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"Sam and Sadie meet in a hospital in 1987. Sadie is visiting her sister, Sam is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there, but playing together brings joy, escape, fierce competition -- and a special friendship. Then all too soon that time is over, and they must return to their normal lives. When the pair spot each other eight years later in a crowded train station, they are catapulted back to that moment. The spark is immediate,...
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Managing Up is your guide to the most valuable 'soft skill' your career has ever seen. It's not about sucking up or brown-nosing; it's about figuring out who you are, who your boss is, and finding where you meet. It's about building real relationships with people who have influence over your career. Managing up is good for you, good for your boss, and good for the organization as a whole. This book gives you strategies for developing these all-important...
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With case studies, micro strategies, and example language, listeners will learn communication skills that can be practiced and implemented immediately. In today's economy, it's not typically the smartest, hardest working or most technically savvy who succeed. Instead, the ability to communicate well is often the most important precursor to success in the workplace.
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Portfolio/ Penguin
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"At the very heart of all the success and failure I've been exposed to - both my own entrepreneurial journey and through the thousands of interviews I've conducted on my chart-topping podcast - are a set of principles that ensure excellence. These fundamental laws underpinned my meteoric rise, and they will fuel yours too, whether you want to build something great or become someone great. The laws are rooted in psychology and behavioral science, in...
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"Why do some people perform better at work than others? This deceptively simple question continues to confound professionals in all sectors of the workforce. Now, after a unique, five-year study of more than 5,000 managers and employees, Morten Hansen reveals the answers in his "Seven Work Smarter Practices" that can be applied by anyone looking to maximize their time and performance. Each of Hansen's seven practices is highlighted by inspiring stories...
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Entrepreneur Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Entrepreneur Voices on Careers shares advice, stories, strategies from more than 20 career experts to help readers thrive in corporate culture, build a steady side hustle, launch a new business, and plan their exit. This book is perfect for intrapreneurs, entrepreneurs, and anyone looking to advance or shift their career"--
Are you on the edge of a career burnout? Do you feel bored or uninspired by your business? Have you been thinking about that...
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Gallup Press
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c2007
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English
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To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced the first version of its online assessment, StrengthsFinder, in the 2001 management book Now, Discover Your Strengths. The book has spent more than five years on bestseller lists and ignited a global conversation, while StrengthsFinder has helped millions discover their top five talents. In StrengthsFinder 2.0, Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular assessment and much more....
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Portfolio/Penguin
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[2016]
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English
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Cofounder of Fast Company magazine and bestselling author of Mavericks at Work and Practically Radical shows how true business innovation can spring from the unlikeliest places. Far away from Silicon Valley, in familiar, traditional, even unglamorous fields, ordinary people are unleashing extraordinary advances that amaze customers, energize employees, and create huge economic value. Their secret? They understand that the work of inventing the future...
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Wiley
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[2013]
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English
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The Power of Consistency lays out the personal prosperity plan, a simple process to create meaningful results by unleashing the power of focus and your subconscious mind. Taking you step by step through the FEAR process - focus, emotional connection, action, and responsibility - this book will teach you how to get focused on what you want; how to become deeply emotionally committed to achieving your goals; the value of a quiet-time ritual; how to...
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Business Plus
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2014.
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English
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James explains how to clear the clutter from your work life so you can achieve real and lasting success. You'll learn how to: Earn the respect of your peers -- Find and keep your dream job -- Use Use layoffs to build your career -- Give unforgettable presentations -- Neutralize workplace bullies -- Nail that all-important email -- Achieve lasting career security Full of the bluntest secrets from the most successful workers.
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HarperCollins Leadership, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Throughout his career, Josh Flagg has faced off with challengers of all kinds in negotiations over the world's most expensive and sought-after real estate. He has seen and put into practice what works and identified the "common tricks" that don't. Josh has curated ten rules that, when applied to any deal, will significantly increase any your chance of success, and make you the master negotiator your clients need you to be. If you want to be the best,...
14) Beyond disruption: innovate and achieve growth without displacing industries, companies, or jobs
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Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Disruption dominates innovation theory and practice. But disruption is destructive-displacing jobs, companies, and even entire industries. Are we missing better, and even bigger, opportunities to innovate and grow? With three decades of research, the number one global-bestselling authors of Blue Ocean Strategy W. Chan Kim and Ren�ee Mauborgne reveal another way to innovate and grow-nondisruptive creation. Just as Blue Ocean Strategy redefined the...
15) The glass ledge: how to break through self-sabotage, embrace your power, and create your success
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Sounds True
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Helping women overcome self-sabotaging actions and beliefs to find their power and success"--
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2014.
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From Wall Street to Main Street, John Brooks, longtime contributor to the New Yorker, brings to life in vivid fashion twelve classic and timeless tales of corporate and financial life in America. What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"The machines are here. After decades of sci-fi doomsaying and marketing hype, advanced A.I. and automation technologies have leapt out of research labs and Silicon Valley engineering departments and into the center of our lives. Robots once primarily threatened blue-collar manufacturing jobs, but today's machines are being trained to do the work of lawyers, doctors, investment bankers, and other white-collar jobs previously considered safe from automation's...
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2021.
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Infuse your organization with a distinct personality and culture that draws customers in a way that simply competing on price cannot. Joe Coulombe founded what would become Trader Joe’s in the late 1960s and helped shape it into the beloved, quirky food chain it is today. Realizing early on that he could not compete and win by playing the same game his bigger competitors were playing, he decided to build a store for educated people of somewhat modest...
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Polyface
Pub. Date
[1998]
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English
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Have you ever desired, deep within your soul, to make a comfortable full-time living from a farming enterprise? Too often, people dare not even vocalize this desire because it seems absurd. After all, the farm population is dwindling. It takes too much capital to start. The pay is too low. The working conditions are dusty, smelly and noisy: not the place to raise a family. This is all true, and more, for most farmers. But for farm entrepreneurs, the...
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