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Business and Personal Finance December 2016
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The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
by Sebastian Mallaby
Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, this new biography on the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve also provides an intelligent history of modern finance -- the Economist says it "throws a sharp light on American policy and policymaking over four decades." Thoroughly and impartially, prize-winning author Sebastian Mallaby examines Alan Greenspan's time at the Fed as well as his political savvy and his ideological leanings. He also analyzes the conditions that led to the 2008 financial crisis. "Masterful," says Publishers Weekly.
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The 100 Best Business Books of All Time: What They Say, Why They Matter, and How They Can Help You
by Jack Covert
Thousands of business books are published every year-- Here are the best of the best. After years of reading, evaluating, and selling business books, Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten are among the most respected experts on the category. Now they have chosen and reviewed the one hundred best business titles of all time--the ones that deliver the biggest payoff for today's busy readers.
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The Only Sales Guide You'll Ever Need
by Anthony Iannarino
Perfect for both sales rookies and seasoned professionals, a guide to sales success in the modern era from the rising star blogger behind The Sales Blog, who built a formidable career in sales from the ground up, provides salespeople with 19 distinct strategies that will help them reach new heights.
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Knock 'Em Dead 2017: The Ultimate Job Search Guide
by Martin John Yate
The newest edition of this classic guide to job searching now includes new information on where to find jobs, how to pinpoint which job openings offer the best chance of success and what answers to interview questions will most impress interviewers. By a New York Times best-selling author.
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| Earning It: Hard-Won Lessons from Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World by Joann S. LublinPulitzer Prize winner and Wall Street Journal editor Joann Lublin is familiar with working in a male-dominated industry. Here, she shares interviews with 52 women who have blazed trails in similar situations, achieving executive roles in places where women are generally underrepresented. These inspiring stories of breaking the glass ceiling also offer unconventional insights and advice for others hoping to follow in their footsteps, covering topics from pay inequity to mentoring and bias in the boardroom. |
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Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One
by Jenny Blake
The best-selling author of Life After College and former Google career-development program manager shares strategies for meeting the demands of today's increasingly dynamic, high-turnover economy, sharing recommendations for identifying personal strengths and skills while staying primed for next-step moves.
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Making Work Work: The Positivity Solution for Any Work Environment
by Shola Richards
Shola Richards had reached the end of the road: after nearly two years at a soul-sucking job, he felt numb and suicidal. So he quit and devoted himself to nothing less than transforming the workplace, turning it into a space of respect, courtesy, and endless energy. Making Work Work focuses on inspiring current and future leaders to start a movement that will banish on-the-job bullying, put meaning back into work, and enhance coworkers' happiness and engagement. Richards, whose popular blog has a worldwide following, explains why inaction is insane, why we must move forward with positivity, and why the "abc" employees (asshats, bullies, and complainers) are so destructive. This motivational guide will stay in readers' hearts and minds long after they finish reading it.
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A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
by Joel Mokyr
The Industrial Revolution sprang from cultural habits of inquisitiveness and hardheadedness in early modern Europe, according to this illuminating study from economic historian Mokyr. He discerns strands in Western European culture from 1500 to 1700 that predisposed it to intellectual advances that underpinned the Enlightenment and economic revolutions: the celebration of practical labor as a sacred calling, the impact of voyages of discovery on discrediting ancient worldviews, the Reformation’s weakening of the Catholic Church as a cultural hegemon, and political fragmentation that helped dissidents evade state persecution. The result, he argues, was an elite culture oriented toward economic progress through increased knowledge and new thinking.
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Why Make Eagles Swim? : Embracing Natural Strengths in Leadership & Life
by Bill Munn
Bill Munn says the key to maximizing performance is already planted within us—and within everyone around us—in the inherent strengths we often ignore or fail to recognize while we focus on overcoming so-called weaknesses. This bias toward improving on negatives is detrimental to how we function at our jobs and at home. We devalue our talents in part because we take our natural gifts for granted, and in part because we’ve been conditioned to focus on getting good at things we struggle with, at the expense of excelling at things we’re already great at. Munn’s book speaks to those seeking to improve their teams and their leadership skills, but also to all of us who want to better understand, nurture, and interact with those in our lives.
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Hustle: The Power to Charge Your Life With Money, Meaning, and Momentum
by Neil Patel
Let’s be honest: most of us aren’t exactly “special.” We don’t boast an Ivy League degree like Sheryl Sandberg, a political pedigree like a Kennedy, or a wealthy father like Donald Trump. At best, we’re underdogs fighting a system that stacks the odds against us. So how do we find a way to break free and achieve fulfillment and success on our terms? One way: We hustle. Hustle teaches readers how to look at reality through a new lens—one based on fearless doing, demanding more (from ourselves and others), and never giving up on what’s important. The book will teach readers the lessons that the authors and the iconic hustlers they profile have learned the hard way on their own rise to the top.
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The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class
by Edward Conard
The best-selling author of Unintended Consequences shares contrarian arguments by the defender of capitalism at the height of the Occupy movement, drawing on a historical study of the ebbs and flows of the economy to propose economy-stimulating strategies designed to benefit everyone.
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Daring & Disruptive: Unleashing the Entrepreneur
by Lisa Messenger
The CEO of The Messenger Group and founder and editor-in-chief of Collective Hub, an entrepreneurial lifestyle magazine, speaks to a new generation of innovators, game changers and disrupters who want to succeed in a fast changing and often vexing world, sharing the important business lessons she has learned along the way.
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Risk Game: Self Portrait of an Entrepreneur
by Francis Greenburger
The real estate developer behind the 50 West skyscraper describes his life and how he made his fortune by taking risks and finding value where others never thought to look.
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The Healthy Workplace: How to Improve the Well-Being of Your Employees--and Boost Your Company's Bottom Line
by Leigh Stringer
Is your workplace working for you and your employees? Studies show that unhealthy work habits, like staring at computer screens and rushing through fast-food lunches are taking their toll in the form of increased absenteeism, lost productivity, and higher insurance costs—but it doesn’t have to be that way. Companies such as Google, Apple, Aetna, and Johnson & Johnson have used innovative techniques to incorporate healthy habits and practices into the workday and into their culture—with impressive ROI. Packed with real-life examples and the latest research,The Healthy Workplace proves that it pays to invest in your people’s well-being.
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| Get What's Yours for Medicare: Maximize Your Coverage, Minimize Your Costs by Philip MoellerIf you're nearing retirement age and are considering your options as far as health care goes, you'll need to learn the ins and outs of Medicare, a governmental program that provides health insurance to those 65 and older. Understanding how to sign up and what the costs are -- as well as how to maximize your coverage and picking the right plans -- are the main priorities of this helpful guide, which also offers a glossary of common terms. Health care in the U.S. is a complex system; this guide will help you understand how Medicare works within it. |
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| The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline by Jonathan TeppermanNominated for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year, The Fix identifies ten big challenges -- such as income inequality and immigration reform -- and shows solutions that have been created and implemented somewhere in the world. Ideal for readers interested in global affairs and foreign policy, this book also addresses key economic concerns, like how Brazil expanded their middle class, and how South Korea keeps growing their economy. You might not agree with all of author Jonathan Tepperman's analyses, but they're sure to prompt discussion. |
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| The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are the Emerging Hotspots of Global... by Antoine van Agtmael and Fred BakkerIn Europe and the U.S., industrial regions seem to have earned the moniker "rustbelts." But in recent years, they've also become surprising centers of innovation and renewal. In The Smartest Places on Earth, authors Antoine van Agtmael and Fred Bakker examine how some of these once-desolate regions are coming back to life through the efforts of entrepreneurs, start-ups, big corporations, and universities, with the support of government initiatives. While the focus is on technology and innovation, the move from rustbelts to "brainbelts" is having a positive impact in places from Akron to Dresden. |
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| Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country by Alex CuadrosBrazil has more than 50 billionaires -- and a huge divide between the hyper-rich and the poor. In Brazillionaires, American journalist Alex Cuadros shares the stories of some of these billionaires to illustrate just how their success has been achieved -- often through corrupt and sometimes violent means -- and how they influence the rest of the country. From energy barons to media magnates and elected politicians, this fascinating book (rumored to have been banned in Brazil) is a compelling look at the connection between wealth and power in Brazil. "Gripping from the first page," says the Globe and Mail. |
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| The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World by Sally DentonBechtel is the world's largest construction company, responsible for building the Hoover Dam and involved in the Channel Tunnel, the Big Dig, and construction in Iraq, among other large projects. For the last 70 years, it has been deeply entangled with the U.S. and foreign governments, and it's hard to tell who's profited more from those relationships. In this revealing book, investigative journalist Sally Denton presents a detailed and informative corporate history and a biography of the family behind it, including those influential relationships with high-ranking government leaders. This "taut, page-turning narrative" (Kirkus Reviews) exposes a great deal of greed and corruption. |
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| Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business by Rana ForooharThis provocative book tackles the complex and controversial topic of "financialization" -- the trend towards short-term, risky thinking that values immediate profits over innovation and economic growth. Defining "makers" as those people, companies, and ideas that create growth and "takers" as those who care only about enriching themselves (from politicians and CEOs to financial institutions as a whole), business and economics journalist Rana Foroohar discusses the causes and consequences of various aspects of the 2008 financial crisis, as well as the ways that a predatory financial sector has hamstrung the economy. "Masterly," says Forbes of this insightful analysis. |
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| Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio García MartínezAuthor Antonio Garcia Martinez may be known as much for his professional antics (forced out at Facebook, he landed at rival Twitter) as he is for his decidedly unprofessional ones (he once flooded Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's desk while brewing beer illegally). In his first irreverent, contrarian book, he shares his role in how social media and online marketing have invaded and influenced our daily lives -- all with subversive humor, peppered with scathing critiques of his former employers. Anecdotes from his hedonistic lifestyle also make appearances as he merrily burns bridges left, right, and center. |
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| The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War by Robert J. GordonIn this intellectual book, author Robert Gordon traces how the advent of the First Industrial Revolution changed the American way of life after centuries of mostly manual, usually rural subsistence living. Then, starting in 1870 as part of the Second Industrial Revolution, innovations and technologies began drastically improving the lives of the average person -- think electricity, improved medicines, canned foods, telephones, and cars. But, Gordon argues, that initial burst of rapid improvements slowed and has continued to do so since 1970 -- and will likely not return. Though not all will agree with his conclusions, his arguments are thought-provoking. |
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Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative (813) 273-3652 www.hcplc.org
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