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"When investigative journalist Gina Kane receives an email from a "CRyan" describing her "terrible experience" while working at REL, a high-profile television news network, including the comment "and I'm not the only one," Gina knows she has to pursue the story. But when Ryan goes silent, Gina is shocked to discover the young woman has died tragically in a jet ski accident while on holiday. Meanwhile, REL counsel Michael Carter finds himself in a...
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[2023]
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First edition.
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"The evidence is in: traits--compassion, empathy, the ability to listen, mentor, nurture and collaborate--are giving women executives a built-in advantage in volatile and uncertain times. To navigate today's complex challenges around DE&I, social justice, climate change and the Great Resignation, leaders need to cultivate a kind of compassionate command. Almost a decade since Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg was first published, Path to Parity flips the...
65) The fifth risk
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Lewis (The Big Short) exposes a less sensational but significant danger posed by the Trump administration's approach to governance. As he recounts in an ambiguously sourced prologue, Trump's transition team actively refused to learn about much of what the federal government does, and made ill-considered leadership and budget choices regarding three obscure, but vital, agencies: the Departments of Energy, Agriculture, and Commerce. Members of each...
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[2017]
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"The former top CEO examines the scandalous and corrupt reasons behind obscene pay packages for corporate executives--and explains how this hurts all of us--and how we can stop it. Today, the pay gap between chief executive officers of major U.S. firms and their workers is higher than ever before--depending on the method of calculation, CEOs get paid between 300 and 700 times more than the average worker. Such outsized pay is a relatively recent phenomenon,...
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The Gallup organization has been at the forefront of measuring and analyzing opinions and behavior for over 60 years. Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, prominent leaders within the organization, have taken their considerable knowledge and applied it to a comprehensive study of successful managers across the country. In today's job market, companies often use impressive benefit packages to entice employees. Buckingham and Coffman have found that...
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[2004]
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Drew Latham is a wealthy executive leading an empty, shallow life. Facing another lonely Christmas ahead, Drew wants to revisit his old childhood home and possibly relive some of his old holiday memories. But when he arrives, he finds that the house where he was raised is now no longer the home he grew up in. Owned by another family, Drew offers a nice financial reward that has the family all a buzz. But is Drew's generous cash offer only the beginning...
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2013.
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First Touchstone hardcover edition.
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Struggling with encroaching middle age and a broken engagement, advertising agent Finbar Dolan is forced to cancel his Christmas plans to tackle a last-minute work assignment only to learn that his estranged and abusive father has taken ill and that his siblings are unwilling to help, a situation that forces Fin to re-evaluate his choices.
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"Once the hottest mergers and acquisitions executive in the company, Henrietta Wegner can see the ambitious and impossibly young up-and-comers gunning for her job. When Henri's boss makes it clear she'll be starting the New Year unemployed unless she can close a big deal before the holidays, Henri impulsively tells him that she can convince her aging parents to sell Wegner's -- their iconic Frankenmuth, Michigan, Christmas store -- to a massive, soulless...
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2023.
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"The shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount, the multibillion-dollar entertainment empire controlled by the Redstone family, and the dysfunction, misconduct, and deceit that threatened the future of the company, from thePulitzer Prize-winning journalists who first broke the news In 2016, the fate of Paramount-the entertainment conglomerate that includes Viacom, CBS, and Simon & Schuster-hung precariously in the balance....
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[2000]
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First edition.
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What Would Machiavelli Do? He would feast on other people's discord He wouldn't exactly seek the company of ass-kissers and bimbos, but he wouldn't reject them out of hand, either. He would realize that loving yourself means never having to say you're sorry. He would kill people, but only if he could feel good about himself afterward. He would establish and maintain a psychotic level of control. He would use other people's opinions to sell his book!...
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In the revised third edition of this seminal work, author Kevin Cashman offers stories, exercises, and practices to help readers develop heightened awareness, courage, character, authenticity, purpose, agility, service, and contribution. These so-called soft skills no longer can be dismissed as "nice-to-haves." Research shows they are foundational for high performance and enduring value creation.
Balancing timeless principles with emerging research,...
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