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  Blackout - Coal Climate and the...

  Richard Heinberg

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  Coal fuels about 50 percent of US electricity production and provides a quarter of the country's total energy. China and India's ferocious economic growth is based almost entirely on coal-generated electricity.Coal currently looks like a solution to many of our fast-growing energy problems. However, while coal advocates are urging full steam ahead, increasing reliance on the dirtiest of all fossil fuels has crucial implications for the global climate, energy policy, the world economy, and geopolitics.Drawbacks to a coal-based energy strategy include:Scarcity – new studies suggest that the peak of world coal production may actually be less than two decades away.Cost – the quality of produced coal is declining, while the expense of transport is rising, leading to spiraling costs and increasing shortages.Climate impacts - our ability to deal with the historic challenge of climate change will hinge on reducing our coal consumption in future years.Blackout goes to the heart of the tough energy questions that will dominate every sphere of public policy throughout the first half of this century, and is a must-read for planners, educators, and anyone concerned about energy consumption, peak oil and climate change.

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  Working with Presence - A...

  Daniel Goleman Ph.D., Peter...

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  What makes a successful business? How can we work most effectively as a team? What are the keys to being a great leader? Best-selling authors Daniel Goleman and Peter Senge address these questions in Working with Presence. From the importance of harmonized thinking to the role that tacit knowledge plays in every organization, they discuss how companies can transform themselves into learning organizations — positive environments where people work together, learn from mistakes, and communicate effectively to foster growth and success.A Macmillan Audio production.

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  Startup Leadership - How Savvy...

  Derek Lidow

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  Only a small fraction of entrepreneurs lead their enterprises to  a successful reality. But, sadly, even if their enterprise does  become successful, they can still fail when their companies  succeed. As the enterprise becomes more successful, the boards of  directors and other stakeholders want to see that business succeed  in the futureand they dont usually see that future  with the founding entrepreneur leading the way.  It happened to Steve Jobs. It has happened to thousands of other  entrepreneurs and it can happen to youunless you learn how  to be more than just an entrepreneur and more than just a leader.  In order to avoid their mistakes you need to walk the walk of an  Entrepreneurial Leader, right on the razors edge.  Being an Entrepreneurial Leader is more than just being an  entrepreneur plus leader.  Entrepreneurs have  certain needs, wants, and desires for their companies. But so do  the people who make up that enterprise. Its difficult for  founding entrepreneurs to make room for others thoughts,  concerns, opinions, and desires when it comes to their  babies. Why? Because entrepreneurship is a fundamentally  selfish act. You began your company because you wanted to be your  own boss. Most of your motivations for starting the business were  about you. And running a company in this mode of thinking  ultimately leads to failure. Leadership, on the other hand, is  about selflessness and making those around you feel they will be  successful. A leader can take a team of individuals with differing  wants, needs, and visions and get everyone on the same page. A  leader makes everyone feel like they are being heard, are  appreciated, and are winning.  But to be a successful entrepreneur, you cant just be the  selfless commander-in-chief. In order for you to be successful and  grow with your enterprise you must somehow balance the two opposing  natures of the entrepreneur and the leader. In Startup  Leadership entrepreneur and professor Derek Lidow describes the  narrow boundary between these two opposing domains and provides you  with the skills and tools to become an Entrepreneurial Leader.  Based on Lidows popular and well-respected class  Entrepreneurial Leadership, Startup Leadership distills  Lidows insights gained from his experience and others who  have struggled as entrepreneurs and leadersas well as from  extensive researchto present the best practices for growing  with the company you created.  It provides the tools needed to  avoid the unseen traps most entrepreneurs fall victim to and needed  to achieve the delicate balancing act that all Entrepreneurial  Leaders must perform in order to successfully lead their team,  enterprise, and themselves to lasting success.

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  Managing Oneself

  Peter F. Drucker

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  "Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform." -Peter F. DruckerThroughout history, people had little need to manage their careers - they were born into their stations in life or, in the recent past, they relied on their companies to chart their career paths. But times have drastically changed. Today we must all learn to manage ourselves.What does that mean? As Peter Drucker tells us in this seminal article, first published in 1999, it means we have to learn to develop ourselves. We have to place ourselves where we can make the greatest contribution to our organizations and communities. And we have to stay mentally alert and engaged during a 50-year working life, which means knowing how and when to change the work we do.It may seem obvious that people achieve results by doing what they are good at and by working in ways that fit their abilities. But, Drucker says, very few people actually know - let alone take advantage of - their fundamental strengths.He challenges each of us to ask ourselves, "What are my strengths? How do I perform? What are my values? Where do I belong? What should my contribution be?"Don't try to change yourself, Drucker cautions. Instead, concentrate on improving the skills you have and accepting assignments that are tailored to your individual way of working. If you do that, you can transform yourself from an ordinary worker into an outstanding performer.Today's successful careers are not planned out in advance. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they have asked themselves those questions and have rigorously assessed their unique characteristics.

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  Money Mind

  B.R. Sutton

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  Losing money is an unavoidable part of trading. Losing your sanity shouldn’t be. Financial freedom can feel elusive. Achieving it through speculation, for many, seems like a dream even further out of reach. Where do you start? How do you learn? Are there ways to mitigate risk?B.R. Sutton learned portfolio management the hard way. Like many traders, at first he was in it strictly for the money. But after ten years of making money and losing it, learning and growing, Sutton gained what he was lacking in his life: autonomy. Now, he’s helping others learn the financial lessons he’s learned, starting with the mental framework necessary for success in trading and life. In Money Mind, Sutton shares his journey, along with strategies for creating independence and the tools to maintain it. You’ll learn ancient principles that enable you to become a good steward of money, enjoy speculation, and bounce back from defeat stronger than before. Now is the time to decide who and what you want to be. No matter your age or profession, Money Mind is your chance to gain perspective and live life on your terms.

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  Riding High - How I Kissed...

  Ruth Zukerman

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  From the co-founder of Flywheel and SoulCycle comes an audiobook about perseverance and success. 
  Ruth Zukerman is the Queen of Spinning: she put the Soul in SoulCycle and the Fly in Flywheel. 
  Recounting the pivotal moments that helped launch Zukerman as the breakout star of the boutique fitness world, Riding High is a reminder that the greatest success stories often start in the unlikeliest of places. 
  Ruth Zukerman used her heartache—at the death of her father, the end of her marriage, and the dissolution of her first business partnership with SoulCycle, as the inspiration to reinvent herself. At 51, she founded a new business, the highly successful Flywheel, and built the life she'd always dreamed of. And she did it all while navigating through single motherhood and a business world that is often unkind to women, especially those who wear their hearts on their sleeves.  
  Riding High is a prescriptive, warts-and-all journey through Ruth's evolution, offering fresh, unexpected business and life lessons to help listeners recognize their own potential and channel their passion into success. Part confidante, part mentor, Ruth pulls no punches and holds nothing back.

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