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  Summary of Gregory Zuckerman’s A...

  Falcon Press

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  Buy now to get the main key ideas from Gregory Zuckerman’s A Shot to Save the World 
    
  Throughout history, people have tried to stop the spread of contagions - but with little success until the discovery of the smallpox vaccine in the late eighteenth century. Since then, vaccines and treatments have been found for many more diseases. Now, whenever a new epidemic emerges, researchers and pharmaceutical companies start a scientific race towards groundbreaking discoveries. In A Shot to Save the World (2021), Gregory Zuckerman chronicles the history of these discoveries and how scientists built on them to develop Covid-19 vaccines in just one year.

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  HBR Guide to Being a Great Boss

  Harvard Business Review

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  Are you a good boss—or a great one?We know people don't leave jobs, they leave bosses. How can you be the type of boss that doesn't send employees running? One who makes your people happy to work for you?You've got the basics covered. But can you raise your leadership level to be a boss who develops trust with their employees? How do you create a culture where learning—and failing—are ok? Can you go beyond evaluating performance and distributing bonuses once a year to finding ways to regularly share productive feedback—and recognize great work—in ways that work for the people who work for you? You can meet the basic requirements of your job as leader and rise above to motivate the people on your team to do more—and be more—than they thought possible. Whether you're a first-time boss or you've been managing people forever and are looking for some new insights and inspiration, the HBR Guide to Being a Great Boss collects a variety of expert voices to share their advice on being a boss who sparks creativity, engagement, and collaboration. You'll learn how to: magnify your people's strengths; communicate effectively—and regularly—with your team; cultivate trust; help your employees find meaning in their work; challenge your people to reach beyond their current limit; help struggling employees improve; and bring out the best in your people—and yourself.

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  A Gentleman Raises His Glass - A...

  John Bridges, Bryan Curtis

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  A concise guide to giving meaningful, appropriate toasts for virtually any occasion, from the author of How to Be a Gentleman. 
   
  A Gentleman Raises His Glass teaches how to prepare a toast for virtually any occasion—be it a wedding, a celebratory dinner, or any social celebration where a tribute would be welcome. It also tells the history of the toast, gives examples of the right and wrong things to say, and contains more than fifty aphorisms on toasting:A gentleman knows that, unless he is seated in a crowded public restaurant, he must stand to deliver a toastWhen a gentleman makes a toast, he makes it directly to his guest of honor, not to the table at largeA gentleman knows that a toast, even at a bachelor’s dinner, is still intended to be a tribute—not an embarrassment

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  Moonshot! - Game-Changing...

  John Sculley

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  The former Apple CEO “delivers a clear message to individuals, entrepreneurs, and corporations: change . . . or wither” (Booklist).  The future belongs to those who see the possibilities before they become obvious. This is the most exciting time ever to be part of the business world.   Throughout history, there are some events that stand out as so groundbreaking that they completely change life as we know it. The Apollo moon landing of 1961 was one of those events—the invention of the Apple personal computer was another.   In this book, John Sculley, former CEO of both Pepsi and Apple, discusses an era that is giving birth to numerous groundbreaking events and inventions—moonshots—that will change the way we live and work for generations to come. He offers wisdom for a new breed of innovative entrepreneurs to build businesses across industries that will bring in billions of dollars—while changing people’s lives for the better. Moonshot! lays out a roadmap for building a truly transformative business, beginning with a can’t-fail concept and drawing on clear examples from companies who’ve done innovation right.

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  Stealth Methodology Adoption

  Kevin Aguanno

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  Facing resistance when implementing new development process changes within an organization? Sometimes big changes need to be packaged to make them appear to be minor adjustments to the current process. This recording shows you how!This audio recording includes specific tips on introducing new development methods to your team and to your organization. It includes specific examples of introducing software development processes such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, and other agile methods. The Stealth Methodology Adoption approach, however, is applicable to more than just software development projects -- you can use these techniques for most development process changes.

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  Summary of Clayton M...

  Falcon Press

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  Summary of Clayton M. Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma contemplates the difficulties of maintaining a firm’s position when faced with innovative technologies. It was first published in 1997 and remains an influential text for its descriptions of the reasons that some of the most successful firms in a given business often rapidly lose market share to new challengers.

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