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Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age

Ram Charan
Format: Hardcover

The old ways of creating competitive advantage for your business - such as building moats to ward off competitors - have become dangerous. Giants like Amazon and Alibaba are creating vast new market spaces through a deft combination of tools like machine learning and business savvy that...
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Score College Scholarships: The Student-Athlete's Playbook to Recruiting Success

Laura Dickinson - Made For Success Publishing
Format: Paperback

Laura shares how to navigate and implement the recruiting process, and how to find the right fit in a school and program.~Don Swartz, Hall of Fame Coach, American Swim Coaches Association This guide is a canon for high school athletes seeking to find the best and most challenging mix of studies...
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Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul

Jamie Ducharme
Format: Hardcover

It began with a smoke break. James Monsees and Adam Bowen were two ambitious graduate students at Stanford, and in between puffs after class they dreamed of a way to quit smoking. Their solution became the Juul, a sleek, modern device that could vaporize nicotine into a conveniently potent...
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Post Office Jobs: The Ultimate 473 Postal Exam Study Guide and Job FInder

Dennis V Damp - Bookhaven Press LLC
Format: Print book

The all-new sixth-edition of Post Office Jobs provides an overview of what jobs are available, including many that don't require written tests and how to apply for them. You will also find a comprehensive 473/473E study guide with helpful test-taking strategies that could dramatically...
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Breaking the Silence Habit: A Practical Guide to Uncomfortable Conversations in the #metoo Workplace

Beaulieu, Sarah - BERRETT KOEHLER PUBL INC

Top consultant Sarah Beaulieu goes beyond rules and compliance to offer a five-part framework that will enable men and women to have uncomfortable but necessary conversations about sexual harassment and violence at work and develop new ways to work together.

In the wake of the #MeToo...

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A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Best Investment Guide That Money Can Buy

Burton G. Malkiel - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

One of the "few great investment books" (Andrew Tobias) ever written, with 2 million copies in print.In a time of rampant misinformation about ways of growing your money, Burton G. Malkiel's gimmick-free investment guide is more necessary than ever. Whether you're considering...
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Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

Tim Harford - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

A lively history seen through the fifty inventions that shaped it most profoundly, by the bestselling author of The Undercover Economist and Messy. Who thought up paper money? What was the secret element that made the Gutenberg printing press possible? And what is the connection...
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

Kim Malone Scott - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

"I raced through RADICAL CANDOR--It's thrilling to learn a framework that shows how to be both a better boss and a better colleague. RADICAL CANDOR is packed with illuminating truths, insightful advice, and practical suggestions, all illustrated with engaging (and often funny) stories...
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Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald's Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away

Lisa Napoli - Dutton
Format: Print book

The dramatic relationship between Ray Kroc, the man who amassed a fortune as chairman of one of America's most controversial and iconic companies - McDonald's - and the passionate woman, his wife, Joan, who then gave that fortune away.Beginning in the 1950s, salesman Ray Kroc presided...
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You Need a Budget: The Proven System for Breaking the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Cycle, Getting Out of Debt, and Living the Life You Want

JESSE MECHAM - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

Discover four simple rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt, and save more money faster! The You Need A Budget (YNAB) Method has helped tens of thousands of people to turn their financial lives around. It can certainly help you! Whether you're looking to right...
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