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From the author of funny classics like "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes" and "The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody." Here in "How to Be a Hermit" are humorous essays and stories discussing house cleaning, cooking, sardines, spinach, clams, lettuce, cabbage, beans, coffee, budgets, entertaining, and the holidays. Will Cuppy (1884-1949) wrote extensively on his life as a hermit, the natural world, and just about anything else that proved...
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Plot out your path to a rewarding work life.
The world of work is changing with head-spinning speed. Now more than ever, you need to find your footing—and design your personalized road map to job satisfaction and career success.
Career Mapping offers a template for figuring out who you are and what you can offer to the work world. Inspired by the author’s own experiences as a college recruiter...
The world of work is changing with head-spinning speed. Now more than ever, you need to find your footing—and design your personalized road map to job satisfaction and career success.
Career Mapping offers a template for figuring out who you are and what you can offer to the work world. Inspired by the author’s own experiences as a college recruiter...
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The book also provides helpful tools to organize your financial life, such as a budgeting chart, a "scorecard" to track spending, and an "affordability calculator" to help you figure out how much buying a house will cost you. must-read for any couple starting out, Financially Ever After lays the groundwork for building a healthy and thriving financial life together
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Leading pricing expert Rafi Mohammed shows businesses how to reap a financial windfall and foster growth using the underutilized and often overlooked strategy of setting prices. The 1% Windfall reveals how modest incremental changes to an everyday business practice-pricing-can yield significant rewards. Illustrating the power of pricing, a study of the Global 1200 found that if companies raised prices by just 1%, their average operating profits would...
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A corporate mole's-eye view of the society in which we all live and toil, creating one of the most entertaining, thought provoking, and just plain funny bodies of work in contemporary letters. Stanley Bing knows whereof he speaks. He has lived the last two decades working inside a gigantic multinational corporation, kicking and screaming all the way up the ladder. He has seen it all -- mergers, acquisitions, layoffs, the death of the three-martini...
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"Strategic Thinking for Entrepreneurs: Planning for Success" is a comprehensive guide that equips entrepreneurs with the essential skills and mindset needed to navigate the complexities of business ownership. This insightful book delves into the principles of strategic thinking, offering practical frameworks and actionable strategies for developing and executing effective business plans. Through real-world examples and case studies, readers learn...
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"Cultural Intelligence: Thriving in a Diverse Global Marketplace" is a compelling guide that explores the importance of cultural intelligence (CQ) in today's interconnected world. This insightful book delves into the principles and practices of understanding and navigating cultural differences effectively to foster collaboration, innovation, and success in diverse environments. Through real-world examples and practical strategies, readers learn how...
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Los administradores están preocupados. Y deben estarlo. Las compañías Fortuna 500 despidieron más gente de la que contrataron en las últimas dos décadas. Las bancarrotas y los fraudes abundan. En el tumultuoso ambiente de los negocios de la actualidad, los administradores quieren una guía que sea apropiada y concisa, una metáfora única y memorable y que se salga de lo común. Precisamente eso es lo que Canarios empresariales conjuga.Hay una...
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In 1990, IBM had its most profitable year ever. By 1993, the computer industry had changed so rapidly the company was on its way to losing $16 billion and IBM was on a watch list for extinction -- victimized by its own lumbering size, an insular corporate culture, and the PC era IBM had itself helped invent. Then Lou Gerstner was brought in to run IBM. Almost everyone watching the rapid demise of this American icon presumed Gerstner had joined IBM...
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The first easy-and fun-guide to the Enneagram, the fascinating and revealing method of understanding personality types, for the beginner, the expert, and everyone in between. This witty and informative guide demystifies the ancient Enneagram system with cartoons, exercises, and personality tests that reveal our motivations and desires and show how to put that knowledge to use in our everyday lives. The 9 Types of People: The Perfectionist: Motivated...
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The marketing revolution is here, so get on the right side of the barricade and become a part of it! Let's thank Mr. and Mrs. Consumer and their little Consumerlings who have seized power from the corporations and are now firmly in control. In Punk Marketing, Laermer and Simmons take an irreverent, penetrating look at the seismic change in the relationship between the people who sell stuff-products, services, entertainment-and those who purchase it....
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YOUR WINNING STREAK IS ABOUT TO BEGIN.
Why do some people, colleagues, or teammates consistently bask in glory while others with similar educational backgrounds, technical skills, and talent remain in the shadows? It's not luck-it's a mastered art you can learn. Until now, this art has never been fully explained.
This unique playbook for peak performance is your lodestar, illuminating for the first-time precise step-by-step actions that will help...
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The Simple Art of Startup Marketing is a comprehensive guide designed to empower new businesses. This book demystifies the world of marketing, offering practical strategies and actionable insights for startups. It covers a wide range of topics, from understanding your target audience to leveraging digital platforms for brand visibility. Whether you're a first-time entrepreneur or an experienced business owner looking to boost your marketing efforts,...
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In his acclaimed 22nd book Lance Secretan calls out corporate America for continuing to use business practices that achieve opposite results from those intended. Eighty percent of employees wish they didn't have to go to work on Monday mornings; more than 80% would change careers if they had a choice and 70% of employees are either disengaged or actively disengaged. Lance Secretan proposes a disarmingly simple and provocative solution: remove eight...
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In his insightful book, 'The Future of Work: Managing in the Age of AI,' Nicos Rossides offers a comprehensive exploration of how artificial intelligence is transforming the workplace and redefining the essence of work itself. This book takes the reader on a journey from the earliest forms of human labor to a future where AI's influence permeates every aspect of economic activity. Rossides meticulously examines the shift from rigid job structures...
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Get the Summary of Alex Hormozi's 100M Offers in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Not that long ago though, my business had gotten so bad that I literally couldn't even give my services away for free. At the end of each month, I would look at my bank account hoping to see progress (but there wasn't). I knew something had to change... but what?
Over the next 48 months, I went from losing...
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This book contains a wealth of information on hunting and trapping with many illustrations for instruction. It presents full instructions for hunting the buffalo, elk, moose, deer, antelope, bear, fox and various birds including information on the localities where game abounds. The chapters on trapping tell you all about steel traps, how to make home-made traps for various types of animals and includes full directions for preparing pelts for market....
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All people have different personalities, different desires, different needs, and different ways to show their emotions. It all takes patience and cleverness to maneuver through this – particularly if they intend to succeed in life. It is here that emotional intelligence is relevant. Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize individual feelings, understand what they narrate, and know-how those around them affect the emotions. It also requires...
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The massive movement within Economics itself is largelyresponsible for the bridging that neuroeconomics provided foreconomics and psychology. Recent models in economics(Benhabib & Bisin 2005, Bernheim & Rangel 2004, Brocas &Carrillo 2006, Fudenberg & Levine 2006, Loewenstein &O'Donoghue 2004) have come to embrace a multiple systemsperspective, which has long been popular among psychologists(Chaiken & Trope 1999, Posner & Snyder 1975, Schiffrin &Schneider...
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