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Smart Policies for Workplace Technologies: Email, Blogs, Cell Phones & More
Lisa Guerin J.D. - NOLO Format: Print book
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Worried that your company's employees might post trade secrets on Facebook, send harassing email, or text while driving on company business? Advances in workplace technology bring big benefits in productivity and connectivity, but they come at the cost of legal exposure. To protect... |
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Reset YOUR Barcode: Five Steps to a Financial Reset
Marvin Reynolds - Morgan James Publishing, Format: Print book
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We all know that money isn't everything, but I challenge you to identify three aspects of your life that are not affected by it.Why is it that the desire and pursuit of money demands so much of our personal and national time and attention?How is it that money mastery has come to mean... |
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Working With Independent Contractors
Stephen Fishman - NOLO Format: Paperback
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This is your complete guide to hiring independent contractors to meet your business needs, from making sure you comply with state labor and antidiscrimination laws to protecting your intellectual property to drafting and signing agreements. Working With Independent Contractors also has everything... |
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Bookkeeping All-In-One For Dummies
Consumer Dummies - For Dummies Format: Paperback
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Your one-stop guide to mastering the art of bookkeeping Do you need to get up and running on bookkeeping basics and the latest tools and technology used in the field? You've come to the right place! Bookkeeping All-In-One For Dummies is your go-to guide for all things bookkeeping, covering... |
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A Truck Full of Money
Tracy Kidder - Random House Publishing Group Format: Hardcover
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"A perfectly executed, exquisitely reported parable of the Internet age and the wild, mad adventure that is start-up culture." - Charles Duhigg Fortune, mania, genius, philanthropy - the bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains gives us the inspiring story of Paul... |
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Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less
Tiffany Dufu - Flatiron Books Format: Hardcover
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A bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto from a renowned voice in the women's leadership movement who shows women how to cultivate the single skill they really need in order to thrive: the ability to let go.Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first child,... |
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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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Earning It: Hard-Won Lessons from Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World
Joann S Lublin - HarperAudio Format: Audiobook
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More than 50 trailblazing executive women who broke the corporate glass ceiling offer inspiring and surprising insights and lessons in this essential, in-the-trenches career guide from Joann S. Lublin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and management news editor for The Wall Street Journal.Among... |
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Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive
Ned Hallowell - Harvard Bus Review Press Format: Hardcover
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Are you driven to distraction at work?Bestselling author Edward M. Hallowell, MD, the world's leading expert on ADD and ADHD, has set his sights on a new goal: helping people feel more in control and productive at work.You know the feeling: you can't focus; you feel increasingly... |
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The Outward Mindset: Seeing Beyond Ourselves
Arbinger Institute - Berrett-Koehler Publishers Format: Print book
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The Arbinger Institute has helped millions with their books Leadership and Self-Deception and The Anatomy of Peace. Their newest book, The Outward Mindset, reflects their latest research and experience and offers a new and intuitive way to teach people how to implement mindset change in themselves... |
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Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
Spencer Johnson - Alexandria Library Format: Print book
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With Who Moved My Cheese? Dr. Spencer Johnson realizes the need for finding the language and tools to deal with change--an issue that makes all of us nervous and uncomfortable.Most people are fearful of change because they don't believe they have any control over how or when it happens... |
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Your Money Life: Your 30s
Peter Dunn - Cengage Learning PTR; 1 edition Format: Print book
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Our thirties--it's the decade when we put down roots, deepen our relationships, and establish our lifestyle. The financial challenges facing us through these years are substantial, often involving marriage, children, job changes, and even divorce or other unforeseen hurdles. Investment... |
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Solve Your Money Troubles: Strategies to Get Out of Debt and Stay That Way
CARA O'NEILL - NOLO Format: Print book
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Are you overwhelmed by debt? Facing collection calls, a wage garnishment, car repossession, or lawsuit? 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 & create... |
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Economics: The User's Guide
Ha-Joon Chang - Bloomsbury Format: Hardcover
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In his bestselling 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang brilliantly debunked many of the predominant myths of neoclassical economics. Now, in an entertaining and accessible primer, he explains how the global economy actually works--in real-world... |
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Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
Brian Tracy - Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 2nd edition Format: Paperback
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The legendary Eat That Frog! (more than 450,000 copies sold and translated into 23 languages) provides the 21 most effective methods for conquering procrastination and accomplishing more. This new edition is revised and updated throughout, and includes brand new information on how to keep... |
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The Curriculum: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master of Business Arts
Stanley Bing - HarperBusiness Format: Hardcover
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From the mind of the ultimate corporate gunslinger comes this no-nonsense, real-world Curriculum, designed to augmentif not replacethe more traditional path to achieving mastery of the business universe. Conquer this sharp, practical and often amusing course of study and save 250,000 of wasted... |
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The 2% Rule to Get Debt Free Fast: An Innovative Method To Pay Your Loans Off For Good
ALEX MICHAEL - Page Street Publishing Format: Paperback
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DEBT-FREE LIVING 2% AT A TIMEIn The 2% Rule To Get Debt Free Fast, Alex and Cassie break down the steps that took them from over $100,000 in consumer debt to living a debt-free life in just a few short years. Alex and Cassie's step-by-step plan is for even the most financially illiterate,... |
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Love Your Job: The New Rules for Career Happiness
Kerry Hannon - Wiley; 1 edition Format: Print book
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Step-by-step tips for revitalizing your career Yes, it is possible to have a job you love, and it doesn't require starting from scratch. Love Your Job is a guide to making work fulfilling and fun again, or even for the first time. Why count down the hours of the day or the days to retirement... |
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Your Money Life: Your 60s
Peter Dunn - Cengage Learning PTR; 1 edition Format: Print book
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Traditionally, our sixth decade has been seen as the decade of retirement. But whether or not you're ready to retire in your sixties, these years will be filled with important financial decisions to be made. Among other things, you'll learn your way around Medicare and Social Security,... |
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Dead Companies Walking: How A Hedge Fund Manager Finds Opportunity in Unexpected Places
Scott Fearon - Palgrave Macmillan Trade Format: Hardcover
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Unlike most investors, who live in fear of failure, Scott Fearon actively seeks it out. He has earned millions of dollars for his hedge fund over the last thirty years shorting the stocks of businesses he believed were on their way to bankruptcy. In Dead Companies Walking, Fearon describes... |
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The Aspirational Investor: Taming the Markets to Achieve Your Life's Goals
Ashvin B. Chhabra - HarperBusiness Format: Hardcover
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The Chief Investment Officer of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management explains why goals, not markets, should be the primary focus of your investment strategy - and offers a practical, innovative framework for making smarter choices about aligning your goals to your investment strategy.Today... |
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen - Penguin Books Format: Paperback
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"The Bible of business and personal productivity" - Lifehack"A completely revised and updated edition of the blockbuster bestseller from 'the personal productivity guru'" - Fast CompanySince it was first published almost fifteen years ago, David Allen's... |
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Fortune Zoom: Surprising Ways to Supercharge Your Career
Daniel Roberts - Time Home Entertainment Format: Book
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With Zoom, Fortune magazine extends one of its most successful franchises, 40 Under 40, to bring you original insight on the best-kept secrets of top entrepreneurs, business leaders, and rising tech stars. Discover how Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh built a uniquely attractive corporate culture,... |
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Unmistakable: Why Only Is Better Than Best
Srinivas Rao - Portfolio/Penguin Format: Print book
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STOP TRYING TO BEAT EVERYONE ELSE. TRUE SUCCESS IS CREATING WORK THAT NO ONE ELSE CAN REPLICATE. DON'T AIM TO BE THE BEST - AIM TO BE THE ONLY.I was on the corporate hamster wheel. Seven years ago I had just gotten my MBA and hoped to do creative and meaningful work. But the soulless corporate... |
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The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
Jesse Eisinger - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, a blistering account of corporate greed and impunity, and the reckless, often anemic response from the Department of Justice.Why were no bankers put in prison after the financial crisis of 2008? Why do CEOs seem to commit wrongdoing... |
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Rework
Jason Fried - Crown Business Format: Hardcover
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Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf.Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Read it and you'll... |
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Currency Trading For Dummies
Kathleen Brooks - For Dummies; 3 edition Format: Print book
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Your plain-English guide to currency trading Currency Trading For Dummies is a hands-on, user-friendly guide that explains how the foreign exchange (ForEx) market works and how you can become a part of it. Currency trading has many benefits, but it also has fast-changing financial-trading... |
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Social Security For Dummies
Jonathan Peterson - For Dummies Format: Print book
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Social Security For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781119293330) was previously published as Social Security For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781118967560) . While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated... |
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Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
Derek Sivers - Portfolio Format: Hardcover
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You can follow the beaten path and call yourself an entrepreneur or you can blaze your own trail and really be one. When Derek Sivers started CD Baby, he wasn't planning on building a major business. He was a successful independent musician who just wanted to sell his CDs online. When... |
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Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America
Danielle Dimartino Booth - Portfolio Format: Hardcover
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A Federal Reserve insider pulls back the curtain on the secretive institution that controls America's economy After correctly predicting the housing crash of 2008 and quitting her high-ranking Wall Street job, Danielle DiMartino Booth was surprised to find herself recruited as an analyst... |
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Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday - Portfolio Penguin Format: Print book
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"While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive visionary geniuses who remade the world in their image with sheer, almost irrational force, I've found that history is also made by individuals who fought their egos at every turn, who eschewed the spotlight, and who put their... |
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A Little History of Economics
Niall Kishtainy - Yale University Press Format: Hardcover
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A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in the field |
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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
William Burnett - Alfred A. Knopf Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times Bestseller At last, a book that shows you how to build - design - a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home - at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding... |
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The Leadership Playbook: Creating a Coaching Culture to Build Winning Business Teams
Nathan Jamail - Gotham Books Format: Hardcover
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The successful self-published author of The Sales Leaders Playbook writes his first mainstream leadership book There are enormous differences between managing and coaching. Yet many companies and organizations encourage their leaders to coach teams without ever teaching them how and without... |
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The Harvard Business Review Manager's Handbook: The 17 Skills Leaders Need to Stand Out
Harvard Business Review Press. - Harvard Business Review Press Format: Print book
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The one primer you need to develop your managerial and leadership skills.Whether you're a new manager or looking to have more influence in your current management role, the challenges you face come in all shapes and sizes - a direct report's anxious questions, your boss's last-minute... |
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Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
Brian Alexander - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land**A New York Post Must-Read Book, a Newsweek Best New Book, one of The Week's 20 Books to Read in 2017, one of Bustle's 16 Best Nonfiction Books Coming in February 2017**"A devastating... |
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The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter
David Sax - PublicAffairs Format: Hardcover
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One of Michiko Kakutani's (New York Times) top ten books of 2016A funny thing happened on the way to the digital utopia. We've begun to fall back in love with the very analog goods and ideas the tech gurus insisted that we no longer needed. Businesses that once looked outdated,... |
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Hit Makers: Why Things Become Popular
Derek Thompson - Penguin Books Format: Print book
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Nothing "goes viral." If you think a popular movie, song, or app came out of nowhere to become a word-of-mouth success in today's crowded media environment, you're missing the real story. Each blockbuster has a secret history - of power, influence, dark broadcasters, and passionate... |
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Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World
Lynn Downey - University of Massachusetts Press Format: Print book
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Blue jeans are globally beloved and quintessentially American. They symbolize everything from the Old West to the hippie counter-culture; everyone from car mechanics to high-fashion models wears jeans. And no name is more associated with blue jeans than Levi Strauss & Co., the creator... |
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The Vanity Fair Diaries
OCTAVIA MANN - Henry Holt and Co. Format: Hardcover
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Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Today they provide an incendiary portrait of the flash and dash and power brokering of the Excessive Eighties in New York and Hollywood.The Vanity Fair Diaries... |
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Medicare For Dummies
PATRICIA BARRY - For Dummies Format: Paperback
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Make the most of MedicareMore than 55.5 million people today are Medicare beneficiaries. Medicare for Dummies, 3rd Edition, addresses the complexities of Medicare and helps those eligible for benefits maneuver the complicated claims process. With the easy-to-follow, comprehensive... |
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Ice Cream Social: The Struggle for the Soul of Ben & Jerry's
Brad Edmondson - Berrett-Koehler Format: Paperback
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Ben & Jerry's has always been committed to an insanely ambitious three-part mission: making the world's best ice cream, supporting progressive causes, and sharing the company's success with all stakeholders: employees, suppliers, distributors, customers, cows, everybody.... |
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Idiot's Guides: Management Skills
David Rohlander - Alpha Format: Book
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Being a manager is tough, and being a first-time manager is even tougher. Idiots Guides Management Skills is a hands-on guide to helping managers of all experience levels survive and thrive in the often murky and difficult world of management. Readers of all skill levels will benefit from... |
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The Sale of a Lifetime: How the Great Bubble Burst of 2017-2019 Can Make You Rich
HARRY S JR DENT - PORTFOLIO PENGUIN Format: Print book
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After the Roaring '20s came the Great Depression. After the Roaring 2000s came the Great Recession.We're now entering the winter season of the 80-Year Four Season Economic Cycle. It's during this season that we'll clear the decks with a devastating crash and debilitating... |
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2,000 review questions for the cpa exam
Denise M Stefano - Mcgraw-Hill Education Format: Print book
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Sharpen your skills and prepare for the CPA Exam with a wealth of essential facts in a fast-and-easy Q&A format Get the question-and-answer practice you need with 2, 000 Review Questions for the CPA Exam. Organized for easy reference and intensive practice, the questions cover all essential... |
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Elizabeth I, CEO: Strategic Lessons from the Leader Who Built an Empire
Alan Axelrod - Prentice Hall Press Format: Hardcover
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In 1558, she inherited a business in trouble. Burdened by runaway inflation and a debased currency, bereft of strategic alliances, torn by internal dissent, and eyed greedily by competitors bent on takeover, her business -- England -- was on the brink of ruin. Forty-five years later, England... |
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The Complete 101 Collection: What Every Leader Needs to Know
John C Maxwell - Thomas Nelson Format: Paperback
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Now in one paperback volume, John C. Maxwell's best-selling 101 series of briefcase-sized leadership books that have helped more than one million people become better leaders. The Complete 101 Collection includes material that in true Maxwell style helps readers reach their potential... |
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The miracle morning : the not-so-obvious secret guaranteed to transform your life before 8AM
Hal Elrod - Hal Elrod International Format: Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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[A message from Robert Kiyosaki, bestselling author of 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad'] "Hal Elrod is a genius and his book The Miracle Morning has been magical in my life. "I have been in the human potential / personal development movement since 1973, when I did my first EST training and saw a whole... |
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Barron's Real Estate Licensing Exams, 10th Edition
Jack P. Friedman Ph.D. - Barron's Educational Series Format: Print book
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This study guide and test preparation manual has been updated to provide the latest information in real estate finance, federal law and regulation, and appraisal license requirements.Explains all aspects of real estate law and finance, including contracts, deeds, appraisals, brokerage,... |
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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: Hardcover
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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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Selling Your House: Nolos Essential Guide
Ilona Bray J.D. - NOLO Format: Second Edition
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Whether your local real estate market is super-heated or still making a comeback, there are steps you can take to reach the right buyers, pick the best offer, and ultimately get top dollar for your home. Selling Your House: Nolos Essential Guide will take you through the process from start... |
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Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
JOCKO WILLINK - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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FIND YOUR WILL, FIND YOUR DISCIPLINE--AND YOU WILL FIND YOUR FREEDOMJocko Willink's methods for success were born in the SEAL Teams, where he spent most of his adult life, enlisting after high school and rising through the ranks to become the commander of the most highly decorated special... |
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High Performance Habits
Brendon Burchard - Hay House, Inc. Format: Book
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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... |
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The Financial Diet: A Total Beginner's Guide to Getting Good with Money
Chelsea Fagan - Holt Paperbacks Format: Paperback
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*A Refinery29 Best Book of 2018**One of Real Simple's Most Inspiring Books for Graduates* How to get good with money, even if you have no idea where to start.The Financial Diet is the personal finance book for people who don't care about personal finance. Whether you're in need... |
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Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt - William Morrow Format: Hardcover
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Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime?These may not sound like... |
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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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Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
MALCOLM HARRIS - Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover
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A Millennial's groundbreaking investigation into why his generation is economically worse off than their parents, creating a radical and devastating portrait of what it means to be young in America.Millennials have been called lazy, entitled, narcissistic, and immature, but when you push... |
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Making It: Why Manufacturing Still Matters
Louis Uchitelle - The New Press Format: Hardcover
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From the longtime New York Times economics correspondent, a closely reported argument for the continuing importance of industry for American prosperity In the 1950s manufacturing generated nearly 30 percent of U.S. income. Over the past fifty-five years that share has gradually... |
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You Don't Own Me: How Mattel v. MGA Entertainment Exposed Barbie's Dark Side
Orly Lobel - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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Are your ideas your own or does your employer own them? This is the question that set off the greatest toy war of our time.When Carter Bryant began designing what would become the billion-dollar line of Bratz dolls, he was taking time off from his job at Mattel, where he designed outfits... |
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Smart Mom, Rich Mom: How to Build Wealth While Raising a Family
Kimberly Palmer - American Management Association Format: Print book
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Of all life's financial shocks, few compare to bringing home an infant. Just one tiny person costs $250,000 to raise-- not including college! How will you pay for it? That agonizing question fuels mothers' choices about their careers, budgets, and families. Some lean in, some scale back... |
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AgeProof: Living Longer Without Running Out of Money or Breaking a Hip
Jean Chatzky - Grand Central Life & Style Format: Hardcover
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Two of the world's leading experts explain the vital link between health and wealth that could add years to your life and dollars to your retirement savings.All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if we can't get out of bed. And the healthiest body in the world won't stay that way if we're... |
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Beyond Training Aint Performance Fieldbook
Harold D Stolovitch - ASTD Press Format: eBook
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An essential companion manual to Training Ain't Performance, the Beyond Training Ain't Performance Fieldbook is an HPI theory implementation guide. Free online downloads feature worksheets, assessments, tools, and practical advice that will propel your organization toward... |
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The 21-Day Financial Fast: Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom
Michelle Singletary - Zondervan Format: Paperback
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Financial Peace and Freedom in 21 Days In The 21-Day Financial Fast, award-winning writer and The Washington Post columnist Michelle Singletary proposes a field-tested financial challenge. For twenty-one days, participants will put away their credit cards and buy only the barest essentials.... |
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Born to Win: Find Your Success
Zig Ziglar - Made For Success Publishing Format: Print book
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As the last book written by the late Zig Ziglar, he will reveal your surest path to success and help your untapped greatness become visible. After writing more than thirty books, nine of which are best sellers, Zig again delivers life changing wisdom. For more than 50 years, in a style... |
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Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids--and How to Break the Trance
Nicholas Kardaras - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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We've all seen them: kids hypnotically staring at glowing screens in restaurants, in playgrounds and in friends' houses -- and the numbers are growing. Like a virtual scourge, the illuminated glowing faces -- the Glow Kids -- are multiplying. But at what cost? Is this just a harmless indulgence... |
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Fundamentals of Project Management
Joseph Heagney - Amacom Format: Paperback
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Boasting sales of more than 200,000 copies, "Fundamentals of Project Management "has helped generations of project managers navigate the ins and outs of every aspect of this complex discipline. But much has changed in recent years. Fully updated in accordance with the latest version... |
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Brief: Make a Bigger Impact by Saying Less
Joseph McCormack - Wiley Format: Hardcover
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Get heard by being clear and concise The only way to survive in business today is to be a lean communicator. Busy executives expect you to respect and manage their time more effectively than ever. You need to do the groundwork to make your message tight and to the point. The average professional... |
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Mind over Money: The Psychology of Money and How to Use It
Claudia Hammond - Harper Perennial Format: Print book
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"The acclaimed author of Time Warped tackles the very latest research in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and biology to provide a fresh, fascinating, and thought-provoking look at our relationship with money-- perfect for fans of Dan Ariely and Freakonomics. We know we need... |
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Brokenomics: 50 Ways to Live the Dream on a Dime
Dina Gachman - Seal Press (CA) Format: Paperback
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In Brokenomics, author Dina Gachman shares the lessons she's learned about how to live large in the cheap seats. Through stories both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny that anyone can relate to, Dina reveals all the tricks you need to live the good life without spending a ton of money.Brokenomics... |
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Ask More: The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions, and Spark Change
Frank Sesno - AMACOM Format: Print book
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What hidden skill links successful people in all walks of life? What helps them make smart decisions? The answer is surprisingly simple: They know how to ask the right questions at the right time. Questions help us break down barriers, discover secrets, solve puzzles, and imagine new ways... |
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven D. Levitt - Harper Perennial; 1 Original edition Format: Paperback
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More Than 4 Million Copies Sold WorldwidePublished in 35 LanguagesWhich is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool?What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?How much do parents really matter?These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt... |
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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Greg McKeown - Crown Publishing Group Format: Hardcover
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin? Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underutilized? Are you often busy but not productive? Do you feel like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people's agendas?... |
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Cleveland's Department Stores
Christopher Faircloth - Arcadia Publishing Format: Paperback
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Originating as simple one- or two-room storefront operations, Cleveland's department stores grew as population and industry in the region boomed throughout the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th. They moved into ever larger and elaborate structures in an attempt to woo the shopping... |
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Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Chip Heath - Crown Business; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives?The primary obstacle is a conflict that’s built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered... |
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Cover Letters in a Week: Teach Yourself
Patricia Scudamore - Hodder & Stoughton Ltd Format: Print book
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Sunday: Understand the importance of first impressions and the common mistakes people make Monday: Ensure your application is taken seriously with a cover letter that is concise, complements your CV and is targeted to the job you have applied for Tuesday: Discover how to style and structure... |
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Managing Talent: Recruiting, Retaining, and Getting the Most from Talented People
Marion Devine - The Economist Format: Hardcover
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Survey after survey confirms how the success of a business has become increasingly dependent on the ability and skills of its staff. And because talented people are in short supply the hunt for people of unusual ability will continue in earnest.Hiring such people is the relatively easy... |
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Money Confidence: Advice for Women to Take Control of Their Financial Freedom Now
Crystal Oculee - Greenleaf Book Group Press Format: Hardcover
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When it comes to money, hope is not a strategy. Toughen up, take action, and keep what's yours! Have you, like many women, put off organizing your financial life? You know you want independence, you know you want to save, and you know you want a solid retirement. But if you're overwhelmed... |
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Ace Your Teacher Resume
Anthony D Fredericks - Blue River Press Format: Print book
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In this captivating and highly practical book, award-winning author and teacher, Anthony D. Fredericks offers real-world guidelines on how to build the perfect teacher resume (and cover letter) . Fredericks has compiled fresh advice and insightful tips from numerous principals and superintendents... |
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Moms For Hire: 8 Steps to Kickstart Your Next Career
Deborah Newmyer - Skyhorse Publishing Format: Print book
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Moms For Hire is a stylish, eight-step guidebook for moms who want to re-enter the workforce and amp up their professional mojo.Whether you downsized your bustling career to raise your children, or you chose the full-time job of being a stay-at-home mom, you now feel ready to get back... |
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Ace Your Teacher Interview: Revised & Expanded 2nd Ed
Anthony D Fredericks - Blue River Press Format: Paperback
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Ace Your Teacher Interview provides you with inside information on how to prepare for interviews, various interview formats, and how to handle tricky questions. Additionally, you ll discover a creative range of inside information on what impresses interviewers and makes you stand out as a candidate.... |
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The Complete Tightwad Gazette
Amy Dacyczyn - Villard Books Format: Paperback
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At last--the long-awaited complete compendium of tightwad tips for fabulous frugal living!In a newsletter published from May 1990 to December 1996 as well as in three enormously successful books, Amy Dacyczyn established herself as the expert of economy. Now The Complete Tightwad Gazette... |
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High-Powered Investing All-in-One For Dummies
Consumer Dummies - John Wiley & Sons Format: Paperback
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Your key to success in high-end investments Looking for help making smarter, more profitable high-end investment decisions? Why buy 13 books that cover each of the major topics you need to understand, when High-Powered Investing All-In-One For Dummies gives you 13 expert guides for the price... |
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Expert Resumes for Career Changers, 2nd Ed
Wendy S Enelow and Louise M Kursmark - Jist Works; 2 edition Format: Book
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This collection of resumes is aimed at people who are transitioning from one career to another. The down economy has forced millions of people to change jobs or industries in order to stay employed. This book gives strategies as well as 180 pages of sample resumes for successful career... |
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Create Your Own Online Store in a Weekend
Alannah Moore - Princeton Architectural Press Format: Paperback
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The advantages of selling your products online are many - low overhead, global markets, twenty-four-hour shopping - but perhaps most important is the level playing field offered by the internet. With a distinctive product and professional-looking website, you stand as much of a chance at success... |
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Trading For Dummies
Michael Griffis - For Dummies; 3 edition Format: Paperback
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Make informed trading decisions regardless of the markets condition Savvy traders can make money in both up and down markets. Trading For Dummies is for investors at all levels who are looking for a clear guide to successfully trading stocks in any type of market. It is also for investors... |
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Make Your Job a Calling: How the Psychology of Vocation Can Change Your Life at Work
Bryan J. Dik - Templeton Press; Reprint edition Format: Print book
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Do you ever feel sick of your job? Do you ever envy those people who seem to positively love what they do? While those people head off to work with a sense of joy and purpose, for the rest of us trudging back to the office on Monday morning or to the factory for the graveyard shift or to the job site... |
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Make It Matter: How Managers Can Motivate by Creating Meaning
Scott Mautz - AMACOM Format: Hardcover
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The startling truth is that 70 of the workforce is disengaged - their bodies may put in long hours, but their hearts and minds never punch in. You may even be one of those thats searching for ways to make work really work for you. This is a terrible dilemma for organizations trying to motivate... |
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301 Smart Answers to Tough Business Etiquette Questions
Vicky Oliver - Skyhorse Publishing Format: Print book
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As times change, so do norms of behavior in the office. 301 Smart Answers to Tough Business Etiquette Questions has the answers you need to survive daily life in the professional environment. Following the same popular QA format of her bestselling 301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions,... |
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Beautiful Money: The 4-Week Total Wealth Makeover
Leanne Jacobs - TarcherPerigee Format: Print book
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This revolutionary four-week financial/wealth plan shows you how to transform your relationship with money from the inside out by exploring your financial behaviors and beliefs. Most of us know what it feels like to chase success. We sacrifice time with our loved ones, our weekends, our vacation,... |
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The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food
Ted Genoways - Harper Format: Hardcover
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A powerful and important work of investigative journalism that explores the runaway growth of the American meatpacking industry and its dangerous consequences.On the production line in American packinghouses, there is one cardinal rule the chain never slows. Every year, the chain conveyors... |
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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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MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom
Anthony Robbins - Simon & Schuster Paperbacks Format: Print book
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In his first book in two decades, Anthony Robbins turns to the topic that vexes us all: How to secure financial freedom for ourselves and for our families. "If there were a Pulitzer Prize for investment books, this one would win, hands down" (Forbes.com) .Tony Robbins is one of the most... |
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Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success
Ivanka Trump - Portfolio Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Ivanka is donating the unpaid portion of her advance and all future royalties received from Women Who Work to the Ivanka M. Trump Charitable Fund, a donor advised fund that will make grants to organizations that empower and educate women and girls.* "This... |
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Making work work : the positivity solution for any work environment
Shola Richards - Sterling Ethos Format: Print book
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Is your office a place of soul-destroying negativity? Shola Richards keynote speaker, award winner, and creator of The Positivity Solution blog is about to change that . . . forever. " My mission was clear: I needed to fix the problems facing the workplace. As quickly as I came up with... |
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Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love
Richard Sheridan - Portfolio Hardcover Format: Hardcover
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The moment you walk into Menlo Innovations, you can sense the atmosphere full of energy, playfulness, enthusiasm, and maybe even . . . joy. As a package-delivery person once remarked, I don’t know what you do, but whatever it is, I want to work... |
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One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams
Chris Fussell - Portfolio Format: Hardcover
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From the co-author ofthe New York Times bestseller Team of Teams, a practical guide for leaders looking to make their organizations more interconnected and unified in the midst of sudden change. Too often, companies end up with teams stuck in their own silos, pursuing goals and metrics... |
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Your Own Terms: A Woman's Guide to Taking Charge of Any Negotiation
Yasmin Davidds - AMACOM/American Management Association Format: Paperback
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When it comes to negotiation, there is an ugly double standard. As women, if we make concessions to further a deal, we're viewed as weak. But if we play hard-ball, we can be seen as overly aggressive - and the strategy backfires. No wonder most women hate negotiating. In Your Own Terms,... |
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Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
Kim Phillips-Fein - Metropolitan Books Format: Print book
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An epic and riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster--and an anatomy of the politics of austerity that continues to shape the world todayWhen the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible: how could the capital... |
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CVs In A Week
David McWhir - Teach Yourself Format: Paperback
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The ability to write the perfect CV for a job is crucial to anyone who wants to advance their career. Written by David McWhir, a leading expert on CVs as both a recruiter and a coach for candidates, this book quickly teaches you the insider secrets you need to know to in order write the CV that... |
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Emotional Intelligence 2.0
Travis Bradberry - TalentSmart Format: Hardcover
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In today's fast-paced world of competitive workplaces and turbulent economic conditions, each of us is searching for effective tools that can help us to manage, adapt, and strike out ahead of the pack. By now, emotional intelligence (EQ) needs little introduction - it's no secret that... |
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Starting Your Career as an Interior Designer
Robert K Hale - Allworth Format: Print book
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Starting Your Career as an Interior Designer contains all the necessary tools and strategies to successfully launch and grow a professional design business in the competitive world of interior design. Drawing on the authors' extensive experience, this book includes case studies, and personal... |
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Get It Together: Organize Your Records So Your Family Won't Have To
Melanie Cullen - Nolo Format: Print book
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Get your life organized with the best workbook available! Paperwork, personal information, and passwords aren't always easy to find, and organizing your records can seem like an intimidating task. But, whether you need to get a handle on records for yourself, your family or your executor,... |
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Quicken Willmaker Plus 2017 Book & Software Kit
Betsy Simmons Hannibal - NOLO Format: Print book
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"Quicken WillMaker Plus 2017" is the easiest ways to create your estate plan, whether it's your first time or you want to update a previous plan. You'll be guided through the process from beginning to end with practical and relevant legal information so that you can make... |
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Customer Experience For Dummies
Roy Barnes - For Dummies; 1 edition Format: Book
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Gain, engage, and retain customers with positive experiences A positive customer experience is absolutely essential to keeping your business relevant. Todays business owners need to know how to connect and engage with their customers through a variety of different channels, including online... |
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Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
Clayton M. Christensen - Harperbusiness Format: Print book
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The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay premium prices for.How do companies know... |
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75 Ways for Managers to Hire, Develop, and Keep Great Employees
Paul Falcone - Amacom Format: Paperback
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People power your business--and success can hinge on your hiring, inspiring, and keeping the right ones. As a manager, are you cultivating this vital resource? Is there more you could be doing? Are you just winging it? Every HR executive has a laundry list of things they wish managers knew:... |
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Make Your Kid A Money Genius
Beth Kobliner - Simon & Schuster Format: Print book
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From Beth Kobliner, the author of the bestselling personal finance bible Get a Financial Life - a new, must-have guide showing parents how to teach their children (from toddlers to young adults) to manage money in a smart way.Many of us think we can have the "money talk"... |
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Janesville: An American Story
Amy Goldstein - Simon & Schuster Format: Paperback
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* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize *800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017 * An Economist... |
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Fix It: Getting Accountability Right
Roger Connors - Portfolio Format: Print book
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From the world's leading experts on workplace accountability comes the most comprehensive study on the subject, revealing the cure that could fix low employee engagement in the workplace once and for all One factor, more than any other, causes the problems business leaders fear most. Lackluster... |
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Promote Yourself: The New Rules for Career Success
Dan Schawbel - St. Martin's Griffin; Exp Upd edition Format: Paperback
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"Dan will show you how to communicate your unique contribution, so that you make yourself indispensable." - From the Foreword by Marcus Buckingham, New York Times bestselling author of Now, Discover Your Strengths. How people perceive you has always been critical... |
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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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101 Job Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again
James Reed - Plume Format: Paperback
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"An insider's guide to the perfect interview." - Daily Express What are job interviewers actually looking for in a candidate What questions will they ask What does each question really mean What are the answers that will secure you the job James Reed, chairman... |
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Auto Empire
Eric Choi - Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Format: Print book
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The automotive industry has a tumultuous history rife with back-room deals, brilliant innovation, colorful characters, and marked by the complete transformation of our planet. In Auto Empire, author Choi paints a compelling picture of the birth and growth of the modern auto industry.... |
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