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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...
2) Easy Money
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A sweeping history of the American invention of modern money.
Economists endlessly debate the nature of legal tender monetary systems-coins and bills issued by a government or other authority. Yet the origins of these currencies have received little attention.
Dror Goldberg tells the story of modern money in North America through the Massachusetts colony during the seventeenth century. As the young settlement transitioned to self-governance and...
3) Time Is Now
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How can leaders adapt to the rapid change of technology's impact on business? How can AI be leveraged for more intelligent decision making? Can our choices be simultaneously good for business and the world? This book provides leaders with the first steps to answer these important questions.
For over thirty years, technology has become more interwoven with both our professional and personal lives. In the future, the integration of tech, business,...
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What explains the massive worldwide success of video games such as Fortnite, Minecraft, and Pokemon Go? Game companies and their popularity are poorly understood and often ignored from the standpoint of traditional business strategy. What lessons can we draw from its major successes and failures about the future of entertainment?
One Up offers a pioneering empirical analysis of innovation and strategy in the video game industry to explain how it...
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Taking a career timeout could be the window of opportunity you've been looking for
Taking A Career Break For Dummies shows you that a career break could be life-changing. Career breaks give us a chance to pause to identify opportunities and dreams, focus on the things we've been missing, and develop new skills. This book empowers you to take the leap into your next chapter. There are dozens of reasons you might want to do it, but whatever your circumstance,...
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Few aspects of life are as important as personal finance, as subject to your control, and as suffused with misinformation, noise, and confusion.
Now, authors Dr. Roger D. Silk and Katherine A. Silk cut through that confusion and share with you the fruits of their knowledge and experience developed over the last forty-three years.
Unlike many authors in the Personal Finance space, the Silks have the deep technical expertise, decades of experience,...
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Et si l'intelligence artificielle que vous craignez devenait le partenaire le plus fiable de votre quotidien ? Comment réagiriez-vous face à une IA qui comprend et anticipe vos besoins mieux que quiconque ? Découvrez comment transformer l'IA en un compagnon du quotidien indispensable, capable d'enrichir votre vie personnelle et professionnelle. Dans ce livre audio, plongez au cœur de l'IA générative, une technologie révolutionnaire qui, loin...
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Mary Ann O'Brien, Founder and CEO of award-winning marketing firm OBI, and the brains behind the revolutionary O'Brien Voice of Customer (O.VoC) survey, has been called "The Mother of Modern Marketing." Now she's sharing her unique, highly-successful approach to helping clients attract and retain customers in Ask and Deliver: Discover the Heart of Your Business by Listening to the Voice of Your Customers. In the book, O'Brien demonstrates how directly...
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On 2 November 2023, in one of the largest fraud trials in history, Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty of stealing billions of dollars from the customers of his crypto-exchange, FTX.
How did this 31-year-old Californian in flip-flops, board shorts and a T-shirt manage to become one of the most famous CEOs in the world? How did greed, fear and free money inflate the crypto bubble until it finally popped with devastating consequences for millions of...
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• "Un manifiesto de las enseñanzas de dos profesores y consultores maravillosos que han ganado su reputación haciendo sencillo y práctico lo que puede parecer complicado. Este libro es un manual de instrucción fundamental que recomiendo a todo líder, comunicador y profesional." - RODRIGO RIVEROLL, Director General de Sports World y ex-Director General de Starbucks, Domino's Pizza y Elektra.
• "Pasajes que se vuelven fascinantes por los...
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There's an overlooked but critical scientific fact that every marketing professional needs to know: Many decisions start with attention, and it's your job to grab the attention of every prospective customer as effectively as possible. But in this increasingly fast-paced, busy, and noisy world, how do you capture people's attention, much less persuade them?
To answer this question, cognitive neuroscientist Carmen Simon leverages insights gleaned from...
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Combat age discrimination in your workplace.
Everyone experiences age-related bias at some point in their careers, but for women the costs are greater. Sure, there are laws and organizational rules prohibiting age-related discrimination, but lived experience shows there's no "right age" to be a woman. Whether you're seen as too old or too young, ageism affects the opportunities you have access to, how others perceive you, and how much your contributions...
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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...
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Discover the fastest, safest proven method of creating wealth in the history of the world.
For millennia, the wealthiest amongst us-including Warren Buffet, Elon Musk, and so many others-have known the secret to real wealth creation. Find out how you can access the same results in as little as 90 days.
If you've had a job longer than a year, you probably wish there was a way to leapfrog ahead of where you are financially. With this life-changing...
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In “The Neurodiversity Edge”, renowned Oxford-trained cognitive scientist, neurodiversity expert, and business leader, Dr. Maureen Dunne presents a pioneering framework to harnessing the power of neurodiversity to navigate the most important human resources revolution in the modern era.
With this indispensable guide, you'll cultivate a values-driven approach to building a culture of sustained authentic inclusion where everyone can thrive; learn...
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Asking credit card companies, banks, hospitals, schools, and other businesses for better rates and discounts works. Here's how to do it.
In this must-have money manual, personal finance expert Matt Schulz empowers you to ask forty-five fiscal questions in seven key areas of life: credit and debt, healthcare, housing, shopping, travel, work, and relationships. The questions feature decision trees, success stories, potential risks, and other practical...
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Bill Cates' newest book, The Language of Referrals, is your blueprint for finding the right words and phrases to elevate your referability, confidently ask for introductions, address concerns and objections, and turn the willingness to refer into effective connections with your new prospects. It's about mastering what you say and how you say it, in a manner that feels completely natural and authentic to you.
18) 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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High-velocity change is the fundamental challenge facing companies today. Few companies, however, are prepared to continuously innovate-because they focus on the short-term and do not emphasize the wisdom needed.
In The Wise Company, legendary management experts Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi highlight how various companies have confronted the challenge of rapid change. The key: a relentless self-renewal process where companies realize the...
20) 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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