March 2020 list by L. Gee
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The Calling: 3 Fundamental Shifts to Stay True, Get Paid, and Do Good
by Rha Goddess
The Calling will provide readers with a road map, via 3 fundamental shifts, on how to stay true to your calling, get paid and do good. The steps that will help lead you there include: RECOGNIZING - it always begins with awareness. If you can’t see it then you can’t do anything about it; ACCEPTING - means embracing, and taking responsibility for yourself, your life, and the things that want or need to be changed; and FORGIVING yourself and others. AND MORE!
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Comeback Careers: Rethink, Refresh, Reinvent Your Success--at 40, 50, and Beyond
by Mika Brzezinski & Ginny Brzezinski
In Comeback Careers, New York Times bestselling author and co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe Mika Brzezinski and her sister-in-law Ginny Brzezinski have teamed up to show you that career reinvention is possible at any age. For this book, Mika and Ginny interviewed dozens of career-changers working in a variety of fields, from finance to academics to art. They share successful relaunchers' secrets to overcoming obstacles both internal and external, and their step-by-step processes and candid advice. They also reveal key strategies from top job coaches, resume-writers, and LinkedIn experts, tailored to the special challenges of mid-career jobseekers.
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Edge: Turning Adversity Into Advantage
by Laura Huang
Laura Huang, a preeminent Harvard Business School professor, shows that success is about gaining an edge: that elusive quality that gives you an upper hand and attracts attention and support. Some people seem to naturally have it. Now, Huang teaches the rest of us how to create our own from the challenges and biases we think hold us back, and turning them to work in our favor. Edge shows that success is about knowing who you are and using that knowledge unapologetically and strategically. This book will teach you how to find your unique edge and keep it sharp.
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The Future is Faster than You Think: How Converging Technologies are Transforming Business, Industries, and our Lives
by Peter H. Diamandis
Technology is accelerating far more quickly than anyone could have imagined. During the next decade, we will experience more upheaval and create more wealth than we have in the past hundred years. In this gripping and insightful roadmap to our near future, the authors investigate how wave after wave of exponentially accelerating technologies will impact both our daily lives and society as a whole. What happens as AI, robotics, virtual reality, digital biology, and sensors crash into 3D printing, blockchain, and global gigabit networks? How will these convergences transform today’s legacy industries? What will happen to the way we raise our kids, govern our nations, and care for our planet? As indispensable as it is gripping, The Future Is Faster Than You Think provides a prescient look at our impending future.
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The Leader's Greatest Return: Attracting, Developing, and Multiplying Leaders
by John C. Maxwell
Best-selling author, John C. Maxwell, shares the most important lessons he’s learned about the leadership development process over the last quarter century. He instructs readers in how to recognize potential leaders; attract leaders by creating a leadership “table”; work themselves out of a job by equipping and empowering leaders; position leaders to build a winning team; and coach leaders to higher levels and make them leadership developers themselves. This is where leaders really experience the compounding value of developing leaders and go to the highest levels of leadership themselves.
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The New World Economy: A Beginner's Guide
by Randy Charles Epping
What is blockchain? What is Bitcoin? How can central banks be instrumental in guiding a nation's economy? What are the underlying causes of trade deficits? Do trade wars actually help the domestic economy? How has the behavior of millennials and Generation Z affected the global economy? Find out all this and more in this definitive guide to the world economy.
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The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century
by Adam Davidson
Contrary to what you may have heard, the middle class is not dying and robots are not stealing our jobs. In fact, writes Adam Davidson--one of our leading public voices on economic issues-- the twenty-first-century economic paradigm offers new ways of making money, fresh paths toward professional fulfillment, and unprecedented opportunities for curious, ambitious individuals to combine the things they love with their careers.
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