Robert Iger

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Florida

Lessons Learned from 15 Years As CEO of the Walt Disney Company

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A memoir of leadership and success: The executive chairman of Disney, Time’s 2019 businessperson of the year, shares the ideas and values he embraced during his fifteen years as CEO while reinventing one of the world’s most beloved companies and inspiring the people who bring the magic to life. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2005, during a difficult time. Competition was more intense than ever and technology was changing faster than at any time in the company’s history. His vision came down to three clear ideas: Recommit to the concept that quality matters, embrace technology instead of fighting it, and think bigger—think global—and turn Disney into a stronger brand in international markets. Today, Disney is the largest, most admired media company in the world, counting Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and 21st Century Fox among its properties. Its value is nearly five times what it was when Iger took over, and he is recognized as one of the most innovative and successful CEOs of our era. In The Ride of a Lifetime, Robert Iger shares the lessons he learned while running Disney and leading its 220,000-plus employees, and he explores the principles that are necessary for true leadership, including: • Optimism. Even in the face of difficulty, an optimistic leader will find the path toward the best possible outcome and focus on that, rather than give in to pessimism and blaming. • Courage. Leaders have to be willing to take risks and place big bets. Fear of failure destroys creativity. • Decisiveness. All decisions, no matter how difficult, can be made on a timely basis. Indecisiveness is both wasteful and destructive to morale. • Fairness. Treat people decently, with empathy, and be accessible to them. This book is about the relentless curiosity that has driven Iger for forty-five years, since the day he started as the lowliest studio grunt at ABC. It’s also about thoughtfulness and respect, and a decency-over-dollars approach that has become the bedrock of every project and partnership Iger pursues, from a deep friendship with Steve Jobs in his final years to an abiding love of the Star Wars mythology. “The ideas in this book strike me as universal” Iger writes. “Not just to the aspiring CEOs of the world, but to anyone wanting to feel less fearful, more confidently themselves, as they navigate their professional and even personal lives.”

The Ride of a Lifetime

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Jane Fonda

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

North Carolina

She is one of the most recognizable women of our time. America knows Jane Fonda as an actress and an activist, a feminist and a wife, a workout guru and a role model. Now, in this extraordinary memoir, Fonda reveals that she is so much more. From her youth among Hollywood’s elite and her early film career to the challenges and triumphs of her life today, Jane Fonda reveals intimate details and universal truths that she hopes “can provide a lens through which others can see their lives and how they can live them a little differently.” Fonda divides her “life so far” into three “acts,” writing about her childhood, first films, and marriage to Roger Vadim in Act One. At once a picture emerges: a child born to the acting legend Henry Fonda and the glamorous society princess Frances Seymour. But these early years are also marked by profound sadness: her mother’s mental illness and suicide when Jane is twelve years old, her father’s emotional distance, and her personal struggle to find her way in the world as a young woman. By her second act, Fonda lays the foundation for her activism, even as her career takes flight. She highlights her struggle to live consciously and authentically while remaining in the public eye as she recounts her marriages to Tom Hayden and Ted Turner, and examines her controversial and defining involvement with the Vietnam War. As her film career grows, Fonda learns to incorporate her roles into a larger vision of what matters most in her life–and in the process she wins two Academy Awards, for Kluteand for Coming Home. In Fonda’s third act, she is prepared to do the work of a lifetime–to begin living consciously in a way that might inspire others who can learn from her experiences. Surprising, candid, and wonderfully written, Jane Fonda’sMy Life So Faris filled with universal insights into the personal struggles of women living full and engaged lives.

My Life So Far

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Ohio

Delatorro McNeal

It’s Time to Hire Yourself!

Delatorro McNeal wants to help you move from “just a paycheck” to a life of significance, meaning, and excitement; a life of hope and expectation. Through the interactive questions and activities, motivating quotes, and realistic and doable transition strategies. Caught Between a Dream and a Job will help you discover all that is possible for you as you learn to: 

 · Define true success for yourself

 ·  Frame your work around your life—instead of the other way around
 
·Become the person that you have always wanted to be by setting the extraordinary as your new standard

·Systematically move from job living to dream living

·Do what you love to do—and get paid to do it 

Your work was never meant to be just a job. 

You are a blessed, uniquely special individual with tremendous gifts, talents, abilities, and skills that were designed to solve problems and transform lives in this world. Get started today and discover the life you were made for!
 


Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Tennessee

How to Leave the 9 to-5 Behind and Step Into the Life You've Always Wanted

Caught Between A Dream And A Job

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Marianne Cantwell

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Vermont

Escape the 9-5, Create a Life You Love and Still Pay the Bills

Free Range is the new career changeTrapped in a job that's 'just not you'? Always dreaming of your next vacation and counting down to the weekend? Imagine getting paid to do something that brings you alive, without ever having to walk into an office again. It's all possible with this smart guide that breaks you out of the career-cage and puts you in control of your life. Be a Free Range Human is a breezy, energizing and straight-talking guide to creating an amazing lifestyle and a great income, doing what you love (on your own terms).Packed with inspiring case studies from people who've done it, this book shares unconventional ideas and practical steps to:·Discover what you really want to do with your life·Create a 'free range' career tailor-made for your unique personality and interests·Ditch the job and still make as much (or more) as you do now·Get time and location freedom (make money travelling the world or hanging out in your favourite café)·Get started in 90 days, for less than £100 (you don't need an MBA, funding or stuffy business plan to do it)·Stand out from the crowd and do things your way!

Be a Free Range Human

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