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Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The probability of failure in corporate innovation outside of a firm's core business is staggeringly high. Yet, the vast majority of existing books about innovation focus on startups and their entrepreneurs, methodologies, and ecosystems. Few, if any, focus on corporate innovation, those leaders who champion it, and how to maximize their chances of success. Corporate Explorer fills this gap. In January 2021 alone, there were over 10,000 Google searches...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The best-selling author of Blink identifies the qualities of successful people, posing theories about the cultural, family, and idiosyncratic factors that shape high achievers, in a resource that covers such topics as the secrets of software billionaires, why certain cultures are associated with better academic performance, and why the Beatles earned their fame.
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Priceless financial advice everyone can relate to from one of the world's most respected businessmen and the most successful investor of all timeOf course you know who Warren Buffett is; he's the most successful investor in the world-maybe of all time. But what do you know about his approach to business and investing? It's an approach that, over the past four decades, has made him one of the most respected men in America.But as Buffett himself will...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A former economic advisor to the White House and Treasury Department, Dr. Nouriel Roubini explains why the world's economy got into its current financial mess and how to fix it. In 2005, Roubini warned that the U.S. housing bubble was set to explode and bring global financial systems to a screeching halt. With his concerns now reality, he contends that no amount of stimulus spending can end the crisis until the massive imbalances at its heart are...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"With her piercings, tattoos and spiky blond hair, Ellen Truesdale doesn't quite fit in with the other folks in Coyote Canyon--and that's just fine with her. She's only here to put her father out of business, as payback for abandoning her when she was young. Or is she more interested in finally proving that she was worth keeping? Either way, she's struggling to keep her rival well-drilling company afloat. And being a single woman in a male-dominated...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Christmas is more than just a celebration for Lauren Montgomery. For generations, it's been her family's livelihood. Their Christmas shop, Razzle Dazzle Decor, has seen seasonal fads come and go, but there's one trend they can't escape. Online superstores are swallowing their sales, and this Christmas season will need to be their best ever if the store is to stay in business. To help keep the shop afloat, Lauren also has a sideline, writing biographies...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Lakey sisters are perfect opposites. After their mother died and their father was lost in grief, Willa had no choice but to raise her sister, Harper, and their brother, Lucas. Then, as an adult, she put her own life on hold to nurse Harper through a terrifying illness. Now that Harper is better and the sisters are living as roommates, Willa has realized her dream of running her own bakery and coffee shop, bringing her special brand of caretaking...
8) The appeal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wall street millionaire Carl Trudeau purchases an unsuspecting candidate to run for Supreme Court judge when a Mississippi rules agains one of his chemical companies for dumping toxic waste into the towns water supply causing a cancer cluster.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Leadership
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
In this thoroughly revised and updated 25th-anniversary edition of his now-classic work, John C. Maxwell reveals how to develop the vision, value, influence, and motivation required of successful leaders. Twenty-five years ago, John Maxwell published the book that forever transformed how we think about leadership.Developing the Leader Within Yourevolutionized the way leaders are made and in the process sold more than one million copies. Now John Maxwell...
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
In The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra distills the essence of his teachings into seven simple, yet powerful principles that can easily be applied to create success in all areas of your life.
Based on natural laws that govern all of creation, this book shatters the myth that success is the result of hard work, exacting plans, or driving ambition. Instead, Chopra offers a life-altering perspective on the attainment
...Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Daniel Coyle spent three years researching the question of what makes a successful group tick, visiting some of the world's most productive groups--including Pixar, Navy SEALs, Zappos, IDEO, and the San Antonio Spurs. Coyle discovered that high-performing groups relentlessly generate three key messages that enable them to excel: 1) Safety - we are connected. 2) Shared Risk - we are vulnerable together. 3) Purpose - we are part of the same story....
13) Out of Nowhere
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Brought together by a mass shooting at a Texas county fair, children's book author and single mother Elle Portman and high-rolling corporate consultant Calder Hudson, both fueled by revenge, search for a killer while wondering if the attraction growing between them is too painful and complicated to sustain.
14) Night diver
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Former British military diver Holden Cameron must investigate the suspicious activity surrounding a Donnelly dive to recover treasure from the ancient wreck of a pirate ship located near St. Vincent. When equipment, treasure, and even divers begin to disappear, owner Kate Donnelly and Holden form an uneasy alliance to uncover the truth. But the deeper they plummet into the mystery, the closer they come to each other. Soon they are sharing their deepest...
Author
Publisher
Matt Holt Books, an imprint of Ben Bella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"By the age of thirty-five, Andrew Wilkinson had built a business worth over a billion dollars, but his path to success was anything but a straight line. Never Enough shares both the lessons Wilkinson has learned as well as the many mistakes made on the road to wealth-some of which cost him money, happiness, and important relationships" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When her sister is wrongly implicated in an explosion that has destroyed her family's priceless antiques business and killed an employee, Hannah struggles to find clues in the ashes and discovers a life-threatening secret from the past.
Author
Publisher
GRAND CENTRAL PUB
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Two sisters go into the family business they didn't know they had-catching killers. From the creator of the #1 bestselling Women's Murder Club. Attorney Rhonda Bird returns home after a long estrangement when she learns her father has died. There she makes two important discoveries: her father stopped being an accountant and had opened up a private detective agency, and she has a teenage half sister named Baby. Baby brings in a client to the detective...
20) Palazzo
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio assumes leadership of her family's haute couture Italian leather brand. While navigating the challenges of running a company at twenty-three, Cosima must also maintain the four-hundred-year-old family palazzo in Venice and care for her younger siblings: Allegra, who survived the tragedy that killed their parents with scars and a spinal injury, and Luca, who has a penchant for wild parties,...
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