books: business & investing - top sellers ...     books:       Steve Jobs Simon & Schuster, 2011 FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT EINSTEIN, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS. Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative ...             Pink Slips and Parting Gifts White & Associates, 2010 Welcome to Corporate America. You're Fired. Have a Nice Day. (Larry Underwood, Amazon reviewer) By the time Easton Company CEO Jeffrey Elkins entices a major competitor to buy his Fortune 500 company, the corporate jet is waiting and his parachute is platinum. In thirteen weeks the deal of a lifetime transforms a handful of quirky executives into undeserving multimillionaires, propels a workforce into unemployment and dispatches unsuspecting ...             Practically Green: Your Guide to Ecofriendly Decision-Making Betterway Home, 2009 Simple steps for sustainable living Creating a green and healthy home might seem like an overwhelming task at times. Practically Green takes the practical approach to mindful living: Start small and go from there. Author Micaela Preston takes the guesswork out of green living by helping you make smart, healthy choices for your family without spending tedious hours researching the pros and cons of all the products available on the market ...             Winners Never Cheat: Even in Difficult Times, New and Expanded Edition Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008 This is the eBook version of the printed book. The nationwide bestseller--fully updated for today’s tough times and worldwide financial crises     “Everyone does it.” Everyone cheats. Cuts corners. Tells lies. Maybe it was different once. Not today. If you want to succeed in this economic climate, you simply have to make compromises. Right?   Wrong. You can succeed at the highest levels, without sacrificing the ...             Getting Organized: Improving Focus, Organization and Productivity Dawson Publishing, 2010 Getting Organized is a collection of simple ideas that address at least six major issues that could be generating chaos and disorder in your life. The ideas are presented in a simple format, with specific suggestions on how to put each idea to work, so busy people can find the time to read and try them. Even if you've tried unsuccessfully to get organized before, consider reading Getting Organized. You'll find effective solutions to your ...             The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business Random House, 2012 A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed.   Marketers at Procter & Gamble study videos of people making their beds. They are desperately trying to figure out how to sell a new product called Febreze, on track to be one of the ...             The On-Purpose Person: Making Your Life Make Sense On-Purpose Publishing, 2009 Is Your Life Filled, Yet Unfulfilled? Do you feel pulled in a thousand different directions? Are your days so busy you hardly have time to think? Are you living up to other people's expectations while your own plans and dreams go unmet? In The On-Purpose Person you'll learn how to discover who you are, where you are headed, what you should do, and what's most important to you! That's being on-purpose! Tap Into Your Highest Potential With The ...             Your Credit Score: How to Improve the 3-Digit Number That Shapes Your Financial Future (4th Edition) (Liz ... FT Press, 2011 This is the eBook version of the printed book. Today, a good credit score is essential for getting decent terms on credit--or for getting credit at all. But that's just the beginning: You're now being judged on your credit score by everyone from employers to cellphone carriers. Now, MSNBC/L.A. Times journalist Liz Weston has thoroughly updated her best-selling guide to credit scores, with crucial new information for protecting (or rebuilding) ...             The Laptop Millionaire: How Anyone Can Escape the 9 to 5 and Make Money Online Mark Anastasi Wiley, 2012 Go from ZERO to $10,000 a month in 28 days and discover financial freedom online! Every day thousands of people are losing their jobs, their income, and their security—perhaps you are one of them. However, with the right strategies, you can easily achieve financial independence. The Laptop Millionaire provides easy to follow step-by-step strategies you can use to make real money online. Author Mark Anastasi reveals the exact strategies he ...             Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life FT Press, 2002 This is the eBook version of the printed book. Critical Thinking is about becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life: in your career, and as a consumer, citizen, friend, parent, and lover. Discover the core skills of effective thinking; then analyze your own thought processes, identify weaknesses, and overcome them. Learn how to translate more effective thinking into better decisions, less frustration, more wealth Ñ and above ...             Presentations Skills That Will Take You to the Top (Collection) FT Press, 2011 This is the eBook version of the printed book. A brand new collection of state-of-the-art insights on making winning presentations, from the field’s #1 consultant, Jerry Weissman… now in a convenient e-format, at a great price!   Three breakthrough eBooks help you deliver outstanding, winning presentations – whatever your goals, whatever your audience!   Jerry Weissman has helped the world’s top executives create the ...             Beyond Outrage: What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix them (Kindle Single) Knopf, 2012 In this eBook exclusive, Robert B. Reich urges Americans to get beyond mere outrage about the nation’s increasingly concentrated wealth and corrupt politics in order to mobilize and to take back our economy and democracy. Americans can’t rely only on getting good people elected, Reich argues, because nothing positive happens in Washington unless good people outside Washington are organized to help make those things happen after the ...             Worth Every Penny: Build a Business That Thrills Your Customers and Still Charge What You're Worth Erin Verbeck, Sarah Petty Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2012 A revelation for small business owners: creating a profitable business is possible without getting into a slash-and-burn price war with your competitors. Many small business owners feel pressure to discount their products and services, especially when times are tough. After all, how else will they keep up with the low prices offered by their discounting competitors? What they don't realize is that discounting is the last thing they should be ...             Five Steps to Your Next Job: A Powerful Manual for Job Search and Career Development CreateSpace, 2011 In Five Steps to Your Next Job, Narinder Mehta explains how to: assess personal skills and job interests; put together a good resume and targeted cover letters; identify potential employers; prepare for job interviews; and evaluate job offers. The book is based on the author's personal experiences as a job-hunter, as a manager responsible for hiring employees,and as an executive recruiter. It provides a framework for successful job search. ...             StrengthsFinder 2.0 Tom Rath Gallup Press, 2007 Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day? Chances are, you don't. All too often, our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths. To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced the first version of its online assessment, StrengthsFinder, in 2001 which ignited a global conversation and helped millions to discover ...             Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011 Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 2011 A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title One of The Economist ’s 2011 Books of the Year One of The Wall Steet Journal 's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011 Winner of the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest   Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that ...             Frugal Kitchen Tips, 2012 #1 Amazon Kindle Best Seller in Cooking Reference! #1 Amazon Kindle Best Seller in Budgeting! Buy Now... Save $1.54! (Price will increase to $2.99 on 05/01/2012) What Readers Are Saying: "Do you know how to make powdered sugar when you don't have any? Or do you know why you should never use margarine on popcorn? These are just 2 of the useful tips you'll find in this book. I know I'll be referring to this often when in the ...             Etsy 101: Sell Your Crafts on Etsy, the DIY Marketplace for Handmade, Vintage and Crafting Supplies, 2012 Step away from the craft fair. Set up shop on Etsy, the world market for art, design and home decor! For artists, crafters, designers, and vintage resellers, it’s a revolution. Never before has it been so easy to open a storefront that will reach millions of paying customers—with no up-front investment—online, in an afternoon! Learn how thousands of Etsians, young and old, have launched their business on a shoestring, usually part-time ...             Always Know What To Say - Easy Ways To Approach And Talk To Anyone, 2012 Here`s what people are saying about this book at Amazon.com "If you are a shy person who finds it difficult to communicate with new people then this book will be helpful. Peter Murphy presents conversation starters, explains body language and teaches you what to ask people when you first meet. This book contains simple strategies for entertaining conversations. With this book anyone should be able to survive a party or talk to strangers on a ...             Imagine: How Creativity Works Jonah Lehrer Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012 Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output? From the New York Times best-selling author of How We Decide comes a sparkling and revelatory look at the new science of creativity. Shattering the myth of muses, higher powers, even creative “types,” Jonah Lehrer demonstrates that creativity is not a ...              search for books approach, business, collection, crafting, creativity, critical, customers, decision, decision-making, democracy, development, difficult, ecofriendly, financial, handmade, improving, marketplace, millionaire, on-purpose, organization, organized, personal, powerful, practically, presentations, productivity, professional, strengthsfinder, supplies, thinking books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen music: Giovanni Picchi and the Venetian School home  impressum - about us