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Look Like The Leader You Are - Paperback

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by Lizzie Edwards (Author)DO YOU WANT TO BE SEEN AS SOMEONE WHO CAN MAKE IT TO THE VERY TOP?IS DRESSING FOR WORK STRESSFUL?COULD WHAT YOU WEAR BE HOLDING YOU BACK?Like it or not, how you present yourself plays a hugely important role in your career success.In Look Like the Leader You Are, Personal Brand Stylist and Style Coach, Lizzie Edwards, enables you to create an effortless and stylish work wardrobe by sharing her proven 7 Rs process.This updated second edition of Lizzie's bestselling bo...

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience - Hardcover

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by Brené Brown (Author)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In her latest book, Brené Brown writes, "If we want to find the way back to ourselves and one another, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories and be stewards of the stories that we hear. This is the framework for meaningful connection." Don't miss the five-part HBO Max docuseries Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart! In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experi...

The Science of Self-Discipline: The Willpower, Mental Toughness, and Self-Control to Resist Temptation and Achieve Your Goals - Hardcover

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by Peter Hollins (Author)Your best intentions are not enough. Learn to scientifically engineer a disciplined life, become relentless, and never give up. Whatever you want in your life, self-discipline is the missing piece. Goals will remain dreams if you make the mistake of relying on motivation and your best drawn plans. The Science of Self-Discipline is a deep look into what allows us to resist our worst impulses and simply execute, achieve, produce, and focus. Every principle is scientifi...

Mother / Founder: 68 Women on the Trials and Triumphs of Starting a Business and Raising a Family - Hardcover

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by Amanda Jane Jones (Author), Jennifer Fernandez (Author)An inspirational and empowering celebration of more than sixty women who are both dedicated mothers and successful entrepreneurs. Starting a business can be daunting, scary, and exciting, all at once; so too can starting a family. But they can coexist--as the incredible roster of women in this book demonstrate, entrepreneurship can be both a sustainable and fulfilling model for working motherhood. Each woman profiled here shares insigh...

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by Smedley D. Butler (Author)2024 Reprint of the 1935 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Butler was a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit from warfare. After Butler retired from the US Marine Corps in October 1931, he made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s giving his speec...

Women Who Trust: Simple And Practical Tips To Create A Powerful Legacy, Growth And Impact - Paperback

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by Izdihar Jamil (Author)Embark on a transformative journey with "Women Who Trust," crafted by bold female leaders across the globe. This book goes beyond mere inspiration, offering actionable steps and key insights that empower you to create a lasting legacy.These pages resonate with simplicity and depth, covering topics such as entrepreneurial wisdom, embracing grief through poetry, expanding spirituality, and making bold, logical decisions.Discover how to trust the Universe's guidance and ...

Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People into Extraordinary Performers - Paperback

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by Erika Andersen (Author)How to develop an all-star staff, even if you don't know the first thing about managing "Your employees are, like you and me, flawed and hopeful human beings whose success is at least partly dependent on your skill as a manager, human beings who will thrive with skillful and consistent attention and wither without it." Erika Andersen has helped some of the best-managed companies in the world develop their employees. Now she explains how to stay ahead of the competi...

The Good Life for Less: Giving Your Family Great Meals, Good Times, and a Happy Home on a Budget - Paperback

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by Amy Allen Clark (Author), Jana Murphy (Author)When Amy Clark and her husband found themselves in unexpected financial trouble right before the birth of their first child, they quickly learned the importance of smart budgeting and making a little money go a long way. In this book, Amy offers up a clever lifestyle plan that is long on creativity and short on cost to help you achieve a peaceful, thrifty home and a loving, happy family: - Set a reasonable budget and stick to it- Save half pric...

Historical Documents of the P.L.O.: A Collection for Critical Organizational Study - Paperback

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by Henry Hakam?ki (Foreword by), Adnan Husain (Foreword by), Breht O'Shea (Foreword by) Number of Pages: 274 Dimensions: 0.62 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 26, 2024

Witness to a Prosecution: The Myth of Michael Milken - Hardcover

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by Richard V. Sandler (Author)In 1986, the SEC and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York began an investigation into Michael Milken, Drexel Burnham Lambert, and its High Yield and Convertible Bond Department, a department Michael created and was head of. Michael was the most successful and innovative financier of his time. Drexel, an upstart investment bank was also the most successful securities firm on Wall Street, thanks to Michael.What was the investigation into Michael ...

The Success Paradox: How to Surrender & Win in Business and in Life - Hardcover

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by Gary C. Cooper (Author), Will T. Wilkinson (With)Success is not a goal, it's a lifestyle.The Success Paradox is the improbable story of a life and business transformed, told in a warmly authentic style that says: "I hit rock bottom, I surrendered, I began doing the opposite of what I'd been doing before, miracles happened, and here's what you can learn from my journey."With riveting personal details that illuminate his discoveries, Gary details how he defied the odds - not just to survive ...

Chasing the Impossible: A Model for Inclusive and Innovative Care - Hardcover

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by Rachelle Rutherford (Author)Defying limitations, one family at a time.In the vast landscape of American childhood, one staggering statistic looms large: one in six children grapples with a developmental disability. Prepare to be moved, challenged, and inspired. Chasing The Impossible isn't just a book-it's a clarion call to action. Number of Pages: 200 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 01, 2024

The Great Digital Transformation: Reimagining the Future of Customer Interactions - Hardcover

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by Gerard Szatvanyi (Author)Dare to dreamCreating a website and digitizing processes may have seemed cutting edge at one time; but technologies have continued to advance, and retailers must keep up. Gerard Szatvanyi, an entrepreneur and founder of OSF Digital, a leading Salesforce partner, knows firsthand what it takes to remain on top (and not become obsolete) in today's connected retail world. Global brands and companies of all sizes have turned to him, time and again, to help them through ...

Complexity and Creativity in Organizations - Hardcover

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by Ralph Stacey (Author)This text seeks to demonstrate what leadership means in an environment where complete control is not possible. Explaining what self-organization means in human systems, it provides a model of the learning organization that takes into account the real-life anxieties that are involved.Back JacketCombining insights from the new science of complexity with insights from psychoanalysis, Stacey posits that repressing the anxiety caused by the unstable, ever-changing nature of...

The Boutique: How to Start, Scale, and Sell a Professional Services Firm - Hardcover

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by Greg Alexander (Author)What is a boutique? A boutique is a professional services firm past the start-up stage but prescale. Examples can be found in consulting, marketing and advertising, IT services, etc. It's basically anyone who sells their expertise. There are 1,465,900 boutiques. This book is for them. It is about what firms at scale do. It is about what boutiques need to do to scale. And this knowledge gap between those at scale, and those not at scale, makes all the difference. Th...

The Seismic Shift in Leadership: How to Thrive in a New Era of Connection - Hardcover

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by Michelle K. Johnston (Author)THE OLD LEADERSHIP CHARACTERISTICS OF POWER, CONTROL, AND FEAR ARE BECOMING MORE AND MORE OBSOLETE. Authenticity, compassion, and alignment are the new paths to leadership success. A leader's new power lies in their ability to connect. Whether you're the coach of a sports team, a nonprofit executive, the president of your family's business, or leading a small organization or a Fortune 500 company, the secret sauce lies in your ability to connect. While leaders ...

The Art of Persuasion: Winning Without Intimidation - Hardcover

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by Bob Burg (Author)The Art of Persuasion teaches you how to get what you want when you want it. You would love to have that ability, right? After studying some of the most successful men and women in modern history, author Bob Burg noticed how many common characteristics these people have--and shares them all with you. One trait that stands above all the rest is their ability to win people over to their way of thinking--they were all persuasive. Each of these life winners had a burning des...

Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life - Hardcover

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by Susan David (Author)#1 Wall Street Journal Best Seller USA Today Best Seller Amazon Best Book of the YearTED Talk sensation - over 3 million views The counterintuitive approach to achieving your true potential, heralded by the Harvard Business Review as a groundbreaking idea of the year. The path to personal and professional fulfillment is rarely straight. Ask anyone who has achieved his or her biggest goals or whose relationships thrive and you'll hear stories of many unexpected detours ...

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action - Hardcover

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by Simon Sinek (Author)The inspirational bestseller that ignited a movement and asked us to find our WHYDiscover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that served as the basis for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time--with more than 56 million views and counting. Over a decade ago, Simon Sinek started a movement that inspired millions to demand purpose at work, to ask what was the WHY of their organization. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his idea...

The Anointed: New York's White Shoe Law Firms-How They Started, How They Grew, and How They Ran the Country - Hardcover

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by Jeremiah Lambert (Author), Geoffrey S. Stewart (Author)This is the story of how and why such powerhouse Wall Street law firms as Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Davis Polk & Wardwell, and Sullivan & Cromwell, grew from nineteenth-century entrepreneurial origins into icons of institutional law practice, and how, as white-shoe bastions with the social standards of an exclusive gentleman's club, they promoted the values of an east coast elite.Author BiographyJeremiah D. Lambert, a nation...

Quit Like a Millionaire: No Gimmicks, Luck, or Trust Fund Required - Paperback

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by Kristy Shen (Author), Bryce Leung (Author), Jl Collins (Foreword by)From two leaders of the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement, a bold, contrarian guide to retiring at any age, with a reproducible formula to financial independence A bull***t-free guide to growing your wealth, retiring early, and living life on your own terms Kristy Shen retired with a million dollars at the age of thirty-one, and she did it without hitting a home run on the stock market, starting the next...

Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life - Hardcover

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by Spencer Johnson (Author), Kenneth Blanchard (Foreword by)THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WITH OVER 28 MILLION COPIES IN PRINT! A timeless business classic, Who Moved My Cheese? uses a simple parable to reveal profound truths about dealing with change so that you can enjoy less stress and more success in your work and in your life. It would be all so easy if you had a map to the Maze.If the same old routines worked.If they'd just stop moving "The Cheese."But things keep changing... Most pe...

The Theory of the Leisure Class - Paperback

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by Thorstein Veblen (Author), Martha Banta (Editor)In his scathing The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen produced a landmark study of affluent American society that exposes, with brilliant ruthlessness, the habits of production and waste that link invidious business tactics and barbaric social behavior. Veblen's analysis of the evolutionary process sees greed as the overriding motive in the modern economy, and with an impartial gaze he examines the human cost paid when social inst...

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation - Paperback

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by Jon Gertner (Author)The definitive history of America's greatest incubator of innovation and the birthplace of some of the 20th century's most influential technologies "Filled with colorful characters and inspiring lessons . . . The Idea Factory explores one of the most critical issues of our time: What causes innovation?" --Walter Isaacson, The New York Times Book Review "Compelling . . . Gertner's book offers fascinating evidence for those seeking to understand how a society should best ...

Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Updated and Expanded - Hardcover

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by David Graeber (Author), Thomas Piketty (Introduction by)The classic work on debt, now is a special tenth anniversary edition with a new introduction by Thomas Piketty Before there was money, there was debt. Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems--to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There's not a shred of evidence to support it. Here anthropo...

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by Raymond Charles Barker (Author)The shortest, most used, and many think the best on its subject. Money Is God in Action created a minor sensation when it was announced in the Religious Notices page of the New York Times. Equating God with money was unheard of in New York, from St. Patri Number of Pages: 16 Dimensions: 0.2 x 7 x 4 IN Publication Date: January 01, 1985

Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last - Hardcover

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by Wright Thompson (Author)The New York Times bestseller! "A warm and loving reflection that, like good bourbon, will stand the test of time." --Eric Asimov, The New York Times "Bourbon is for sharing, and so is Pappyland."--The Wall Street Journal The story of how Julian Van Winkle III, the caretaker of the most coveted cult Kentucky Bourbon whiskey in the world, fought to protect his family's heritage and preserve the taste of his forebears, in a world where authenticity, like his product,...

Choice Theory: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Michael Allingham (Author)We make choices all the time--about how to spend our money, about how to spend our time, about what to do with our lives. And we are also constantly judging the decisions other people make as rational or irrational. But what kind of criteria are we applying when we say that a choice is rational? What guides our own choices, especially in cases where we don't have complete information about the outcomes? What strategies should be applied in making decisions which a...

Which psychological processes are involved in intentional buying and how rational is the buyer? - Paperback

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by Vladislav Tsekov (Author)Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Psychology - Work, Business, Organisational and Economic Psychology, grade: A, University College London, language: English, abstract: Each day we face numerous decisions that determine the outcome of our life to a great extent. Whether we are rich or poor, happy or sad, good or bad - it all comes down to the decisions we make. It is therefore logical to assume that human beings have evolved to be experts in decision making. ...

Boutique Hotel. Business plan for a Venture - Paperback

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by Silvia Stamenova (Author)Academic Paper from the year 2018 in the subject Business economics - Company formation, Business Plans, grade: 5.50, Anglia Ruskin University, language: English, abstract: This paper shows a business plan for a small boutique hotel with an unique style. Therefor it gives a detailed description of the product, the staff and the clients. Era's hotel is a small boutique hotel offering its customers rooms each of which is designed in either Tudor, Roman or Georgian st...

Spark the Heart: Engineering Empathy in Your Organization - Hardcover

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by Nicole Price (Author)Spark the Heart: Engineering Empathy in Your OrganizationHow to leverage the benefits of empathy to get the results you want There's no place for empathy in business was a belief Dr. Price, a logical, results-focused engineer held onto tightly, until a cascade of life-altering events provided her a new perspective. A perspective that recognized empathy as a critical skill that every leader must develop and employ to achieve success. Dr. Price's empathetic leadership jo...

Atd's Handbook for Consultants - Paperback

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by Elaine Biech (Editor)Turn to the Definitive Guide for All Your Consulting QuestionsATD's Handbook for Consultants unpacks what it takes to run a successful consulting practice that delivers world-class solutions for clients all with the benefits of a self-directed work life. As companies and organizations become increasingly strategic with how they use employee resources, more are engaging external consultants as highly skilled temporary labor when they lack the specialized expertise to ha...