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Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential. When we dare to lead, we don't pretend to have the right answers. We stay curious and ask the right questions. We don't see power as finite and hoard it. We know that power becomes infinite when we share it with others. We don't avoid difficult conversations...
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"From Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Timesbest-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life's inevitable setbacks. After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. "I was in 'the void, '" she writes, "a vast emptiness that fills your heart and...
4) Home offices
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Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
1997
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128 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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English
6) Principles
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English
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Dalio "shares the unconventional principles that he's developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business--and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals"--Amazon.com.
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Portfolio / Penguin
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English
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..."Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over? People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers might have little in common, but they all started with why. It was their natural ability to start with why that...
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc
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English
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"Many young women today lack the financial literacy resources that speak to their demographic and lack the support to leverage their earnings to build real wealth. This lack of knowledge causes this demographic to be in the group of least likely to invest and build long term wealth despite graduating college and opening businesses at record numbers. They are earning money but need the skills to grow it long term. This book will provide them with foundational...
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Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
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English
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This illustrated beginner's guide to personal finance distills essential information into small, easy-to-follow steps to help you get your finances in order. Get your finances in shape! In The Infographic Guide to Personal Finance, you will learn all the skills you need to make good financial decisions and grow your personal wealth. Full of colorful descriptions organized in an easy-to-read format, this book contains infographics such as: Choosing...
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Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore's Dilemma, an extraordinary investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store What does it take to run the American supermarket? How do products get to shelves? Who sets the price? And who suffers the consequences of increased convenience end efficiency? In this alarming expos�e, author Benjamin Lorr pulls back the curtain on this highly secretive industry. Combining...
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Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2009
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1st ed.
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xii, 416 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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The story of the auto magnate's attempt to recreate small-town America, along with a rubber plantation, in the heart of the Amazon details the clash between Ford and the jungle and its inhabitants, as the tycoon attempted to force his will on the natural world.
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David C. Cook
Pub. Date
2007
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2nd ed.
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192 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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You can bring out the best in people!
In Be a People Person, America's leadership expert John Maxwell helps you
• Discover and develop the qualities of an effective "people person."
• Improve your relationships in every area of life.
• Understand and help difficult people.
• Overcome differences and personality traits that can cause friction.
• Inspire others to excellence and success.
Being a leader means working with people, and that's...
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Thomas Nelson Publishers
Pub. Date
2000
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x, 209 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Reveals how people from the Wright brothers to Mary Kay Ash, Arnold Palmer, and Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore developed the ability to take risks, learn from their mistakes, and profit from their failures.
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English
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"Catherine Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been called "Bloody Lowndes" because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it's Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers's life's work. It's a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly...
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Rachel Hollis is sounding a wake-up call. She knows that many women have been taught to define themselves in light of other people, whether as wife, mother, daughter, or employee, instead of learning how to own who they are and what they want. Hollis identifies the excuses to let go of, the behaviors to adopt, and the skills to acquire on the path to growth, confidence, and believing in yourself.