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Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter
DAN ARIELY - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Blending humor and behavioral economics, the New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational delves into the truly illogical world of personal finance to help people better understand why they make bad financial decisions, and gives them the knowledge they need to make better... |
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Creativity Rules: Get Ideas Out of Your Head and into the World
Tina Seelig - HarperOne
Format: Paperback
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International bestselling author and Stanford University professor Tina Seelig adapts her wildly popular creativity course to a practical guide on how to put your best ideas into action.For the past fifteen years, Professor Tina Seelig has taught her Stanford students how to creatively... |
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How Not to Get Rich: The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain
ALAN PELL CRAWFORD - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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An uproarious account of Mark Twain's endless attempts to strike it rich, all of which served only to empty his pockets Mark Twain's lifetime spans America's era of greatest economic growth. And Twain was an active, even giddy, participant in all the great booms and busts of his time, launching... |
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Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
JOSHUA B FREEMAN - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping, global history of the rise of the factory and its effects on society.We live in a factory-made world: modern life is built on three centuries of advances in factory production, efficiency, and technology. But giant factories have also fueled our fears about the future since... |
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From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs
Joshua Clark Davis - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the 1960s and '70s, a diverse range of storefronts -- including head shops, African American bookstores, feminist businesses, and organic grocers -- brought the work of the New Left, Black Power, feminism, environmentalism, and other movements into the marketplace. Through shared... |
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Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
RYAN HOLIDAY - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author and marketing strategist Ryan Holiday reveals to creatives of all stripes - authors, entrepreneurs, musicians, filmmakers, fine artists - how a classic work is made and marketed.In Hollywood, a movie is given a single weekend to succeed before being written off. In Silicon... |
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Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing the Digital Revolution
ANDREW MCAFEE - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the authors of the best-selling The Second Machine Age, a leader's guide to success in a rapidly changing economy.We live in strange times. A machine plays the strategy game Go better than any human; upstarts like Apple and Google destroy industry stalwarts such as Nokia; ideas from... |
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Extreme You: Step Up. Stand Out. Kick Ass. Repeat.
Sarah Robb O'Hagan - Harperbusiness
Format: Print book
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"Every once in a while, you need someone standing by your shoulder, inspiring you, cheering you on, pushing you to go further. Sarah might be just the coach you're looking for." - Seth Godin, author of LinchpinAs a child, Sarah Robb O'Hagan dreamed she could be a champion. Her early... |
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Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less -and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined
Scott Sonenshein - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking approach to succeeding in business and life, using the science of resourcefulness.We often think the key to success and satisfaction is to get more: more money, time, and possessions; bigger budgets, job titles, and teams; and additional resources for our professional and personal... |
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The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations
David Pilling - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live in a society in which a priesthood of economists, wielding impenetrable mathematical formulas, set the framework for public debate. Ultimately, it is the perceived health of the economy which... |
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The Four: Or, How to Build a Trillion-Dollar Company
SCOTT GALLOWAY - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook are four of the most influential entities on the planet. Just about everyone knows how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong. For all that's been written about The Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering... |
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The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
Howard Markel - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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From the much admired medical historian, author of An Anatomy of Addiction, the story of the two Kellogg brothers: one who became America's most beloved physician between the mid-nineteenth century and World War II, a best-selling author, lecturer and health magazine publisher who was read... |
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The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
BRIAN MERCHANT - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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We know the iPhone as the device that transformed our world, changing everything from how we talk to each other and do business, to how we exercise, travel, shop, and watch TV. But packed within its slim profile is the fascinating, untold story of scientific, technological, and business... |
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Find Your Why: A Practical Guide to Discovering Purpose for You or Your Team
Simon Sinek - Portfolio
Format: Paperback
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This paperback original workbook is the next step for applying the life-changing lessons of the mega-bestseller START WITH WHY, which has sold nearly a million copies worldwide.With START WITH WHY, Simon Sinek inspired a movement to build a world in which the vast majority of us can feel... |
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The Compassionate Achiever: How Helping Others Fuels Success
Christopher L Kukk - Harper One
Format: Print book
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A powerful, practical guide for cultivating compassion - the scientifically proven foundation for personal achievement and success at work, at home, and in the community.For decades, we've been told the key to prosperity is to look out for number one. But recent science shows that to achieve... |
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Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
SCOTT ADAMS - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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From the creator of Dilbert, an unflinching look at the strategies Donald Trump used to persuade voters to elect the most unconventional candidate in the history of the presidency, and how anyone can learn his methods for succeeding against long odds. Scott Adams - a trained hypnotist... |
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You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education
GEORGE ANDERS - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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In a tech-dominated world, the most needed degrees are the most surprising: the liberal arts Did you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more than a decade, the national spotlight has focused on science and engineering as the only reliable... |
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Launch Your Dream: A 30-Day Plan for Turning Your Passion into Your Profession
Dale Partridge - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author and serial entrepreneur Dale Partridge provides a concrete, easily executed plan for readers looking to start a business that will result in greater freedom, a stronger family, and healthier finances.Dale Partridge, bestselling author and founder of StartupCamp.com and many... |
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Beyond the Label: Women, Leadership, and Success on Our Own Terms
Maureen Chiquet - Harper Business
Format: Hardcover
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The former global CEO of Chanel charts her unlikely path from literature major to global chief executive, guiding readers to move beyond the confines of staid expectations and discover their own true paths, strengths, and leadership values.Driven. Shy. Leader. Wife. Mother. We live in a world... |
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Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts
Alexander Langlands - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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"Hypnotic. ... [Langlands] begins to see not just the beauty of an object. ... but the deeper purpose for which each has been created." -- New York TimesFaced with an endless supply of mass-manufactured products, we find ourselves nostalgic for goods bearing the mark of authenticity... |
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The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions
David Amerland - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Sniper Mind from David Amerland is the first book to examine the learned skills necessary to become a sniper and teach readers how to apply those skills in business and in life.. Snipers are exceptional. The trained sniper is a complex fusion of hard skills such as weapons knowledge,... |
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Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World
Geoff Mulgan - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. This "bigger mind" -- human and machine capabilities working together -- has the potential... |
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Total Focus: Make Better Decisions Under Pressure
Brandon Webb - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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A former Navy SEAL sniper turned media CEO and New York Times bestselling author teaches business leaders how to make the best decisions under pressure. Over his four deployments as a Navy SEAL sniper, Brandon Webb learned all about performing while experiencing heart-pounding... |
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The End of Advertising: Why It Had to Die, and the Creative Resurrection to Come
Andrew Essex - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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A recovering Mad Man throws down the ultimate challenge to his profession: Innovate or die.The ad apocalypse is upon us. Today millions are downloading ad-blocking software, and still more are paying subscription premiums to avoid ads. This $600 billion industry is now careening toward... |
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The Tyranny of Metrics
Jerry Z Muller - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and governmentToday, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based... |
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Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don't Find) Work Today
Ilana Gershon - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Finding a job used to be simple. You'd show up at an office and ask for an application. A friend would mention a job in their department. Or you'd see an ad in a newspaper and send in your cover letter. Maybe you'd call the company a week later to check in, but the basic approach was easy.... |
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When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
DANIEL H PINK - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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Instant New York Times Bestseller#1 Wall Street Journal Business BestsellerInstant Washington Post Bestseller"Brims with a surprising amount of insight and practical advice." --The Wall Street JournalDaniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling author of Drive... |
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Grow Wherever You Work: Straight Talk to Help with Your Toughest Challenges
Joanna Barsh - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Hardcover
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Powerful, unvarnished advice for growing through the work challenges all aspiring leaders faceThe business world is full of catchphrases: follow your passion; think positive; be authentic; suck it up; take risks; network. All well-intentioned, but let's be honest. This inch-deep advice... |
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The Power of Onlyness: Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World
Nilofer Merchant - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"For any would-be activists who hear the voice: 'not me' or 'not now,' Merchant makes the strong case for 'yes you' and 'yes now' - and even shows you how to jump in." - Van Jones, host of CNN's The Messy Truth, author of Rebuild the Dream and The Green Collar... |
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Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy
Jonathan Haskel - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economyEarly in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&D, or software, than... |
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Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
Tim Harford - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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Superconnector: Stop Networking and Start Building Business Relationships that Matter
SCOTT GERBER - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Hardcover
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Abandon the networking-for-networking's-sake mentality in favor of a more powerful and effective approach to creating and enhancing connections.Superconnectors are a new category of tradespeople born out of the social media era. They are highly valuable community-builders who make things... |
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Gen Z @ Work: How the Next Generation Is Transforming the Workplace
David Stillman - Harperbusiness
Format: Print book
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A generations expert and author of When Generations Collide and The M-Factor teams up with his seventeen-year-old son to introduce the next influential demographic group to join the workforce - Generation Z - in this essential study, the first on the subject.They were born between between... |
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How to Be Everything: A Guide for Those Who
Emilie Wapnick - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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What do you want to be when you grow up? It's a familiar question we're all asked as kids. While seemingly harmless, the question has unintended consequences. It can make you feel like you need to choose one job, one passion, one thing to be about. Guess what? You don't. Having... |
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The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
DANIEL COYLE - Bantam
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Talent Code comes a book that unlocks the secrets of highly successful groups and provides tomorrow's leaders with the tools to build a cohesive, motivated culture. Where does great culture come from? How do you build and sustain it in your... |
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Quantum Negotiation: The Art of Getting What You Need
Stephan Mardyks - Wiley
Format: Hardcover
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Master the art of getting what you need with a more collaborative approach to negotiation Quantum Negotiation is a handbook for getting what you need using a mindset and behaviors based on a refreshingly expansive perspective on negotiation. Rather that viewing every negotiation as an antagonistic... |
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Get Better: 15 Proven Practices to Build Effective Relationships at Work
TODD DAVIS - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A practical guide for anyone looking to create a competitive advantage in any size and type of organization by building effective relationships - from the performance improvement experts at FranklinCovey.In Get Better: 15 Proven Practices to Build Effective Relationships, FranklinCovey's... |
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The Perfect Mix: Everything I Know About Leadership I Learned as a Bartender
Helen N Rothberg - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of the popular business classics Leadership Is an Art and What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School, Dr. Helen Rothberg, a sought-after consultant to CEOs and entrepreneurs, reveals memorable insights about leadership developed while she worked as a bartender... |
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How to Fix the Future
ANDREW KEEN - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Former Internet entrepreneur Andrew Keen was among the earliest to write about the dangers that the Internet poses to our culture and society. His 2007 book The Cult of the Amateur was critical in helping advance the conversation around the Internet, which has now morphed from a tool... |
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The Inspiration Code: How the Best Leaders Energize People Every Day
KRISTI HEDGES - AMACOM
Format: Hardcover
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All it takes is the right conversation . . . Great leaders inspire action with their words. They spark enthusiasm and commitment. With a single conversation, they can change the direction of someone's life. Everyone wants to be the kind of leader who energizes and mobilizes others--yet... |
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Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy
RICHARD E OCEJO - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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How educated and culturally savvy young people are transforming traditionally low-status manual labor jobs into elite taste-making occupationsIn today's new economy -- in which "good" jobs are typically knowledge or technology based -- many well-educated and culturally savvy young... |
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Change the Way You Change!: 5 Roles of Leaders Who Accelerate Business Performance
R KENDALL LYMAN - Greenleaf Book Group Press
Format: Hardcover
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Accelerate Leadership and Get Results Great leaders of change positively impact business performance by fundamentally working differently than most leaders in three ways. First, they change how they think and talk about change. Second, they change their approach to change by engaging both... |
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The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything
PAUL VIGNA - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna, the authors of The Age of Cryptocurrency, comes the definitive work on the Internet's Next Big Thing: The Blockchain.Big banks have grown bigger and more entrenched. Privacy exists only until the next hack. Credit card fraud is a fact of life. Many... |
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Let the Story Do the Work: The Art of Storytelling for Business Success
Esther K Choy - AMACOM
Format: Hardcover
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People forget facts, but they never forget a good story. \It sounds so simple: Incorporate a story and people will remember your message. But when you get down to crafting one, there's nothing easy about it. Material for stories surrounds us. Yet few people are skilled at sharing... |
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Superfandom: How Our Obsessions are Changing How We Buy and Who We Are
Zoe Fraade-Blanar - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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As fandom sheds its longtime stigmas of geekiness and hysteria, fans are demanding more from the celebrities and brands they love. Digital tools have given organizations from traditional businesses to tech startups direct, real-time access to their most devoted consumers, and it s easy... |
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The CEO Pay Machine: How it Trashes America and How to Stop it
Steven Clifford - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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The former top CEO examines the scandalous and corrupt reasons behind obscene pay packages for corporate executives - and explains how this hurts all of us--and how we can stop it. Today, the pay gap between chief executive officers of major U.S. firms and their workers is higher than ever... |
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The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
CHIP HEATH - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us - and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work. While human lives are endlessly variable, our most memorable... |
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Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success
Sean Ellis - Crown Business
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive playbook by the pioneers of Growth Hacking, one of the hottest business methodologies in Silicon Valley and beyond. It seems hard to believe today, but there was a time when Airbnb was the best-kept secret of travel hackers and couch surfers, Pintrest was a niche web site... |
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When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn't the Life You Want
Mike Lewis - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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An inspirational book that lays out the "Jump Curve" -- four steps to wholeheartedly pursuing the career of your dreams -- through experiences from a variety of people who have jumped and never looked backWhen Mike Lewis was twenty-four and working in a prestigious corporate job,... |
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INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
Marty Cagan - Wiley
Format: Hardcover
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How do today's most successful tech companies - Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla - design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Perhaps surprisingly, they do it very differently than the vast majority of tech... |
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Six Billion Shoppers: The Companies Winning the Global E-Commerce Boom
Porter Erisman - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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An insightful, practical guide to e-commerce in emerging markets--and how to profit from their explosive boom.From China to India to Nigeria, e-commerce is entering a golden era in countries that were long left out of the e-commerce gold rush experienced in the West. If the story of the first... |
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Excuse Me: The Survival Guide to Modern Business Etiquette
Rosanne J Thomas - AMACOM
Format: Hardcover
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"Both novice and experienced workers will find a wealth of business etiquette in a book that, instead of excusing bad behavior, could help prevent it from happening in the first place." -Foreword Reviews, 5 Star Review In today's workplace, good manners matter more than ever.... |
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Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days
Chris Guillebeau - Crown Business
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the New York Times Bestseller THE $100 STARTUP shows how to launch a profitable side hustle in just 27 days. For some people, the thought of quitting their day job to pursue the entrepreneurial life is exhilarating. For many others, it's terrifying. After all, a stable job that... |
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Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times
Nancy F Koehn - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From a brilliant historian at the Harvard Business School, here is a masterful, in-depth portrait of five extraordinary figures - Ernest Shackleton, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Rachel Carson - that illuminates how great leaders are made in times of adversity... |
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How May I Help You?: An Immigrant's Journey from MBA to Minimum Wage
Deepak Singh - University of California Press
Format: Paperback
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In this moving and insightful work, Deepak Singh chronicles his downward mobility as an immigrant to a small town in Virginia. Armed with an MBA from India, Singh can get only a minimum-wage job in an electronics store. Every day he confronts unfamiliar American mores, from strange idioms... |
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Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude
RAYMOND M KETHLEDGE - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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A guide to the role of solitude in good leadership, including profiles of historical and contemporary figures who have used solitude to lead with courage, creativity, and strength.Throughout history, leaders have used solitude as a matter of course. Eisenhower wrote memoranda to himself... |
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The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age
David Callahan - Knopf
Format: Book
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While media attention focuses on famous philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Charles Koch, thousands of donors are at work below the radar promoting a wide range of causes. David Callahan charts the rise of these new power players and the ways they are converting the fortunes of a second... |
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The Energy Bus Field Guide
JON GORDON - Wiley
Format: Paperback
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A Road Map for living and implementing the 10 Principles of The Energy Bus The Energy Bus Field Guide is your roadmap to fueling your life, work and team with positive energy. The international bestseller The Energy Bus has helped millions of people from around the world shift to a more... |
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Breaking Bad Habits: Defy Industry Norms and Reinvigorate Your Business
Freek Vermeulen - Harvard Business School Press
Format: Hardcover
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Have you ever wondered why most newspapers are so large? Or why management consultants work such long hours? Or why hotels still insist on having check-in desks? Ask anyone in these industries, and their answer will be the same: "That's the way we've always done it. ""Best... |
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We Do Things Differently: The Outsiders Rebooting Our World
Mark Stevenson - The Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover
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An acclaimed futurist visits people around the world who are solving the planet's biggest problems by innovative means.Our systems are failing. Old models -- for education, healthcare and government, food production, energy supply -- are creaking under the weight of modern challenges. As the world's... |
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The Procrastination Economy: The Big Business of Downtime
Ethan Tussey - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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How mobile devices make our in-between moments valuable to media companies while also providing a sense of control and connection In moments of downtime - waiting for a friend to arrive or commuting to work - we pull out our phones for a few minutes of distraction. Just as television reoriented... |
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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
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"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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The Rightand WrongStuff: How Brilliant Careers Are Made and Unmade
Carter Cast - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Nearly a quarter century ago Carter Cast seemed to have it all together: he had a first-class education, an all-American athletic career, and was a very bright and energetic rising star on the fast track at a Fortune 100 company, PepsiCo. But blissfully unaware of how negative perceptions... |
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The Power of Purpose: Inspire teams, engage customers, transform business
John O'Brien - FT Press
Format: Paperback
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In a world where volatility is the new norm and change is a constant, the individuals and organisations that are flourishing are those with a clear sense of purpose based on authentic ethical values. Purpose is the secret ingredient - with purpose you have the key to exceptional performance,... |
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Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life
Lea Berman - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A guide to personal and professional empowerment through civility and social skills, written by two White House Social Secretaries who offer an important fundamental message - everyone is important and everyone deserves to be treated well.Former White House social secretaries Lea Berman,... |
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Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job
Jeffrey Bussgang - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Many professionals aspire to work for startups. Executives from large companies view them as models to help them adapt to today's dynamic innovation economy, while freshly minted MBAs see magic in founding something new. Yes, startups look magical, but they can also be chaotic and inaccessible.... |
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Real Impact: The New Economics of Social Change
Morgan Simon - Nation Books
Format: Hardcover
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Impact investment--the support of social and environmental projects with a financial return--has become a hot topic on the global stage; poised to eclipse traditional aid by ten times in the next decade. But the field is at a tipping point: Will impact investment empower millions of people... |
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The Emigrant Edge: How to Make It Big in America
Brian Buffini - Howard Books
Format: Hardcover
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Brian Buffini, an Irish immigrant who went from rags to riches, shares his strategies for anyone who wants to achieve the American dream.Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, Brian Buffini immigrated to San Diego, California at the age of nineteen with only ninety-two dollars in his pocket.... |
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Brian Christian - Picador Usa
Format: Print book
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A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems.... |
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Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions: Dispatches from the Working Class
J R Helton - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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Weaving the brackish humor of Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club with the empathy of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed, J. R. Helton brings to life an obscured, all-too-often ignored slice of the American psyche in this unflinching memoir of blue-collar Texas.In the 1980s, somewhere... |
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Type R: Transformative Resilience for Thriving in a Turbulent World
Ama Marston - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Forget Type As and Bs. The future lies with Type Rs-- the individuals, leaders, businesses, families and communities that turn challenges into opportunity in times of upheaval, crisis and change. In this thought provoking book Ama Marston, an internationally recognized strategist and thought... |
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Leadership in Focus: Bringing Out Your Best on Camera
Vern Oakley - Greenleaf Book Group Press
Format: Hardcover
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And . . . Action! If a message feels important enough for video, it's likely because you want to move the audience to action - potential investors to take a stake in your company, current employees to embrace a new initiative, prospective employees to bring their talents to your organization.... |
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The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America
Rick Wartzman - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Having a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American Dream. Not anymore. In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers. Through the stories of four major employers--General... |
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Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done
JON ACUFF - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author Jon Acuff, a book for those who want relief from always starting and never being done.Jon Acuff, sought-after speaker and consultant, is the friend who always gives you great advice. With his self-depricating humor and charm, he has won over... |
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The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States
Benjamin C Waterhouse - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A new, gripping history of America - told through the executives, bankers, farmers, and politicians who paved the way from colonial times to the present - reveals that this country was founded as much on the search for wealth and prosperity as the desire for freedom.The Land of Enterprise... |
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Ogilvy on Advertising in the Digital Age
MILES YOUNG - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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From Miles Young, worldwide non-executive chairman of Ogilvy & Mather, comes a sequel to David Ogilvy's bestselling advertising handbook featuring essential strategies for the digital age.In this must-have sequel to the bestselling Ogilvy On Advertising, Ogilvy chairman Miles... |
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