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HarperCollins and John C. Maxwell are celebrating the milestone anniversary of Maxwell's New York Times bestselling book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership with the publication of a new revised and updated 25th Anniversary Edition. Maxwell has gone through every word of this book and updated it for the next generation of leaders. He has added new insights to these timeless laws and included lessons learned since he originally wrote the book. He...
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Two mega-bestselling authors with decades of experience in teaching people how to achieve extraordinary wealth and success share their secrets.
Mark Victor Hansen, cocreator of the phenomenal Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and Robert G. Allen, one of the world’s foremost financial experts, have helped thousands of people become millionaires. Now it’s your turn.
Is it possible to make a million dollars in only one...
Mark Victor Hansen, cocreator of the phenomenal Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and Robert G. Allen, one of the world’s foremost financial experts, have helped thousands of people become millionaires. Now it’s your turn.
Is it possible to make a million dollars in only one...
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Advice for every pitch situation a modern day entrepreneur will encounter
Whether you're pitching for funding, the media, or to potential customers and partners, to survive and succeed as an entrepreneur, you have to know how to deliver a high-impact pitch. Here's the Pitch reveals powerful proven techniques to get your audience to take the action you want. You'll learn the same strategies and tactics that have been used by entrepreneurs
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Author Chris Anderson makes the compelling case that in many instances, businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them. Traditional economics operates under fundamental assumptions of scarcity--there's only so much oil, iron, and gold in the world. But the online economy is built upon three cornerstones: processing power, hard drive storage, and bandwidth--and the costs of all these elements are trending toward...
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"How did Ron Shaich, the visionary founder of Panera Bread, build a little bakery in St. Louis into 2,400 restaurants with 6 billion dollars in revenue and annual returns of 25 percent, outperforming Starbucks, Chipotle, and all others? By seeing the future and clearing a path to it, leading and innovating from the future back. Now, Shaich shares his story, starting with its humble entrepreneurial beginnings: the college-campus convenience store he...
7) Thrive: the third metric to redefining success and creating a life of well-being, wisdom, and wonder
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Our relentless pursuit of the two traditional metrics of success--money and power--has led to an epidemic of burnout and stress-related illnesses, and an erosion in the quality of our relationships, family life, and, ironically, our careers. In a commencement address Arianna Huffington gave at Smith College in the spring of 2013, she likened our drive for money and power to two legs of a three-legged stool. They may hold us up temporarily, but sooner...
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"Entrepreneur Christiane Lemieux offers a guidebook to the new rules of entrepreneurialism and teaches young founders how to get ahead with profiles from successful entrepreneurs such as Leslie Blodgett at Bare Minerals, Justin Woolverton at Halo Top and Robert Wang at Instant Pot"--
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For 25 years, Florence Littauer's bestselling Personality Plus has been required reading for employees of major companies. Now, Personality Plus at Work takes things a step further and shows readers how to work successfully with anyone by paying attention to basic personality differences. It shows readers what happens when personalities are ignored, how each personality can lead, and how to combine different personalities to maintain a vital and harmonious...
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"A guide for recent college graduates and other new professionals on how to excel at their first job and jump-start their career. Includes advice about earning the respect of superiors and colleagues, staying organized, coping with mistakes, and more, plus words of wisdom from former 'newbies'"--Provided by publisher
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Rebels have a bad reputation. We think of them as troublemakers, outcasts, contrarians: those colleagues, friends, and family members who complicate seemingly straightforward decisions, create chaos, and disagree when everyone else is in agreement. But in truth, rebels are also those among us who change the world for the better with their unconventional outlooks. Instead of clinging to what is safe and familiar, and falling back on routines and tradition,...
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"Whether you're starting a new business or growing one, the Internet can help you promote your business, demonstrate your expertise, and meet new customers and clients. This eBook will show you how to create and maintain a vibrant social media presence." --
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"Much of what we experience in life results from a combination of skill and luck." - From the Introduction
The trick, of course, is figuring out just how many of our successes (and failures) can be attributed to each-and how we can learn to tell the difference ahead of time.
In most domains of life, skill and luck seem hopelessly entangled. Different levels of skill and varying degrees of good and bad luck are the realities that shape our lives-yet...
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"Former Sonic CEO Cliff Hudson offers counterintuitive career advice, whether you're just starting out or in the middle of your career: Don't plan, explore. Don't specialize, generalize. Don't keep your head down, turn it up toward opportunity"--
Experience can lead to overconfidence-- yet we continue to deeply value the expertise ideal. Hudson shows that by embracing variety and becoming more versatile, anyone can succeed and become more open to...
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Innovation may be the hottest discipline around today, in business circles and beyond. And for good reason. Innovation transforms companies and markets. It is the key to solving vexing social problems. And it makes or breaks professional careers. For all the enthusiasm the topic inspires, however, the practice of innovation remains stubbornly impenetrable. No longer. In this book the author draws on stories from his research and field work with companies...
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Ben Horowitz, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup -- practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn't cover, based on his popular ben's blog.
19) The essential Drucker: the best of sixty years of Peter Drucker's essential writings on management
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Father of modern management, social commentator, and preeminent business philosopher, Peter F. Drucker analyzed economics and society for more than sixty years. Now for readers everywhere who are concerned with the ways that management practices and principles affect the performance of organizations, individuals, and society, there is The Essential Drucker-an invaluable compilation of essential materials from the works of a management legend. Containing...
20) Evil, Inc
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When his promising life and career are shattered by a monstrous crime committed by the CEO of his company, Ken Olson is devastated by threats and a cover-up that rally his determination to bring the CEO to justice in spite of formidable dangers.
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