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  Bull's-Eye - The Power of Focus

  Brian Tracy

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  Clarity, Focus, and Concentration: Three strong attributes needed to hit the bull's eye! And just as you can develop your physical muscles through hard work and concentration, you can develop your mental muscles through continuous repetition. Bull's Eye will teach you how to unleash your powers for success and accomplish more in the next few months than many people do in a lifetime.

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  Working the Waterfront - The Ups...

  Gilbert Mers

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  An eighty-year-old looks back on his life as a Texas longshoreman and radical labor activist in this “colorful and absorbing” memoir (The Southwestern Historical Quarterly).Somebody said, “History is written by the winners. The losers have nothing to say.” This book is by one of the losers, a bit player, not the star of the drama.  So begins Gilbert Mers in these personal recollections of forty-two years on the Texas waterfront as a longshoreman and radical union activist. But far from having “nothing to say,” Mers reveals himself as a thoughtful philosopher of democratic ideals and eloquent agitator for union reform. He challenges the conventional wisdom that the leader is more valuable than the led. He contends that long tenure in positions of power dulls the union officer’s working-class instincts. Always one to row against the current, Mers believes the union exists for the benefit of its members!  This is primary material of the best kind, vivid and evocative, and Mers, in his eighties at the time of writing the book, is an unusually vigorous and articulate spokesman for a democratic and humane unionism. Whether he’s describing the sweaty, dangerous, backbreaking work of loading cotton bales into the hold of an outbound ship or the gut-gripping tension of a face-to-face encounter with Texas Rangers bent on “law and order,” Mers writes with the voice and conscience of the rank-and-file worker. He paints the waterfront world as it was, and perhaps still is—full of peril, humor, dignity in demoralizing circumstances, frustration, struggle, and sometimes hope—and tells his story with such wry humanity that even those who disagree with his destination will enjoy the ride.

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  HBR's 10 Must Reads on...

  Harvard Business Review, Marcus...

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  How HR can lead.We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones on how HR leaders can partner with the C-suite, drive change throughout the organization, and develop the workforce of the future.This book will inspire you to: overhaul performance management practices to jump-start motivation and engagement; use agile processes to transform how you hire, develop, and manage people; establish diversity programs that increase innovation and competitiveness as well as inclusion; use people analytics to bring unprecedented insight to hiring and talent management; prepare your company for the double waves of artificial intelligence and an older workforce; and close the gap between HR and strategy.

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  BlackBerry Planet - The Story of...

  Alastair Sweeny

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  BlackBerry Planet is a new tribe of people who simply cannot get  along without their favorite device, Research in Motions  innovative electronic organizer, the BlackBerry. This omnipresent  device has gone beyond being the worlds foremost mobile  business tool and entered the consumer mainstream as the Swiss Army  Knife of smart phones.   BlackBerry Planet tells the behind-the-scenes story of  how this little device has become the machine that connects the  planet. Starting with the early years of Mike Lazaridis  invention and his founding of RIM at age 23, it details his drive  to innovate, developing what was a glorified pager into the  essential corporate communicator, used by everyone from dealmakers  to the Queen of England, from movie stars to the entire US  Congress. Since 1992, Lazaridis and co-CEO Jim Balsillie together  have been the driving force behind the RIM story.  With access to senior staffers and former RIM employees,  BlackBerry Planet tells the inside story about the branding  and marketing success of the BlackBerry, from its use during 9/11,  which earned RIM a reputation for security and reliability, to the  cultural adoption of the iconic device as a must-have symbol, to  the backlash against the addictive properties of the  CrackBerry, and the various patent suits RIM has had  to fight off  including the five-year court battle that  resulted in the largest technology patent settlement in US  history.  As the incredible story of the BlackBerry unfolds, and as RIM  battles global giants like Nokia and Apple in the emerging  super-phone marketplace, users, fans, investors and competitors can  look to BlackBerry Planet for the insight and context of  where theyve been, to try and predict where theyre  going.

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  Outthink the Competition - How a...

  Kaihan Krippendorff

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  A new generation of leader is emerging, the next generation  business strategist: "Outhinkers."   They are entrepreneurs and corporate managers with a new  playbook. They see opportunities others ignore, challenge dogma  others accept as truth, rally resources others cannot influence,  and unleash new strategies that disrupt their markets.  Outthink the Competition proves that business competition  is undergoing a fundamental paradigm shift and that during such  revolutions, outthinkers beat traditionalists. Outthink the  Competition presents stories of breakthrough companies like  Apple, Google, RIM, and Rosetta Stone whose stunning performances  defy traditional explanation and will inspire readers to outthink  the competition.  Core concepts in the book include:      Eight Dimensions of Disruption      The Outthinker Playbook      Adopting Five Habits of the Outthinker      The Outthinker Process

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  Handling Difficult People

  Deaver Brown

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  Handling Difficult People provides concrete strategies to identify and handle difficult people. The author emphasizes being proactive to handle, not just cope, with them. The audiobook first underscores your right to defend yourself as opposed to concentrating on why the difficult person is somehow right. Armed with permission to defend yourself, you can then work on identifying the four types and then employ strategies and tactics to deal with each kind. The author emphasizes narrowing the types down to four so you can quickly identify the type, set up the effective strategy to deal with that type, and then employ the specific tactics recommended by the author.The book identifies one truly difficult type, the attacker, and three easier types to deal with types: the complainer, the know it all, and ineffectives. The author states that dealing with attackers is unproductive - not to mention being disturbing and upsetting. The most effective approach is to contain the attacker and seek to exit from the relationship as quickly as possible. The others can be handled effectively, and the author sets out strategies and tactics to do so, emphasizing that handling these people works best if you have the end in mind. What do you want to accomplish and what can you accomplish? Sometimes, you simply must deal with them, as family members or bosses at work; often, you can maneuver them out of your life. The author identifies fives areas you meet these people, and how you can handle them accordingly: family, friendships, professional encounters, business or work, and in the community.

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