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In the new economy, hierarchical business structures are being consigned to the shredder and replaced with flexible, fast-responding, ad hoc groups of brainworkers. Tom Peters, author of the best-selling In Search of Excellence, is once again ahead of the curve, and now demonstrates that the key to success in business future is total engagement, dynamism, speed, and independence.

If you have a cause to promote, a service or product to sell, a speech to present, or you simply want to give the world a piece of your mind, this audiobook will help you do it with ease, confidence, and results. Discover how to deliver your message with a persuasive punch that will ensure your listeners remember all that you have to say.

No matter where you are in your career, Basic Black offers invaluable lessons that will help you land the job, promotion, or project you're vying for. Throughout the audiobook, Cathie offers fascinating glimpses of media and business personalities, but at the core of it are her candid, personal stories. Basic Black provides a close-up look at the keen judgment, perseverance, and optimism that have propelled Cathie Black to the top of her game.

In your 20s, you expect to finally live life on your own terms. But it can seem like the world won't cooperate. Roommates drive you crazy, entry-level jobs frustrate you, and even a dream job can take over your nights and weekends, leaving you feeling like you're running hard but going nowhere. Jason Ryan Dorsey helps you turn this coming-of-age crisis into opportunity. He shows you the big secret of the real world: that you don't realize how much control you have over your life until you use it.

If you think it’s getting harder to both make a living and make a life, economist and former secretary of labor Robert Reich agrees with you. Americans may be earning more than ever before, but we’re paying a steep price: we’re working longer, seeing our families less, and our communities are fragmenting. With the clarity and insight that are his hallmarks, Reich delineates what success has come to mean in our time. He demonstrates that although we have more choices as consumers, and investors, the choices themselves are undermining the rest of our lives.

In 1980 Doris Christopher, a former home economist and teacher, was itching to get back into the workforce after an eight-year hiatus as a stay-at-home mom. Drawing on her personal and professional expertise, and determined to make cooking easier and more convenient for families, she started selling high-quality kitchen tools through cooking demonstrations to groups of women in their homes. Today, the company she started in her basement, The Pampered Chef, is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

All managers today are Internet managers, whether they're ready to admit it or not. It doesn't matter if their business is large or small, old economy or new. In a faster, electronic, and more direct economy, every manager needs help. And here it is. The 10-Second Internet Manager offers quick, no-nonsense tips, tactics, and strategies for succeeding fast in the Internet age from Mark Breier, an on-line expert willing to share the practical lessons he learned as an executive on the front lines of the e-commerce wars.

No matter where you are in your career, Basic Black offers invaluable lessons that will help you land the job, promotion, or project you're vying for. Throughout the audiobook, Cathie offers fascinating glimpses of media and business personalities, but at the core of it are her candid, personal stories. Basic Black provides a close-up look at the keen judgment, perseverance, and optimism that have propelled Cathie Black to the top of her game.

Discover the investment strategies of everyday millionaires and learn how you can become wealthy too. Best selling author and chartered financial analyst Charles Carlson reveals the keys used by the newly wealthy to reap extraordinary dividends. Learn how to determine the amount of time needed to research and watch over your portfolio, when to buy, and equally important, when to sell.

In 1980 Doris Christopher, a former home economist and teacher, was itching to get back into the workforce after an eight-year hiatus as a stay-at-home mom. Drawing on her personal and professional expertise, and determined to make cooking easier and more convenient for families, she started selling high-quality kitchen tools through cooking demonstrations to groups of women in their homes. Today, the company she started in her basement, The Pampered Chef, is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

Wie uns unser persönlicher digitaler Wandel gelingt: Wir spüren alle, dass der Boden, auf dem wir stehen, zittert. Lähmt uns der Gedanke, dass rund die Hälfte aller Berufe aussterben wird? Oder elektrisiert uns die Aussicht auf eine glanzvolle digitale Zukunft? Christoph Keese, einer der führenden Digitalisierungsexperten Deutschlands, ist immer am Puls der Veränderungen. Er fordert uns auf, unsere persönlichen Stärken zu erkennen und zu nutzen, um uns radikal neu zu erfinden. Zeigt, wie wir es schaffen, mit den Entwicklungen Schritt zu halten.

Wie uns unser persönlicher digitaler Wandel gelingt: Wir spüren alle, dass der Boden, auf dem wir stehen, zittert. Lähmt uns der Gedanke, dass rund die Hälfte aller Berufe aussterben wird? Oder elektrisiert uns die Aussicht auf eine glanzvolle digitale Zukunft? Christoph Keese, einer der führenden Digitalisierungsexperten Deutschlands, ist immer am Puls der Veränderungen. Er fordert uns auf, unsere persönlichen Stärken zu erkennen und zu nutzen, um uns radikal neu zu erfinden. Zeigt, wie wir es schaffen, mit den Entwicklungen Schritt zu halten.

This inspiring, nonpartisan guide, authored by longtime staff members of Republican and Democratic house leadership teams provides all the hard-won secrets and strategies you need to build a career in local politics or Congress, make a difference, and ascend from an internship to leadership. With practical tips on how to not only land a job but also create the foundation for a lasting and impactful career in public service, this guide will empower anyone who feels the urge to improve this country with meaningful work. 

When Erica Cerulo and Claire Mazur met in college in 2002, they bonded instantly. Fast-forward to 2010, when they founded the popular fashion and design website Of a Kind. Now, in their first book, Cerulo and Mazur bring to light the unique power of female friendship to fuel successful businesses. Drawing on their own experiences, as well as the stories of other thriving “work wives,” they highlight the ways in which vulnerability, openness, and compassion - qualities central to so many women’s relationships - lend themselves to professional accomplishment and innovation.

Step into Your Moxie is a soul-stirring call to action to speak up for yourself and the ideas and issues that matter most to you. Dubbed a "Moxie Maven" by President Obama's White House Office of Public Engagement for her potent approach to women's empowerment, Alexia Vernon has helped thousands of women (and men) slay diminishing self-talk and cultivate confidence. She has created a timely, refreshingly playful guide for women to communicate with candor, clarity, compassion, and ease every time they open their mouths to speak - in their careers, communities, and homes.

A sudden transition from college life to the workplace often appears daunting and hard to acclimatize to. Time spent with friends, college festivities, overlooking the trials of life, and dreams of achieving big things abruptly transform into long office hours, stringent working conditions, and a monotonous life devoid of fun and frolic. Rajiv Aggarwal, in his book What I Did Not Learn at IIT, underscores the inevitability of this transition and explains how one should leverage one’s college education to choose the best career, giving oneself ample scope to learn and grow. 

Ken Chenault’s life confounds stereotypical presumptions about and expectations for a Black American man. Born in Mineola, New York, to a dentist and a hygienist as the civil rights movement began to gather steam, much of his childhood and early adult years unfolded in a modest middle-class setting during the political and social tumult of the 1960s—the Vietnam War, the struggle for racial equality, the fight for women’s rights, the rise of the counterculture. Though he was partly informed by these inescapable influences, even then, Chenault displayed an independence of thought.

When Nate Morris decided to build a business, he wasn’t looking to disrupt—he was looking for a problem to solve. Morris believed that the bigger the problem, the more the market would reward him for solving it. And one of the biggest problems, he came to believe, was one that every person, business, and community dealt with on a daily basis, but which was often overlooked: waste. American Trash is the moving story of how a ninth-generation Kentuckian applied the innovative thinking we associate with Silicon Valley startups to the ancient problem of waste.

Using extensive research, life experiences, and hands-on exercises, this book reveals the Small Is Big source code and outlines how to apply it. When you harness Small Is Big, fulfilment, productivity and extraordinary results are inevitable.

Through the various examples highlighted in this book, Hersh Haladker and Raghunath Mashelkar emphasize that searching for growth opportunities within an offering's existing industry usually results in incremental improvement, whereas exponential improvement can be achieved by drawing parallels from outside of the current context. This book will inspire leaders to look outward and find parallels, keeping in mind that 'obvious' comparisons can, at best, lead to improvement, whereas 'unexpected' ones can lead to exponential improvement and perpetuate a legacy of innovation.