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Working with emotional intelligence
By Daniel Goleman. 1998
The author applies the principles from "Emotional Intelligence" to the business world. Explains what skills are needed to succeed in…
business besides I.Q. Provides guidelines for employees on developing social skills and specific emotional traits. 1998.What you really need to lead: the power of thinking and acting like an owner (RB development)
By Robert Steven Kaplan. 2017
What makes a leader? Can you really learn to lead? You might think that leaders need to be born with…
the right skills or personality attributes. Perhaps you believe you don't have the right experience or that you need to hold an important job to be a leader. Kaplan explains leadership is accessible to all of us. 2017.What now?
By Ann Patchett. 2008
An inspirational primer based on the author's 2006 commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College. Ann Patchett offers hope and inspiration…
for anyone at a crossroads, whether graduating, changing careers, or transitioning from one life stage to another. With wit and candour, she tells her story of attending college, graduating, and struggling with the inevitable question, What now? c2008.Trouver un emploi après 50 ans
By Daniel Porot. 2006
Pourquoi ce livre? Bien plus qu'une succession de conseils, c'est à la mise en place d'une véritable stratégie combative que…
vous invite Daniel Porot. La valorisation de votre propre image et de vos expériences sont les premiers atouts à travailler pour convaincre votre employeur potentiel. 2006.The sexual paradox: extreme men, gifted women and the real gender gap
By Susan Pinker. 2008
Why do women constitute 49% of law school graduates but only 27% of practicing lawyers? Pinker presents a case for…
a biological explanation of why men and women make different career choices, proposing that hormones are a determining factor. The hormones predominant in men lead to action, focus and often to competitive and rigidly hierarchical professions such as law, while women's hormones lead them to focus on empathy and social interaction, and careers as teachers or social workers. c2008.The right--and wrong--stuff: how brilliant careers are made and unmade
By Carter Cast. 2018
Carter Cast seemed to have it all together. He had a first-class education, an all-American athletic career, and a bright…
future with a Fortune 100 company. But unaware of how negative perceptions were shaped, he was stunned when his boss called him "unpromotable." Baffled, scared, and embarrassed, Cast used that defining moment to understand why he came so close to going off track. His experiences and research led to five defining archetypes showing how you can fail or succeed and how to improve self-understanding to take charge of your career. 2018.The quality of work: a people-centred agenda
By Graham S Lowe. 2000
This examination of current Canadian working practices by sociology professor Graham Lowe studies such issues as under and over-employment, conflicts…
between work and family, workplace inequalities, retirement with dignity and jobs for youth. He suggests that high-quality work offers a common ground for employers concerned with productivity and employees seeking meaning in their work. 2000.The power of reputation: strengthen the asset that will make or break your career (Your coach in a box)
By Chris Komisarjevsky. 2012
Komisarjevsky offers unique insight into how people can achieve their goals. In any business or field, success comes from a…
foundation of character, communication, and trust. As detailed in this groundbreaking work, these elements of reputation make it possible to forge relationships, effectively communicate ideas, and sell. 2012.The milk lady of Bangalore: an unexpected adventure
By Shoba Narayan. 2018
When Shoba Narayan, a writer and cookbook author who had lived for years in Manhattan, moves back to Bangalore with…
her family, she befriends the milk lady, from whom she buys fresh milk every day. These two women from very different backgrounds bond over not only cows, considered holy in India, but also family, food, and life. After Narayan agrees to buy her milk lady a new cow (she needs one and Narayan can afford it, so why not?), they set off looking for just the right cow. What was at first a simple economic transaction becomes something much more complicated, though never without a hint of slapstick. 2018.The little black book of success: laws of leadership for Black women (Griot audio)
By Angela Burt-Murray, Elaine Meryl Brown, Marsha Haygood, Rhonda Joy McLean. 2010
Three powerful African-American female executives celebrate their gender and heritage as they share their secrets for success in this effective…
guide for businesswomen. Ways to communicate thoughtfully, trust yourself, and exude self-esteem are just a few tactics the authors discuss for those who want to enter the workforce as confident leaders. 2010.Beshara presents a simple yet incredibly powerful step-by-step system that allows listeners to take control of their own day-to-day job…
search process. In addition to illuminating real-life job search stories, the audiobook contains interactive exercises, practical dos and don'ts, and other essential tools. 2009.Getting a life: the social worlds of geek culture
By Benjamin Woo. 2018
Comic book superheroes, fantasy kingdoms, and futuristic starships have become inescapable features of today’s pop-culture landscape, and the people we…
used to deride as “nerds” or “geeks” have ridden their popularity and visibility to mainstream recognition. Yet these conventionalized representations of geek culture typically ignore the real people who have invested time and resources to make it what it is. Woo recentres our understanding of geek culture on the everyday lives of its participants, drawing on fieldwork in comic book shops, game stores, and conventions. He shows how geek culture is a set of interconnected social practices that are associated with popular media and argues that typical depictions of mass-mediated entertainment as something that isolates and pacifies its audiences are flawed because they do not account for the conversations, relationships, communities, and identities that are created by engaging with the products of mass culture. 2018. "What is a nerd?" -- Talk nerdy to me: the meaning of geek culture -- Taking geek culture seriously: a practice-theoretic account -- Values and virtues: what is best in life? -- Careers: boldly going on -- Making communities from mass culture -- Institutions: building worlds between production and consumption -- The limits of participation -- The geek, the bad, and the ugly --The last whalers: three years in the far Pacific with a courageous tribe and a vanishing way of life
By Doug Bock Clark. 2019
Journalist Doug Bock Clark tells the stunning inside story of the Lamalerans, an ancient tribe of 1,500 hunter-gatherers who live…
on a volcanic island so remote it is known by other Indonesians as "The Land Left Behind." They have survived for centuries by taking whales with bamboo harpoons, but now are being pushed toward collapse by the encroachment of the modern world. 2019.Koch shows how to maximize success in your career and life by using the proven principle that 80 percent of…
changes in the world result from the most powerful 20 percent of actions and ideas. Shows how to use your own powerful "20 percent spike" - your most creative ideas and unique skills - to measure the amount of value you bring to your employer, clients or customers. For most people, there is a huge disparity between their intrinsic value and the compensation they receive for their efforts, and "The 80/20 Individual" shows how to narrow that gap. Sequel to "The 80/20 principle" (DC31085). 2002. Uniform title: 80/20 revolutionThe making of home: the 500-year story of how our houses became our homes
By Judith Flanders. 2014
Flanders traces the evolution of the house from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century across northern Europe and America,…
showing how the homes we know today bear only a faint resemblance to homes though history. What turned a house into a home? Why did northwestern Europe, a politically unimportant, sociologically underdeveloped region of the world, suddenly became the powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution, the capitalist crucible that created modernity? While investigating these important questions, Flanders uncovers the fascinating development of ordinary household items--from cutlery, chairs and curtains, to fitted kitchens, plumbing and windows--while also dismantling many domestic myths.JAY-Z: Made in America
By Michael Eric Dyson. 2019
"If you want the definitive treatment of a man who took it from Marcy Projects to the White House with…
wit, wisdom, and talent, and changed hip hop along the way, look no further than this insightful, brilliant and moving book." -Common JAY-Z is America at its scrappy, brash, irreverent, soulful, ingenious best: as transcendent a cultural icon as Frank Sinatra, as adventurous a self-made billionaire as Mark Zuckerberg, as gifted a poet as Walt Whitman. As he reaches the half-century mark, logs thirty years as a recording artist, becomes the genre's first billionaire, reigns as an elder statesman in a field teeming with artists half his age, and continues to make relevant rap records that chart-and that chart an artistic and political response to revived racism and renewed hostility to blackness-it is an auspicious time to examine JAY-Z's ideas, gifts and impact, to take measure of his stride as a cultural colossus. And there is no one better suited to the task than Michael Eric Dyson, who has investigated and championed hip hop, and the work of JAY-Z, as a critical American art form, for decades.Ultralearning: Timeless Techniques for Mastering Hard Skills
By Scott Young. 2019
Future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage by learning the skill necessary to stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt…
to whatever the workplace throws your way in this essential guide that goes beyond the insights of popular works such as Extreme Productivity, Deep Work, Peak, and Make It Stick. Faced with tumultuous economic times and rapid technological change, staying ahead in your career depends on continual learning-a lifelong mastery of new ideas, subjects, and skills. If you want to accomplish more and stand apart from everyone else, you need to become an ultraleaner. In this essential book, Scott Young incorporates the latest research about the most effective learning methods and the stories of other ultralearners like himself-among them Ben Franklin and Richard Feynman, as well as a host of others, such as little-known modern polymaths like Alexander Arguelles, who speaks more than forty languages. Young documents the methods he and others have used and shows that, far from being an obscure skill limited to aggressive autodidacts, ultralearning is a powerful tool anyone can use to improve their career, studies, and life. Ultralearning explores this fascinating subculture, shares the seven principles behind every successful ultralearning project, and offers insights into how you can organize and execute a plan to learn anything deeply and quickly, without teachers or budget-busting tuition costs. Whether the goal is to be fluent in a language (or ten languages), earn the equivalent of a college degree in a fraction of the time, or master multiple skills to build a product or business from the ground up, the principles in Ultralearning will guide you to success.Love Thy Neighbor
By Ayaz Virji. 2019
A powerful true story about a Muslim doctor's service to small-town America and the hope of overcoming our country's climate…
of hostility and fear. In 2013, Ayaz Virji left a comfortable job at an East Coast hospital and moved to a town of 1,400 in Minnesota, feeling called to address the shortage of doctors in rural America. But in 2016, this decision was tested when the reliably blue, working-class county swung for Donald Trump. Virji watched in horror as his children faced anti-Muslim remarks at school and some of his most loyal patients began questioning whether he belonged in the community. Virji wanted out. But in 2017, just as he was lining up a job in Dubai, a local pastor invited him to speak at her church and address misconceptions about what Muslims practice and believe. That invitation has grown into a well-attended lecture series that has changed hearts and minds across the state, while giving Virji a new vocation that he never would have expected. In Love Thy Neighbor, Virji relates this story in a gripping, unforgettable narrative that shows the human consequences of our toxic politics, the power of faith and personal conviction, and the potential for a renewal of understanding in America's heartland.Monsieur Mediocre: One Man's Journey to Becoming Real French
By John Von Sothen. 2019
A hilarious, candid account of what life in France is actually like, from a writer for Vanity Fair and GQ…
Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours increase every year, we think longingly of the six weeks of vacation the French enjoy, imagining them at the seaside in stripes with plates of fruits de mer. John von Sothen fell in love with Paris through the stories his mother told of her year spent there as a student. And then, after falling for and marrying a French waitress he met in New York, von Sothen moved to Paris. But fifteen years in, he's finally ready to admit his mother's Paris is mostly a fantasy. In this hilarious and delightful collection of essays, von Sothen walks us through real life in Paris-not only myth-busting our Parisian daydreams but also revealing the inimitable and too often invisible pleasures of family life abroad. Relentlessly funny and full of incisive observations, Monsieur Mediocre is ultimately a love letter to France-to its absurdities, its history, its ideals-but it's a very French love letter: frank, smoky, unsentimental. It is a clear-eyed ode to a beautiful, complex, contradictory country from someone who both eagerly and grudgingly calls it home.