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Financially Fearless: The LearnVest Program for Taking Control of Your Money
Alexa von Tobel - Crown Business; F First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Finally, a financial plan that lets you be YOU, only richer. It’s time to throw away all your old notions of what financial advice should look like. Because if you’re looking for a book to put you on an austerity savings plan that has you giving up vacations and lattes,... |
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The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
Michael Bungay Stanier - Box of Crayons Press
Format: Print book
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Coaching is an essential skill for leaders. But for most busy, overworked managers, coaching employees is done badly, or not at all. They're just too busy, and it's too hard to change. But what if managers could coach their people in 10 minutes or less? In Michael Bungay Stanier's... |
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Miss Manners Minds Your Business
Judith Martin - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A witty guide to managing a real life wisely in a work-centered world. What do your colleagues, overlords, underlings, clients, and customers have in common? Not knowing how much they annoy you. Not to mention how much you may be annoying them. The route from cubicle to corner office is strewn... |
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MOXIE: The Secret to Bold and Gutsy Leadership
John Baldoni - Bibliomotion
Format: Hardcover
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Leaders today need to be mindful of their circumstances as well as mindful of their own strengths and shortcomings. They need to have the disposition to succeed as well as the inner resourcefulness to persevere. Leaders must be willing to do things differently but also draw on tried and true... |
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Roadmap: The Get-It-Together Guide for Figuring Out What to Do with Your Life
Nathan Gebhard - Chronicle Books
Format: Print book
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This welcome antidote to the conventional career guide answers the old question - "So, what are you going to do with your life?" - in a groundbreaking way. From the team behind the campus and online resource and the inspirational TV series in its eleventh season, ROADMAP helps... |
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The Case Against Sugar
Gary Taubes - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening expos that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent... |
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Headhunter hiring secrets 2.0 : how to fire up your career and land your ideal job
Skip Freeman - Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Print book
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Can 50, 000 Job Hunters be Wrong? Well, maybe, but highly doubtful Over 50, 000 job hunters used the ground-breaking, revolutionary tactics and strategies featured in the international best-selling job hunting book "Headhunter Hiring Secrets: The Rules of the Hiring Game Have Changed... |
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The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership
Richard Branson - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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While building the Virgin Group over forty years, Richard Branson has never shied away from seemingly outlandish challenges that others (including his own colleagues on several occasions) considered sheer lunacy. He has taken on giants like British Airways and won, and monsters like Coca-Cola... |
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Roadside MBA: Back Road Lessons for Entrepreneurs, Executives and Small Business Owners
Michael Mazzeo - Business Plus
Format: Hardcover
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While playing hooky from a conference in Boston a few years back, three former colleagues from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management hopped in a car and headed on a road trip. They pulled into a shoe store in Maine and noticed that the sales help was unusually pushy. After a few questions,... |
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Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties
Beth Kobliner - Touchstone
Format: Paperback
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A completely revised and updated fourth edition of the New York Times bestseller, designed to guide younger adults through the world of personal finance.More than ever before, people in their twenties and thirties need help getting their financial lives in order. And who could blame... |
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The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food
Ted Genoways - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful and important work of investigative journalism that explores the runaway growth of the American meatpacking industry and its dangerous consequences.On the production line in American packinghouses, there is one cardinal rule the chain never slows. Every year, the chain conveyors... |
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Knock 'em Dead Cover Letters: Cover Letters and Strategies to Get the Job You Want
Martin Yate - Adams Media Corporation
Format: Print book
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Great strategies for writing killer cover letters!At a time when every job seeker needs an edge, Martin Yate, CPC, shows you how to dramatically increase your chances of landing an interview with a dynamic cover letter. Using his 25+ years of experience, he has built a practical, easy-to-follow... |
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The 80/20 Manager: The Secret to Working Less and Achieving More
Richard Koch - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author Richard Koch shows managers how to apply the 80/20 Principle to achieve exceptional results at work--without stress or long hours.In his bestselling book The 80/20 Principle, Richard Koch showed readers how to put the 80/20 Principle--the idea that 80 percent of results... |
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Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality
James Kwak - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book
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Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and misleading half-truths.Economism: an ideology that distorts the valid principles and tools of introductory college... |
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Zillow Talk
Spencer Rascoff - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Paperback
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How do you spot an area poised for gentrification? Is spring or winter the best time to put your house on the market? Will a house on Swamp Road sell for less than one on Gingerbread Lane? The fact is that the rules of real estate have changed drastically over the past five years. To understand... |
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Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money and Having Fun Investing in Startups
David S. Rose - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Achieve annual returns of 25% or more with a well-designed angel portfolio Written by David S. Rose, the founder of Gust the global platform that powers the world of organized professional angel investing Angel Investing is a comprehensive, entertaining guide that walks readers through... |
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SmartTribes: How Teams Become Brilliant Together
Christine Comaford - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Are You Scaring Your People into MediocrityAll leaders want to outperform, outsell, and outinnovate the competition. And most teams are fully capable of doing so. The problem we consistently say and do things that spark unconscious fears and keep our people stuck in their Critter State.... |
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Economics: The User's Guide
Ha-Joon Chang - Bloomsbury
Format: Hardcover
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In his bestselling 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang brilliantly debunked many of the predominant myths of neoclassical economics. Now, in an entertaining and accessible primer, he explains how the global economy actually works--in real-world... |
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Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech
HEATHER CABOT - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Meet the women who haven't asked for permission from Silicon Valley to chase their dreams. They are going for it -- building the next generation of tech start-ups, investing in each other's ventures, crushing male hacker stereotypes and rallying women and girls everywhere to join the digital... |
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Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
Michael S Hyatt - Baker Books
Format: Print book
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Each of us has but one life to live on this earth. What we do with it is our choice. Are we drifting through it as spectators, reacting to our circumstances when necessary and wondering just how we got to this point anyway? Or are we directing it, maximizing the joy and potential of every... |
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Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter
Cass R. Sunstein - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Why are group decisions so hard? Since the beginning of human history, people have made decisions in groupsfirst in families and villages, and now as part of companies, governments, school boards, religious organizations, or any one of countless other groups. And having more than one person... |
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Avid Reader: A Life
Robert Gottlieb - Farrar
Format: Print book
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A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his timeAfter editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred... |
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The Art of War
Sunzi - Arcturus
Format: Print book
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Sun Tzu's classic on military strategy and tactics was written in the 5th century BC, and comes to life for the 21st century in this stunning slip-cased edition. The Art of War case and hardcover book are both high-quality cloth over board, with embossed, gold-foil lettering, creating... |
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Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day
Todd Henry - Portfolio Hardcover; 10.1.2013 edition
Format: Book
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"Embrace the importance of now, and refuse to allow the lull of comfort, fear, familiarity, and ego to prevent you from taking action on your ambitions...The cost of inaction is vast. Don't go to your grave with your best work inside of you. Choose to die empty." Most of us live... |
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Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation
Adam Bryant - Times Books/Henry Holt and Company
Format: Hardcover
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More than two hundred CEOs reveal their candid insights on how to build and foster a corporate culture that encourages innovation and drives resultsIn Quick and Nimble, Adam Bryant draws on interviews with more than two hundred CEOs to offer business leaders the wisdom and guidance to move... |
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Dream Year: Make the Leap from a Job You Hate to a Life You Love
Ben Arment - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Somewhere along the road to adulthood, dreams get pushed aside - for bills, for fear, for ease. And so you settle into an unfulfilling, perhaps even unpleasant career. But what if someone could guide you, step-by-step, as you identify, plan, and launch your dream career-in just one year.... |
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This Is How to Get Your Next Job: An Inside Look at What Employers Really Want
Andrea Kay - AMACOM
Format: Paperback
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Even in a bad economy, companies have job openings they can't fill. Considering the millions of people who are out of work or unhappily employed, how can that be?What are job seekers doing to turn off employers? And what is it that employers want but aren't finding? Leading career expert... |
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Make Your Kid A Money Genius
Beth Kobliner - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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From Beth Kobliner, the author of the bestselling personal finance bible Get a Financial Life - a new, must-have guide showing parents how to teach their children (from toddlers to young adults) to manage money in a smart way.Many of us think we can have the "money talk"... |
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Balance: The Economics of Great Powers from Ancient Rome to Modern America
R Glenn Hubbard - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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"Hubbard and Kane synthesize economics, politics, and psychology to develop a new audacious theory of why countries decline. Compulsory reading for anyone who wants to understand the major issues that America now faces" (James Robinson, coauthor of Why Nations Fail) .From... |
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Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead
Rosabeth Moss Kanter - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"America has been waiting for a call to think big and act big as we envision our transportation future. Kanter's important book is it." -- Deval Patrick, governor of Massachusetts, 2007 -- 2015Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays... |
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AgeProof: Living Longer Without Running Out of Money or Breaking a Hip
Jean Chatzky - Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Hardcover
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Two of the world's leading experts explain the vital link between health and wealth that could add years to your life and dollars to your retirement savings.All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if we can't get out of bed. And the healthiest body in the world won't stay that way if we're... |
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Game-Changer: Game Theory and the Art of Transforming Strategic Situations
David McAdams - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A radically new, and easily learned, way to outstrategize your rivals. “The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.” So wrote Zhuge Liang, the great Chinese military strategist. He was referring to battlefield tactics, but the same can be said about any strategic... |
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Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
Antonio Garcia Martinez - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of the Year * A Business Insider Top 20 Business Book of the Year * An Inc. Best Book of the Year for Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners"Incisive.... The most fun business book I have read this year.... Clearly there will be people... |
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The Economics Book
DK Publishing - DK
Format: Hardcover
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From Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas to Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes to the top economic thought leaders of today The Economics Book is the essential reference for students and anyone else with an interest in how economies work Easy-to-follow graphics succinct quotations and thoroughly... |
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Balance: The Economics of Great Powers from Ancient Rome to Modern America
Glenn Hubbard - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In this groundbreaking book, two economists explain why economic imbalances cause civil collapse— and why the United States could be next. From the Ming Dynasty to Ottoman Turkey to imperial Spain, the Great Powers of the world emerged as the greatest economic, political, and military... |
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The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives
Lisa Servon - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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An urgent, absorbing expos - why Americans are fleeing our broken banking system in growing numbers, and how alternatives are rushing in to do what banks once did What do an undocumented immigrant in the South Bronx, a highnetworth entrepreneur, and a twentysomething graduate student have... |
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Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less
Tiffany Dufu - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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A bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto from a renowned voice in the women's leadership movement who shows women how to cultivate the single skill they really need in order to thrive: the ability to let go.Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first child,... |
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The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
Jesse Eisinger - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, a blistering account of corporate greed and impunity, and the reckless, often anemic response from the Department of Justice.Why were no bankers put in prison after the financial crisis of 2008? Why do CEOs seem to commit wrongdoing... |
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