The essential leadership playbook. Learn the principles and guiding philosophies of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Warren Buffet, Oprah, and many others through illuminating conversations about their remarkable lives and careers. For the past five years, David M. Rubenstein - author of The American Story, visionary cofounder of The Carlyle Group, and host of The David Rubenstein Show - has spoken with the world's highest performing leaders about who they are and how they became successful. How to Lead distills these revealing conversations into an indispensable leadership guidebook. Gain advice and wisdom from CEOs, presidents, founders, and master performers from the worlds of finance (Warren Buffet, Jamie Dimon, Christine Lagarde, Ken Griffin) , tech (Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, Tim Cook) , entertainment (Oprah, Lorne Michaels, Renee Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma) , sports (Jack Nicklaus, Adam Silver, Coach K, Phil Knight) , government (President Bill Clinton, President George W.
Simon & Schuster
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9781982132156
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Hardcover
An Ugly Truth
By Frenkel, Sheera
The book Facebook doesn't want you to readAward-winning New York Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang unveil the tech story of our times in an explosive, news-making expos. In An Ugly Truth, they reveal in vivid detail how under the leadership of Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, one of the most powerful companies in the world tried to deny a damning fact - that Facebook has become a conduit for disinformation, hate speech, and political propaganda - while continuing to relentlessly pursue growth.For the past four years, Facebook has been under constant fire, roiled by cascading controversies and crises. It turns out that while the tech giant was connecting the world, they were also mishandling users' data, spreading fake news, and amplifying dangerous, polarizing hate speech.
Harper
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9780062960672
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Hardcover
Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home
By J.d., Ilona Bray
There's no place like home!The number of homes for sale is on the rise and mortgage rates remain near historic lows. That makes now a great time to say goodbye to your landlord. With Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home, you'll not only find the right house for you, you'll have fun doing it.This book provides everything you need to: research the local market and listings decide between a house, condo, co-op, or townhouse create a realistic budget qualify for a loan you can truly afford borrow a down payment from friends or family protect yourself with inspections and insurance, and negotiate and close the deal successfully.You'll find insights from 15 real estate professionals -- brokers, attorneys, mortgage specialists, a home inspector, a neighborhood researcher, and more.
NOLO
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9781413327007
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Paperback
Solve Your Money Troubles
By Attorney, Amy Loftsgordon
Are you overwhelmed by debt? Struggling to recover financially after losing your job or income due to the coronavirus crisis? If you're facing collection calls, a wage garnishment, foreclosure, car repossession, or a lawsuit, this book is for you. Solve Your Money Troubles is a comprehensive guide that provides the practical information you need to take financial control of your life. Learn how to: prioritize debts and create a budget stop harassment by debt collectors negotiate with creditors deal with wage garnishment, car repossession, and foreclosure reduce or eliminate student loan payments know what to expect if a creditor sues decide if bankruptcy is the right option for you, and rebuild your credit. The new edition of Solve Your Money Troubles is updated with the latest legal developments in the world of debt, credit, and bankruptcy.
NOLO; Eighteenth edition
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9781413328844
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Paperback
Smart Brevity
By Allen, Mike
You're wasting your reader's time. Here's how to change, in just six words: Brevity is confidence. Length is fear. This guiding principle turned first Politico and then Axios into hugely influential media companies. It's also in the dna of Smart Brevity™, the Axios spin-off that teaches Fortune 500 companies, organizations, professional writers and other individuals how to get their message heard. Now they've distilled their lessons into an essential guide - and manifesto - for writing effectively in the digital age. Smart Brevity is a system and strategy that will teach anyone who works with words how to think more sharply, communicate more crisply, and save your readers time. It's about how to say more with less. And how, on a deeper level, to clean up and reframe your thinking.
Workman Publishing Company
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9781523516971
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Hardcover
On Grand Strategy
By Gaddis, John Lewis
A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught at Yale for decadesJohn Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill and Paul Kennedy. Now, in On Grand Strategy, Gaddis reflects on what he has learned. In chapters extending from the ancient world through World War II, Gaddis assesses grand strategic theory and practice in Herodotus, Thucydides, Sun Tzu, Octavian/Augustus, St. Augustine, Machiavelli, Elizabeth I, Philip II, the American Founding Fathers, Clausewitz, Tolstoy, Lincoln, Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Isaiah Berlin. On Grand Strategy applies the sharp insights and wit readers have come to expect from Gaddis to times, places, and people he's never written about before. For anyone interested in the art of leadership, On Grand Strategy is, in every way, a master class.
Penguin Press
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9781594203510
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Hardcover
Flex
By Auerbach, Annie
Seasoned trends forecaster and consultant Annie Auerbach takes a fresh look at women's professional lives today by rethinking the 9 to 5 in this "no-nonsense guide to thinking and behaving more flexibly in order to have a happier, better, less frenetic life" (Marie Claire) - now widely available for American readers and updated with an author note addressing work in the post-Covid age.The recent coronavirus outbreak has proven what Annie Auerbach has long championed: working 9-5 in an office doesn't work for most us. It's time to change the rules.We can be efficient and productive when we're allowed the freedom of flexibility - to meet deadlines working during the hours and in the places we choose. But before the coronavirus pandemic, only 47 percent of American workers had access to flexible working options.
HarperOne
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9780063059641
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Hardcover
High Performance Habits
By Burchard, Brendon
THESE HABITS WILL MAKE YOU EXTRAORDINARY.Twenty years ago, author Brendon Burchard became obsessed with answering three questions:1. Why do some individuals and teams succeed more quickly than others and sustain that success over the long term?2. Of those who pull it off, why are some miserable and others consistently happy on their journey?3. What motivates people to reach for higher levels of success in the first place, and what practices help them improve the most?After extensive original research and a decade as the world's leading high performance coach, Burchard found the answers. It turns out that just six deliberate habits give you the edge. Anyone can practice these habits and, when they do, extraordinary things happen in their lives, relationships, and careers.Which habits can help you achieve long-term success and vibrant well-being no matter your age, career, strengths, or personality? To become a high performer, you must seek clarity, generate energy, raise necessity, increase productivity, develop influence, and demonstrate courage. This book is about the art and science of how to cultivate and practice these proven habits.Whether you want to get more done, lead others better, develop skill faster, or dramatically increase your sense of joy and confidence, the habits in this book will help you achieve it faster. Each of the six habits is illustrated by powerful vignettes, cutting-edge science, thought-provoking exercises, and real-world daily practices you can implement right now.If you've ever wanted a science-backed, heart-centered plan to living a better quality of life, it's in your hands. Best of all, you can measure your progress. A link to a free professional assessment is included in the book.
Hay House Inc
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9781401952853
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Hardcover
Zoom For Dummies
By Simon, Phil
Stay connected despite the distance Have you ever wondered why it's so difficult to hold a videoconference or to share your screen with a colleague? We can put a man on the moon, but we can't seem to get videoconferencing right. At least until now. More than 300 million people have seen the light in the form of Zoom, the world's hottest communications tool. Zoom For Dummies shows you how to get the most out of Zoom. Discover how to do the following:Hold group video callsInstall time-saving, third-party appsDramatically improve the way that you communicate and collaborate with your colleaguesEnable Zoom roles, IM groups, user groups, and other advanced featuresEasily move from one communications medium to anotherEngage your audience with interactive webinarsSecure Zoom from prying eyesAnd much more.
For Dummies
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9781119742142
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Paperback
Get Hired Now!
By Siegel, Ian
In Get Hired Now!, ZipRecruiter founder and CEO Ian Siegel tells you exactly how to find a new job fast. With an insider's view of how over a million employers really make hires, Ian pulls insights from the data to give you step-by-step instructions for writing a resume that works, finding the right jobs to apply to, acing a job interview, and negotiating a job offer. Debunk the conventional wisdom Break the unconscious habits that are sabotaging your success Get hired in record time Relevant for every stage of your career and for every industry, Get Hired Now! is a one-stop resource for job seekers looking to level up, stand out, and land the job.
How to Lead
By Rubenstein, David M.
The essential leadership playbook. Learn the principles and guiding philosophies of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Warren Buffet, Oprah, and many others through illuminating conversations about their remarkable lives and careers. For the past five years, David M. Rubenstein - author of The American Story, visionary cofounder of The Carlyle Group, and host of The David Rubenstein Show - has spoken with the world's highest performing leaders about who they are and how they became successful. How to Lead distills these revealing conversations into an indispensable leadership guidebook. Gain advice and wisdom from CEOs, presidents, founders, and master performers from the worlds of finance (Warren Buffet, Jamie Dimon, Christine Lagarde, Ken Griffin) , tech (Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, Tim Cook) , entertainment (Oprah, Lorne Michaels, Renee Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma) , sports (Jack Nicklaus, Adam Silver, Coach K, Phil Knight) , government (President Bill Clinton, President George W.
An Ugly Truth
By Frenkel, Sheera
The book Facebook doesn't want you to readAward-winning New York Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang unveil the tech story of our times in an explosive, news-making expos. In An Ugly Truth, they reveal in vivid detail how under the leadership of Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, one of the most powerful companies in the world tried to deny a damning fact - that Facebook has become a conduit for disinformation, hate speech, and political propaganda - while continuing to relentlessly pursue growth.For the past four years, Facebook has been under constant fire, roiled by cascading controversies and crises. It turns out that while the tech giant was connecting the world, they were also mishandling users' data, spreading fake news, and amplifying dangerous, polarizing hate speech.
Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home
By J.d., Ilona Bray
There's no place like home!The number of homes for sale is on the rise and mortgage rates remain near historic lows. That makes now a great time to say goodbye to your landlord. With Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home, you'll not only find the right house for you, you'll have fun doing it.This book provides everything you need to: research the local market and listings decide between a house, condo, co-op, or townhouse create a realistic budget qualify for a loan you can truly afford borrow a down payment from friends or family protect yourself with inspections and insurance, and negotiate and close the deal successfully.You'll find insights from 15 real estate professionals -- brokers, attorneys, mortgage specialists, a home inspector, a neighborhood researcher, and more.
Solve Your Money Troubles
By Attorney, Amy Loftsgordon
Are you overwhelmed by debt? Struggling to recover financially after losing your job or income due to the coronavirus crisis? If you're facing collection calls, a wage garnishment, foreclosure, car repossession, or a lawsuit, this book is for you. Solve Your Money Troubles is a comprehensive guide that provides the practical information you need to take financial control of your life. Learn how to: prioritize debts and create a budget stop harassment by debt collectors negotiate with creditors deal with wage garnishment, car repossession, and foreclosure reduce or eliminate student loan payments know what to expect if a creditor sues decide if bankruptcy is the right option for you, and rebuild your credit. The new edition of Solve Your Money Troubles is updated with the latest legal developments in the world of debt, credit, and bankruptcy.
Smart Brevity
By Allen, Mike
You're wasting your reader's time. Here's how to change, in just six words: Brevity is confidence. Length is fear. This guiding principle turned first Politico and then Axios into hugely influential media companies. It's also in the dna of Smart Brevity™, the Axios spin-off that teaches Fortune 500 companies, organizations, professional writers and other individuals how to get their message heard. Now they've distilled their lessons into an essential guide - and manifesto - for writing effectively in the digital age. Smart Brevity is a system and strategy that will teach anyone who works with words how to think more sharply, communicate more crisply, and save your readers time. It's about how to say more with less. And how, on a deeper level, to clean up and reframe your thinking.
On Grand Strategy
By Gaddis, John Lewis
A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught at Yale for decadesJohn Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill and Paul Kennedy. Now, in On Grand Strategy, Gaddis reflects on what he has learned. In chapters extending from the ancient world through World War II, Gaddis assesses grand strategic theory and practice in Herodotus, Thucydides, Sun Tzu, Octavian/Augustus, St. Augustine, Machiavelli, Elizabeth I, Philip II, the American Founding Fathers, Clausewitz, Tolstoy, Lincoln, Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Isaiah Berlin. On Grand Strategy applies the sharp insights and wit readers have come to expect from Gaddis to times, places, and people he's never written about before. For anyone interested in the art of leadership, On Grand Strategy is, in every way, a master class.
Flex
By Auerbach, Annie
Seasoned trends forecaster and consultant Annie Auerbach takes a fresh look at women's professional lives today by rethinking the 9 to 5 in this "no-nonsense guide to thinking and behaving more flexibly in order to have a happier, better, less frenetic life" (Marie Claire) - now widely available for American readers and updated with an author note addressing work in the post-Covid age.The recent coronavirus outbreak has proven what Annie Auerbach has long championed: working 9-5 in an office doesn't work for most us. It's time to change the rules.We can be efficient and productive when we're allowed the freedom of flexibility - to meet deadlines working during the hours and in the places we choose. But before the coronavirus pandemic, only 47 percent of American workers had access to flexible working options.
High Performance Habits
By Burchard, Brendon
THESE HABITS WILL MAKE YOU EXTRAORDINARY.Twenty years ago, author Brendon Burchard became obsessed with answering three questions:1. Why do some individuals and teams succeed more quickly than others and sustain that success over the long term?2. Of those who pull it off, why are some miserable and others consistently happy on their journey?3. What motivates people to reach for higher levels of success in the first place, and what practices help them improve the most?After extensive original research and a decade as the world's leading high performance coach, Burchard found the answers. It turns out that just six deliberate habits give you the edge. Anyone can practice these habits and, when they do, extraordinary things happen in their lives, relationships, and careers.Which habits can help you achieve long-term success and vibrant well-being no matter your age, career, strengths, or personality? To become a high performer, you must seek clarity, generate energy, raise necessity, increase productivity, develop influence, and demonstrate courage. This book is about the art and science of how to cultivate and practice these proven habits.Whether you want to get more done, lead others better, develop skill faster, or dramatically increase your sense of joy and confidence, the habits in this book will help you achieve it faster. Each of the six habits is illustrated by powerful vignettes, cutting-edge science, thought-provoking exercises, and real-world daily practices you can implement right now.If you've ever wanted a science-backed, heart-centered plan to living a better quality of life, it's in your hands. Best of all, you can measure your progress. A link to a free professional assessment is included in the book.
Zoom For Dummies
By Simon, Phil
Stay connected despite the distance Have you ever wondered why it's so difficult to hold a videoconference or to share your screen with a colleague? We can put a man on the moon, but we can't seem to get videoconferencing right. At least until now. More than 300 million people have seen the light in the form of Zoom, the world's hottest communications tool. Zoom For Dummies shows you how to get the most out of Zoom. Discover how to do the following:Hold group video callsInstall time-saving, third-party appsDramatically improve the way that you communicate and collaborate with your colleaguesEnable Zoom roles, IM groups, user groups, and other advanced featuresEasily move from one communications medium to anotherEngage your audience with interactive webinarsSecure Zoom from prying eyesAnd much more.
Get Hired Now!
By Siegel, Ian
In Get Hired Now!, ZipRecruiter founder and CEO Ian Siegel tells you exactly how to find a new job fast. With an insider's view of how over a million employers really make hires, Ian pulls insights from the data to give you step-by-step instructions for writing a resume that works, finding the right jobs to apply to, acing a job interview, and negotiating a job offer. Debunk the conventional wisdom Break the unconscious habits that are sabotaging your success Get hired in record time Relevant for every stage of your career and for every industry, Get Hired Now! is a one-stop resource for job seekers looking to level up, stand out, and land the job.