Corporate America

After years of business school education there were unimaginable lessons waiting for me in Corporate America. Here are 205 of them.

Now known as X, Twitter’s messy history—including Elon Musk’s takeover in 2022, its outsized cultural impact, and its significant role in shaping how the world gets its news—is thoroughly and entertainingly revealed in this “absolute triumph of reporting and storytelling” (Ashlee...

Authored by a 28-year-old corporate America veteran and entrepreneur, Bob Wallace, MBA, this newly published book delivers meaningful and useful tools to break out of what can feel like a hopeless cycle of dependence on our employers, all in an entertaining writing style and delivery. It is never too late to break out of the velvet handcuffs!

The Business Case for Kindness introduces a new business model - grounded in kindness, respect, and trust (KRT). This new model has the ability to transform a business, a leader, and a team. It also has the ability to make our world a better place. In this book, you will be presented with data, history, and case studies to help you implement the KRT model. You will learn the must have leadership skills in order to thrive in today’s workplace and in the workplace of the future.

AlterNet editor Joshua Holland demolishes the Right's biggest and most outrageous myths about the economy. Taxes kill growth. Labor unions hurt their members. Government regulation destroys jobs. These are just a few of the biggest lies in the web of misinformation spun by conservatives and the chamber of commerce. Holland's book dissects each malicious fiction to show how the Right is just plain wrong on the economy, wrong on jobs, wrong on the deficit, wrong on taxes, wrong on trade.

The fascinating true story of how a group of visionary attorneys helped make American business synonymous with Big Business, and Wall Street the center of the financial world “Entertaining.”—The Wall Street Journal “Fast-paced history.”—Library Journal “Insightful and...

One young woman faces down an all-powerful corporation in this “profound…resonant” (NPR), all-too-near future science fiction debut that reads like a refreshing take on Ready Player One, with a heavy dose of Black Mirror. Ready Player One meets Cyperpunk 2077 in this eerily familiar future...

Winner of the 2018 Excellence in Financial Journalism Award From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, “a fast moving, fly-on-the-wall, disheartening look at the deterioration of the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission…It is a book of superheroes”...

Euphoric Misery is a compelling memoir that takes listeners inside the life of an all-American entrepreneur, father, and husband navigating the challenges of bipolar II disorder. This deeply honest and inspiring account offers a rare glimpse into the triumphs and trials of building a successful business while battling mental health issues.

As a triple minority who passes for a straight white woman in corporate America, Dannie Lynn Fountain has seen too many companies pretend to care about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) only for its public relations outcomes.

Award-winning journalist and mom-of-three Paula Faris gives insightful and practical steps for better working, momming, and living to millions of overwhelmed working moms. Being a working mom should work. Instead, it is a thankless, incredibly difficult job, marked by impossible contradictions...

In Welcome to the Jungle, proven corporate leader, senior executive, author and entrepreneur, Teena Hostovich, shares her journey from reception desk to the C-Suite in this entertaining and thorough guide to navigating a thriving career in corporate America. This book is the perfect place to learn from someone who has seen it all and come out on top. You'll walk away from this book feeling empowered and ready to take on the jungle and the adventure of a corporate career!

Investors today are being fed lies and distortions, are being exploited and neglected. In the wake of the last decade’s rush to invest by millions of households and Wall Street’s obsession with short-term performance, a culture of gamesmanship has grown among corporate management, financial...

From an award-winning New York Times reporter comes the full, mind-boggling true story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the Enron scandal that imperiled a presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Washington and Wall Street forever. It was the corporate collapse that appeared to...

The astonishing inside story of how Bud Light lost its position as the most popular beer in the United States from a longtime Anheuser-Busch executive. Anson Frericks, a former president at Anheuser-Busch—formerly the home of America’s most popular brewery—watched as the company unraveled...

The American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes that America would ever default on its debt. Yet in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt did just that, when in a bid to pull the country out of depression, he depreciated the US dollar in relation to gold, effectively annulling all debt contracts. American Default is the story of this forgotten chapter in America's history.

DYLAN RATIGAN’S mission is to uncover never-before-seen solutions to the most pressing issues of our time: government corruption, corporate communism, an ailing health care system, an age-old dependency on foreign oil, and a broken educational system. In this groundbreaking book, Ratigan makes...

Being a Black woman in corporate America is no small feat. Unlock the path to success with these seven secrets. You're always facing twofold discrimination for being Black and a woman in a place not designed for you to bring 100 percent of yourself. You try to take the stairs to corporate success, only to end up on the same floor; meanwhile, your White counterparts quickly ascend to the top floor. This book will reveal how to tap into your innate leadership potential and propel yourself forward to overcome obstacles and thrive in your career.

Sugar is found in virtually every food in the modern Western diet, and this is not by accident. There is a hugely powerful and destructive move afoot by the corporate food giants to increase sales by using science to increase consumption in both volume and frequency. Research shows this is best accomplished by producing sweet, desirable foods. But this reckless approach is killing thousands upon thousands of people each year and leading to never-before-seen levels of diseases such as diabetes.

This book is not fiction or click-bait. It's a real story about my life and how I got started off in my career, while literally starting from scratch with no industry connections. By making a plan, taking a few leaps of faith, trying something new, and being my authentic self, I was able to go from stocking shelves to securing seven internships in my field both in the US and abroad doing what I love the most. As CEO of Dalvin Digital Design and a full-time software engineer, I, Dalvin Sejour will go through a step-by-step guide to replicate my early career success.