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Series: Unconscious Bias at Work Creating a Culture Where Everyone Belongs Hardcover Stacey Gordon 9781119779049 $29.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 30, 2021

Unconscious Bias at Work will help readers to understand diversity, equity, and inclusion concepts and identify them in the workplace to understand where the bias lies within the workplace and provide readers with tools to actively remove barriers. We’ve defined the concepts; we’ve talked about what diversity is, what inclusion is, and how the concepts relate to the workplace. We’ve told everyone why diversity matters, why inclusion matters, and explained with charts, graphs, and statistics about return on investment and the business case for i... + Read More
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Series: Manage to Engage How Great Managers Create Remarkable Results Hardcover Pamela Hackett 9781119773467 $29.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 30, 2021

The CEO of highly respected global consultancy Proudfoot shares her secrets to achieve your leadership license to operate and create businesses fit for people Manage to Engage: How Great Managers Create Remarkable Results provides leaders with a practical, business-proven approach for building stronger organizational ecosystems that achieve exceptional results and long-term prosperity. Packed with innovative tools and exercises that can be immediately applied in any management setting, in-person or virtually, this invaluable guide shows you ho... + Read More
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Series: Stick Together A Simple Lesson to Build a Stronger Team Hardcover Jon Gordon 9781119762607 $20.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 30, 2021

Build a stronger team with this illustrated fable From bestselling author Jon Gordon and coauthor Kate Leavell, Stick Together delivers a crucial message about the power of belief, ownership, connection, love, inclusion, consistency, and hope. The authors guide individuals and teams on an inspiring journey to show them how to persevere through challenges, overcome obstacles, and create success together. Stick Together follows Coach David, a high school basketball coach looking to motivate his team for the new season. The team members are given ... + Read More
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Series: Confessions of a Recovering Civil Engineer Transportation for a Strong Town Hardcover Charles L. Marohn 9781119699293 $29.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 30, 2021

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer will be a logical â€˜Part 2' to Chuck's book Strong Towns. It builds on Strong Towns: Bottom-Up Revolution by focusing on the core transportation insights Marohn has developed in more than a decade of writing for Strong Towns. The article Confessions of a Recovering Engineer (November 2011) remains the most widely read and distributed piece ever published on the Strong Towns website. Â In the past few years, we have seen an increase in public interest as it pertains to our local communities... + Read More
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Series: Smart Money The Step-by-Step Personal Finance Plan to Crush Debt Paperback Naseema McElroy 9781647399573 $19.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 16, 2021

Straightforward steps to financial freedom and wealth Getting a handle on personal finance can be confusing and stressful. Get unstuck and start saving now with this streamlined, holistic plan for financial wellness. Smart Money makes it simple to ditch debt and jump-start your wealth in nine practical steps. Learn how to avoid money pitfalls, correct any wrong turns, and save and spend the right way to build wealth. Start by assessing your current personal finance, figuring out how much you owe, and comparing your income with your spending. Wi... + Read More
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Series: Advanced Portfolio Management A Quant's Guide for Fundamental Investors Hardcover Giuseepe Paleologo 9781119789796 $47.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jul 07, 2021

When measured by assets under management, the majority of equity investing is fundamentally driven. Portfolio managers identify investment opportunities and translate them into portfolios. Although the portfolios may take many shapes, depending on the mandates and constraints of the funds, they are constructed according to a set of shared principles. Over the course of the past 30 years, the industry has matured and become more sophisticated; in the process, the principles have evolved and refined. This process of continuous experimentation and... + Read More
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Series: The Modern Shepherd Leadership Lessons from the Desert Hardcover AlBaraa H. Taibah 9781472131225 $24.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 30, 2021

How can tending a flock of sheep empower leadership skills?How does it build character and awaken wisdom?And why was shepherding the starting point for so many of the great prophets, such as Mohammed, Moses and Abraham?These questions had long intrigued MBA student AlBaraa Taibah before he decided to become a modern-day shepherd and herd sheep alone in the Sahara Desert. Confronting the dangers of desert snakes, getting hopelessly lost in the dunes and suffering from dehydration - all on the first day - made him ask himself, 'Why didn't I just... + Read More
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Series: Get Good with Money Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole Hardcover Tiffany the Budgetnista Aliche 9780593232743 $32.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 30, 2021

A ten-step plan for finding peace, safety, and harmony with your money—no matter how big or small your goals and no matter how rocky the market might be—by the inspiring and savvy “Budgetnista.”Tiffany Aliche was a successful pre-school teacher with a healthy nest egg when a recession and advice from a shady advisor put her out of a job and into a huge financial hole. As she began to chart the path to her own financial rescue, the outline of her ten-step formula for attaining both financial security and peace of mind began to take shape. These ... + Read More
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Series: Why Startups Fail A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success Hardcover Tom Eisenmann 9780593137024 $37.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 30, 2021

If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail.Why do startups fail? That question hit Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenman with full force when he realized he couldn’t explain it. And since more than two thirds of new ventures fail, that left a lot of explaining to do.So he launched a multi-year research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann unveils the results: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. He offers frameworks for detecting when a venture ... + Read More
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Series: Lessons from a Warzone How to be a Resilient Leader in Times of Crisis Paperback Louai Al Roumani 9780241986769 $22.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 30, 2021

’A compelling guide for leaders grappling with the pandemic’ Financial Times ’A remarkable book telling business leaders what to do when disaster strikes’ The TimesAN INSPIRING STORY OF RESILIENT LEADERSHIP IN THE TOUGHEST OF TIMESLouai Al Roumani was head of finance and planning at one of the largest banks in Syria, when the war broke out in 2011.In Lessons from a Warzone, Al Roumani shares his very personal account of coping with the day-to-day realities of leading an organization in dangerous and hostile conditions. His story shows how ins... + Read More
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Series: Brandsplaining Why Marketing is (Still) Sexist and How to Fix It Paperback Jane Cunningham 9780241456002 $31.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 30, 2021

Girlboss. Wonder woman. Perfect mother. Feminist go-getter. If you thought misogynist marketing ended with #MeToo, think again. ’It’s high time we expose and remedy the pseudo-feminist marketing malarkey holding women back under the guise of empowerment’ Amanda Montell, author of Wordslut________________Brands profit by telling women who they are and how to be. Now they’ve discovered feminism and are hell bent on selling ’fempowerment’ back to us. But behind the go-girl slogans and the viral hash-tags has anything really ... + Read More
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Series: Changemaker Playbook The New Physics of Leadership in a World of Explosive Change Hardcover Henry De Sio 9781529330199 $29.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 30, 2021

The Game Has Changed! What would you do if the game you had been preparing for your whole life had changed?This is the question we all face today. Our one-leader-at-a-time past has given way to a present reality where everyone has the potential to lead in every aspect of life. We all have at our fingertips the tools of change that were once available to only a few. This shift from one-leader-at-a-time to everyone-leading-in-every-moment has created a changemaker effect on society. Change is no longer linear and faster, it's explosive and omnidi... + Read More
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Series: Jesus, CEO Using Ancient Wisdom for Visionary Leadership Paperback Laurie Beth Jones 9780306923371 $23.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 30, 2021

“Leaders have a chance, here and now, to create something better than before. We need, like Jesus, to guard our energy. We need to aim for what is noble, not just profitable. We need to become turn-around specialists, seeking better ways of doing things. We need to break ranks and be bold. We need leaders who recognize that we are all connected in a chain of interdependence.”--from the Afterword by Laurie Beth Jones Bestselling author Laurie Beth Jones brings you the ultimate guide to transforming your team and sparking inspiration in your busi... + Read More
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Series: FTSE: The Inside Story Hardcover Mark Makepeace 9781529330021 $29.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 30, 2021

DescriptionA RINGSIDE SEAT ON SOME OF THE BIGGEST DEALS AND BIGGEST PERSONALITIES IN BUSINESS AND GLOBAL POLITICS.FTSE is an account of how a small start-up created by the Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange launched in the mid 1980s to provide financial information, became a world leader and one of the UK's most trusted and famous brands. It chronicles how the FTSE 100 was born and details the ferocious dealmaking that followed over 35 years of market boom and bust. It provides a ringside seat on some of the biggest deals and biggest... + Read More
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Series: Trusted Leader 8 Pillars That Drive Results Hardcover David Horsager 9781523092994 $34.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 30, 2021

Without trust, people and businesses fail. Trusted Leader provides a framework for building trust so that you and your organizations can perform at your best.“A lack of trust is your biggest expense,” says Wall Street Journal bestselling author David Horsager. Without trust, transactions cannot occur. Without trust, influence is destroyed. Without trust, leaders lose their people. Trust can be either your most vulnerable weakness or your greatest asset. Horsager introduces readers to his Eight Pillars of Trust through the journey of a senior le... + Read More
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Series: Magnetic Stories Connect with Customers and Engage Employees with Brand Storytelling Paperback Gabrielle Dolan 9780730388517 $26.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 29, 2021

Improve customer and employee loyalty with your brand stories Your brand is the stories people share about you when you’re not in the room. Whether a small, one or two-person company or a large multinational; a not for profit or a Government organisation; a start-up entrepreneur or a corporate institution; a school or a sporting team; a religious institution or a political party; a local café or a global franchise — everyone has a brand and everyone has a story. The reality is people are already sharing stories, both the good and the bad. Magne... + Read More
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Series: Master the Wizardry of Project Management Seven Leadership Principles to Help You Create and Sustain High-Performing Teams Paperback Jimmie L. West Ph.D., PMP 9781947540064 $37.50 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Age (years) from 20 - 70 Mar 26, 2021

Dealing with the human side of project management – generating an effective team culture in an environment where project managers must influence without authority – continues to be one of the most consistent challenges to project managers.Master the Wizardry of Project Management offers a solution to this challenge – a project management framework that’s based on the application of principle-centered project leadership. You’ll succeed by using a simple, repeatable, and flexible set of seven principles for creating and sustaining high-performing... + Read More
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Series: Must Know SAT 1st edition Paperback Cynthia Knable 9781264258543 $18.95 STUDY AIDS Apr 16, 2021

The new Must Know series is like a lightning bolt to the brainEvery school subject has must know ideas, or essential concepts, that lie behind it. This book uses that fact to help students learn in a unique way. Most self-study guides begin a chapter with a set of goals, often leaving the starting point unclear. In Must Know SAT, however, each chapter immediately introduces students to the must know idea, or ideas, that lie behind each concept tested on the exam. As students learn these must know ideas, they are shown how to apply that kno... + Read More
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Series: The Power of Words The art of successful business communication Paperback Chris Parker 9781912666836 $25.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 25, 2021

A business book that teaches how to use words and associated body language to influence self and others to achieve desired business outcomes. Focusing on interpersonal and intrapersonal communication in a range of formal and informal business situations and roles, the book provides easy-to-follow training in the development of the attitudes and skills needed to influence positively and powerfully. • Written in a uniquely engaging style • Combines the latest scientific research with relevant tips and examples on communication techniques • In... + Read More
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Series: Focused Choices Limitless Growth How Constraining and Integrating Strategic Decisions Leads to Growth Hardcover Marta Dapena-Baron 9781119712060 $29.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 23, 2021

The traditional view of business strategy is that business growth requires finding wide-open market spaces, developing diverse breakthrough innovations, and achieving many “must-wins.” The problem with the “more-is-better” view of strategy is that it generates complexity and scatters focus. We struggle to stretch our teams and our resources to address a long list of priorities and ultimately end up with little differentiation for our brands. Our tools are to blame for our lack of focus: strategy frameworks in use today offer comprehensive categ... + Read More
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Series: Getting to the Heart of Conflict A Framework for Constructive Conflict Engagement Hardcover Bernard S. Mayer 9781119616948 $36.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 23, 2021

This book discusses the challenges we all face in getting to the heart of conflict and responding appropriately. Based on 40 years of experience as a conflict intervener, researcher, and teacher, this book will distill the essence of the most important challenges we face when dealing with serious conflict—whether in our own lives, in our professional work or as citizens of the world. The premise underlying this effort is that disputants and interveners alike are drawn to focus on the superficial manifestations of conflict rather than on its es... + Read More
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Series: The Business of Belonging How to Make Community your Competitive Advantage Hardcover David Spinks 9781119766124 $35.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 23, 2021

Your business problems are community problems. Solve them and scale with help from the leader in the field. The world's most successful businesses leaders understand that creating a shared social identity around their products and services is the most efficient path to scaling revenue, differentiating products, promoting customer success and retention, and seizing category ownership. The Business of Belonging: How to Build Communities that Grow the Bottom Line is the definitive playbook for doing just that.CMX founder David Spinks offers step-b... + Read More
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Series: Future Proofing You Twelve Truths for Creating Opportunity, Maximizing Wealth, and Controlling your Destiny in an Uncertain World Hardcover Jay Samit 9781119772064 $33.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 23, 2021

With the right mindset and insight, anyone can become a millionaire. Are you tired of just paying bills until you die? Are you wasting your life at a job that doesn’t make you fulfilled or financially secure? Then Future Proofing You: Twelve Truths for Creating Opportunity, Maximizing Wealth, and Controlling Your Destiny in an Uncertain World is for you. In this life-changing book, celebrated author and entrepreneur Jay Samit, who’s worked with such visionaries as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Reid Hoffman, and hundreds of successful entrepreneurs... + Read More
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Series: I'm Worth More Realize Your Value. Unleash Your Potential Paperback Rob Moore 9781529303643 $14.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 23, 2021

Anyone can look successful with the right watch on their wrist or car parked in the driveway - but what is real success, and how much are you really worth? In this fascinating, liberating book bestselling author and Rob Moore takes you back to basics and examines how to realise your real value - your self esteem, your ambitions, your reputation and your income. No longer will you doubt your self, make self-defeating comparisons or make assumptions about how others see you - instead you will maximise your opportunities and love yourself for who ... + Read More
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Series: Burn Finding the Fire Within Hardcover Mei Xu 9781119695929 $28.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 23, 2021

Burn is a book that tells a story of ingenuity, determination, and even luck--all set against the backdrop of globetrotting adventurer making her own way to become a business success. Mei Xu’s arrived in the US in 1991--a young immigrant fleeing a lack of opportunity in China arrived at Washington’s Dulles Airport. She had few prospects and hardly any idea what the future held for her. Twenty-one years later she was invited to the White House as a wildly successful entrepreneur, seated next to Barack Obama, advising the President on creating jo... + Read More
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Series: Resilient How to Overcome Anything and Build a Million Dollar Business With or Without Capital Hardcover Sevetri Wilson 9781119773870 $29.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 23, 2021

In Resilient, Sevetri Wilson, CEO & Founder of Resilia, shares an invaluable collection of private journal entries mapping her journey from bootstrapping to raising millions in capital during Resilia’s Series A funding round, which happened to close right at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Offering a load of gems at an unprecedented and trying time such as this, Resilient is sure to give any ambitious entrepreneur a head start in building their very own startup. Chapters cover how to go from idea to product, properly diving into the hiri... + Read More
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Series: The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Business Relationships 1st edition Hardcover Susan McPherson 9781260469882 $33.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 26, 2021

A communications consultant and popular speaker takes on tech-driven, transactional networking—and tells readers how to reclaim the human connections that help them truly thrive, professionally and personally.Today, people have hundreds of "friends" on Facebook and countless "contacts" on LinkedIn, so why do so many of us feel disconnected? In The Lost Art of Connecting, Susan McPherson challenges readers to change the way they network—and put a little less emphasis on the digital kind of networks.While social media platforms make it easie... + Read More
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Series: The Ultimate Guide to Understanding and Trading Options: Two-Book Bundle 1st edition Mixed media product Michael Sincere 9781260474640 $53.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 23, 2021

The complete package for options success! This unmatched investing combo from bestselling author Michael Sincere provides an A-to-Z education on low-risk options tradingPerfect for any investor interested in options trading, the Understanding Options/Make Money Trading Options bundle provides the foundational knowledge readers need to get started with confidence and learn effective strategies for generating profits with minimal risk.Sincere’s bestselling Understanding Options explains all the basics, including overcoming ass... + Read More
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Series: Nothing is Too Big to Fail How the Last Financial Crisis Informs Today Hardcover Kerry Killinger 9781948122764 $38.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 23, 2021

Go behind the scenes of the 2008 financial crisis to learn what actions led to one of the worst recessions in history, and how, without focused action from the US government and leading organizations, we may be on track to repeat our same mistakes. In 2008, the American economy collapsed, taking with it millions of Americans’ jobs, homes, and life savings. The impending financial crisis was devastating, and many are still feeling its effects today. Though the crisis was debilitating, the US government has yet to implement policies that would p... + Read More
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Series: The Success Cycle 3 Keys for Achieving Your Goals in Business and Life Paperback Marques Ogden 9781642939071 $22.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 23, 2021

The Success Cycle is comprised of three components that, when implemented correctly, give you the best chance to create long lasting success and prosperity.A retired NFL player shares his story of achieving maximum success as a professional athlete, followed by notoriety in corporate America, then catastrophic failures that cost him everything he owned in just ninety days. But even in the face of crushing defeat, he identified and put into action the traits required to rise from the ashes and find success again. Now this inspiring, candidly wri... + Read More
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Series: Masters at Work Becoming a Firefighter Hardcover Jeff Wilser 9781982139803 $25.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 23, 2021

A revealing guide to a career as a firefighter written by acclaimed author Jeff Wilser and based on the real-life experiences of the heroes of the St. Louis fire department—required reading for anyone considering a path to this profession.Becoming a Firefighter takes you behind the scenes to find out what it’s really like, and what it really takes, to become a firefighter. Author Jeff Wilser imbeds with one of the oldest departments in the country, the St. Louis Fire Department, to show how this high-stakes profession becomes a reality. Discove... + Read More
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Series: Masters at Work Becoming a Social Worker Hardcover Alex Abramovich 9781982140373 $25.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 23, 2021

A revealing guide to a career as a social worker based on the real-life experiences of three distinguished social workers—required reading for anyone considering a path to this profession.Becoming a Social Worker takes you behind the scenes to find out what it’s really like, and what it really takes, to become a social worker. Acclaimed authors Alex Abramovich and Tasha Blaine shadow three distinguished social work professionals to reveal how this compassionate field changes lives. Discover what it’s like to tirelessly advocate for victims of d... + Read More
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Series: Less is More How Degrowth Will Save the World Paperback Jason Hickel 9781786091215 $19.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 30, 2021

______________________’A powerfully disruptive book for disrupted times… If you’re looking for transformative ideas, this book is for you.’ KATE RAWORTH, economist and author of Doughnut EconomicsFeatured in FT Best Books of the Year 2020______________________The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause. Capitalism demands perpetual expansion, which is devastating the living world. There is only one solution that will lead to meaningful and immediate change: D... + Read More
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Series: The Kremlin School of Negotiation Main Paperback Igor Ryzov 9781838852917 $29.50 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 18, 2021

Negotiating is something that we all do, whether at work or at home. But what if we come across someone who just won't give in? How can we defend ourselves against manipulation? And how do we say 'no' without compromising a deal?Legend has it that the Kremlin school of negotiation was born in Russia in the 1920s, under the rule of Joseph Stalin, and it still has its followers and advocates to this day.Using the official Kremlin method and years of business experience, Igor Ryzov guides us through the most effective techniques in negotiating ter... + Read More
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Series: You're It Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When It Matters Most Paperback Leonard J. Marcus 9781541768048 $22.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 16, 2021

The faculty of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University distill their extensive research and experience to teach you how to become a better leader every day, while giving you the tools to handle the inevitable crises that come your way.Managing crisis well is at the very heart of good leadership. Here, the team from the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative draws on a deep well of research as well as their experience working with leaders to respond to crisis events of all kinds, from the COVID-19 pandemic an... + Read More
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Series: ALIEN Thinking The Unconventional Path to Breakthrough Ideas Hardcover Cyril Bouquet 9781541750913 $35.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 16, 2021

How do people come up with truly original ideas? The answer is to think outside the box—way outside. For the past decade, Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, and Michael Wade, professors of innovation and strategy at IMD Business School, have studied inventors, scientists, doctors, entrepreneurs, and artists. These people, or “aliens,” as the authors call them, are able to make leaps of creativity, and use five patterns of thinking that distinguish them from the rest of us. These five patterns—Attention, Levitation, Imagination, Experimentation,... + Read More
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Series: Monster A Tough Love Letter to the Machines That Rule our Jobs, Lives, and Future Hardcover Paul Roehrig 9781119785910 $29.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 16, 2021

This book poses the troubling question, have we inadvertently created a technology monster?Everything from smart phones to big data, tech that despite all its gifts, is hurting our society, economy and psychology? And if so, what can we do about it? From deep fakes and disinformation campaigns, through our growing addiction to mobile phones, to the 'winner takes all' nature of modern technology platforms, it is becoming clearer that accelerating digitalization has the potential to do as much harm as good. This is even more the case ... + Read More
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Series: Indigenomics Taking a Seat at the Economic Table Paperback Carol Anne Hilton 9780865719408 $19.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 16, 2021

It is time. It is time to increase the visibility, role, and responsibility of the emerging modern Indigenous economy and the people involved. This is the foundation for economic reconciliation. This is Indigenomics.Indigenomics lays out the tenets of the emerging Indigenous economy, built around relationships, multigenerational stewardship of resources, and care for all. Highlights include: The ongoing power shift and rise of the modern Indigenous economy Voices of leading Indigenous business leaders The unfolding story in the la... + Read More
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Series: Beautiful Economics A Guide to Gentle World Domination Hardcover Howard Collinge 9781576879696 $33.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 16, 2021

A handbook for rebooting the world with a new economic narrative that combines ecological, philosophical and entrepreneurial wisdom. What if we could all become rich in Life Dollars , a currency that gives value to all the things that make life rich, sustainable and worth living. What if our economy measured success in terms of Gentle World Domination (GWD) instead of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), where clear blue skies, social harmony and spiritual and mental well-being were the measures of a nation’s true wealth. In Beautiful Economics: A... + Read More
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Series: Making It in the Art World New Approaches to Galleries, Shows, and Raising Money 2nd Edition Paperback Brainard Carey 9781621537656 $26.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Age (years) from 0 - 99 May 18, 2021

How today’s artists survive, exhibit, and earn money—without selling out! Career-minded artists, this is the book you have been waiting for! Making It in the Art World, Second Edition, explains how to be a professional artist and shares new methods to define and realize what success means. Whether you’re a beginner, a student, or a career artist looking to be in the best museum shows, this book provides ways of advancing your plans on any level. Author Brainard Carey, an artist himself with prestigious exhibitions like the Whitney Biennial und... + Read More
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Series: Tomorrow's Economy A Guide to Creating Healthy Green Growth Hardcover Per Espen Stoknes 9780262044851 $36.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 16, 2021

How we can achieve healthy growth—more regenerative than destructive, restoring equity rather than exacerbating inequalities.In Tomorrow’s Economy, Per Espen Stoknes reframes the hot-button issue of economic growth. Going beyond the usual dialectic of pro-growth versus anti-growth, Stoknes calls for healthy growth. Healthy economic growth is more regenerative than destructive, repairs problems rather than greenwashing them, and restores equity rather than exacerbating global inequalities. Stoknes—a psychologist, economist, climate strategy rese... + Read More
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Series: Putting Skill to Work How to Create Good Jobs in Uncertain Times Hardcover Nichola Lowe 9780262045162 $47.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 16, 2021

An argument for reimagining skill in a way that can extend economic opportunity to workers at the bottom of the labor market.America has a jobs problem—not enough well-paying jobs to go around and not enough clear pathways leading to them. Skill development is critical for addressing this employment crisis, but there are many unresolved questions about who has skill, how it is attained, and whose responsibility it is to build skills over time. In this book, Nichola Lowe tells the stories of pioneering workforce intermediaries—nonprofits, unions... + Read More
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Series: Unleash Your Supernova 101 Action Steps to Boost Creativity and Beat Burnout! Hardcover Nova Lorraine 9781510763326 $26.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 16, 2021

Boost creativity and beat burnout with this go-to guide for creative entrepreneurs! Longevity is crucial for entrepreneurial success, and burnout is very real. Having a vision is the first step, but how do you follow it through to execution? How do you bring your dream to life while sustaining your creativity, enhancing productivity, and balancing your well-being? Creative entrepreneur Nova Lorraine discovered the keys to overcome burnout and bridge the gap between creativity and entrepreneurship—and wrote this book to help others do the same. ... + Read More
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Series: Radical Uncertainty Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers Paperback John Kay 9780393541984 $23.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Sep 07, 2021

Much economic advice is bogus quantification, warn two leading experts in this essential book. Invented numbers offer false security; we need instead robust narratives that yield the confidence to manage uncertainty.Some uncertainties are resolvable. The insurance industry’s actuarial tables and the gambler’s roulette wheel both yield to the tools of probability theory. Most situations in life, however, involve a deeper kind of uncertainty, a radical uncertainty for which historical data provides no useful guidance to future outcomes, and for w... + Read More
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Series: Risk Forward Embrace the Unknown and Unlock Your Hidden Genius Hardcover Victoria Labalme 9781401961800 $33.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 16, 2021

Some people in life know exactly what they want to achieve. Risk Forward is a book for the rest of us. Many of us live in a world that’s obsessed with planning, achieving, and goal setting. But how do you move forward in times when your goals aren’t yet clear, your plan is still unfolding, or you can’t quite see the path ahead? Presentation Strategist and Performing Artist Victoria Labalme has an answer to this question that’s both reassuring and radically freeing. Using skills she developed through 25 years of professional stage and screen pe... + Read More
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Series: Values Building a Better World for All Hardcover Mark Carney 9780771051555 $39.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Mar 16, 2021

A bold and urgent argument by economist and former bank governor Mark Carney on the radical, foundational change that is required if we are to build an economy and society based not on market values but on human values.Our world is full of fault lines—growing inequality in income and opportunity; systemic racism; health and economic crises from a global pandemic; mistrust of experts; the existential threat of climate change; deep threats to employment in a digital economy with robotics on the rise. These fundamental problems and others like the... + Read More
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