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Former vice-chairman of the U.S. President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy, John Hope Bryant, delivers an accessible and powerful resource for everyday Americans seeking to build a strong financial foundation. This book is an easy-to-follow first step toward a fulfilling financial future, helping you understand your relationship to work and money.
With an insightful foreword by Doug McMillon, president and CEO of Walmart Inc., you'll learn...
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THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
* With a Foreword by Sir Bob Geldof *
'Essential: full of heart, honesty, humour and helpful advice' - Sir Richard Curtis CBE
'Josh Littlejohn is a rockstar of social impact' - Irvine Welsh
When Josh Littlejohn started a small sandwich shop in his home city of Edinburgh, he would never have thought that, within ten years' time, it would be frequented by Hollywood megastars, that he would have opened a string of...
3) Reignition
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A Secret Playbook for Transforming Stuck Startups
Nine out of ten startups fail. Even venture capital firms make most of their returns on one out of ten investments hitting the proverbial "home run." But in the media-and our culture-we glorify those success stories, leaving little room for the difficult side of entrepreneurship. Naturally, founders attempt to replicate the success of those winners by raising too much, scaling too quickly, and destroying...
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A leading sociologist reveals why racial inequality persists in the workplace despite today's multi-billion-dollar diversity industry-and provides actional solutions for creating a truly equitable, multiracial future.
Labor and race have shared a complex, interconnected history in America. For decades, key aspects of work-from getting a job to workplace norms to advancement and mobility-ignored and failed Black people. While explicit discrimination...
5) Job Crafting
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A practical and timely guide that shows employees how to craft the jobs they want and managers how to shape their organizations in ways that are conducive to such job crafting.
Job Crafting is a rigorous, modern take on job redesign that empowers workers to transform the jobs they have into the ones they want. Through the process of job crafting, a worker proactively alters their job to emphasize tasks that better align with their skills or that...
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In “The Humor Habit”, veteran speaker, corporate trainer, and comedian Paul Osincup delivers a hilarious and effective new take on how to make yourself and your team more productive and resilient by focusing on the funny side of work and life. In the book, you'll learn why humor isn't an in-born quality you're either born with or without. Instead, it's a habit you can develop over time.
You'll find 100 ways to have more fun at work, methods to...
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The 3rd Paradigm provides a framework for businesses and individuals alike to innovate breakthrough solutions through a process of Co-Creation. Backed by original research involving more than 4,000 business professionals, the authors present the three paradigms of business, the five types of Co-Creation, and a four part step-by-step model that allows you to make the radical shift toward the 3rd Paradigm of Co-Creation-where all stakeholders play a...
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A penetrating look at how Web3 will shape our shared future
In The Future of Community, a team of Web3 visionaries and tech-savvy executives delivers a groundbreaking new take on the seismic impact Web3 is having-and will continue to have-on our technological and social landscapes. The authors discuss why Web3 really is the "next big thing" to shape our digital and offline futures and how it will transform the world.
You'll discover a whole host...
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Transcend Networking
Brad Englert has written Spheres of Influence: How to Create and Nurture Authentic Business Relationships to help emerging leaders develop and perfect what he calls the "critical hard skill" of building effective and enduring business relationships.
There are two major parts to the book. The first part of the book focuses on the "internal sphere of influence," those people with whom readers can have the most direct impact: relationship...
10) Read the Room
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Maximize your network with this one-stop guide to developing meaningful connections in life and business
Foreword written and read by Nick Jonas
Our fullest life begins the second we start living like we're not the only one in it.
Whether it's with coworkers, friends, family, or a stranger at the grocery store, our relationships with other people are the key to our happiness, our success, and our well-being. With a unique approach to building...
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In “Inclusion Revolution”, workplace strategist and C-suite executive Daisy Auger-Dominguez delivers a timely, inspirational, and practical exploration of why mainstream efforts at diversity improvement tend to fail and what you can do today to successfully create a diverse and representative leadership team at your company.
In the book, the author explains her four-step process of reflection, visualization, action, and persistence, and walks...
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Long before Peyton and Eli Manning achieved phenomenal success in football, two other Manning brothers, Edward and William, achieved equal success in business. Learn how Edward and William turned a humble 1908 Seattle's Pike Place Market coffee and tea stand in into a regional restaurant and food services empire. With “Manning's - A Success Formula”, entrepreneurs and business practitioners alike can quickly understand the steps needed to make...
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Embark on a transformative journey through the pages of "Unleashing Success: A Guide to Entrepreneurial Triumphs." In this illuminating guide, discover the keys to navigating the intricate world of entrepreneurship with strategic finesse and creative vigor. From visionary leadership to market dominance, this handbook distills the essential elements of successful entrepreneurship, offering actionable insights and real-world examples. Whether you're...
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Small-business guru George Cloutier offers the controversial message that Profits Aren't Everything, They're the Only Thing in this book of wisdom for entrepreneurs everywhere in these tough economic times. With advice such as "forget teamwork" and "micromanage like crazy," Profits Aren't Everything, They're the Only Thing is the reality check that will help small-business owners stay afloat and stay profitable.
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En 1974, Pancho Ochoa, el fundador de El Pollo Loco, al abrir su primera sucursal en Guasave, Sinaloa, dijo: "Conquistaré al mundo con este sabor". Sus amigos le decían que estaba loco, que bueno que Juan Francisco "Pancho" Ochoa se propuso con su "Locura" a buscar nuevas oportunidades de largo alcance y compartir con el mundo los resultados de su innovación, creatividad, pasión y entrega, al crear y cuidar una marca que ha trascendido con gran...
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Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, leading to pharmaceutical companies freely overcharging for medication, a Big Tech free from oversight, politicians free to incite rebellion, corporations free to pollute, and more. How did we get here?
In “The Road to Freedom”, Nobel prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz dissects America's current economic system and the political ideology that created...
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A guide to starting and sustaining creativity-based businesses-from culinary, to crafting, to film, to fashion, and beyond.
Many "creative types" don't think they're cut out for business-but Doug Richard, founder of School for Creative Startups, believes entrepreneurs are made, not born. In this user-friendly, guide he shows how artists, chefs, designers, musicians, and others can turn their hobbies and passions into sustainable lifestyle businesses.
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Leading pricing expert Rafi Mohammed shows businesses how to reap a financial windfall and foster growth using the underutilized and often overlooked strategy of setting prices. The 1% Windfall reveals how modest incremental changes to an everyday business practice-pricing-can yield significant rewards. Illustrating the power of pricing, a study of the Global 1200 found that if companies raised prices by just 1%, their average operating profits would...
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A corporate mole's-eye view of the society in which we all live and toil, creating one of the most entertaining, thought provoking, and just plain funny bodies of work in contemporary letters. Stanley Bing knows whereof he speaks. He has lived the last two decades working inside a gigantic multinational corporation, kicking and screaming all the way up the ladder. He has seen it all -- mergers, acquisitions, layoffs, the death of the three-martini...
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The first book to tell the story of one of the world's most influential media businesses, The Family Business draws on more than 70 interviews with company insiders as well as book-industry luminaries to present the Ingram story and how a little-known Nashville-based company grew to play a pivotal role in transforming book publishing around the world.
The history of the Ingram Content Group is one of the most important and remarkable business stories...
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