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LinkedIn For Dummies

JOEL ELAD - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Make LinkedIn your number one professional branding tool LinkedIn is the premiere social network for professionals looking to discover new opportunities, enhance personal branding, connect with other professionals, and make career advancements. With LinkedIn For Dummies, you'll have...
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Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter

Cass R. Sunstein - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover

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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The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

KIRK WALLACE JOHNSON - Viking
Format: Hardcover

As heard on NPR's This American Life"Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller." - Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air"One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever."...
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The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias: How To Reframe Bias, Cultivate Connection, and Create High-Performing Teams

Pamela Fuller - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Unconscious bias affects everyone. It can look like the disappointment of an HR professional when a candidate for a new position asks about maternity leave. It can look like preferring the application of an Ivy League graduate over one from a state school. It can look like assuming a man is more...
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Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growthand How to Fix It

DAMBISA MOYO - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

From an internationally acclaimed economist, a provocative call to jump-start economic growth by aggressively overhauling liberal democracyAround the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political...
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The Debt Escape Plan: How to Free Yourself From Credit Card Balances, Boost Your Credit Score, and Live Debt-Free

Beverly Harzog - Career Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book

"Don't let excessive debt and poor credit hold you back! Reclaim your financial life using the proven strategies and motivational tools found throughout The Debt Escape Plan. Along the way, you'll be amused by Beverly Harzog's humor and inspired by her considerable been-there,...
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Better, Not Perfect: A Realist's Guide to Maximum Sustainable Goodness

Max H. Bazerman - Harper Business
Format: Hardcover

Negotiation and decision-making expert Max Bazerman explores how we can make more ethical choices by aspiring to be better, not perfect.Every day, you make hundreds of decisions. They're largely personal, but these choices have an ethical twinge as well; they value certain principles...
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Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole

Tiffany Aliche
Format: Hardcover

Tiffany Aliche was a successful pre-school teacher with a healthy nest egg when a recession and advice from a shady advisor put her out of a job and into a huge financial hole. As she began to chart the path to her own financial rescue, the outline of her ten-step formula for attaining...
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That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea

Marc Randolph - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog comes the incredible untold story of how Netflix went from concept to company-all revealed by co-founder and first CEO Marc Randolph. Once upon a time, brick-and-mortar video stores were king. Late fees were ubiquitous, video-streaming unheard...
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The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World

Dan Ackerman - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

Tetris is perhaps the most instantly recognizable, popular video game ever made. But the fascinating story of its origins is lesser known. How did an obscure Soviet programmer, working on frail, antiquated computers, create a product that has earned nearly $1 billion in sales? How did an inspired,...
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