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Flex: The Art and Science of Leadership in a Changing World

Jeffrey Hull PhD - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover

From one of the world's preeminent leadership coaches, an insightful, indispensable guide to effective leadership.For the first time, leadership expert Jeffrey Hull shares the secrets, strategies, and science underlying his, and his clients', successes. Interweaving real-life stories...
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Social Security Made Simple: Social Security Retirement Benefits and Related Planning Topics Explained in 100 Pages or Less

Mike Piper - Simple Subjects, LLC
Format: Paperback

Find all of the following, explained in plain-English: How your Social Security retirement benefits, spousal benefits, and widow/widower benefits are calculated How your benefits are affected if you have a government pension or if you continue working while claiming Social Security How to decide...
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The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

Brad Stone - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A look deep inside the new Silicon Valley, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Everything Store Ten years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger's car, or a walking into a stranger's home, would have seemed bizarre and dangerous, but today it's as common as ordering...
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The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Content Marketing, Podcasting, Social Media, AI, Live Video, and Newsjacking to Reach Buyers Directly

David Meerman Scott - Wiley
Format: Paperback

The seventh edition of the pioneering guide to generating attention for your idea or business, packed with new and updated information In the Digital Age, marketing tactics seem to change on a day-to-day basis. As the ways we communicate continue to evolve, keeping pace with the latest...
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Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles

Beth Pickens
Format: Paperback

If you are an artist, you need to make your art. That's not an overstatement - it's a fact; if you stop doing your creative work, your quality of life is diminished. But what do you do when life gets in the way? In this down-to-earth handbook, experienced artist coach Beth Pickens...
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Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism

John Patrick Leary - Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback

Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism chronicles the rise of a new vocabulary in the twenty-first century. From Silicon Valley to the White House, from kindergarten to college, and from the factory floor to the church pulpit, we are all called to be innovators and entrepreneurs, to be curators...
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Next!: The Power of Reinvention in Life and Work

Joanne Lipman - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of That's What She Said, a timely and essential book on the art and science of reinvention and an inspiring guide to personal and professional transitions.The disruptions of recent years have sparked a collective reckoning, forever changing the way we think...
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Reinforcements: How to Get People to Help You

Heidi Grant- Halvorson - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover

Imagine walking up to a stranger on the subway and asking them for their seat. What about asking a random person on the street if you could borrow their phone? If the idea makes you squeamish, you're not alone--social psychologists have found that doing these very things makes most...
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Issei Baseball: The Story of the First Japanese American Ballplayers

Robert K. Fitts - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardcover

Baseball has been called America's true melting pot, a game that unites us as a people. Issei Baseball is the story of the pioneers of Japanese American baseball, Harry Saisho, Ken Kitsuse, Tom Uyeda, Tozan Masko, Kiichi Suzuki, and others - young men who came to the United States to start...
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The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power

Michael A. Cusumano - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

A trio of experts on high-tech business strategy and innovation reveal the principles that have made platform businesses the most valuable firms in the world and the first trillion-dollar companies. Managers and entrepreneurs in the digital era must learn to live in two worlds - the conventional...
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