#economics #business #nonfiction #hardcover #kendunn #leadership #self-directed 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

A Business Parable

Laura Dunagan, was born in the gold prospecting days of rustic Alaska in the early 1900's. When Laura was 14 years old, her father was trapped under a mud slide while prospecting in a nearby river and died. Laura was forced to move to Chicago in the care of her rich Uncle Joe. Laura hated Uncle Joe because he forced her to leave the river, but also because he had left the family prospecting business to move to Chicago years before she was born. Laura discovers that Uncle Joe made his fortune selling insurance and was the owner of the largest insurance company in Illinois. While wondering through the mansion one day, she found Uncle's Joe personal den. In it, she discovered an entire new life that would lead her to heights that she would never had realized panning for gold in Alaska. Uncle Joe used the 6 gold prospecting rules for safety to prospect new clients for his insurance company and in doing so, discovered the secrets to wealth in selling.

The Greatest Prospector in the World

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Kansas

In this inspirational handbook, the discoveries of Donald O. Clifton, the grandfather of positive psychology, show how the briefest interactions affect people's relationships, productivity, health, and longevity. 100,000 first printing.

How Full Is Your Bucket? Expanded Anniversary Edition

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Connecticut

Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies

In Search of Excellence

#hardcover #nonfiction #selfhelp #economics #textbook #psychology #gallup ##selfhelp 

New York

An updated version of the StrengthsFinder program developed by Gallup experts to help readers discover their distinct talents and strengths and how they can be translated into personal and career successes.

StrengthsFinder 2. 0

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#hardcover #nonfiction #economics #jobs #business #finance #firstedition

New Jersey

Restoring Our Middle Class Before the World Blows By

In American Mojo: Lost and Found, Peter D. Kiernan, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author, focuses on America's greatest challenge--and opportunity--restoring the middle class to its full promise and potential.

Our educated, skilled, and motivated middle class was the cornerstone of America's postwar economic might, but the country's dynamic core has struggled and changed dramatically through the last three decades. Kiernan's extensively researched story, told through individual histories, shows how the middle class flourished under unique circumstances following World War II and details how our middle class has been rocked and shaped by events abroad as much as at home. By excluding too many Americans, the middle class we reverently recall was fractured from the beginning.

What emerges through his storytelling is a picture of middle-class decline and opportunity that is fuller, more moving and profound, and ultimately more useful in terms of charting a path forward than other examinations. His unique global perspective is a vital ingredient in charting the way ahead. This new frontier thesis shows that middle-class greatness is again within our grasp--if we take some powerful medicine and seize the global opportunity. America possesses the skills and talent the world needs. Americans must embrace what brought our middle class to prominence in the first place--our American Mojo--before it is too late and other countries steal the march.

All that is at stake is the soul of our nation.

American Mojo: Lost and Found

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underdogs, misfits, and the art of battling giants

David and Goliath

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An Inspiring Tale about Making Quality the Key Ingredient in Everything You Do

Explains why quality--as well as innovation--must become a key part of American business practice in order to achieve success in the global marketplace, using a fable about a regional ice cream company that discovers the importance of a high standard forexcellence in every aspect of corporate culture.

The Ice Cream Maker

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Embrace, Learn, and Adapt to Failure As a Way to Success

Fail More

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11 Key Principles from Battlefield to Boardroom

Many Americans view Wall Street as a bastion of greed and corruption; a place that attracts people who don't deserve the money they make but are willing to break the law to get more of it. Yet for all their mistrust, many of these same Americans believe that Wall Street is essential for our economy to function. How do we fix it? Send in the Marines.

Known for its exemplary discipline, the Marine Corps ensures victory by obeying key commands, such as: establish clear, tactical objectives; know the terrain before heading into battle; identify and capitalize on combat advantages; control timing; leverage complementary skills within the unit; negotiate from a morally defensible position; harness strength of leadership to craft a bulletproof plan. Ken Marlin served ten years' active duty as a Marine officer before taking on the financial sector. He's seen this program of pride, professionalism, and fidelity work - from the battlefield to the boardroom.

Marlin is no socialist: he's a capitalist and risk-taker who enjoys earning money for himself and his clients. InThe Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street, he teaches you the Marine Corps way to win on Wall Street and on Main Street: to sacrifice short-term gains for the long-term interests of your clients and your company. Deploying Marine-tested tactics, he engineers lasting, honorable success while lowering the ethical cost of doing business. That's the Marine Corps way.

The Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street

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Reclaiming the Future We've Sold to Machines

Autonomous Revolution

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Why Consumers Bond With Some Brands For Life

Married To The Brand

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#nonfiction #hardcover #business #economics #finance #personalfinance #investing #money #selfhelp #1stedition

Sharing the Secrets for Pursuing Real Financial Success

The Elephant In The Room

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#nonfiction #hardcover #business #economics #marketing #money #tech #leadership #success

What Apple, Amazon, and Netflix Understand About Their Customers (That Your Company Probably Doesn’t)

Evangelist Marketing 

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Argues that post-crisis Wall Street continues to be controlled by large banks and explains how a small, diverse group of Wall Street men have banded together to reform the financial markets.

Flash Boys

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (1987 first edition)

Surveys global politics over the past five hundred years and discusses current problems facing the major powers in terms of those that caused the collapse of past empires

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

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#hardcover #e-commerce #business #economics #college #textbook #technology

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

North Carolina

Business & Economics

Business, Technology, Society

This comprehensive, market-leading text emphasizes the three major driving forces behind e-commerce: technology change, business development, and social controversies. Each of these driving forces is represented in every chapter, and together they provide a coherent conceptual framework for understanding e-commerce, typical of Laudon books. The book offers in-depth and comprehensive coverage of concepts in marketing, economics, IS/IT, privacy and intellectual property. The book contains numerous case studies and an additional case book is available.

E-Commerce

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A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale.

A hidden circulatory system flows beneath the surface of global finance, carrying trillions of dollars from drug trafficking, tax evasion, bribery, and other illegal enterprises. This network masks the identities of the individuals who benefit from these activities, aided by bankers, lawyers, and auditors who get paid to look the other way.

In Secrecy World, the Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter Jake Bernstein explores this shadow economy and how it evolved, drawing on millions of leaked documents from the files of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca―a trove now known as the Panama Papers―as well as other journalistic and government investigations. Bernstein shows how shell companies operate, how they allow the superwealthy and celebrities to escape taxes, and how they provide cover for illicit activities on a massive scale by crime bosses and corrupt politicians across the globe.

Bernstein traveled to the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and within the United States to uncover how these strands fit together―who is involved, how they operate, and the real-world impact. He recounts how Mossack Fonseca was exposed and what lies ahead for the corporations, banks, law firms, individuals, and governments that are implicated.

Secrecy World offers a disturbing and sobering view of how the world really works and raises critical questions about financial and legal institutions we may once have trusted.

Georgia

Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite

Secrecy World

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(A1) **Summary - You're operating your business in a time when something is happening that is so momentous it has never happened before. Jim Blasingame identifies it as an epochal marketplace shift that's causing the 10,000-year-old Age of the Seller to be replaced by the Age of the Customer.

Jim will reveal to you in plain language:

* How the two Ages currently, but temporarily, exist in parallel universes, and how much time you have left to join the emerging universe.

* How relevance is replacing competitiveness as the coin of the realm, and what you have to to do make this switch to Age of the Customer thinking.

* How your future will increasingly be decided at the Moment of Relevance, and what you have to do to be the chosen one at that moment.

* The new influencers who co-own your brand message - sometimes before you even know they exist - and how you can get them to be your partner.

* Why you must become a good storyteller.

* The good, bad, and ugly of social media.

* The killer app that wasn't any part of your past but will dominate your future.

Jim will tech you how the Age of the Customer is impacting love, trust, emotions, niches, globalization, intellectual property, selling, branding, and even technology. Plus he will reveal what is not going to change. 

In the Foreword, Steve Forbes says Jim has both the foresight of a prophet and the courage of a heretic. This book is a visionary message delivered with tough love and, as Steve says, Jim is the best at this. 

You'll keep this book handy for continual reference, because you won't find the perspectives Jim Blasingame delivers here anywhere else in one place. 

It's the Age of the Customer. Let Jim Blasingame help you Prepare for the Moment of Relevance.  #nonfiction #business #economics #hardcover #consumer #signed #autograph #inscribed #provenance #autographed

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SIGNED - The Age of the Customer

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(A2) **Summary - Do you feel confident you're a leader with influence? You may be surprised to discover you're not as influential as you think you are.

Your team is only as strong as your influence, and many leaders today are mistaken about what it means to be influential. An outdated influence paradigm, along with technological devices and distractions, is making it increasingly challenging for leaders to reach those they need to influence in order to be successful. In fact, many leaders are unwillingly and unknowingly sabotaging themselves and their influence.

In her thought-provoking Influence Redefined, Stacey Hanke introduces her powerful Influence Model, a step-by-step method for improving communication and producing the ideal type of influence—one that moves people to action long after an interaction is over. She dispels the most common influence myths and instructs leaders on how to stop sabotaging themselves in order to leave a positive, lasting impression.

Using a results-based definition of influence for individuals and organizations, Hanke successfully shows leaders how they can develop influence as a skill through self-awareness, consistency, a positive reputation, adaptability, and impact.
With insights from dozens of executives and business leaders, as well as practical how-tos and action steps, Influence Redefined will help leaders multiply and expand their influence every day, Monday to Monday®.

Through Stacey Hanke, Inc., the author has provided keynotes, mentoring and training on communicating with influence to thousands of leaders across industries. She is the author of Yes You Can! and has appeared in the New York Times and SmartMoney. Hanke was recognized as one of the National Speakers Association's ''Top 6 Under 40.'' #nonfiction #business #economics #hardcover #lead #signed #autographed #autograph #lecture #clients

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SIGNED - Influence Redefined

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Maryland

Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't. The Findings The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness. The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. “Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.” Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?

Good to Great

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Wisconsin

Dreams and Nightmares along the Information Highway

"Gaining extraordinary access to some of the most powerful CEOs and visionary architects of the Information Highway, Daniel Burstein and David Kline take readers on a gripping tour of what is perhaps the greatest business battle in history: the fight for supremacy in the new media and information markets of tomorrow."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Road Warriors

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Virginia

A Simple 12-Step Plan to Start Investing and Grow Your Own Wealth

The launching point for you--and for ambitious women like you--to build your wealth, cement your financial independence, and secure the net worth you need to create the life you want; all from famed financial correspondent and Millennial money whisperer Nicole Lapin. Forget the pie-in-the-sky promises and pipedreams. This is a money-in-the-bank masterclass from one of the top voices in the women's personal finance community. From automating your savings; to easy, no-stress ways of investing; to taking smart risks with your money that compounds your wealth and keeps you out of debt; #1 New York Times bestselling author and renowned money expert Nicole Lapin is ready to start you on your journey toward your ultimate destination: being filthy friggin' rich. In Miss Independent, you will learn: The meanings of the most common (and some less common) financial terms and how to make them work to your advantage. The best method for establishing your number--the amount of wealth you want to accumulate before you retire--and getting it. To rethink how you approach money goals and true financial independence. The pros and cons of various financial decisions, such as buying a house, and the effect they could have on your financial life. Miss Independent sweeps away all the fear and misconceptions about saving and investing and achieving financial independence, and then teaches you all the different ways and paths that you can take to become a millionaire.

Miss Independent

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Ken Dunn

The Greatest Prospector in the World

Tom Rath; Donald O. Clifton

How Full Is Your Bucket? Expanded Anniversary Edition

Thomas J. Peters & Robert H. Waterman, Jr.

In Search of Excellence

Tom Rath

StrengthsFinder 2. 0

Peter D. Kiernan

American Mojo: Lost and Found

Malcolm Gladwell

David and Goliath

Subir Chowdhury

The Ice Cream Maker

Bill Wooditch

Fail More

Ken Marlin

The Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street

William Davidow, Michael Malone

Autonomous Revolution

William J. McEwen

Married To The Brand

Barry Bridger

The Elephant In The Room

Alex L. Goldfayn

Evangelist Marketing

Michael Lewis

Flash Boys

Paul M. Kennedy

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

Kenneth C. Laudon; Carol Guercio Traver

E-Commerce

Jake Bernstein

Secrecy World

Jim Blasingame

SIGNED - The Age of the Customer

Stacey Hanke

SIGNED - Influence Redefined

Tom Rath

StrengthsFinder 2. 0

Jim Collins

Good to Great

Daniel Burstein; David Kline

Road Warriors

Nicole Lapin

Miss Independent

Brown, Simon

Practical Feng Shui for business