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The Power of the Other: The Startling Effect Other People Have on You
Henry Cloud - HarperBusiness
Format: Print book
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Wall Street Journal bestsellerAn expert on the psychology of leadership and the bestselling author of Integrity, Necessary Endings, and Boundaries For Leaders identifies the critical ingredient for personal and professional wellbeing. Most leadership coaching focuses on helping leaders... |
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CRACK99: The Takedown of a $100 Million Chinese Software Pirate
David Locke Hall - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The utterly gripping story of the most outrageous case of cyber piracy prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice.A former U.S. Navy intelligence officer, David Locke Hall was a federal prosecutor when a bizarre-sounding website, CRACK99, came to his attention. It looked like Craigslist... |
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Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses
Amy Whitaker - HarperBusiness
Format: Print book
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An indispensable and inspiring guide to creativity in the workplace and beyond, drawing on art, psychology, science, sports, law, business, and technology to help you land big ideas in the practical world.Anyone from CEO to freelancer knows how hard it is to think big, let alone follow... |
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La lista dei desideri
Eoin Colfer - Ecco, 2016.
Format: Print book
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An engrossing, insider's account of how a teacher built one of the world's most valuable companies - rivaling Walmart & Amazon - and forever reshaped the global economy.In just a decade and half Jack Ma, a man from modest beginnings who started out as an English teacher, founded and built... |
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We-Commerce: How to Create, Collaborate, and Succeed in the Sharing Economy
Billee Howard - Perigee Books, 2015.
Format: Print book
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In WE-Commerce, visionary marketing strategist Billee Howard lays out her plan for a new vision of success and long-term, purposeful profitability in the new global, sharing economy Today, the most successful businesses and entrepreneurs thrive through connectivity, socialization, and sharing.... |
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION | FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION | FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by The... |
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America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
Roger Lowenstein - Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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A tour de force of historical reportage, America's Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth of America's modern central bank, the Federal Reserve. Today, the Fed is the bedrock of the financial landscape, yet the fight to create... |
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High-Hanging Fruit: Build Something Great by Going Where No One Else Will
Mark Rampolla - Portfolio
Format: Print book
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ZICO founder Mark Rampolla is building a social good movement: how to make money starting a company that is good for you, your colleagues, customers, and the worldWhen Mark Rampolla filled a notebook with potential startup ideas, his wife asked him some tough questions. What about this... |
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Juggling with Knives: Smart Investing in the Coming Age of Volatility
Jim Jubak - PublicAffairs, 2016.
Format: Print book
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In his new book, investment expert Jim Jubak explores the "new normal" of market volatility. With remarkable insights into the zeitgeist of financial markets and the economy, Jubak combines the big macro trends with the more mundane aspects of life to depict why volatility is here... |
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Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
Gabriel Weinberg - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Most startups don't fail because they can't build a product. Most startups fail because they can't get traction. Startup advice tends to be a lot of platitudes repackaged with new buzzwords, but Traction is something else entirely. As Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares learned... |
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The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World
Steven Radelet - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of the global poor today: A distinguished expert and advisor to developing nations reveals how we've reduced poverty, increased incomes, improved health, curbed violence, and spread democracy - and how to ensure the improvements continue.We live today at a time of great... |
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Workplace Poker: Are You Playing the Game, or Just Getting Played?
Dan Rust - HarperBusiness
Format: Print book
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A career advisor explains why many talented, hard-working people often miss out on their full career potential, revealing the tells, blind spots, secrets, and unspoken rules you need to know in order to play the game to win.While many careers have been impacted by economic downturns, failed... |
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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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Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Christopher Voss - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover
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A former international hostage negotiator for the FBI offers a new, field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations - whether in the boardroom or at home.After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator... |
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Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
Dan Lyons - Hachette Books
Format: Print book
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"Wildly entertaining ... Lyons has injected a dose of sanity into a world gone mad."--Ashlee Vance, New York Times-bestselling author of Elon MuskFor twenty-five years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer at the top of his profession--until one Friday morning when he received a phone... |
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A Just and Generous Nation: Abraham Lincoln and the Fight for American Opportunity
Harold Holzer - Basic Books (AZ)
Format: Print book
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In A Just and Generous Nation, the eminent historian Harold Holzer and the noted economist Norton Garfinkle present a groundbreaking new account of the beliefs that inspired our sixteenth president to go to war when the Southern states seceded from the Union. Rather than a commitment to eradicating... |
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Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time
Jeffrey Pfeffer - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover
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The author of Power, Stanford business school professor, and a leading management thinker offers a hard-hitting dissection of the leadership industry and ways to make workplaces and careers work better.The leadership enterprise is enormous, with billions of dollars, thousands of books,... |
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From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives
Jeffrey E. Garten - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The story of globalization, the most powerful force in history, as told through the life and times of ten people who changed the world by their singular, spectacular accomplishments.This is the first book to look at the history of globalization through the lens of individuals who did something... |
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The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
Mariana Mazzucato - PublicAffairs
Format: Print book
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Companies like Google and Apple heralded the information revolution, and opened the doors for Silicon Valley to grow into an engine of dazzling technological development, that today champions the free market that engendered it against the supposedly stifling encroachment of government regulation.... |
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Driven by Difference: How Great Companies Fuel Innovation Through Diversity
David A Livermore - American Management Association
Format: eBook
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Today's workforce is more diverse than ever before. But despite new perspectives and talents, the promise of increased innovation rarely materializes. Why are so few businesses seeing results? Studies show that diverse teams are more creative than homogenous ones--but only when they... |
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O Great One!: A Little Story About the Awesome Power of Recognition
David Novak - Portfolio Penguin
Format: Print book
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Jeff took a deep breath to calm down. He was about to stand in front of the employees of the Happy Face Toy Company's faltering Cleveland factory. As the new CEO, he'd been advised to close this factory as soon as possible, but he wanted to see it first. "How hard could this be?"... |
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Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines
Thomas H. Davenport - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover
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An invigorating, thought-provoking, and positive look at the rise of automation that explores how professionals across industries can find sustainable careers in the near future.Nearly half of all working Americans could risk losing their jobs because of technology. It's not only blue-collar... |
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How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide
Jane Bryant Quinn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"Jane Bryant Quinn is America's dean of personal finance ... .The book is a true treasure chest of financial secrets." - Forbes With How to Make Your Money Last, you will learn how to turn your retirement savings into a steady paycheck that will last for life.Today,... |
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Richard H. Thaler - W. W. Norton & Company; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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Get ready to change the way you think about economics.Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans -- predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle... |
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The Go-Giver Leader: A Little Story About What Matters Most in Business
Bob Burg - Portfolio Penguin
Format: Print book
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PLEASE NOTE: This book was previously published under the title It's Not About You.From the acclaimed, bestselling authors of The Go-Giver, a new parable about the power of giving leadership.The family-owned business of Allen & Augustine has manufactured high-quality chairs for decades.... |
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Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Philip E Tetlock - Crown Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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"From one of the world's most highly regarded social scientists, a transformative book on the habits of mind that lead to the best predictions. Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply... |
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In the Name of Gucci: A Memoir
Patricia Gucci - Crown Pub
Format: Book
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The gripping family drama and never-before-told love story surrounding the rise and fall of the late Aldo Gucci, the man responsible for making the legendary fashion label the powerhouse it is today, as told by his daughter. Patricia Gucci was born a secret: the lovechild whose birth could... |
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Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
Rana Foroohar - Crown Business
Format: Print book
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Eight years on from the biggest market meltdown since the Great Depression, the key lessons of the crisis of 2008 still remain unlearned - and our financial system is just as vulnerable as ever. Many of us know that our government failed to fix the banking system after the subprime mortgage... |
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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Adam M Grant - Viking
Format: Print book
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The #1 New York Times bestseller that examines how people can champion new ideas - and how leaders can fight groupthink, from the author of Give and Take"Reading Originals made me feel like I was seated across from Adam Grant at a dinner party, as one of my favorite... |
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The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesnt Have to Be Complicated
Helaine Olen - Portfolio/Penguin
Format: Print book
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"THE MOST NOTABLE PERSONAL FINANCE WRITING OF 2013 . . . WAS A HANDWRITTEN 4 6 INDEX CARD." - MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE TV analysts and money managers would have you believe your finances are enormously complicated, and if you don't follow their guidance, you'll end up in the poorhouse.... |
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Not Everyone Gets A Trophy: How to Manage the Millennials
Bruce Tulgan - Jossey-Bass
Format: Print book
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Adapt your management methods to harness Millennial potential Not Everyone Gets a Trophy: How to Manage the Millennials provides employers with a workable game plan for turning Millennials into the stellar workforce they have the potential to be. The culmination of over two decades... |
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Naked Money: A Revealing Look at What It Is and Why It Matters
Charles Wheelan - W W Norton, 2016.
Format: Print book
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The best-selling Naked series tackles the weird world of money.Consider the $20 bill.It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet even children recognize that tearing one into small pieces is an act of inconceivable stupidity. What makes a $20 bill actually... |
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Capital offenses : business crime and punishment in americas corporate age
Samuel Buell - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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From the lead prosecutor on the Enron investigation, an eye-opening examination of the explosion of American white-collar crime.If "corporations are people too," why isn't anyone in jail?A serious defect in a GM car causes accidents; Enron scams investors out of their money; banks... |
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Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family
Anne-Marie Slaughter - Random House
Format: Print book
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"An eye-opening call to action from someone who rethought the whole notion of 'having it all,' Unfinished Business could change how many of us approach our most important business: living." - People When Anne-Marie Slaughter accepted her dream job as the first female director... |
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Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg - Random House
Format: Print book
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From the author of the New York Times bestselling phenomenon The Power of Habit comes a fascinating new book that explores the science of productivity, and why, in today's world, managing how you think - rather than what you think - can transform your life. A young... |
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The 10 Laws of Trust: Building the Bonds That Make a Business Great
Joel Peterson - Amacom
Format: Hardcover
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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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Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
Parag Khanna - Random House
Format: Print book
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From the visionary bestselling author of The Second World and How to Run the World comes a bracing and authoritative guide to a future shaped less by national borders than by global supply chains, a world in which the most connected powers - and people - will win.Connectivity... |
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The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers
Gillian Tett - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning columnist and journalist Gillian Tett comes a brilliant examination of how our tendency to create functional departments - silos - hinders our work ... and how some people and organizations can break those silos down to unleash innovation.One of the characteristics of industrial... |
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The Effective Manager
Mark Horstman - John Wiley
Format: Print book
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The how-to guide for exceptional management from the bottom up The Effective Manager is a hands-on practical guide to great management at every level. Written by the man behind Manager Tools, the world's number-one business podcast, this book distills the author's 25 years of management... |
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Modern Monopolies: What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy
Alex Moazed - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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What do Google, Snapchat, Tinder, Amazon, and Uber have in common, besides soaring market share? They're platforms - a new business model that has quietly become the only game in town, creating vast fortunes for its founders while dominating everyone's daily life. A platform, by definition,... |
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Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior
Jonah Berger - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling author of Contagious explores the subtle, secret influences that affect the decisions we make - from what we buy, to the careers we choose, to what we eat - in this fascinating and groundbreaking work.If you're like most people, you think that... |
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Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent
Sydney Finkelstein - Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Based on years of research, Sydney Finkelstein, professor at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and author of Why Smart Executives Fail, looks at how a select few visionaries develop the most successful talent in every industryAfter meeting chef Alice Waters at her legendary restaurant,... |
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Self-Made: How to Become Self-Reliant, Self-Realized, and Rich in Every Way
Nely Galán - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
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For readers of #GIRLBOSS and viewers of Shark Tank - a global revolution in entrepreneurship is under way, inspiring women to blaze a trail of financial self-reliance and become self-made. Featuring a foreword by Suze Orman. What does it mean to be self-made It's not just... |
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One Little Spark!: Mickey's Ten Commandments and The Road to Imagineering
Martin Sklar - Disney Editions
Format: Hardcover
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We've all read about the experts: the artists, the scientists, the engineers-that special group of people known as Imagineers for The Walt Disney Company. But who are they? How did they join the team? What is it like to spend a day in their shoes?Disney Legend Marty Sklar wants to give... |
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The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape ThemAnd They Shape Us
Raymond Fisman - PublicAffairs
Format: Print book
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America's economic revolution isn't just driven by technology. It's about markets.The past twenty-five years have witnessed a remarkable shift in how we get the stuff we want. If you've ever owned a business, rented an apartment, or shopped online, you've had a front-row seat for this revolution-in-progress.... |
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Scrappy: A Little Book About Choosing to Play Big
Terri L Sjodin - Portfolio
Format: Print book
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Scrappy \'skra-p\ adj: Full of fighting spirit - synonymous with having moxie, being feisty, enthusiastic, gutsy, lively,and spunky Maybe you have been told time and time again that if you pay your dues and keep plugging away, you'll gain enough experience through "the school... |
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The Power of Peers: How the Company You Keep Drives Leadership, Growth, and Success
Leon Shapiro - Bibliomotion
Format: Print book
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Birds of a feather flock together. We're all in the same boat. Great minds think alike. While just figures of speech to some, they reflect a simple truth - it's the company we keep that often determines the level of personal growth and professional success we achieve in life.Business... |
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Agile Talent: How to Source and Manage Outside Experts
Jon Younger - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Print book
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How to Leverage Talent You Don't OwnCampbell Soup Company and PepsiCo seek advice from anthropologists to understand customer tastes and preferences. Google and Intel engage experts in social science and biomechanics to assess how people think about and use technology. Companies are gaining... |
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Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work
Andrea S Kramer - Bibliomotion
Format: Print book
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More than fifty years after the beginning of the Women's Movement and forty years after passage of Title IX, women are still not "making it" in traditionally male careers. Women start their careers on parity with men but generally end them far earlier, having achieved less status,... |
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The Great Invention: The Story of GDP and the Making
Ehsan Masood - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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The fascinating story of one of the twentieth-century's most influential and dangerously addictive ideas, told through the lives of those who invented it.The world's principal measure of the health of economies is gross domestic product, or GDP: the sum of what all of us spend every day,... |
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The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future
Steve Case - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER One of America's most accomplished entrepreneurs - a pioneer who made the Internet part of everyday life and orchestrated the largest merger in the history of business - shares a roadmap for how anyone can succeed in a world... |
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Even the Odds: Sensible Risk-Taking in Business, Investing, and Life
Karen Firestone - Bibliomotion
Format: Print book
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In Even the Odds, Karen Firestone explains how risk assessment plays a prominent role in all aspects of life. We may all define risk, and our tolerance for it, somewhat differently, but we might all agree it plays a pivotal role in guiding us toward an optimal outcome.As a long-time investment... |
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The Agility Shift: Creating Agile and Effective Leaders, Teams, and Organizations
Pamela Meyer - Bibliomotion
Format: Print book
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As contrary as it sounds, "planning" - as we traditionally understand the term - can be the worst thing a company can do. Consider that volatile weather events disrupt trusted supply chains, markets, and promised delivery schedules. Ever-shifting geo-political tensions, as well... |
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For the Love of Money: A Memoir
Sam Polk - Scribner
Format: Print book
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In 2014, a former hedge fund trader's New York Times Sunday Review front page article about wealth addicition instantly went viral. This is his unflinching memoir about coming of age on Wall Street, fighting to overcome the ghosts of his past - and the radical new way he now defines... |
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Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?: A Story About Women and Economics
Katrine Marcal - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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A funny, clever, and thought-provoking examination of the myth of the "economic man" and its impact on the global economy How do you get your dinner? That is the basic question of economics. When economist and philosopher Adam Smith proclaimed that all our actions were motivated... |
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My Electrician Drives a Porsche?: Investing in the Rise of the New Spending Class
Gianni Kovacevic - Greenleaf Book Group Llc
Format: Print book
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How One House Call Can Change Your Life A weekend service call changes the life of Doc Anderson forever. Johnny, the surprisingly wealthy energy whiz-kid, introduces Doc to a compelling new investment theme--following the rise of a new spending class. As they set course on a fact-filled... |
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Million Dollar Maverick: Forge Your Own Path to Think Differently, Act Decisively, and Succeed Quickly
Alan Weiss - Bibliomotion
Format: Print book
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When it comes to how to succeed as an entrepreneur, we are besotted with advice. According to bestselling author Alan Weiss, success is a combination of opportunism, very disciplined work, luck, timing, and ignoring most advice. In other words, it means striking out on your own, original... |
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A Paperboy's Fable: The 11 Principles of Success
Deep K Patel - Post Hill Pr
Format: Print book
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A young man learns that there is more to being successful than the bottom line.A Paperboy's Fable is a concise, entertaining fable that makes revolutionary points using age old principles. Whether someone is opening a lemonade stand or leading a startup software company, the 11 Principles... |
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