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How to Talk Money with Our Daughters: A Mom's Guide to Getting the Conversation Right

Aja McClanahan - Allworth
Format: Hardcover

A guide to talking finances with our daughters As many as 56% of women feel that they'd rather not talk about money with their loved ones. Some women say they were raised not to discuss money and others feel like the information is just too personal. Yet with many women controlling...
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Extreme Teams: Why Pixar, Netflix, Airbnb, and Other Cutting-Edge Companies Succeed Where Most Fail

Robert Bruce Shaw - Amacom
Format: Print book

Managers want great teams, but most build them around decades-old ideas and practices made popular by companies that have lost their edge. Extreme Teams looks at the new generation of teams driving growth in today's most innovative firms. They do this by doing things differently:...
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The Schmuck in My Office: How to Deal Effectively with Difficult People at Work

Jody Foster - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"This is a timely must-read for managers and anyone who has ever had to deal with a difficult coworker; it addresses a ubiquitous problem in a proactive, positive manner that should get the desired results." - Publishers Weekly Everyone has a "schmuck" in their...
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Waging Change: Doing Right by America's Lowest Wage Workers

Saru Jayaraman - The New Press
Format: Hardcover

Year by year, more people are working for a subminimum wage. The vast majority, more than 6 million people, are tipped workers in the service industry. They serve us in cafes and restaurants, they deliver food to our homes, they drive us wherever we want to go, and they work in nail and hair...
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The Tao of Self-Confidence: A Guide to Moving Beyond Trauma and Awakening the Leader Within

Sheena Yap Chan - Wiley
Format: 1st Edition

A guide for Asian women to tap into their confidence, joy, and shine as leaders in today's worldIn 2021, women represented 54.3% of the US workforce but only held 35% of senior leadership positions. Of that percentage, only 2.7% of Asian women were seen in management roles. While there...
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Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age

Brad Smith - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

"A clear, compelling guide to some of the most pressing debates in technology today." - Bill Gates, from the forewordFrom Microsoft's President and one of the tech industry's wisest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential...
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Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos

Heidi K Gardner - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Print book

Not all collaboration is smart. Make sure you do it right.Professional service firms face a serious challenge. Their clients increasingly need them to solve complex problems - everything from regulatory compliance to cybersecurity, the kinds of problems that only teams of multidisciplinary...
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Rocky Mountain High: A Tale of Boom and Bust in the New Wild West

Finn Murphy - ?W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The best-selling author of The Long Haul returns with the story of ditching his truck to seek his fortune ... in hemp.After decades as a long-haul trucker, Finn Murphy left the road and settled in Boulder County, Colorado. Before long he noticed that many of his neighbors were captivated...
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The Sponsor Effect: How to Be a Better Leader by Investing in Others

Sylvia Ann Hewlett - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover

Are you investing in the right people?Many people know the benefit of finding a sponsor--someone who goes beyond traditional mentorship to partner with a junior-level employee to help build their skills, advocate for them when opportunities arise, and open doors. But few realize that being...
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See, Solve, Scale: How Anyone Can Turn an Unsolved Problem into a Breakthrough Success

Danny Warshay - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by Brown University's beloved course -- The Entrepreneurial Process -- Danny Warshay's See, Solve, Scale is a proven and paradigm-shifting method to unlocking the power of entrepreneurship.The Entrepreneurial Process, one of Brown University's highest-rated courses,...
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