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The Business Romantic: Give Everything, Quantify Nothing, and Create Something Greater Than Yourself

Tim Leberecht - Harperbusiness
Format: Hardcover

In this smart, playful, and provocative book, one of today's most original business thinkers argues that we underestimate the importance of romance in our lives and that we can find it in and through business - by designing products, services, and experiences that connect us with something...
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7 Ways to Think Differently: Embrace potential, respond to life, discover abundance

Looby Macnamara - Permanent Publications
Format: Book

The thoughts and actions of people past and present have determined the current state of our planet. If we change our thinking, we can change the health of our own lives and also the future state of our world. 7 Ways to Think Differently explores ways to address personal, social, and environmental...
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Accounting: A Very Short Introduction

Christopher Nobes - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Paperback

If you read the 'business pages' of a newspaper or if you listen to the financial news on television or radio, you will often hear terms such as 'liability', 'balance sheet' or 'earnings'. These terms turn up in non-financial contexts as well: 'he was more...
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U.S. Master Tax Guide

CCH Tax Law Editors - CCH Inc.; 98 edition
Format: Print book

The U.S. Master Tax Guide provides helpful and practical guidance on today's federal tax law. This 98th Edition reflects all pertinent federal taxation changes that affect 2014 returns and provides fast and reliable answers to tax questions affecting individuals and business income...
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Zombie Loyalists: Using Great Service to Create Rabid Fans

Peter Shankman - Palgrave Macmillan Trade; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Marketing and PR expert Peter Shankman has been working with the biggest companies in the world to create what he calls "Zombie Loyalists," fervent fans that help companies massively increase their customer base, brand awareness, and most importantly, revenue. After all, why should...
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It's Your Move: My Million Dollar Method for Taking Risks with Confidence and Succeeding at Work and Life

Josh Altman - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

The star of Bravo's hit series Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles provides tips, tools, insights and strategies for sales, marketing, promotion, running a family business and more to help readers build confidence and master the knowledge they need to succeed. --Publisher's description.Altman...
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Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time

Jeffrey Pfeffer - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

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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Better and Faster: The Proven Path to Unstoppable Ideas

Jeremy Gutsche - Crown Business
Format: Hardcover

What great ideas are you missing that are so close within your grasp? In our world of chaos and change, what are you overlooking? If you knew the answer, you'd be a better innovator, better manager, and better investor.This book will make you BETTER by teaching you how to overcome 3 neurological...
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Trajectory: 7 Career Strategies to Take You from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

David L. Van Rooy Ph.D. - Amacom Books
Format: Paperback

When the economy's difficult and jobs aren't secure, people tend to focus on the short term ...on survival. But what they don't grasp is how their current position could be a springboard to their next position - or even the one after that. Caught between a fear of failure and a desire...
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The Creator's Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs

Amy Wilkinson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Each of us has the capacity to spot opportunities, invent products, and build businesses - even $100 million businesses.How do some people turn ideas into enterprises that endure? Why do some people succeed when so many others fail? The Creator's Code unlocks the six essential skills...
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Launch!: The Critical 90 Days from Idea to Market

Scott Duffy - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

WANT TO GET YOUR BIG IDEA TO MARKET? In 90 days, you can successfully launch a new business, product, or service by following the steps in this playbook. Ninety-seven percent of a rocket's fuel is used in the first three feet of its launch. The same is true when launching a new business....
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Changing the Conversation: The 17 Principles of Conflict Resolution

Dana Caspersen - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

The seventeen key principles for transforming conflict - in a beautiful package from the creator of The 48 Laws of PowerFrom Joost Elffers, the packaging genius behind the huge New York Times bestsellers The 48 Laws of Power, The 33 Strategies of War, and The Art of Seduction, comes this...
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The Power of Thanks: How Social Recognition Empowers Employees and Creates a Best Place to Work

Eric Mosley - McGraw-Hill Education; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The most powerful word in your leadership vocabulary is . . . THANKS! Building a fully engaged, energized workforce is the key to business success. The Power of Thanks reveals how leading companies like Intuit, JetBlue Airways, IHG, Symantec, ConAgra Foods, and The Hershey Company empower...
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Pitch Perfect: How to Say It Right the First Time, Every Time

Bill McGowan - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

Media guru and Emmy Award-winning correspondent Bill McGowan - coach to some of the biggest names in business and entertainment, including Eli Manning, Kelly Clarkson, Jack Welch, Thomas Keller and Kenneth Cole teaches you how to get your message across and get what you want with pitch...
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America's Moment: Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age

Rework America. - W. W. NORTON & COMPANY
Format: Print book

It is time for a new conversation.Amid the biggest economic transformation in a century, the challenge of our time is to make sure that all Americans benefit from the wave of digital revolutions around the world that have permeated and upended modern life. Yet today's economic arguments...
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Agile Selling: Get Up to Speed Quickly in Today's Ever-Changing Sales World

Jill Konrath - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover

Sales expert Jill Konrath offers powerful strategies for sales proficiency in ever-changing situations When sales people are promoted, change jobs, or face new business environments, they inevitably need to learn new skills quickly. This rapid change is often overwhelming, and sellers...
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Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World

John P. Kotter - Harvard Bus Review Press
Format: Hardcover

Based on the award-winning article in Harvard Business Review, from global leadership expert John Kotter.It's a familiar scene in organizations today: a new competitive threat or a big opportunity emerges. You quickly create a strategic initiative in response and appoint your best people...
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Administrative Assistant's and Secretary's Handbook

James Stroman - AMACOM; Fifth Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From managing the phones, coordinating meetings, and preparing presentations to planning events, crafting clear business communications, and deciphering legal documents, administrative assistants need to be everything to everyone, all the time. Long the gold standard for office professionals...
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5 Steps to Rapid Employment: The Job You Want at the Pay You Deserve

Jay A. Block - McGraw-Hill; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Sporadically responding to job openings is not the way to find lucrative employment. In todays job market, you have to separate yourself from the competition with crystal claritywhich means approaching your job campaign strategically. In 5 Steps to Rapid Employment, veteran career expert...
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The Challenger Customer: Selling to the Hidden Influencer Who Can Multiply Your Results

Brent Adamson - Portfolio/Penguin
Format: Print book

Four years ago, the bestselling authors of The Challenger Sale overturned decades of conventional wisdom with a bold new approach to sales. Now their latest research reveals something even more surprising: Being a Challenger seller isn't enough. Your success or failure also depends...
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Everyone's a Critic: Winning Customers in a Review-Driven World

Bill Tancer - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

More than of customers consult online reviews and take them very seriously A disgruntled customer on Yelp might have more clout than a guidebook magazine or newspaper This review-driven marketplace terrifies many businesses But some have learnt to navigate and profit from customer reviews...
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201 Killer Cover Letters Third Edition

Sandra Podesta - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Paperback

THE BESTSELLING GUIDE TO WRITING COVER LETTERS THAT MAKE YOU STAND OUT FROM THE COMPETITION With hundreds of ready-to-download letters--updated with strategies for networking online, social media, and responding to Internet job postings. "Wow, wow, and wow! Letters like these are what...
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Entrepreneurship for the Rest of Us: How to Create Innovation and Opportunity Everywhere

Paul B. Brown - Bibliomotion
Format: Hardcover

Today when the competition, technology, and the economy are evolving faster than ever before, organizations and the people like us who work in them need a proven approach to help us adapt - and succeed. The key, according to Paul B. Brown, is to think like an entrepreneur, no matter what...
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How to Make Money with Social Media: An Insider's Guide to Using New and Emerging Media to Grow Your Business

Jamie Turner - Pearson FT Press; 2 edition
Format: Hardcover

Set up, launch, and run your winning socialmobile media campaign! This guide is packed with actionable tools, techniques, and tips you can really use all fully revamped for todays newest platforms and opportunities. Authors Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah have unsurpassed experience using...
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Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work

Liz Wiseman - Harperbusiness
Format: Hardcover

Wall Street Journal BestsellerIs it possible to be at your best even when you are underqualified or doing something for the first time Is it still possible, even after decades of experience, to recapture the enthusiasm, curiosity, and fearlessness of youth to take on new challenges With...
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Steven D. Levitt - Harper Perennial; 1 Original edition
Format: Paperback

More Than 4 Million Copies Sold WorldwidePublished in 35 LanguagesWhich is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool?What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?How much do parents really matter?These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt...
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2 Billion Under 20: How Millennials Are Breaking Down Age Barriers and Changing the World

Stacey Ferreira - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to the future!2 Billion Under 20 is a book, online community, and movement inspired by the 2 billion people in the world currently at or under the age of twenty. We stand for Millennials, Gen Z'ers, and those who want to better understand them and their unique potential. This...
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Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown

David Wiedemer - Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
Format: Hardcover

From the authors who accurately predicted the bursting of the global bubble economy comes the definitive look at what lies ahead in 2013 and beyond Written by the market oracles who predicted, with uncanny accuracy, the global financial meltdown and the economic chain reaction it set in motion,...
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Welcome to the Real World: Finding Your Place, Perfecting Your Work, and Turning Your Job into Your Dream Career

Lauren Berger - Business
Format: Paperback

The essential book every workplace novice needs - a smart, practical, and fun guide to help them navigate the minefield of personalities, learn to work with their boss, identify priorities, and ultimately kick butt at their first job.Its a challenging time to be young and new in the workplace....
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500 Social Media Marketing Tips: Essential Advice, Hints and Strategy for Business: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, and More!

Andrew Macarthy - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback

UPDATED SUMMER 2015 1 AMAZON WEB MARKETING BEST SELLER ALWAYS UP-TO-DATE SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING STRATEGY OVER 60,000 COPIES SOLD! Struggling With Social Media Marketing Few likes on your companys Facebook page Not seeing social media ROI Unsure of how to make the most of social media...
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New Rules of the Game: 10 Strategies for Women in the Workplace

Susan Packard - Prentice Hall Press
Format: Hardcover

Business is a team sport. Learn how to win.Where would your career be if you could understand how your colleagues--especially men--succeed and win at work And if, in understanding and applying the rules, you could win, tooIn New Rules of the Game, business leader Susan Packard shows you how to cultivate...
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The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership

Richard Branson - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

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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20 Retirement Decisions You Need to Make Right Now

Ray LeVitre - Sphinx Publishing; 2 edition
Format: Paperback

Youre in Control of Your Retirement Future Inside are twenty major financial decisions that could profoundly impact your lifestyle over the next forty years. For many retirees, these decisions come as a surprise and must be made hastily without proper consultation. But by reading the expert,...
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MOXIE: The Secret to Bold and Gutsy Leadership

John Baldoni - Bibliomotion
Format: Hardcover

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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Advertising Transformed: The New Rules for the Digital Age

Fons Van Dyck - Kogan Page Limited
Format: Paperback

Framing advertising as an essential part of marketing strategy, this book offers strategic answers to questions marketers and managers have about the effectiveness of advertising in the digital age. The author synthesizes the latest thinking about advertising into a digestible list of rules...
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Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family

Anne-Marie Slaughter - Random House
Format: Print book

"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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Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers in the Age of

Itamar Simonson - HarperCollins
Format: Print book

Going against conventional marketing wisdom, Absolute Value reveals what really influences customers today and offers a new framework - the Influence Mix, a totally new way of thinking about consumer decision making and marketing, and about developing more effective business strategies.How...
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The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life

Bernard Roth - HarperBusiness, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Print book

The co-founder of the Stanford d.School introduces the power of design thinking to help you achieve goals you never thought possible.Achievement can be learned. It's a muscle, and once you learn how to flex it, you'll be able to meet life's challenges and fulfill your goals,...
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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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Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead

Rosabeth Moss Kanter - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

"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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Millennial Money: How Young Investors Can Build a Fortune

Patrick O'Shaughnessy - Palgrave MacMillan Trade
Format: Hardcover

Fact: the Millennial Generation will not be able to rely on pensions and social security in retirement. Instead, they will have to save and invest in the global stock market to meet their goals. When it comes to thinking about money, Millennials are, as a generation, different from their...
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Power Cues: The Subtle Science of Leading Groups, Persuading Others, and Maximizing Your Personal Impact

Nick Morgan - Harvard Business Review Press,
Format: Print book

Take control of your communications - before someone else doesWhat if someone told you that your behavior was controlled by a powerful, invisible force? Most of us would be skeptical of such a claim - but it's largely true. Our brains are constantly transmitting and receiving signals...
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Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

David B. Yoffie - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

The authors of the bestselling Competing on Internet Time (a Business Week top 10 book) analyze the strategies, principles, and skills of three of the most successful and influential figures in business - Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs - offering lessons for all managers and entrepreneurs...
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The 8 Steps to Strategic Success : Unleashing the Power of Engagement

Gerben van den Berg; Paul Pietersma - Kogan Page Limited
Format:  eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats

All organizations recognise the importance of strategy creation and execution: strategy is the process of developing the corporate future. Unfortunately, it often doesn't generate the required results. This book presents a new 8-step process for creating a strategy that really delivers....
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Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

Philip E Tetlock - Crown Publishers
Format: Hardcover

"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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Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration--Lessons from The Second City

Kelly Leonard - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

Executives from The Second City - the world's premier comedy theater and school of improvisation - reveal improvisational techniques that can help any organization develop innovators, encourage adaptable leaders, and build transformational businesses.For more than fifty years, The Second...
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The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed.: The Definitive Book on Value Investing

Benjamin Graham - Harper Business
Format: Paperback

This classic text is annotated to update Grahams timeless wisdom for todays market conditions... The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham, taught and inspired people worldwide. Grahams philosophy of "value investing" -- which shields investors...
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Bring Work to Life by Bringing Life to Work: A Guide for Leaders and Organizations

Tracy Brower - Bibliomotion
Format: Book

Organizations accomplish results when they powerfully engage employees and capture their discretionary time. This is more important than ever during this period where employees are facing unprecedented time poverty. Technology has blurred the lines between employees’ work and personal...
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The 5 Mistakes Every Investor Makes and How to Avoid Them: Getting Investing Right

Peter Mallouk - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Identify mistakes standing in the way of investment success With so much at stake in investing and wealth management, investors cannot afford to keep repeating actions that could have serious negative consequences for their financial goals. The Five Mistakes Every Investor Makes and How to Avoid...
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Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World

Brian J. Robertson - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Holacracy is a revolutionary management system that redefines management and turns everyone into a leader.Holacracy distributes authority and decision-making throughout an organization, and defines people not by hierarchy and titles, but by roles. Holacracy creates organizations that are fast,...
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