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Ready to take the next step in your career ... but not sure what's holding you back? Read on. Leadership expert Sally Helgesen and bestselling leadership coach Marshall Goldsmith have trained thousands of high achievers--men and women--to reach even greater heights. Again and again, they see that women face specific and different roadblocks from men as they advance in the workplace. In fact, the very habits that helped women early in their careers...
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"How did Ron Shaich, the visionary founder of Panera Bread, build a little bakery in St. Louis into 2,400 restaurants with 6 billion dollars in revenue and annual returns of 25 percent, outperforming Starbucks, Chipotle, and all others? By seeing the future and clearing a path to it, leading and innovating from the future back. Now, Shaich shares his story, starting with its humble entrepreneurial beginnings: the college-campus convenience store he...
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"Many workers believe that to compete with other top talent they must embrace a culture that rewards long hours and constant connection to work. Businesses and society have encouraged this by endorsing busyness, overwork, and extreme commitment as the most valued traits in workers. Sometimes that endorsement is explicit, as when Elon Musk told Twitter employees to work "long hours at high intensity" or get fired. But more often it's an implicit contract,...
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"A founder's wild memoir of startup success, told from hot tub inception to $50 million exit with the humor of a comic and the perspective of an educator. In The Startup Story: An Entrepreneur's Journey from Idea to Exit, renowned serial entrepreneur Martin Warner takes a fledgling company all the way from zero to hero, selling it for $50 million after a mere 17 months. It's a memoir of whirlwind entrepreneurial success, a nonfiction narrative that...
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"Do you have a burning passion to make a lot of money in business? Are you ready to turbocharge your chances of professional and personal success? During his more than four decades as a CEO and serial entrepreneur, Brad Jacobs has created seven flagship companies across different industries, delivering tens of billions of dollars of value to shareholders. In How to Make a Few Billion Dollars, Jacobs defines the mindset that drives his remarkable success...
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"With change comes opportunites for those who plan and strategize. Growth is a function of creative visioning, effective planning, consistent execution, ethical conduct and accountability for activities and actions. The Big Picture of Business motivates companies to grow--envisioning the whole of business, the pieces as they relate to the whole, then the whole again. It offers an original business model ... and provides an invaluable resource for...
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A revised and updated edition of the cosmetics icon's timeless guide to entrepreneurial success, featuring her people-centered business philosophy.
Mary Kay Ash built a global independent sales force that today numbers 1.8 million women, and is respected by business and academic leaders. How? The secret is in this book.
For forty-five years, the principles in The Mary Kay Way have helped the company succeed through changing economic times and explosive...
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"Do you feel like you're hiding in the shadows and not living up to your true potential? Do you lack the confidence to show the world who you really are and build the business you really want? Do you want to stop comparing yourself to other people on social media and start feeling empowered in your own personal journey? If you answered yes to any of those questions, then BE SEEN: Find Your Voice, Build Your Brand, Live Your Dream is the guide you...
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From Dan Schawbel, Managing Partner of Millennial Branding, LLC and the man the New York Times calls a "personal branding guru," comes a guide detailing how to survive the modern job hunt and thrive in the digital age.
Packed with expert insights and concrete, step-by-step instructions to create and maintain one's personal brand, ME 2.0 shows potential job-hunters how to use digital media and social networks to find job opportunities and careers...
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Two successful entrepreneurs offer a no-nonsense guide to the qualities that make people suited to starting their own businesses.
In today's world of startup companies, entrepreneurs are disrupting industries and fueling the economy like never before. It's an exciting life where no day is quite like the next. But along with the adventure comes a lot of uncertainty, and not everyone is suited to the entrepreneurial life. So, what does it take?
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What is the secret to organizational success? Whether the goal is developing a new product, establishing a new location, launching a new initiative, starting a new team, or improving your existing one, what will determine its success? The leaders! For any team, small business, large corporation, non-profit organization, or government entity, the key to accomplishing today's goals and achieving tomorrow's success depends on its present and future leaders....
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Entrepreneurs are smart, confident, good at what they do, and help their clients get amazing results. Often times they are busy, stressed, and overwhelmed which holds them back from the success and the difference they really want to make. Some days seem like a never-ending to-do list, then there are webinars, podcasts, newsletters, social media - and the pace keeps picking up. They wonder if they'll ever get on top of things and feel in control again....
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A guide for how to not only dream big, but also win-both in business and in life-from one of the most celebrated and successful women in America. For the first time ever, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Forbes' Richest Self-Made Woman Liz Elting shares her story on how she cofounded and grew TransPerfect, the billion-dollar translation and language solutions company that began as a dream in an NYU dorm room. In Dream Big and Win, Elting divulges...
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"What do successful entrepreneurs and chess grandmasters have in common? The vision and mindset to look at the pieces in front of them and anticipate what role each one plays in the next five moves. Now, with the principles explored in Your Next Five Moves, aspiring entrepreneurs and anyone looking to excel in their career can hone the vital skills needed to consider long-term goals, anticipate future challenges, and sharpen their shrewd strategic...
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"The White Shirt is the story of how a young man named Cyrus discovers and applies a few timeless principles to find his place in the world. In the process, he designs a simple plan that anyone can use to move into an ideal career at any stage in life. Executive consultant and career coach Michael Tate's imaginative illustration of career discovery details the processes and principles that will work as well for you as they did for Cyrus and his friends....
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Follow Jack, a fictional business owner, as he begins his own business from a dream to reality. The author pulls out of the details and enables you to see the business from a higher perspective. You will find that the challenges you have are just that: challenges, not insurmountable problems.
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