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  From Individual to Empire - A...

  Laura Bull

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  Ever wonder what makes household names like Oprah, Ellen, or Beyoncé so powerful?It’s all about influencer branding, and Laura Bull will tell you everything you need to know.Bull spent ten years with Sony Music Entertainment, becoming one of the company's youngest executives and spearheading artist development and marketing for globally recognized brands. She is an expert who specializes in transforming entrepreneurs into viable brands and teaching what it takes to become a powerful "influencer."Whether you are an artist, blogger, performer, politician, author, or thought leader, this book will change the way you think about your “brand” and your future.Bull marries positive psychology principles with traditional branding strategies and reveals her revolutionary Brand Matrix that will have you soaring past personal branding into the very different world of influencer branding.This intelligent, breezy read provides tools, exercises, and additional resources that offer real-world support to tackle your own engaging, competitive, and authentic brand identity. Entertaining examples from pop culture and politics round out this book that can truly take you from individual to empire.A consultant and speaker, Bull has also taught disciplines in marketing and music business at multiple colleges and universities, including SMU's Temerlin Advertising Institute.

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  Silk Road

  PBS NewsHour

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  Unlike other online commerce businesses, Silk Road offered sales of illegal drugs, fake IDs and even hitmen. How were buyers and sellers able to remain anonymous? Ray Suarez talks to Glenn Chapman of Agence France-Presse about how this widely known online drug market was able to evade law enforcement for so long.

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  Summary of Rising Strong: The...

  Abbey Beathan

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  Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead by Brené Brown—Book Summary—Abbey Beathan 
  (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book.) 
  Get ready to risk being more vulnerable in order to become stronger and attain true happiness. 
  Being vulnerable is one of the things that humans fear the most. Just think about it, it's pretty scary. Showing your "weaknesses" to other people willingly with no guarantee of a positive outcome is terrifying. However, social scientist Brené Brown claims that it's the true path to happiness. 
  (Note: This summary is wholly written and published by Abbey Beathan. It is not affiliated with the original author in any way) 
  "Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness it's our greatest measure of courage."—Brené Brown 
  Brené Brown used her expertise as a researcher in order to find the common denominator in people that achieved true happiness and success in their lives. What she found, was amazing. The people who were studied were well aware of the power of emotion and weren't scared of being vulnerable, they recognized its power, even if they didn't realize it. The path to bliss through vulnerability is a hard one but in the end, it will be worth it. Brené Brown is here to guide you every step of the way. 
  Recognize the power of emotion and let yourself be vulnerable in order to achieve true bliss! Be brave, be happy.

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  Busted - Life Inside the Great...

  Edmund L. Andrews

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  Veteran New York Times economics reporter Edmund L. Andrews was intimately aware of the dangers posed by easy mortgages from fast-buck lenders. But, eager to buy a home and start a new life, he gave in to temptation and began a surreal adventure into the mortgage mayhem that nearly wrecked our economy. Busted weaves together the author's own ride to the edge of bankruptcy with the tragicomic stories of his lenders, the Wall Street pros behind them, and the policymakers in Washington who were oblivious until it was too late. The story takes Andrews to the offices of Alan Greenspan, the mansions of subprime-mortgage millionaires in southern California, a despondent deal makers' convention in Las Vegas, and Wall Street. Rich with on-the-ground reporting, Busted is a darkly humorous exploration of the cynicism and self-destructive judgment that led to America's biggest economic calamity in generations.

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  Thank You for Disrupting - The...

  Jean-Marie Dru

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  The business ideas and innovation philosophies of the world's great entrepreneurs — for anyone to implement in any businessSteve Jobs. Jeff Bezos. Larry Page. Sergey Brin. Zhang Ruimin. Marc Benioff. Millions of words have been written about the great entrepreneurs of the world. This book is not about describing their achievements. Nor is it about their charisma, personal trials, or their place in popular culture. We have all heard or read about them already. This audiobook is about the entrepreneur, the thinker. It is about the grand ideas, the disruptive thoughts, the innovative underpinnings and business philosophies that gave rise to their achievements.Thank You for Disrupting: The Disruptive Business Philosophies of the World's Great Entrepreneurs examines 20 of the most significant business leaders of our time. Author Jean-Marie Dru, himself a disruptor who coined the term decades ago, explains not only the impact these leaders have had on their own companies, but also their immense influence on the business world as a whole. Each chapter is replete with in-depth analyses, insightful comments, and personal observations from the author, including discussions covering the experimentation and platforms of Jeff Bezos, to the recruitment policies and core values of Sergey Brin and Larry Page, to the complete CSR and company activism of Paul Polman, and many more. Illustrating how the vision of a disruptive innovator can reach far beyond his or her company, this engaging book encourages and inspires readers to become disruptors in in their own businesses.Thank You for Disrupting: The Disruptive Business Philosophies of the World's Great Entrepreneurs is a must-listen for anyone interested in the why and how behind the most significant and influential business achievements of our time.

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  Superclass - The Global Power...

  David Rothkopf

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  Each of them is one in a million. They number 6,000 on a planet of 6 billion. They run our governments, our largest corporations, the powerhouses of international finance, the media, world religions, and, from the shadows, the world's most dangerous criminal and terrorist organizations. They are the global superclass, and they are shaping the history of our time. Today's superclass has achieved unprecedented levels of wealth and power. They have globalized more rapidly than any other group. But do they have more in common with one another than with their own countrymen, as nationalist critics have argued? They control globalization more than anyone else. But has their influence fed the growing economic and social inequity that divides the world? What happens behind closed-door meetings in Davos or aboard corporate jets at 41,000 feet? Conspiracy or collaboration? Deal-making or idle self-indulgence? What does the rise of Asia and Latin America mean for the conventional wisdom that shapes our destinies? Who sets the rules for a group that operates beyond national laws? Drawn from scores of exclusive interviews and extensive original reporting, Superclass answers all of these questions and more. It draws back the curtain on a privileged society that most of us know little about, even though it profoundly affects our everyday lives. It is the first in-depth examination of the connections between the global communities of leaders who are at the helm of every major enterprise on the planet and control its greatest wealth. And it is an unprecedented examination of the trends within the superclass, which are likely to alter our politics, our institutions, and the shape of the world in which we live.

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