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[2023]
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279 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"The book follows a young business planning manager, who takes after her father's confectionery company operations. With help of her mentor, an ex-management consultant, the couple formulates a viable turn-around business plan, builds trust among key stakeholders, and successfully convinces the CEO for companywide implementation. Concepts and Theories: Introduction to the entire process of formulating and implementing a business strategy. Business...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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xxix, 302 pages ; 25 cm
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"In The Yellow Pad, former United States Secretary of the Treasury and co-chairman of Goldman Sachs Robert Rubin sets out a number of methods and processes that have guided him through moments of crisis. He offers both qualitative and quantitative ways of sifting through difficult economic and social problems, the sum of which is an original intellectual framework that can be applied to both the most global universal problems and the daily dilemmas...
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2024.
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"It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardized by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue."--
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Pub. Date
2022.
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viii, 405 pages ; 24 cm
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"What do the most successful investors have in common? David M. Rubenstein, cofounder of one of the world's largest investment firms, has spent years interviewing the greatest investors in the world to discover the time-tested principles, hard-earned wisdom, and indispensable tools that guide their practice"--
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El futuro del trabajo es un tema muy debatido e investigado hoy en día, con diferentes opiniones y perspectivas al respecto. Sin embargo, podemos identificar algunas tendencias y desafíos que pueden influir en el trabajo futuro. En primer lugar, es probable que la automatización y la inteligencia artificial sigan transformando el mercado laboral, y algunas tareas serán reemplazadas por la tecnología, mientras que otras requerirán habilidades...
6) Thrive
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Thrive is the road map of how to grow your business and drive sales in highly shifting, constantly changing economic times.
It is the story of those leaders and organizations that have seen consistent growth through several economic crisis - companies that were founded in the late 1700s to early 1900s, and they are still in business thriving today.
In this book, we share their stories, their struggles and tell you exactly how they have not only overcome...
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Protection is the New Fair Advantage for Any Leader, CEO & Investor
We're not talking about outside-in based protection, through insurance, legal contracts, body guards, security surveillance systems or cyberware. Although very useful, these are reactive and therefore limited.
If a leader creates negativity or makes wrong decisions it always comes back in some shape or form. We're talking about proactive universal inside-out based protection, where...
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Companies today are using OKRs-Objectives and Key Results-to improve the way they set and work with goals. Along the way, they discover something else: changing the way you work with goals can lead to other changes. Changes in how you plan work, how you lead and reward people, how you make decisions, how you budget, and so much more.In short, if you really, sincerely start pursuing goal- setting in a new way, you will discover that goals live at the...
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Maybe You Don't Have to Figure It All Out Yourself
A currency trader receives a million-dollar algorithm as a "mental download." A financial advisor has ominous dreams three nights in a row, then warns her clients to cash out. Three days later markets plummet as COVID hits. Two years into a bogus lawsuit, a CEO chooses to forgive. His attorney calls four minutes later-case settled. These ideas did not come from within these people, but from a power...
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A Financial Times Book of the Month: "An enchanting book about how to question the conventional, challenge the status quo, and unlock the creative solutions right under your nose." --Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals, Give and Take, and Option B with Sheryl Sandberg
"Unsafe Thinking delivers an array of fresh insights on creativity, motivation, and staying in 'flow.' Packed with powerful case studies, it will propel...
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How you can become better at solving real-world problems by learning creative puzzle-solving skills.
We solve countless problems-big and small-every day. With so much practice, why do we often have trouble making simple decisions-much less arriving at optimal solutions to important questions? Are we doomed to this muddle-or is there a practical way to learn to think more effectively and creatively? In this enlightening, entertaining, and inspiring...
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Recognised by Forbes, the World Economic Forum, Financial Times and more… creativity is the skill most critically in demand for the future of work and education.
So why don't we have it?
And how should you learn it?
In this book Christopher S. Sellers articulates the creativity problem-how standard education devalues creative intelligence, why collaboration and productivity cripple creative process.
Drawing on Steve Jobs, Diane Arbus, Aristotle,...
13) Truth Warriors
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"Truth Warriors is packed with fascinating stories, novel insights, and practical tips for every leader who has something worth fighting for." -Liane Davey, New York Times bestselling author of You First and The Good Fight.
This book will help you to navigate conflict and make better decisions. As author Christi Scarrow points out, all of us have the opportunity to make decisions that count, whether in our professional or personal lives. To do so,...
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The Virtual Work World ... You May Love It ... or Hate It!Do you manage a remote team?
Are there times that you feel frustrated and stressed?
Have expectations been set without the how-to in getting there?
Today's work world is different. Workers are different. Employers are different. Locations at where to work are different. And expectations are different from leadership, management, employees, and customers.
With the advent of the virtual workplace,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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368 pages ; 21 cm.
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"To understand the truth, you have to start at the beginning. Ava Bardem lives in isolation, a life of silence. For seventeen years, Ava's father, a merciless man, has controlled her fate. He's taught her to love no one. But then she meets Jack. Living in Poverty, Jack Dahl is holding his breath. He and his younger brother have nothing--except each other. With their parents gone, Jack faces a stark choice: lose his brother to foster care or find the...
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How the principles of biological innovation can help us overcome creative challenges in art, business, and science
In Life Finds a Way, biologist Andreas Wagner reveals the deep symmetry between innovation in biological evolution and human cultural creativity. Rarely is either a linear climb to perfection--instead, "progress" is typically marked by a sequence of peaks, plateaus, and pitfalls. For instance, in Picasso's forty-some iterations of Guernica,...
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What would you do if there was a tool to help you make better decisions in less time? You'd jump at the chance, wouldn't you?
Mental models help you filter information, which allows you to see things more clearly and make better decisions.
Mental models are also a shortcut to finding the quickest and the best route to solve your problems, whether work-related or personal.
The beauty of mental models is that their variety is virtually infinite, and...
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CEO-Led Sales outlines The Right Model to revolutionise your sales process and dramatically improve your confidence in the predictability of your sales numbers. This has to start from the top with you, the CEO.
As the CEO of a sales organisation, how many times have you said to yourself:
"thank god our customers are buying because we're not selling"
"we had ten-times pipeline coverage, but we still missed our number?"
Or ... heard from your sales...
19) Saving Money
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Would you like to reach retirement completely broke as you are living your life until now?! A job is the common means of making a living, but there are other ways where you can have much more satisfaction and enjoy an awesome lifestyle together with your loved ones without sacrificing much! We are living in the information age. Don't let the opportunities it offers go in vain while millions of other people are enjoying it.
You will learn in this audiobook:
Come...
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Modern work life is a maze, but you can find a shortcut through it
We are spending longer hours at work, although we desire more work-life balance. According to the World Population Review, the ten countries with the longest workweeks averaged 42.2 hours.
Given how much time you spend at work, wouldn't it be better if you could be more efficient at your job? The Harvard Business Review says that workers spend as much as 41 percent of the average...
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