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  How Remarkable Women Lead: The Breakthrough Model for Work and Life READ MORE How Remarkable Women Lead: The Breakthrough Model for Work and Life The Remarkable discoveries about what drives and sustains successful women leaders.Based on five years of proprietary research, How Remarkable Women Lead speaks to you as no other book has, with its hopeful outlook and unique ideas about success. It's the new right stuff of leadership, raising provocative issues such as whether feminine leadership traits (for women and men) are better suited for our fast-changing, hyper-competitive, and increasingly complex world. The authors, McKinsey & Company consultants Joanna Barsh and Susie Cranston, establish the links between joy, happiness, and distinctive performance with the groundbreaking model of Centered Leadership. The book's personal stories and related insights show you the magic that happens when you put the five elements of Centered Leadership–meaning, framing, connecting, eng...

  Suze Orman's Action Plan: New Rules for New Times READ MORE Suze Orman's Action Plan: New Rules for New Times Times have changed and the rules have changed, but financial security is still the goal. Do you know how to get there? There is a new reality out there—a new normal. What was once certain—that you would be able to retire comfortably, that you would pay for your kids’ education, that your home would appreciate in value—is no longer a sure thing. So much has changed on the financial landscape that it’s hard to know which moves are the right ones to make. Suze Orman’s million-copy bestselling financial action plan—fully revised and updated for 2010 and beyond—will show you the way. NEW TIMES CALL FOR NEW RULES—AND THIS IS WHAT SUZE ORMAN’S ACTION PLAN DELIVERS:  • up-to-date information on new legislation that could affect how you will achieve your financial goals• an explanation of new FICO practices, and a new strategy for dealing with credit card debt• sound advice ab...

  The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress READ MORE The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress In a world of supercomputers, genetic engineering, and fiber optics, technological creativity is ever more the key to economic success. But why are some nations more creative than others, and why do some highly innovative societies--such as ancient China, or Britain in the industrial revolution--pass into stagnation? Beginning with a fascinating, concise history of technological progress, Mokyr sets the background for his analysis by tracing the major inventions and innovations that have transformed society since ancient Greece and Rome. What emerges from this survey is often surprising: the classical world, for instance, was largely barren of new technology, the relatively backward society of medieval Europe bristled with inventions, and the period between the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution was one of slow and unspectacular ...

  The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything=Have Everything READ MORE The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything=Have Everything The new book from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Book of Awesome that reveals how all of us can live happier lives (Gretchen Rubin). What is the formula for a happy life? Neil Pasricha is a Harvard MBA, a New York Times-bestselling author, a Walmart executive, a father, a husband. After selling more than a million copies of the Book of Awesome series, wherein he observed the everyday things he thought were awesome, he now shifts his focus to the practicalities of living an awesome life. In his new book The Happiness Equation, Pasricha illustrates how to want nothing and do anything in order to have everything. If that sounds like a contradiction in terms, you simply have yet to unlock the 9 Secrets to Happiness. Each secret takes a piece out of the core of common sense, turns it on its head to present it in a completely new...

  The Diversity Training Activity Book: 50 Activities for Promoting Communication and Understanding at Work READ MORE The Diversity Training Activity Book: 50 Activities for Promoting Communication and Understanding at Work With our workforce becoming increasingly diverse, encouraging cultural and gender sensitivity and understanding in the workplace is a top priority for businesses and leaders everywhere. Tested with hundreds of participants to ensure the appropriateness and effectiveness for a variety of diversity training needs, the simple activities in this must-read guide will show employees at all levels how to cope with differences and master new skills for communicating more effectively. The Diversity Training Activity Book teaches readers how to: address work-related frustrations with coworkers of different backgrounds manage a culturally diverse team deal with issues of gender in the workplace and understand differences in dress, appearance, and social customs--and how to...

  Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration READ MORE Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration In the 1970s the Mexican government acted to alleviate rural unemployment by supporting the migration of able-bodied men. Millions crossed into the United States to find work that would help them survive as well as sustain their families in Mexico. They took low-level positions that few Americans wanted and sent money back to communities that depended on their support. But as U.S. authorities pursued more aggressive anti-immigrant measures, migrants found themselves caught between the economic interests of competing governments. The fruits of their labor were needed in both places, and yet neither country made them feel welcome.Ana Raquel Minian explores this unique chapter in the history of Mexican migration. Undocumented Lives draws on private letters, songs, and oral testimony to recreate the experience of circular migration, which reshaped communities ...