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  Ugly Americans - The True Story...

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  Ugly Americans is the true story of John Malcolm, a Princeton graduate who traveled halfway around the world in search of the American dream and pulled off a trade that could be described as the biggest deal in the history of the financial markets. 
  Without speaking a word of Japanese, with barely a penny in his pocket, Malcolm was thrown into the bizarre life of an ex-pat trader. Surrounded by characters ripped right out of a Hollywood thriller, he quickly learned how to survive in a cutthroat world -- at the feet of the biggest players the markets have ever known. 
  Malcolm was first an assistant trading huge positions for Nick Leeson, the rogue trader who brought down Barings Bank -- the oldest in England. He was the right-hand man to an enigmatic and brilliant hedge-fund cowboy, Dean Carney, and grew into one of the biggest derivatives traders in all of Asia. Along the way, Malcolm fell in love with the daughter of a Yakuza gangster, built a vast fortune out of thin air, and came head to head with violent Japanese mobsters. Malcolm and his twentysomething, Ivy League-schooled colleagues rode the crashing waves of the Asian markets during the mid-to late 1990s, culminating in a single deal the likes of which had never been seen before, or since. 
  A real-life mixture of Liar’s Poker and Wall Street, brimming with intense action, romance, underground sex, vivid locales, and exotic characters, Ugly Americans is the untold, true story that will rock the financial community and redefine an era.

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  EQ at Work - Win People Navigate...

  Professional Growth Vault

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  Ever notice how the most technically brilliant person in your office rarely leads the team? How the loudest voice wins arguments but loses respect? How you can nail every metric yet still feel invisible when promotions come around? 
  Here's the uncomfortable truth: Your expertise got you hired. But it's your emotional intelligence—or lack of it—that determines whether you'll lead or stay stuck. 
  While you've been perfecting hard skills, your competitors have been mastering the invisible art of influence. They're the ones people trust in a crisis. The ones teams follow willingly. The ones who turn workplace conflicts into breakthroughs instead of battlegrounds. 
  Without EQ, you're running on half your potential. No matter how smart you are, if you can't read the room, you'll misread opportunities. If you can't manage your reactions, you'll sabotage your credibility. If you can't connect authentically, you'll build teams that comply but never commit. 
  EQ at Work transforms you from technically competent to genuinely influential. 
  You'll master: 
  Self-awareness that lets you spot your emotional triggers before they derail you 
  Self-regulation techniques that keep you composed when everyone else is losing it 
  Strategic empathy that builds unshakeable trust and loyalty 
  Communication skills that persuade without manipulation 
  Conflict resolution that strengthens relationships instead of fracturing them 
  Leadership presence that makes people want to follow you—not because they have to, but because they believe in you 
  Built from real workplace scenarios and proven psychological frameworks, this isn't theory—it's a practical system tested in boardrooms, team meetings, and high-stakes negotiations. You'll get concrete exercises, actionable strategies, and the exact tools emotionally intelligent leaders use to win people and navigate complexity. 
  The gap between where you are and where you want to be? It's EQ.

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  Mental Wealth: An Essential...

  Emi Golding, Peter Diaz

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  Mental Wealth reveals an approach to workplace mental health and wellbeing that is proven to actually get results. Despite having a huge impact on the productivity, profitability, and culture of organizations, there is very little guidance currently provided to managers and leaders on how to effectively manage workplace mental health and wellbeing. What does exist is often focused on the legal aspects of minimizing risk that it misses the psychology of workplace mental health and high performance and actually ends up creating risk for workplaces.Mental Wealth is a guide for managers and leaders on how to manage employees who may be experiencing mental health issues in the workplace. Founders of the Workplace Mental Health Institute, Peter Diaz and Emi Golding, provide an essential foundation for addressing workplace mental health. Some of the essential foundations discussed include dispelling myths about workplace mental health, the factors that cause and contribute to mental health issues, the impact those factors are having on workplaces, the benefits of addressing mental health appropriately, and 7 Pillars for a mentally Wealthy Workplace. Mental Wealth also includes case studies and practical strategies that can be implemented for immediate results.

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  Summary: Designing Your Life -...

  Brooks Bryant

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  DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL BOOK. 
  This is a summary, & it does not accompany the official 
  "Designing Your Life" by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans is a guide that empowers readers to design a fulfilling and joyful life, regardless of their age or circumstances. Drawing inspiration from the world of design, where problems are solved through creative thinking, the authors introduce the concept of design thinking as a tool for crafting a meaningful life. 
  Just as designers tackle challenges to create innovative products and spaces, readers can apply the same principles to their own lives. Whether you're young or old, in any career or life stage, this book offers a framework for using design thinking to build a life filled with purpose, creativity, and productivity. It encourages readers to embrace surprise and create a life that constantly evolves for the better. "Designing Your Life" is a practical guide to help individuals thrive and find joy in designing their own life journeys.

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  How to Win Friends and Manage...

  McKenna Sweazey

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  A modern approach based on classic management styles for working and managing people remotely.How do you manage a poor performer over Zoom? How do you casually deliver positive feedback via Slack? What’s the most professional use of a gif?Management was hard enough pre-pandemic, and now, the difficulty in getting things done has dramatically increased. In face-to-face interactions, humans have thousands of indicators to tell them what the other party is thinking and how they are reacting. Resorting to purely digital communication obliterates these clues, stopping us from reading the subtle body language we’ve evolved to use in all interactions to become better leaders, kinder managers, and more effective cogs in the corporate machine.How to Win Friends and Manage Remotely shares real-life examples, scientifically proven ideas, and distillations of tried-and-true business tenets—all mapped to a new virtual-first office. This book is a handbook—a step-by-step guide to common interactions in the workplace, using eight classic management examples: from digitizing your onboarding journey, to helping new recruits, to delivering useful feedback over video conference. Combining academic research and personal experiences across various companies, roles, and countries, this is a roadmap to get readers through the WFH (work from home) quagmire and help us all be more cognizant of others’ perspectives in this brave new world.How to Win Friends and Manage Remotely shows why expressing digital empathy is the most important factor in managing and working with others.Even as companies began going “back to normal,” it wasn’t the normal that anyone knew pre-COVID-19. Two things are certain with this shift: First, we will never go back to “the way things were.” Second, we all must learn to live in a virtual workplace. If we are managers, that means we also need to know how to communicate with, motivate, and coach virtual teams.In the words of Dale Carnegie, how do you “win friends and influence people” in a virtual office?

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  Driven - How Human Nature Shapes...

  Nitin Nohria, Paul R. Lawrence

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  In this highly provocative book, two Harvard Business School  professors synthesize 200 years of thought from the biological and  social sciences to formulate a new theory of human nature.  Comparable to Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence,  Lawrence and Nohria's work examines the four drives that influence  the choices people make. These innate and often conflicting drives  are the drive to acquire, the drive to bond, the drive to learn and  the drive to defend.    The authors have studied the way people behave in the most  fascinating setting of human behavior: the workplace. They have  considerable training in all the human behavioral sciences and  choose the best each has to offer while avoiding entrenched biases.  As a result, they have started to bridge the gap between the latest  findings from evolutionary biology and insights about humanity  derived from the social sciences. In doing so, they have in essence  laid a foundation for a unified understanding of human behavior.     Not only does this book illuminate the mystery of human behavior,  it also predicts that just as advances in information technology  spurred the new economy at the end of the 20th Century, the current  advances being made in biology will be the key to understanding  humans and organizations in the 21st.

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