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  Return to Glory - The Story of...

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  “This page-turning combination of business book and adventure saga tells the tale of the Ford Motor Company’s” 2016 triumph at Le Mans (The New York Times, “10 New Books We Recommend This Week”).   At the 2015 Detroit Auto Show, Ford unveiled a new car—and the automotive world lost its collective mind. This wasn’t some new Explorer or Focus. Onto the stage rolled a carbon-fiber GT powered by a six-cylinder Ecoboost engine that churned out over 600 horsepower. It was sexy and jaw dropping, but, more than that, it was a callback to the legendary Ford GT40 Mk IIs that stuck it to Ferrari and finished 1-2-3 at Le Mans in 1966. Detroit was back, and Ford was going back to Le Mans.   Matthew DeBord, a veteran auto industry journalist, tells the incredible story of Ford’s resurgence in Return to Glory. A decade ago, CEO Alan Mulally took over the iconic company and, thanks to his “One Ford” plan, helped it weather the financial crisis without a government bailout. DeBord revisits the story of the 1960s, details the creation of the new GT, and follows the team through the racing season—from Daytona to Sebring and Laguna Seca in Monterey.   Finally, DeBord joins the Ford team in Le Mans in June 2016. This fabled twenty-four-hour endurance race is designed to break cars and drivers, and it was at Le Mans, fifty years after the company’s greatest triumph, that Ford’s comeback was put to the ultimate test.

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  HBR's 10 Must Reads on Boards -...

  Harvard Business Review

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  Serving on a board is like having a second full-time job. 
  Earning a seat on a board is a rite of passage for senior leaders. Serving on a board is an opportunity to share your skills and extend your reach beyond your own organization as you help select, appoint, and review the performance of an organization's senior leadership team, determine compensation and incentive plans, approve strategic decisions, and ensure the financial well-being of the organization in both the short and long term. But in today's increasingly complex business environment, serving on a board also means working to address detailed issues such as increasing diversity on the board itself and in the organization, ensuring a risk-mitigation plan that prepares the organization for everything from hackers to sexual predators, and navigating big-picture challenges such as the unprecedented pace of change and disruption—all while managing financials and shareholder expectations. 
  We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the 10 most important ones to help you address classic challenges such as increasing diversity, ensuring a culture that reflects company values, and providing strategic oversight while also addressing emerging issues such as shareholder activism, cybersecurity, and ever-shifting regulations.

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  Nepal - Culture Smart! - The...

  Tessa Feller

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  Culture Smart! Nepal provides essential information, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rapport with your hosts. This inside knowledge will enable you to steer clear of embarrassing gaffes and mistakes, feel confident in unfamiliar situations, and develop trust, friendships, and successful business relationships. Culture Smart! Nepal offers illuminating insights into the culture and society of a particular country. It will help you to turn your visit-whether on business or for pleasure-into a memorable and enriching experience.

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  Business Project Management

  RWG Publishing

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  Someone once said project management is like juggling three balls, time, cost and quality. And it's true. Project Management requires you to balance a lot of difficult variables, and the stakes are high. In many cases, the very life of a business itself may depend on the ability of its project managers to keep operations running smoothly and efficiently. project management can be described as the art of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria by a specified time. But how can you ensure that you or the project managers in your organization are operating at peak performance? In this course, we're going to help you do exactly that.

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  Monster - A Tough Love Letter On...

  Paul Röhrig, Ben Pring

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  Monster explains how we can responsibly engage with technology, and avoid its darker tendencies, while accepting its necessary gifts. The authors, insiders at one of the world's largest tech consulting firms, give a unique take on:● The addictive nature of tech and how to fight it● The growing backlash against big tech—where it's right and what it misses● Crucial steps for taming technology's role in your life and in your organization—without becoming a modern LudditeWritten for managers, leaders, and employees at companies of all sizes and in all industries, Monster will help you understand and take control of technology's powerful role in your life and your organization.

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  Summary of Adam Grant’s Give and...

  Falcon Press

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  Summary of Adam Grant’s Give and Take is a psychological study outlining how different people give and receive within their professional relationships. The book follows Grant through a 10-year sociological and psychological analysis of social reciprocity.

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