subject results for "Success in business."

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Zevin, Gabrielle — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts. Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Zevin, Gabrielle — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

A modern love story about two childhood friends. Sam was raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie was from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills. Sam and Sadie reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives.

Strong Ground

Brown, Brené — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The Checklist Manifesto

Gawande, Atul — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist now being used in medicine, aviation, the armed services, homeland security, investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds.

The Checklist Manifesto

Gawande, Atul — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist.

We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies—neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication. Now innovative checklists are being adopted in hospitals around the world, helping doctors and nurses respond to everything from flu epidemics to avalanches. Even in the immensely complex world of surgery, a simple ninety-second variant has cut the rate of fatalities by more than a third.
In riveting stories, Gawande takes us from Austria, where an emergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hour underwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection. He explains how checklists actually work to prompt striking and immediate improvements. And he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disaster response to investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds.
An intellectual adventure in which lives are lost and saved and one simple idea makes a tremendous difference, The Checklist Manifesto is essential reading for anyone working to get things right.

Think and Grow Rich

Hill, Napoleon — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Napoleon Hill's classic guide to success and creating the life you've dreamed of, featuring a brand-new chapter-by-chapter reading guide.

Deep Work

Newport, Cal — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task, allowing you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Unfortunately, most people have lost the ability to go deep, spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way. Newport shows that cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits, and presents a training regimen for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill.

How to Get Rich

Dennis, Felix — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An outspoken entrepreneurial dynamo reveals the secrets behind his self-made fortune. Starting as a college dropout with no family money, Felix Dennis made himself the sixty-fifth richest individual in the U.K. And had a blast in the process. How to Get Rich, his #1 British bestseller, is different from any other book on the subject because Dennis isn't selling snake oil, investment tips, or motivational claptrap. Having already made his fortune, he merely wants to help readers embrace entrepreneurship--and learn from his successes and failures. Dennis reveals, for example, why a regular paycheck is like crack cocaine; why being young, penniless, and inexperienced is a fine combination; why great ideas are vastly overrated; and why "ownership isn't the important thing, it's the only thing."

Deep Work

Newport, Cal — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Millions of copies sold!
The bestselling modern classic that sparked a worldwide conversation about the value of concentration—and the true costs of fractured attention.
“I’m handing you the answer to the overwhelm you feel, and his name is Dr. Cal Newport.” —Mel Robbins, The Mel Robbins Podcast, author of New York Times bestselling The Let Them Theory
Deep Work—the ability to focus without distraction on cognitively demanding tasks—is one of the most important abilities you can cultivate in our current moment. It’s a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce quality results in less time.
And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep—spending their days in a frantic blur of emails, online meetings, social media, and AI slop, not realizing there’s a better way.
In Deep Work, bestselling author and professor Cal Newport makes the case for reclaiming focus as a critical skill in our digital world, providing step-by step instructions for achieving this goal, including four rules for transforming your daily habits:
1. Work Deeply
2. Embrace Boredom
3. Quit Social Media
4. Drain the Shallows
A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, Deep Work offers a vitally important message: in our age of constant distraction, focus is a superpower. With inspiring examples and clear rules, Deep Work will teach you to introduce this ability in your own life.
“As a presence on the page, Newport is exceptional in the realm of self-help authors … Six pages in, I powered down my laptop. Twenty pages in, I left the house to buy an alarm clock so that I wouldn’t have an excuse to sleep next to my phone.”—Molly Young, The New York Times
“One of the few books I would call life-changing.” —Tim Maurer, Forbes
“I’ve read lots of books about productivity and lots of books about distraction. For me, Deep Work is among the best, on both counts.” —Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker
“[Deep Work] has changed how I live my life. Particularly, it’s led me to stop scheduling morning meetings, and to preserve that time for more sustained, creative work.” —Ezra Klein, The Ezra Klein Show

How to Get Rich

Dennis, Felix — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Uncover the secret to incredible wealth with practical advice from self-made millionaire Felix Dennis, for personal finance readers of Napoleon Hill and Robert Kiyosaki.
Felix Dennis was an expert at proving people wrong. Starting as a college dropout with no family money, he created a publishing empire, founded Maxim magazine, made himself one of the richest people in the UK, and had a blast in the process.
How to Get Rich is his magnum opus—and it is not like any personal finance or self-help book you’ve ever read. Dennis isn’t selling snake oil, investment tips, or motivational nonsense. He instead asks a simple question: are you young, desperate, and hungry enough to do whatever it takes to get rich? If not, this book might not be for you. That’s fine! But if so…
This is a book of lessons in business, learned the hard way so you don’t have to. Dennis shares key insights and mindset shifts on the journey to getting very rich, including:

Compulsion for money is mandatory.

Cut loose from negative influences. Never give in.

Ignore “great ideas.” Concentrate on great execution.

Keep your eye on the ball marked “The Money is Here.”

Hire talent smarter than you. Delegate.

Ownership is what really matters.

Sell before you need to, or when you’re bored.

Fear nothing and no one.

Witty, true, and often hilarious, How to Get Rich is the only really honest guide for making gobs of money. Are you willing to do what it takes?

Future Rich Person

Sacks, Haley — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"From Zillennial finance expert Mrs. Dow Jones comes a groundbreaking, judgment-free personal finance guidebook about how to grow wealth on your own terms. You're not bad with money. It's just no one ever taught you how to win a game rigged against you. Recessions. Crushing student debt. Inflation that won't quit. A housing market that feels like a joke. If you're a Gen Z or millennial, it feels like the financial deck has been stacked against you from day one. But here's what the doom-scrolling won't tell you: You can still get rich. Haley Sacks--the Zillennial Finance Expert behind Mrs. Dow Jones--has helped millions of people flip the script on money and unlock their financial power. No trust fund required. No lottery ticket needed. Just actionable strategies broken down and the guts to face your finances head-on." -- Publisher's description.

Strong Ground

Brown, Brené — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT

"Over the past six years, Brené Brown, along with a global community of coaches and facilitators, has taken more than 150,000 leaders in 45 countries through her Dare to Lead courage-building work. In Strong Ground, Brown shares the lessons from these experiences along with wisdom from other thinkers. This is a vital playbook for everyone from senior leaders developing and executing complex strategies to Gen Z-ers entering and navigating turbulent work environments. It is also an unflinching assessment of what happens when we continue to perpetuate the falsehood that performance and wholeheartedness are mutually exclusive. With equal amounts of optimism and caution about AI, Brown writes, "I hear a lot of experts trying to soothe people's anxiety about the pace of technological change by offering platitudes like, What makes us human will ensure our relevance. This is dangerous simply because, right now, we're not especially good at what makes us human. We're not hardwired for this level of uncertainty, and many of us feel as if the constant need to self-protect is driving the humanity right out of us. This is why organizational transformation today must foster deep connection, deep thinking, and deep collaboration. We need the courage to lead people in a way that honors and protects the wisdom of the human spirit." Brown offers a broad assessment of the skill sets and mindsets we need moving forward, including the capacity for respectful and difficult conversations, increased productive urgency and smart prioritization rather than reactivity, and strategic risk-taking, paradoxical thinking, and situational and anticipatory awareness skills. She identifies the toughest skill set as the discipline, humility, and confidence to unlearn and relearn"-- Provided by publisher.

Never Split the Difference

Voss, Chris — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT

A former international hostage negotiator for the FBI offers a new, field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations--whether in the boardroom or at home.

Show your Work!

Kleon, Austin — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Presents practical advice for increasing productivity on creative projects and improving their chances for success through strategies of networking and sharing works and ideas with like-minded members of the community and on the Internet.

The 12 Week Year

Moran, Brian — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Explains how to drive productivity and increase results by behaving as though a year was twelve weeks instead of months, resulting in focusing on the more urgent tasks and affording little time for complacency.

Strong Ground

Brown, Brené — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Brené Brown returns with an urgent call to reimagine the essentials of courageous leadership. In a time when uncertainty runs deep and bluster, hubris, and even cruelty are increasingly framed as acceptable leadership, Brown delivers practical, actionable insights that illuminate the mindsets and skill sets essential to reclaiming focus and driving growth through connection, discipline, and accountability.

LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD
Over the past six years, Brené Brown, along with a global community of coaches and facilitators, has taken more than 150,000 leaders in 45 countries through her Dare to Lead courage-building work. In Strong Ground, Brown shares the lessons from these experiences along with wisdom from other thinkers. This is a vital playbook for everyone from senior leaders developing and executing complex strategies to Gen Z-ers entering and navigating turbulent work environments. It is also an unflinching assessment of what happens when we continue to perpetuate the falsehood that performance and wholeheartedness are mutually exclusive.
With equal amounts of optimism and caution about AI, Brown writes, “I hear a lot of experts trying to soothe people’s anxiety about the pace of technological change by offering platitudes like, What makes us human will ensure our relevance. This is dangerous simply because, right now, we’re not especially good at what makes us human. We’re not hardwired for this level of uncertainty, and many of us feel as if the constant need to self-protect is driving the humanity right out of us. This is why organizational transformation today must foster deep connection, deep thinking, and deep collaboration. We need the courage to lead people in a way that honors and protects the wisdom of the human spirit.”
Brown offers a broad assessment of the skill sets and mindsets we need moving forward, including the capacity for respectful and difficult conversations, increased productive urgency and smart prioritization rather than reactivity, and strategic risk-taking, paradoxical thinking, and situational and anticipatory awareness skills. She identifies the toughest skill set as the discipline, humility, and confidence to unlearn and relearn.
Brown writes, “Individuals and organizations are building new muscles. Finding our strong ground—that athletic stance—is the only thing that can provide both unwavering stability in a maelstrom of uncertainty and a platform for the fast, explosive change that the world is demanding.”

Never Split the Difference

Voss, Chris, Raz, Tahl — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT

This international bestseller, with more than 5 million copies sold, offers a field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations and conflict resolution—whether in the boardroom, in your community, or at home.

Life is a series of negotiations, and negotiation is at the heart of collaboration—whether you are a business executive, a salesperson, a parent , a community leader, or a spouse. As a former FBI hostage negotiator, Chris Voss gives you the negotiation skills to be effective in any situation: negotiating a business deal, buying (or selling) a car, negotiating a salary, acquiring a home, renegotiating rent, deliberating with your partner, or communicating with your children. Taking the power of persuasion, tactical empathy, active listening, and intuition to the next level, Never Split the Difference gives you the competitive edge in any difficult conversation or challenging situation. This book is a masterclass in influencing others, no matter the circumstances.

After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator brought him face-to-face with a range of criminals, including bank robbers and terrorists. Reaching the pinnacle of his profession, he became the FBI's lead international kidnapping negotiator. Never Split the Difference distills the Voss method, revealing the skills that matter most when it comes to achieving your goals in both your professional and personal life.

Step-by-step, Voss show you how to:

Establish Rapport

Create Trust with Tactical Empathy

Gain the Permission to Persuade

Shape What Is Fair

Calibrate Questions

Transform Conflict into Collaboration

Spot Liars

Create Breakthroughs by Revealing the Unknown Unknowns

Never Split the Difference is your definitive source for effective business communication, defusing potential crises, winning people over, and achieving your goals at work and at home.

Show Your Work!

Kleon, Austin — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT

From the New York Times bestselling author of Steal Like an Artist, an even more forward-thinking and necessary book on how to take that critical next step on a creative journey—becoming known.

Show Your Work! is about why generosity trumps genius. It's about getting findable, about using the network instead of wasting time "networking." It's not self-promotion, it's self-discovery—let others into your process, then let them steal from you. Filled with illustrations, quotes, stories, and examples, Show Your Work! offers ten transformative rules for being open, generous, brave, productive.

In chapters such as You Don't Have to Be a Genius; Share Something Small Every Day; and Stick Around, Kleon creates a user's manual for embracing the communal nature of creativity— what he calls the "ecology of talent." From broader life lessons about work (you can't find your voice if you don't use it) to the etiquette of sharing—and the dangers of oversharing—to the practicalities of Internet life (build a good domain name; give credit when credit is due), it's an inspiring manifesto for succeeding as any kind of artist or entrepreneur in the digital age.

"Some people are natural self-promoters. For others, it's painfully difficult to put their work out there. In this creatively designed pocket-sized book, Kleon offers the latter group effective strategies that allow them to share their work without leaving their comfort zone ... Kleon's advice is sassy and spot-on." -Publishers Weekly

The 12-week Year

Moran, Brian — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT

The guide to shortening your execution cycle down from one year to twelve weeks Most organizations and individuals work in the context of annual goals and plans; a twelve-month execution cycle. Instead, The 12 Week Year avoids the pitfalls and low productivity of annualized thinking. This book redefines your ""year"" to be 12 weeks long. In 12 weeks, there just isn't enough time to get complacent, and urgency increases and intensifies. The 12 Week Year creates focus and clarity on what matters most and a sense of urgency to do it now. In the end more of the impor.

Clock in

Durham, Emily — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Did you know the average job search takes more than five months? That's because today's job market is more challenging--and more confusing--than ever. How are we supposed to get hired, get paid, and get ahead in our careers? Why is everything so complicated and gatekept? That's where Emily the Recruiter comes in. Using her years of experience as a recruiter and career coach, she pulls back the curtain on everything employment-related and tells you all you need to know about job hunting, networking, and not letting your boss drive you crazy. A much-needed antidote to the 'gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss' ethos, this guidebook gives you the real talk you need to lock in when you clock in... If you're ready to work smarter, not harder, Clock In is the no-filter, no-fluff resource you need to thrive in your nine-to-five--and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.

Become A Rock Star Real Estate Agent

Tucker, Jennifer Senno — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Within Become a Rock Star Real Estate Agent, Jennifer Seeno Tucker helps real estate agents create the favorable circumstances that will increase the success and effectiveness of their sales career, so they can rake in the profits. Become a Rock Star Real Estate Agent shows real estate agents that they can have a successful and thriving real estate business. There is a way for real estate agents to use their current skills, knowledge, and expertise to create a profitable real estate career capable of earning $100k or more every year. Become a Rock Star Real Estate Agent is designed to guide real estate salespeople who are truly ready to earn the profits they were born to make.

Incorruptible

Ries, Eric — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"From Eric Ries, creator of The Lean Startup, comes a bold and urgently needed rethink of how organizations are built--and why success itself so often turns companies against the people and principles that made them worth building in the first place. For decades, we've explained corporate corruption as a problem of bad actors, moral weakness, or isolated scandals. But that story doesn't match reality. Again and again, companies founded with strong ideals drift toward short-term thinking, extractive behavior, and mission abandonment--often despite the best intentions of the people inside them. Incorruptible argues that this failure is not primarily ethical. It is structural. As organizations grow, the systems that govern them--ownership, incentives, charters, accountability, and decision-making--quietly reshape behavior. When those systems are poorly designed, even principled leaders are pushed toward outcomes they never wanted. Success itself becomes a form of financial gravity, bending companies away from their original purpose. Drawing on two decades of work with founders, CEOs, investors, and institution builders, Ries shows how these failures arise predictably--and how they can be prevented. He reframes corporate governance not as bureaucracy or compliance, but as a creative and strategic act at the heart of building enduring, mission-controlled companies. At a moment when trust in business is eroding, Incorruptible offers a clear-eyed diagnosis and a practical blueprint for change. Success alone will not protect what matters most. Only incorruptible design can."-- From inside flap

7 Rules of Power

Pfeffer, Jeffrey — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

"In 7 Rules of Power, Jeffrey Pfeffer, professor of organizational behavior at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, provides the insights that have made both his online and on-campus classes incredibly popular-with life-changing results often achieved in 8 or 10 weeks"-- Provided by publisher.

Baby Boom

Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT

An over-achieving businesswoman's life is changed by the arrival of a twenty-two pound bundle named Elizabeth. She tries to juggle a high-pressure career and instant motherhood in this fast-paced comedy about a woman who discovers what's really important in life.

Anchored, Aligned, Accountable

Bethea, Aiko — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"We all have that moment we wish we could do over. Maybe it was a comment you made at work. Or a look you gave a loved one. These moments can cause real, lasting damage and they happen when we are misaligned with who we aspire to be. In this groundbreaking new book, Aiko Bethea teaches us how live every moment intentionally by introducing the "Anchored-Aligned-Accountable" framework: Transformation requires that we are anchored in our values, our intention and impact are aligned, and we are accountable to ourselves and others. Bethea takes readers through real-life scenarios from her career as a leadership coach, showing us how to re-think our "mess-ups" as moments that offer us a choice: We can shrink away, make a halfhearted apology, and refuse to enact change in our approach-or we can apply a new framework to alter our entire mindset and quality of life. With an inviting and witty voice, Anchored, Aligned, Accountable teaches us how to intentionally lean into our fears and learn from our mistakes. Bethea invites us to embrace connection over competition, empathy over pity, and vulnerability over ego, and work towards becoming the version of ourselves we truly admire"-- Provided by publisher.