Showing results for "Leadership" in Literature & Fiction

Ey up! Welcome to Charity Shop Sue’s Tools for Management and Success! As manager of a very successful charity shop, I know the difference between trash and treasure, and here is my most prized possession…my audiobook. Charity Shop Sue’s Tools for Management and Success is a guide that...

From professional athletes like Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan to philosophers like Confucius, inspirational business books love to suggest that readers can succeed in business and in life by adopting the traits of their famous subjects. In Z.E.O. by Scott Kenemore, frustrated employees will finally find inspiration in a source they can already relate to: zombies! A guide for any Joe-lunchbox or aspiring-C.E.O., Z.E.O. illustrates how the lessons learned from zombies and zombie films can be applied - from the typing-pool to the boardroom.

The Vizz: an industry in crisis. Baxter Stone, a film maker and television veteran, a lifelong Londoner (who thinks he sees better than others) is having problems in the postbrain, crumbling capital. Swindled by an insurance company, he's in in debt; a Lamborghini is blocking his drive and MI6...

Brought to you by Penguin. Kafka meets The Thick Of It in a bitingly funny new political satire from Ian McEwan That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature. Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his...

**STRICTLY UNOFFICIAL** 'Deliciously funny and highly impudent' - Jon Culshaw The newly discovered diary of Boris Alexander de Pfeffel Johnson, aged 13¼, provides a fascinating glimpse into how Boris, a lazy, bumptious and overweening child, comes to believe he should be Prime Minister. Along...

Publicada originariamente en 1818, La abadía de Northanger narra la historia de Catherine Morland, una joven ingenua aficionada a la lectura de novelas góticas. Invitada por los Tilney a pasar una temporada en su casa de campo, se dedicará a investigar tortuosos e imaginarios secretos de familia.

From an astute observer of business behavior and expert in climate denial comes a thought-provoking explanation of how corporations delay, distract, and deflect blame and spread disinformation surrounding health issues, pollution, and climate change. “Brilliantly subversive and witty. If you...

Is your MBA teaching anything useful? This is the book you pick up when you’re tired of business advice that sounds impressive but explains nothing. M.B.A. : Discover the truth about leadership is a sharp, unapologetic satire that pulls back the curtain on modern leadership, MBAs, workplace culture, and the rituals we perform to look competent instead of becoming competent.

Every morning more than three million listeners tune in to Mike and Mike in the Morning on ESPN Radio—mostly to hear the Mikes’ (Golic and Greenberg) riotous back-and-forth on everything from why baseball managers should dress like real people to how to lose a fight with the wife with...

Funny, smart, and just a little dangerous. This is not another leadership audiobook decorated with empowerment slogans and predictable success stories. The Future Wears High Heels enters the world of Emirati women who do not ask for a place at the table. They change the table, the conversation...

Superwomen regieren die Emirate. High Heels? Optional. Vision? Pflicht. Vergiss alles, was du jemals über arabische Frauen gehört hast. Nein, sie warten nicht darauf, dass jemand ihnen einen Platz am Tisch anbietet. Sie bauen den Tisch. Sie eröffnen Unternehmen, führen Ministerien...

John Common and Mary Common started a common family in Common Town when they had the Common Twins. The Common family had uncommon dreams and goals, but they continued leading a very common life. Eventually, with all their commonality, they got common jobs and lost common jobs. They had to go on common unemployment and common disability. Their common lives have deteriorated into lives out of common control. Follow the Common Family as they learn through their common mistakes how to be uncommon again.

Is it time for you to just give up? Because every time you aim low, you’ll feel like you’ve died and gone to Disneyland. You’ll be in a place where you’re never concerned about hard work, a place where you never feel guilty for goofing off all day, a place where nobody expects anything...

Fairways, Greens, Lost Balls & Bad Lies is an amusing, entertaining story about real golfers just like you and your golf comrades. You will hear about adventures of friends who share the thrill and torture of playing the game we love. Most importantly, you will laugh. Funny things happen on every golf course, and you will undoubtedly connect with the characters you will meet in this book. Golf stories are remembered long after golf scores are forgotten. Listening to this book will lift your spirit, and you may stumble upon a tip or two that will improve your handicap.

This is the story about a fictitious donut factory where all they do is make donuts. The production manager, a curious fellow with an even curious-er name - Mr. Sales Manager, is in charge of collecting the donuts and taking them to his regional manager, who then passes them on to the factory owner. One day Sales Manager's boss came to him with a direct order - "Sales...you have to make more donuts!" In fact they wanted Sales to make twice as many donuts, without adding staff or any other support. (Sound familiar?)