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Language
English
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The best-selling author of Blink identifies the qualities of successful people, posing theories about the cultural, family, and idiosyncratic factors that shape high achievers, in a resource that covers such topics as the secrets of software billionaires, why certain cultures are associated with better academic performance, and why the Beatles earned their fame.
2) Mastery
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
Robert Greene, the "modern Machiavelli" debunks the prevailing mythology of success and presents a radical new way to greatness.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For the past five years, Rubenstein has spoken with the world's highest performing leaders about who they are and how they became successful. Here he distills these revealing conversations into an indispensable leadership guidebook. These agents of change discuss how they got started and how they handle decision making, failure, innovation, change, and crisis. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Publisher
BookaVivo
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
[1o edición].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 audio file (14 hr., 27 min.))
Language
Español
Description
WHAT MAKES GREAT LEADERS STAND OUT? Learn about the guiding principles and philosophies of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, and many other famous people through insightful conversations about their lives and career paths. Learn from the top CEOs, presidents, founders, and leaders from the worlds of finance, technology, entertainment, sports, and politics. Discover how each of them has been forged and how...
5) Simple steps to impossible dreams: the fifteen power secrets of the world's most successful people
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Pearson Education Pub. as FTPress Delivers
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource ([9] pages)
Language
English
Description
"This Element is an excerpt from Success built to last: creating a life that matters (ISBN: 9780132287517) by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson. Discover your lifelong obsession: the passion that creates meaning you'll never want to escape from!"--Resource description page.
Author
Publisher
Pearson Education Pub. as FTPress Delivers
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource ([5] pages)
Language
English
Description
"This Element is an excerpt from Success built to last: creating a life that matters (ISBN: 9780132287517) by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson. Create relationships that are "built to last": relationships that will make you more effective for a lifetime, whatever your role, job, or goals."--Resource description page.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"Fitness, money, and wisdom--here are the tools. Over the last two years...Tim Ferriss has collected the routines and tools of world-class performers around the globe. Now, the distilled notebook of tips and tricks that helped him double his income, flexibility, happiness, and more is available as Tools of Titans"--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher
Assemble You
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
[First edition].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 audio file (07 min.))
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Audio Learning from Assemble You. What does your morning look like? Do you hit the snooze button on your alarm several times before finally dragging yourself out of bed? Do you rush around, trying not to be late? Are you guzzling coffee, trying to stay awake? Or do you feel stressed out and anxious before your day even begins? Mornings are difficult and can be hectic as we try to get the kids ready for school, review a work presentation,...
Author
Publisher
Pearson Education Pub. as FTPress Delivers
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource ([9] pages)
Language
English
Description
"This Element is an excerpt from Success built to last: creating a life that matters (ISBN: 9780132287517) by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson. How to use carefully calibrated, constructive confrontation to ignite your team's best, most passionate, most creative ideas"--Resource description page.
Author
Publisher
Pearson Education Pub. as FTPress Delivers
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource ([9] pages)
Language
English
Description
"This Element is an excerpt from Success built to last: creating a life that matters (ISBN: 9780132287517) by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson. Embrace your flaws and weaknesses--and transform them into the building blocks of greatness!"--Resource description page.
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 272 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Marie Kondo performs a quick tidying ritual to quiet her mind before leaving the house. The president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, Ed Catmull, mixes three shots of espresso with three scoops of cocoa powder and two sweeteners. Fitness expert Jillian Michaels doesn't set an alarm, because her five-year-old jolts her from sleep by jumping into bed for a cuddle every morning. Part instruction manual, part someone else's diary, the authors...
Author
Publisher
Wharton School Pub
Language
English
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Description
"Success Built to Last draws on face-to-face, unscripted conversations with hundreds of remarkable human beings from around the world. Meet billionaires, CEOs, presidents of nations, Nobel laureates, and celebrities. Meet unsung heroes who've achieved lasting impact without obvious power or charisma. Famous or not, almost all started out ordinary."--Jacket
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xlv, 272 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
We all know that it takes hard work, dedication, and the occasional dose of luck for someone to make it to the top of their chosen field. Yet we also suspect that it takes a little something more -- but what? The Art of Doing asks today's most successful celebrities, businessmen, and iconoclastic achievers, "How do you succeed at what you do?" You'll be surprised by what you can learn from these original and refreshing takes on success.
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