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The Newbie's Guide to Successful Real Estate Investing: Start Here!
BRANDON TURNER - BiggerPockets
Format: Paperback
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Are you looking for a no-nonsense, easy to understand introduction to the world of real estate investing, without the upsell to a guru course, bootcamp, or special (expensive) training? The BiggerPockets Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing is here to help. Already... |
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Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Anand Giridharadas
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An insider's incisive and eye-opening account of the hypocrisies lurking behind the global elite's efforts to "change the world" through philanthropy and free enterprise without confronting their role in creating and perpetuating the very problems they purport to solve. |
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Leading from Purpose: Clarity and the Confidence to Act When It Matters Most
NICK CRAIG - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Leadership guru, Fortune 500 consultant, and founder of the Authentic Leadership Institute, Nick Craig, brings to the page his enormously successful message and methods of purpose-driven leadership and provides a new framework for how we can lead ourselves and our teams to achieve our most... |
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The Wealth of a Nation: A History of Trade Politics in America
Don Johnson - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The United States is entering a period of profound uncertainty in the world political economy--an uncertainty which is threatening the liberal economic order that its own statesmen created at the end of the Second World War. The storm surrounding this threat has been ignited by an issue... |
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The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life
Todd Herman - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover
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A top performance expert reveals the secret behind many top athletes and executives: creating a heroic alter ego to activate when the chips are down.There's only one person in the way of you untapping your potential: You. There's also one person who can move you out of the way so you can perform... |
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Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction
Chris Bailey - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A practical guide to managing your attention--the most powerful resource you have to get stuff done, become more creative, and live a meaningful lifeOur attention has never been as overwhelmed as it is today. Many of us recognize that our brains struggle to multitask. Despite this, we feel... |
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The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life
SHAWN ACHOR - Currency
Format: Paperback
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Our most commonly held formula for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we'll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow.... |
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The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
Gary Krist - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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From bestselling author Gary Krist, the story of the metropolis that never should have been and the visionaries who dreamed it into reality Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California - bone-dry, harbor-less, isolated by deserts and mountain ranges - seemed destined... |
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The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty
Clayton M Christensen - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover
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Clayton M. Christensen, the author of such business classics as The Innovator's Dilemma and the New York Times bestseller How Will You Measure Your Life, and co-authors Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon reveal why so many investments in economic development fail to generate sustainable prosperity,... |
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Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
Adam Tooze - Viking
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From a prizewinning economic historian, an eye-opening reinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis (and its ten-year aftermath) as a global event that directly led to the shockwaves being felt around the world today.
In September 2008 President George Bush could still describe... |
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Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business
KEN AULETTA - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate and profound reckoning with the changes buffeting the $2 trillion global advertising and marketing business from the perspective of its most powerful players, by the bestselling author of GoogledAdvertising and marketing touches on every corner of our lives, and is the invisible... |
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The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines
JAY W RICHARDS - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author and economist Jay W. Richards makes the definitive case for how the free market and individual responsibility can save the American Dream in an age of automation and mass disruption.For two and a half centuries, America has been held together by the belief that if you work... |
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Every Landlord's Legal Guide
Marcia Stewart - NOLO; 11 edition
Format: Paperback
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An all-in-one authoritative guide every landlord needs Every Landlord's Legal Guide is the most comprehensive and up-to-date legal and practical guide for residential landlords. The best, most effective way to make and save money as a landlord is to keep up with the law --and with... |
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Out of the Maze: An A-mazing Way to Get Unstuck
P SPENCER JOHNSON - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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The posthumous sequel to Who Moved My Cheese?, the classic parable that became a worldwide sensation.Who Moved My Cheese? offered millions of readers relief for an evergreen problem: unanticipated and unwelcome change. Now its long-awaited sequel digs deeper, to show how readers... |
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Exploding Data: Reclaiming Our Cyber Security in the Digital Age
MICHAEL CHERTOFF - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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The most dangerous threat we -- individually and as a society and country -- face today is no longer military, but rather the increasingly pervasive exposure of our personal information; nothing undermines our freedom more than losing control of information about ourselves. And yet, as daily... |
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Advice and Dissent: Why America Suffers When Economics and Politics Collide
Alan S Blinder - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A bestselling economist tells us what both politicians and economists must learn to fix America's failing economic policiesAmerican economic policy ranks as something between bad and disgraceful. As leading economist Alan S. Blinder argues, a crucial cultural divide separates economic and political... |
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The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
Julie Zhuo - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Congratulations, you're a manager! After you pop the champagne, accept the shiny new title, and step into this thrilling next chapter of your career, the truth descends like a fog: you don't really know what you're doing.That's exactly how Julie Zhuo felt when she became a rookie manager... |
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Influencer: Building Your Personal Brand in the Age of Social Media
BRITTANY HENNESSY - Citadel
Format: Paperback
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"I highly advise anyone who has an interest in life online to get this book, sit down, and take notes because you're going to want to hear what Brittany has to say." -Iskra Lawrence, Aerie Model and Instagram star (@iskra) If you've ever scrolled through your Instagram... |
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Kicks: The Great American Story of Sneakers
Nicholas Smith - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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A cultural history of sneakers, tracing the footprint of one of our most iconic fashions across sports, business, pop culture, and American identityWhen the athletic shoe graduated from the beaches and croquet courts of the wealthy elite to streetwear ubiquity, its journey through the heart... |
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The Travelers Summit: The Remarkable Sequel to The Traveler’s Gift
Andy Andrews - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback
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The Travelers Summit explores the historically proven principles that have guided our greatest leaders for centuries, and how we might restore these principles in our own lives ... before its too late.Dave Ponder is back, and this time, the fate of civilization may be in his hands.Centuries... |
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No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work
Liz Fosslien - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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"A must-read that topples the idea that emotions don't belong in the workplace."--Susan Cain, author of Quiet A hilarious guide to effectively expressing your emotions at the office, finding fulfillment, and defining work-life balance on your own terms.How do you stop the office... |
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Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Whole Hearts. Tough Conversations.
BREN BROWN
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In her #1 New York Times bestsellers, Bren Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she's showing us how to put those ideas into practic |
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The Infinite Desire for Growth
DANIEL COHEN - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Why society's expectation of economic growth is no longer realisticEconomic growth--and the hope of better things to come -- is the religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak, with crashes following booms in an endless cycle. In the United States, eighty percent of the population... |
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Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?
Aaron Dignan - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Aaron Dignan is the driver behind some of today's most agile, fastest-scaling companies. In this book, he reveals his tested strategies for eliminating red tape, dissolving bureaucracy, and doing the best work of your life.He's found that nearly everyone, from Wall Street to Silicon... |
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WorkParty: How to Create & Cultivate the Career of Your Dreams
JACLYN JOHNSON - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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First, we leaned in. Now we stand up. Jaclyn Johnson - the founder and CEO behind Create & Cultivate, the fastest growing online platform and conference for millennial women in business - offers a rallying cry for a new generation of women who are redefining the meaning of work on their... |
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Being Boss: Take Control of Your Work and Live Life on Your Own Terms
Emily Thompson - Running Press Adult
Format: Paperback
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From the creators of the hit podcast comes an interactive self-help guide for creative entrepreneurs, where they share their best tools and tactics on "being boss" in both business and life. Kathleen Shannon and Emily Thompson are self-proclaimed "business besties" and hosts... |
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A Cash-Free Society: Whether We Like It or Not
Kai A Olsen - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Information technology is changing the world through automation, by bypassing middlemen and by digitization. We see dramatic effects today in the music industry, going from CDs to streaming, in newspapers, from paper to online, and in the banking industry, from branch offices to the Internet.... |
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Cousins Maine Lobster: How One Food Truck Became a Multimillion-Dollar Business
Jim Tselikis - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the co-founders of the smash hit Cousins Maine Lobster food trucks comes a business book revealing to new entrepreneurs how the authors built their brand through integrity and authenticity.In early 2012, Jim Tselikis visited L.A. and met up with his cousin Sabin Lomac. Over a few drinks... |
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Know Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You're Worth
Mika Brzezinski
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Mika Brzezinski's bestselling motivational guide--"a rallying cry for women to get the money they deserve." (TheAtlantic.com) --now updated and expanded.Why are women so often overlooked and underpaid? What are the real reasons men get raises more often than w |
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The Geometry of Wealth: How To Shape A Life Of Money And Meaning
BRIAN PORTNOY - Harriman House
Format: Paperback
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How does money figure into a happy life?In The Geometry of Wealth, behavioral finance expert Brian Portnoy delivers an inspired answer, building on the critical distinction between being rich and being wealthy. While one is an unsatisfying treadmill, the other is the ability to underwrite... |
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Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Cal Newport - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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The key to living well in a high tech world is to spend much less time using technology.Georgetown computer scientist Cal Newport's Deep Work sparked a movement around the idea that unbroken concentration produces far more value than the electronic busyness that defines the modern... |
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Humble Leadership: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust
Edgar H. Schein - Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Bestselling author and father of organizational culture studies, Edgar Schein and Peter Schein trail-blaze with a creative perspective on leadership that encourages vulnerability and empathy as a form of strength.The more traditional forms of leadership that are based on static hierarchies... |
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The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can't Do
Edward Tenner - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A bold challenge to our obsession with efficiency--and a new understanding of how to benefit from the powerful potential of serendipityAlgorithms, multitasking, sharing economy, life hacks: our culture can't get enough of efficiency. One of the great promises of the Internet and big data... |
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Big Mistakes: The Best Investors and Their Worst Investments
Michael Batnick - Bloomberg Press
Format: Hardcover
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A Must-Read for Any Investor Looking to Maximize Their Chances of Success Big Mistakes: The Best Investors and Their Worst Investments explores the ways in which the biggest names have failed, and reveals the lessons learned that shaped more successful strategies going forward. Investing... |
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Wise Guy: Lessons from a Life
Guy Kawasaki - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Silicon Valley icon and bestselling author Guy Kawasaki shares the unlikely stories of his life, and the lessons we can draw from them.Guy Kawasaki has been a fixture in the tech world since he was part of Apple's original Macintosh team in the 1980s. He's widely respected as a source of wisdom... |
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The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
JESSE EISINGER - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, "a fast moving, fly-on-the-wall, disheartening look at the deterioration of the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission ... It is a book of superheroes" (San Francisco Review of Books) .Why were no bankers... |
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Leadershift: The 11 Essential Changes Every Leader Must Embrace
John C. Maxwell - HarperCollins Leadership
Format: Hardcover
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Internationally recognized leadership expert John C. Maxwell teaches readers how to shift their leadership to keep innovating, improving, and influencing others in today's fast-paced world.Change is so rapid today that leaders must do much more than stay the course to be successful.... |
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8 Steps to High Performance: Focus On What You Can Change
Marc Effron - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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What Really WorksThere's no shortage of advice out there on how to perform better, and better than others, at work. The problem is knowing which methods are actually proven to work--and how you should act on them to get the best results.In 8 Steps to High Performance, talent expert... |
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The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age
JAMES CRABTREE - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover
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A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India's new billionaire class in a radically unequal society India is the world's largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China's. But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly... |
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The Last Lobster: Boom or Bust for Maine's Greatest Fishery?
Christopher P White - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Skipjack & The Melting World comes a mystery: the curious boom in America's beloved lobster industry and its probable crashMaine lobstermen have happened upon a bonanza along their rugged, picturesque coast. For the past five years, the lobster population... |
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Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity
Condoleezza Rice - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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Political risk -- the chance that political action could impact a company's business -- is changing fast. Here are the essential lessons, corrective measures, and counterintuitive insights for executives, entrepreneurs and investors to navigate an uncertain, volatile world.From New York... |
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The Purpose Path: A Guide to Pursuing Your Authentic Life's Work
Nicholas Pearce - St. Martin's Essentials
Format: Hardcover
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Many of the world's most beloved companies -- Apple, Disney, Google -- are not simply profit-driven, but purpose-driven. They let the reason for which they were created drive what they do every day. But what about us - how do we define our purpose, the why behind the work we do? How can we find... |
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Five Stars: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great
Carmine Gallo - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"As technology threatens to displace countless jobs and skills, the ability to communicate is becoming more important than ever. This book is full of examples to help you get better at transporting your thoughts and emotions into the minds of other people." -- Adam Grant, New... |
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
David Graeber - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover
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From best-selling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs and their consequences.Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled... |
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Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder
Reshma Saujani - Currency
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author and Girls Who Code founder/CEO inspires us to discover the power of female bravery.Do you run yourself ragged trying to not just do it all, but do it all flawlessly? Do you lose sleep ruminating over small mistakes or worrying that something you said... |
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Screwnomics: How Our Economy Works Against Women and Real Ways to Make Lasting Change
Rickey Gard Diamond - She Writes Press
Format: Paperback
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The personal is not only political, it's also economic and sexual: as a society, we're encouraged to view economics as objective science far removed from us -- when in reality it has concrete and far-reaching effects on our everyday lives. In Screwnomics, Rickey Gard Diamond shares... |
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Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World
Nomi Prins - Hachette Audio and Blackstone Audio
Format: Audiobook
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A searing expos of the collusion between central bankers as they control global markets and dictate economic policy.The 2008 financial crisis unleashed a chain reaction that turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order. Central banks and institutions... |
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Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: Lessons from Google and a Zen Monastery Kitchen
Marc Lesser - New World Library
Format: Paperback
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What would your work and your life look like if you knew how to stay focused yet flexible, if you got more of the right things done, and if you were helping to create a more peaceful world at the same time? "A mindful leader makes the work environment a generative social field in which... |
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Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied
HOWARD YU - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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How can companies achieve long-term success? Through learning to leap: building a system of reinvention into their organization that will stave off competition and keep them at the top of their industry.Outlasting competition is difficult. Doing so over decades or a century is nearly impossible.... |
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