"Refreshingly thought-provoking..." - The Financial Times The essential playbook for the future of your business What To Do When Machines Do Everything is a guidebook to succeeding in the next generation of the digital economy. When...
Business and economics
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Author:Frank, MalcolmSummary: - Author:Kaplan, Robert S.Summary:
WHAT MAKES A LEADER' CAN YOU REALLY LEARN TO LEAD' You might believe that leaders are born, not made. Perhaps you think that you need to hold an important job to be a leader-that you need permission to lead. Leadership is one of the...
- Author:Kaplan, Robert StevenSummary:
Building a fulfilling life and career can be a daunting challenge. Too often we charge down a path leading to "success" as defined by others and are left feeling dissatisfied. We all have unique skills and qualities, but it can seem so...
- Author:Slee, TomSummary:
The news is full of their names, supposedly the vanguard of a rethinking of capitalism. Lyft, Airbnb, Taskrabbit, Uber, and many more companies have a mandate of disruption and upending the 'old order'—and they've succeeded in effecting...
- Author:Swift, JamieSummary:
Jamie Swift combines sharp-eyed journalism that brings out the nuances of daily life with a penetrating analysis of jobless recovery. He describes the emerging world of work through the eyes and experiences of people in Kingston and...
- Author:Mayer, StarrSummary:
WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN discusses the dreaded possibility that a crisis might strike a nonprofit group. Defining a crisis as an event which threatens the existence of the organization, When Bad Things Happen to Good Organizations goes on...
- Author:Fischer, KristenSummary:
Too many creative professionals focus too much on their artistic abilities and too little on their business interests. In When Talent Isn't Enough, self-employed copywriter and journalist Kristen Fischer offers powerful strategies and...
- Author:MacBeth, HilliardSummary:
Over the last two decades Canadians have become convinced that real estate is the “safe haven” investment. This widely held belief and obsession with real estate led millions of Canadians to take on massive amounts of debt — tripling...
- Author:MacBeth, HilliardSummary:
Starting in 2008, investors, upset by the stock market collapse, started to see real estate as a "safe haven" investment. While talking with numerous clients, investment manager Hilliard Macbeth realized that Canadians have...
- Author:Dokis, Carly A.Summary:
Oil and gas companies now recognize that industrial projects in the Canadian North can only succeed if Aboriginal communities are involved in decision-making processes. Where the Rivers Meet is an ethnographic account of Sahtu Dene...
- Author:Claessens, JacquesSummary:
Every international development project looks good on paper until someone asks, "Who are you and why are you here?" In this case, it's a man from northern Burkina Faso. His question reveals everything wrong with...
- Author:Pollack, Pam., Belviso, MegSummary:
Steve Jobs, adopted in infancy by a family in San Francisco, packed a lot of life into fifty-six short years. In this Who Was…? biography, children will learn how his obsession with computers and technology at an early age led him to co...
- Author:Dannemiller Tyson AssociatesSummary:
People in organizations of all types (public and private, large and small) have, for years, had to wrestle with the formidable challenge of successfully planning and implementing changes in how they do business. Today, the demand for...
- Author:Cappelli, PeterSummary:
Cappelli confronts the myth of the skills gap and provides an actionable path forward to put people back to work.
- Author:Fowler, SusanSummary:
Top leadership researcher, consultant and coach Susan Fowler says stop trying to motivate people! It’s frustrating for everyone involved and it just doesn’t work. You can’t motivate people—they are already motivated but generally in...
- Author:Fowler, SusanSummary:
You can't motivate people- they are already motivated but generally in superficial and short-term ways. In this book, Fowler builds upon the latest scientific research on the nature of human motivation to lay out a tested model and...
- Author:Powers, PaulSummary:
Here is one book every job hunter needs. Fast paced, with no fluff, Winning Job Interviews is packed with strategies and techniques that are practical, market-proven, and easy to use. Combining 30 years of career expertise with equal...
- Author:Gordon, Edward E.Summary:
In the next few years the world will be facing a huge talent shortage. Demographic trends in America, Europe, Russia, and Japan are reducing the pool of new workers. As the need for talent grows, China’s and India’s educational systems...
- Author:Krupp, StevenSummary:
The number one business challenge-is winning the long game by being more strategic; developing the skills to look outside the four walls of the organization and see the world from the future back. Steven Krupp and Paul J. H. Schoemaker...
- Author:Axelrod, AlanSummary:
Churchill skillfully converted crisis into victory, making the boldest of visions seem attainable; even though he sometimes failed audaciously, he embraced his errors and used them to become stronger. Axelrod looks at this much-studied...
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