Case against Privatization and Transfer

Steven Davis · Temple University Press
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

Debates continue to rage over the merits or flaws of public land and whether or not it should be privatized - or at least, radically reconfigured in some way. In Defense of Public Lands offers a comprehensive refutation of the market-oriented arguments. Steven Davis passionately advocates...
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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2018: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review with bonus article "Customer Loyalty Is Overrated" By A.G. Lafley and Roger L

Harvard Business Review · Harvard Business School Pr
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

The definitive management ideas of the year from Harvard Business Review.Includes the definitive ideas of the year, all in one place, selected by HBR's editors.Gives readers the opportunity to catch up on a year's worth of recent ideas from HBR quickly-or collect articles over time.Includes...
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution

Klaus Schwab · Crown Business
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, argues that we on the brink of a technological revolution unlike anything humankind has experienced before, and describes how this revolution that is unfolding today will fundamentally alter how we live...
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Rich20Something: Ditch Your Average Job, Start an Epic Business, and Score the Life You Want

Daniel DiPiazza · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Millennial business guru and entrepreneur Daniel DiPiazza was once your typical 20-something. Working multiple jobs to support himself through college, he hoped, like the rest of his generation, that his degree would lead to a lucrative and satisfying career. But when he was struggling...
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Building the Agile Business through Digital Transformation: How to Lead Digital Transformation in Your Workplace

NEIL PERKIN · Kogan Page
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Building the Agile Business through Digital Transformation is a guide for organizational development professionals and change managers needing to better understand, implement and lead digital transformation in the workplace. It sets aside traditional thinking and outdated strategies to explain...
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The Career Manifesto: Discover Your Calling and Create an Extraordinary Life

Mike Steib · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

An action-oriented guide to help anyone find their calling and achieve their goals, inspired by the author's popular blog post with the same title

The Career Manifesto
presents an inspiring and refreshingly simple approach to finding your passion and purpose and then jumpstarting...
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Become A Procedures Pro: The Admin's Guide to Developing Effective Office Systems and Procedures

Julie Perrine · Julie Perrine International, LLC
Pages: 95
Format: Paperback

Does taking time off lead to more stress than relaxation because you're worried what will (or won't) happen at the office while you're gone? Are you looking for a way to demonstrate the skills and value you contribute to your organization and team? Do you want to be ready...
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Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

Hof 's-Hertogenbosch. · Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio
Format: MP3 CD

How the United States underdeveloped Appalachia Appalachia - among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America - has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise, and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original...
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The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

Saifedean Ammous · Wiley
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

Saifedean Ammous

Bitcoin is the newest technology for money - find out how it fits in the future

Bitcoin is the digital age's novel, decentralized, and automated solution to the problem...

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Shapeholders: Business Success in the Age of Activism

Mark Kennedy · Columbia University Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Today, all it takes is one organizational misstep to sink a company's reputation. Social media can be a strict ethical enforcer, with the power to convince thousands to boycott products and services. Executives are stuck on appeasing stakeholders -- shareholders, employees, and consumers...
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Digital Marketing Analytics: Making Sense of Consumer Data in a Digital World

Chuck Hemann · Que Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Distill Maximum Value from Your Digital Data! Do It Now! Why hasn't all that data delivered a whopping competitive advantage? Because you've barely begun to use it, that's why! Good news: neither have your competitors. It's hard! But digital marketing analytics is 100%...
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Communication IQ: A Proven Way to Influence, Lead, and Motivate People

Fred Kendall · Whitaker House
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"By languages, in all their facets, we can live in peace or go to war. We sing songs in harmony, or shout insults in anger. We experience connection or disconnection. We work together in peace or in pain. The choice is ours." - Anna Kendall Every so often, we meet people with...
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