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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

Peak Teams: Mastering the Habits of Unstoppable Venture-Backed Companies - Paperback

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by Jeff James Martin (Author)The challenges and pressures faced by VC-backed CEOs and founders-and their teams-are unlike anything else. When you're building something that's never been done before, there's no roadmap. You're responsible for meeting the needs of your team, clients, and partners...and of course, your investors and board members. You're juggling growth targets, internal misalignment, and raising capital-often all at once. And the whole time, you're deeply aware of the pressure ...

Peak Teams: Mastering the Habits of Unstoppable Venture-Backed Companies - Hardcover

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How to Turn $100 Into $1,000,000: Newly Minted 2nd Edition - Paperback

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by James McKenna (Author), Jeannine Glista (Author)The updated edition of the bestselling kids' guide to money: earning it, saving it, and investing it. From the creators of Biz Kid$ and Bill Nye the Science Guy comes the comprehensive guide for kids on the basics of earning, saving, spending, and investing money. Written in a humorous but informative voice that engages young readers, it's the book that every parent who wants to raise financially savvy and unspoiled children should buy for t...

Economics for the Common Good - Paperback

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by Jean Tirole (Author), Steven Rendall (Translator)From the Nobel Prize-winning economist, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in society When Jean Tirole won the Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by strangers and asked to comment on current events far from his own research. His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual prompted him to reflect more deeply on the role economists and their discipline play in society. The...

The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility - Paperback

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by Gregory Clark (Author), Neil Cummins (Contribution by), Yu Hao (Contribution by)A surprising look at how ancestry still determines social outcomes How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The Son Also Rises proves that movement on the social ladder has changed little over eight centuri...

Be 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0): Turning Your Business Into an Enduring Great Company - Hardcover

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by Jim Collins (Author), William Lazier (Author)From Jim Collins, the most influential business thinker of our era, comes an ambitious upgrade of his classic, Beyond Entrepreneurship, that includes all-new findings and world-changing insights. What's the roadmap to create a company that not only survives its infancy but thrives, changing the world for decades to come? Nine years before the publication of his epochal bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins and his mentor, Bill Lazier, answered t...

The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future - Hardcover

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by Chris Guillebeau (Author)Lead a life of adventure, meaning and purpose--and earn a good living. "Thoughtful, funny, and compulsively readable, this guide shows how ordinary people can build solid livings, with independence and purpose, on their own terms."--Gretchen Rubin, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project Still in his early thirties, Chris Guillebeau completed a tour of every country on earth and yet he's never held a "real job" or earned a regular paycheck....

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by Philippe Aghion (Author), Peter W. Howitt (Author)A comprehensive, rigorous, and up-to-date introduction to growth economics that presents all the major growth paradigms and shows how they can be used to analyze the growth process and growth policy design. This comprehensive introduction to economic growth presents the main facts and puzzles about growth, proposes simple methods and models needed to explain these facts, acquaints the reader with the most recent theoretical and empirical de...

The Strategy Dialogues: A Primer on Business Strategy and Strategic Management - Paperback

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by John Hillen (Author)Engage your strategic mind!"Makes strategy actionable and understandable." ‒Patrick Lencioni, Author of The Five Dysfunctions of a TeamWhat does it mean to think strategically? How do I set the right direction for my organization? And how can I turn strategic aspirations into reality?In The Strategy Dialogues, you will find the answers to these questions. In this transformative book, former US Assistant Secretary of State, accomplished CEO, and award-winning professor D...

Subtle Acts of Exclusion, Second Edition: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions - Paperback

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by Tiffany Jana (Author), Michael Baran (Author)An expanded edition of the first practical, nonjudgmental handbook for dealing with microaggressions, featuring examples, sample scripts, action plans, a new discussion and activity guide, and up-to-date suggestions for creating a culture of belonging in the workplace. Overt discrimination is relatively easy to spot. But the less obvious but more common actions that make people feel left out or stigmatized in our workplaces, commonly called micr...

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by David M. Schwartz (Author), Steven Kellogg (Illustrator)If You Made a MillionHave you ever wanted to make a million dollars? Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician is ready, willing, and able to explain the nuts and bolts -- as well as the mystery and wonder -- of earning money, investing it, accruing dividends and interest, and watching savings grow. Hey, you never know An ALA Notable Book A Horn Book Fanfare Selection A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Teachers' Choices S...

The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War - Paperback

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by Robert J. Gordon (Author), Robert J. Gordon (Afterword by)How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threat In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end? Weaving together a vivid narrative, histo...

Banana Ball: The Unbelievably True Story of the Savannah Bananas - Hardcover

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by Jesse Cole (Author), Don Yaeger (With)The Savannah Bananas have peeled back the game of baseball and made it fun again. This is their story. For his entire childhood, Jesse Cole dreamed of pitching in the Majors. Now, he has a life in baseball that he could have only imagined: he met the love of his life in the industry; they shaped Savannah, Georgia's professional team into the league champion Savannah Bananas; and now the Bananas have restyled baseball itself into something all their ow...

Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable - Paperback

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by Jeffrey D. Sachs (Author), Bernie Sanders (Foreword by)In this passionate and powerful book--part manifesto, part plan of action--the renowned economist Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a practical strategy to move America, seemingly more divided than ever, toward a new consensus: sustainable development. Sustainable development is a holistic approach that emphasizes economic, social, and environmental objectives in shaping policy. In focusing too much on economic growth, the United States has negl...

The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy - Paperback

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by Adam Tooze (Author)"Masterful . . . [A] painstakingly researched, astonishingly erudite study...Tooze has added his name to the roll call of top-class scholars of Nazism." --Financial TimesAn extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period to explore how Hitler's surprisingly prescient vision--ultimately hindered by Germany'...

How Successful People Lead: Taking Your Influence to the Next Level - Hardcover

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by John C. Maxwell (Author)In this perfectly compact read, #1 New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell explains how true leadership works. It is not generated by your title. In fact, being named to a position is the lowest of the five levels every effective leader achieves. To be more than a boss people are required to follow, you must master the ability to inspire and invest in people. You need to build a team that produces not only results, but also future leaders. By combining th...

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business - Hardcover

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by Charles Duhigg (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - For anyone looking to rebuild old habits, form new ones, or start all over, this instant classic "masterfully combines cutting-edge research and captivating stories to reveal how habits shape our lives and how we can shape our habits" (Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive). Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the...

The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations - Hardcover

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by James M. Kouzes (Author), Barry Z. Posner (Author)The latest edition of the gold-standard guide for leadership development In the new seventh edition of The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations, best-selling leadership authors and business scholars James Kouzes and Barry Posner deliver an essential strategic playbook for effective leadership. The book's actionable advice is grounded in robust research and deep insights into the complex interpersona...

The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement - Paperback

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by David Brooks (Author)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success happens, told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica. Drawing on a wealth of current research from numerous disciplines, Broo...

7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness: Power Ideas from America's Foremost Business Philosopher - Hardcover

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by Jim Rohn (Author)Unlock the Fountain of Prosperity Inside You "I truly believe Jim Rohn is an extraordinary human being whose philosophy can enhance the quality of life for anyone." --Anthony Robbins "Few men are endowed with Jim Rohn's ability to motivate and effect changes in other human beings." --Tom Hopkins "Jim Rohn . . . is one of the most profound thinkers and mind expanding individuals I've ever had a chance to listen to." -- Les Brown "Jim Rohn is a master motivator--he has st...

The Professor Is in: The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job - Paperback

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by Karen Kelsky (Author)The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid an...

Who: The a Method for Hiring - Hardcover

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by Geoff Smart (Author), Randy Street (Author)In this instant New York Times Bestseller, Geoff Smart and Randy Street provide a simple, practical, and effective solution to what The Economist calls "the single biggest problem in business today" unsuccessful hiring. The average hiring mistake costs a company $1.5 million or more a year and countless wasted hours. This statistic becomes even more startling when you consider that the typical hiring success rate of managers is only 50 percent. Th...

Financial Literacy Lessons and Activities, Grade 5 Teacher Resource - Paperback

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by Evan-Moor Corporation (Author)Give fifth grade students important life skills by teaching them about money and financial concepts and how to apply math to the world around them! This dynamic teaching resource provides reproducible cut-out math manipulatives, reference sheets, and visual aids to support students as they explore real-world lessons and hands-on activities related to making and following a budget, earning money at a job, using banks, paying for health services, and more. Finan...