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  Mediocrity Never Wins - The...

  Omar Johnson

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  The worst outcome for an entrepreneur contrary to popular belief is not failure but mediocrity. Why? Because failure allows you to move on without delusions. Failing results indicate that what you are doing at a particular moment in time is not working. It does not necessarily mean that it will never work (although this may be case), but it means that you have to make the necessary adjustments in order for it to work or you must scrap what you’re doing all together and start over. Failure let's you move on and it allows you if you are persistent enough to eventually win. 
  However, mediocrity is completely different. Mediocrity stalls you at the gate and if you analyze it closely keeps you from reaching your potential. With mediocrity you are getting marginal results at best, but you are not on an upward trajectory and in fact you are literally moving sideways going nowhere fast. You are like that proverbial hamster running in a wheel. If you view mediocrity any other way than this you become delusional. You fall into the trap of believing that small thinking will yield big results. It will not. In fact, mediocrity never wins. 
  In his book entitled Mediocrity Never Wins: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Achieving Big Profitable Results by Thinking Big author and serial entrepreneur Omar Johnson shows you step by step how you must think and act in order to yield incredible and profitable results as an entrepreneur. If you are stuck in the quagmire of mediocrity or you simply want to reprogram your thinking to achieve an incredible outcome for your particular business then this book and its contents are the ultimate guide for you.

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  Barbarians inside the Gates and...

  Thomas Sowell

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  A collection of essays that discusses such issues as the media, immigration, the minimum wage, and multiculturalism.

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  Chess Not Checkers - Elevate...

  Mark Miller

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  As organizations grow in volume and complexity, the demands on leadership change. The same old moves won't cut it any more. In Chess Not Checkers, Mark Miller tells the story of Blake Brown, newly appointed CEO of a company troubled by poor performance and low morale. Nothing Blake learned from his previous roles seems to help him deal with the issues he now faces. The problem, his new mentor points out, is Blake is playing the wrong game.The early days of an organization are like checkers: a quickly played game with mostly interchangeable pieces. Everybody, the leader included, does a little bit of everything; the pace is frenetic. But as the organization expands, you can't just keep jumping from activity to activity. You have to think strategically, plan ahead, and leverage every employee's specific talents—that's chess. Leaders who continue to play checkers when the name of the game is chess lose. On his journey, Blake learns four essential strategies from the game of chess that transform his leadership and his organization. The result: unprecedented performance!

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  Higher Education's Road to...

  Susan A. Ambrose, Laura A. Wankel

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  The post-secondary educational system has undergone dramatic changes and experienced immense stress in the past two decades. Once regarded as the logical next step toward career opportunities and financial security, higher education is a subject of growing uncertainty for millions of people across the United States. It is more common than ever to question the return on investment, skyrocketing cost, and student debt burden of going to college. Prospective students, and many employers, increasingly view attending institutions of higher learning as inadequate preparation for entering the 21st century workforce. In response to these and other challenges, leading voices are demanding strengthened accountability and measurable change. 
  Higher Education's Road to Relevance illustrates why change is needed in post-secondary education and offers practical solutions to pressing concerns. The authors, internationally recognized experts in college-level teaching and learning innovation, draw heavily from contemporary research to provide an integrative approach for post-secondary faculty, staff, and administrators of all levels. This timely audio book helps listeners identify the need for leadership in developing new networks and ecosystems of learning and workforce development.

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  Embezzlement and High Treason...

  Vincent J. Pitts

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  A look at life in the court of King Louis XIV, the politics of the time, and the trial of a man who knew too much for his own good. 
   
  From 1661 to 1664, France was mesmerized by the arrest and trial of Nicolas Fouquet, the country’s superintendent of finance. Prosecuted on trumped-up charges of embezzlement, mismanagement of funds, and high treason, Fouquet managed to exonerate himself from all the major charges over the course of three long years, in the process embarrassing and infuriating Louis XIV. The young king overturned the court’s decision and sentenced Fouquet to lifelong imprisonment in a remote fortress in the Alps. 
   
  A dramatic critique of absolute monarchy in pre-revolutionary France, Embezzlement and High Treason in Louis XIV’s France tells the gripping tale of an overly ambitious man who rose rapidly in the state hierarchy—then overreached. Vincent J. Pitts uses the trial as a lens through which to explore the inner workings of the court of Louis XIV, who rightly feared that Fouquet would expose the tawdry financial dealings of the king’s late mentor and prime minister, Cardinal Mazarin. 
   
  “A compelling account of a political drama in mid-seventeenth century France, but it is also a window into the process by which rule of law gradually became established . . . [and] I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.” —EH.Net 
   
  “Pitts’s book examines the show trial of Fouquet, and…the political process that created such an unfair outcome for a man who is often seen as one of the most well-known scapegoats in French history. Pitts has succeeded masterfully in weaving a powerful narrative that exposes convoluted corruption and mismanagement of ancient régime France.” —Renaissance Quarterly

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  Year Up raises employment odds...

  PBS NewsHour

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  Year Up, a career development program for urban young adults, starts with a six-month crash course in job skills like accounting and the value of self-presentation, followed by a paid internship designed as entree to a secure, well-paying job. Economics correspondent Paul Solman revisits the program to see how trainees have fared during the recession.

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