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81) Out of nowhere
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"At a Texas county fair, amidst carousels and a bustling midway, children's book author Elle Portman is enjoying a rare night out with her favorite cowboy: her two-year-old son, Charlie. But just as they're about to head home, the unthinkable happens- a shooter opens fire into the crowd, causing widespread panic to erupt all around them. Also caught in the melee was corporate consultant Calder Hudson. Arrogant, self-centered, and high off his latest...
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In today's fast-paced, competitive business environment, we all need to communicate clearly and use our time productively. Even seasoned writers will find tips, tools, and ideas in this book that can improve the quality - and reduce the quantity - of email in the workplace.
This book will help you write concise, clear emails that advance your business needs:
• Explore how social media is and is not a helpful guide for business email
• Use email...
83) You're invited
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When twelve-year-old Sadie is fired from her mother's wedding planning company after a disastrous mishap, she starts her own party planning business and recruits her three best friends.
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"When Katie Brenner is fired from her dream job in advertising in London, she's desperate to get away from her mad boss Demeter, and her crush, Alex, who she thought shared her feelings of adoration but didn't. Seeking refuge, she goes home to her father's farm in Somerset to help make her stepmother's dream of turning their land into a glamping retreat come true. Applying her savvy marketing smarts, Katie masterminds a glamorous upscale resort. But...
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We live in a regulated world. And for someone whose role is in regulatory compliance or regulatory enforcement knowledge is often gained on an ad hoc basis through trial and error, via on the job training, or through conversations with others in a similar role.
In “Regulatory Compliance Fundamentals” M.L. Humphrey has taken twenty years of experience as a regulator and a consultant in the financial services industry and boiled it down to the...
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The idea that business is only about the money doesn't hold true in the twenty-first century, when companies around the world are giving up traditional distinctions in order to succeed. Yet our expectations for businesses remain under the sway of an outdated worldview that emphasizes profits for shareholders above all else.
The Power of And offers a new narrative about the nature of business, revealing the focus on responsibility and ethics that...
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The author of 'The Science of Getting Rich' brings you 'The Science of Being Great'. Wallace D. Wattles introduced the world to the power of positive thinking. Greatness is equally inherent in all and therefore every person may become great. Man may overcome both heredity and circumstances by exercising the inherent creative power of the soul.
Talent may merely be one faculty developed out of proportion to other faculties, but genius is the union...
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From Erin Brockovich to Enron, whistleblowers who "challenge abuses of power that betray the public trust" have proven to be an unfortunate necessity in modern business culture. Their efforts to report crimes, fraud, and dangers to public health and safety have saved millions of lives and billions of dollars of shareholder value – and had we heeded the warnings of whistleblowers, perhaps disasters such as the Bernie Madoff scandal and the Lehman...
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Have you been thinking about writing a book for several years? But, haven't started yet?
Do you really want to finish writing your book this year?
Then, you need this guide.
Packed with wise insights aimed at helping you succeed as a first-time non-fiction author, this book is a must-have guide for the beginner. The book's friendly tone; and clear, straightforward writing style makes it easy to read for anyone. No matter what topic you choose to...
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This user-friendly book is filled with guidelines to help you write performance objectives, reviews, appraisals, and other performance documentation. The book's tips and tools help you find language that's clear, descriptive, objective, and acceptable in today's workplace. Examples, questions, and activities will help you learn on your own, with your team, or with others in your organization.
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TAKE THE PAIN OUT OF PRESENTATIONS.
Terrified of speaking in front of a group? Or simply looking to polish your skills? No matter where you are on the spectrum, this guide will give you the confidence and the tools you need to get results.
Written by presentation expert Nancy Duarte, the HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations will help you:
Win over tough crowds
Organize a coherent narrative
Create powerful messages and visuals
Connect with and...
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The Future of Packaging provides a straightforward solution to tackling the daunting issues of waste in the packaging industry by returning to a "circular economy." Beginning with a critique of the irresponsibility of the packaging industry and its contributions to wastefulness, Tom Szaky and his coauthors illuminate the path towards a waste-free future with lessons from the past. The goal of this book is to serve as a guide for designing a circular...
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DON'T LET YOUR WRITING HOLD YOU BACK.
When you're fumbling for words and pressed for time, you might be tempted to dismiss good business writing as a luxury. But it's a skill you must cultivate to succeed: You'll lose time, money, and influence if your e-mails, proposals, and other important documents fail to win people over.
The HBR Guide to Better Business Writing, by writing expert Bryan A. Garner, gives you the tools you need to express your...
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The Key to Effective Communication: Communication is essential in a healthy organization. But all too often when we interact with people-especially those who report to us-we simply tell them what we think they need to know. This shuts them down. To generate bold new ideas, to avoid disastrous mistakes, to develop agility and flexibility, we need to practice Humble Inquiry. Ed Schein defines Humble Inquiry as "the fine art of drawing someone out, of...
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In this book M.L. Humphrey draws upon twenty years of experience with regulatory compliance, and AML compliance in particular, as both a regulator of broker-dealers and a consultant to some of the largest financial institutions in the world, to give an overview of the main AML compliance requirements, with a particular focus on customer identification and suspicious activity monitoring and reporting.
This book is meant to be a high-level overview...
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A new edition of the seminal text by the father of modern economics.
First published in 1919, John Maynard Keynes's The Economic Consequences of the Peace created immediate controversy. Keynes was a firsthand witness to the negotiations of the Paris Peace Conference, as an official representative of the British Treasury, and he simultaneously sat as deputy for the chancellor of the Exchequer on the Supreme Economic Council. In these roles, he was...
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Are your sales plateauing? Struggling to find your rhythm? Do sales come one month and disappear the next?
The momentum sales model is a proven system for explosive sales growth that you can take anywhere.
Whether you're in sales or an entrepreneur, I've been where you are, staring at a target, wondering how on earth I am going to hit it based on the current pipeline, state of the product and lack of new business leads. That was, until I learned...
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The Tricycle Effect 2.0 is an inspiring self-help book for leaders, children, athletes, families, businesses, and organizations of all sizes written by Dane A. Deutsch. Practicing the principles laid out in each chapter through "straight from the heart" stories will teach you how important it is to lead with character first. Many leaders today get caught up in reading books and attending seminars that focus on the "people skills" like leadership,...
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