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Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
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English
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Inspiring stories and success secrets from business leader and entrepreneur Amy Hilliard Pivot for Success tells business leader and entrepreneur Amy Hilliard's stories of success, struggle, and sustainability to inspire you to become resilient. Hilliard offers her hard-won perspective on what it takes to "make it" in American business and in life. She talks about the tough stuff, the stuff that most people who rise to her level of accomplishment...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Language
English
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In Warren Buffett: Inside the Ultimate Money Mind , Hagstrom breaks new ground with a deep analysis of Buffett's essential wisdom, an intricate mosaic of wide-ranging ideas and insights that Buffett calls a Money Mind. What exactly is a Money Mind? At one level, it's a way of thinking about major financial issues such as capital allocation. At another level, it summarizes an overall mindset for successfully investing in today's fast-paced stock market,...
3) Sooley
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English
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In the summer of his seventeenth year, Samuel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basketball tournament. He has never been away from home, nor has he ever been on a airplane. The opportunity to be scouted by dozens of college coaches is a dream come true. Samuel is an amazing athlete, with speed, quickness, and an astonishing vertical leap. The rest of his game,...
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Injured in a freak accident, novelist Gerry Andersen lies in a hospital bed in his glamorous but sterile apartment, isolated from the busy world he can see through his windows. He is utterly dependent on two women he barely knows: his young assistant and a night nurse whose competency he questions. As he moves in and out of dreamlike memories and seemingly random appearances of a persistent ex-girlfriend at his bedside, Gerry fears he may be losing...
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Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (22787 pages)
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English
Description
There are more than 10,000,000 employee owners in America today. The results of employees owning a piece of the pie has been proven throughout American history, even before ESOPs became IRS law in 1974. Employees with even a small capital interest in their firms' successes are more likely to stay, have greater loyalty and pride, are willing to work hard, and make more suggestions for improvement. Economic injustice caused by wealth disparity is quickly...
6) Monster
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Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (15923 pages)
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English
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Monster explains how we can responsibly engage with technology, and avoid its darker tendencies, while accepting its necessary gifts. The authors, insiders at one of the world's largest tech consulting firms, give a unique take on: - The addictive nature of tech and how to fight it - The growing backlash against big tech-where it's right and what it misses - Crucial steps for taming technology's role in your life and in your organization-without becoming...
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Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (13688 pages)
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English
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Learn the secret of what really drives sales-and how to give people what they need so they want to buy from you. Are you a salesperson who has been hearing too many "We'll think it overs", "Get back to mes", and "We'll let you knows"? If so, you're in good company. Author Greg Nanigian has interviewed thousands of chief executives, sales managers, and salespeople, and found that over ninety percent of them have exactly the same problem. Why? Because...
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Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (26767 pages)
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English
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Digital Makeover: How L'Oreal Put People First to Build a Beauty Tech Powerhouse examines L'Oreal's successful people-driven digital transformation. Professors and authors Beatrice Collin and Marie Taillard set out exactly how L'Oreal turned itself into a digital and tech powerhouse by building on its legacy to reimagine relationships inside the company, and with its customers and partners. Digital Makeover comprehensively describes L'Oreal's strategy,...
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Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24688 pages)
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English
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Emotionally, getting fired is one of life's most difficult experiences. When women get fired, it is often devastating, traumatic, and isolating. We experience a sudden powerlessness that can destroy our confidence and feelings of self-worth. We grieve. We feel broken. It affects our self-esteem, our financial well-being, our professional identity, and our ability to look for other work-in short, it affects our entire way of life. How, then, does a...
10) Make It Clear
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Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
1st edition.
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1 online resource (27699 pages)
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English
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Do you give presentations at meetings? Do you ever have to explain a complicated subject to audiences unfamiliar with your field? Do you make pitches for ideas or products? Do you want to interest a lecture hall of restless students in subjects that you find fascinating? Then you need this book. Make It Clear explains how to communicate-how to speak and write to get your ideas across. Written by an MIT professor who taught his students these techniques...
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Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (31821 pages)
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English
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An insider's guide to the coming philanthropic revolution Meet the next generation of big donors-the Gen X and Millennial philanthropists who will be the most significant donors ever and will shape our world in profound ways. Hear them describe their ambitious plans to revolutionize giving so it achieves greater impact. And learn how to help them succeed in a world that needs smart, effective donors now more than ever. As "next gen donors" step into...
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Publisher
McGraw Hill-Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (21376 pages)
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English
Description
Is work working for you? If you experience the "Sunday night scaries," count down the days to the weekend, or dread the thought of another day at work, maybe you can only see two options to escape your current misery: quit your job or stay and suffer. There is another option. In Own It. Love It. Make It Work., one of America's top productivity consultants reveals why you don't have to rely on your company, nor your boss, for your professional fulfillment....
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Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (13428 pages)
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English
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Gone are the days when fathers were expected to put work first and family last. Today, men worldwide are redefining fatherhood and finding greater fulfillment both at work and at home. But old ways die hard. Many managers prefer the status quo, and fathers aren't finding the support and flexibility they need from their employers. Dads still feel pressure to downplay or hide their involvement in their children's lives. And even as more men step up...
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Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (21952 pages)
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English
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People with inborn talent may be good at what they do-but only the mentally tough reach the highest plateaus in their field. And here's the best news of all: mental toughness is something anyone can learn. Director of mental training for the St. Louis Cardinals and a top-tier executive coach, Dr. Jason Selk knows everything there is to know about developing the mental toughness required for achieving any goal you set for yourself. In fact, the techniques...
15) Talent Wins
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Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (19276 pages)
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English
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Radical Advice for Reinventing Talent-and HR Typical talent-planning and HR processes are designed for predictable environments, traditional ways of getting work done, and organizations where "lines and boxes" still define how people are managed. As work and organizations have become more fluid-and business strategy is no longer about planning years ahead but about sensing and seizing new opportunities and adapting to a constantly changing environment-companies...
16) Fifteen Paths
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Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (36036 pages)
Language
English
Description
Prescriptions for imaginative living in today's noisy and ever-narrowing world Our social conversation has gone awry. We are surrounded by noise and retreating to social media bubbles. As conversations across ideological divides become increasingly difficult, we as a society need to rethink what it means to listen, to think, to create, and to be democratically engaged citizens. Fifteen Paths documents the journey of a disillusioned business professor...
17) Undisruptable
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Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (19584 pages)
Language
English
Description
In our world of incessant change, we are all threatened by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity-at the individual and organizational levels. Undisruptable will give you a new lens through which to consider change as an opportunity rather than an obstacle. You'll be inspired to consider the big questions of today: What does the future hold? What does the exponential growth of technology mean for the world of work? What does a changing...
18) Burn
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Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (22671 pages)
Language
English
Description
The American Dream continues to resonate with immigrants from around the world. Millions of people hope to come to the United States to build a better life for themselves and their families, often by creating and growing new ventures and companies. While not everyone succeeds, many do. Mei Xu is one of those successes. In Burn, entrepreneur and international businesswoman Mei Xu tells her story of ingenuity, determination, and luck. Spanning three...
Author
Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (17737 pages)
Language
English
Description
As digital technologies and consumer expectations continue to disrupt almost every industry sector, companies are placing greater emphasis on developing and implementing transformation programs. Changing the Game offers the practical knowledge required to create a dramatic step-change in company performance. Designed for executives and managers responsible for a transformation in any type of company and situation, this comprehensive real-world playbook...
Author
Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (18973 pages)
Language
English
Description
Business is just like any sector or topic, with its own language, customs, codes, and terminologies. Different aspects of business can have their own distinctive terminology, which can also overlap. In 30 Days to a More Powerful Business Vocabulary, Dan presents over 500 words and short expressions from a variety of different business categories. Each section introduces approximately twenty-five words. Each of the words are initially presented in...
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