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A business's overall strategy may be set at board level, but many people throughout the organisation will be involved in deciding that strategy and implementing it - making decisions that are strategic in nature. On these decisions hangs the future of the business: how successful it is, even whether it is successful. Yet business history is full of strategic decisions, both big and small, that were weak, poorly conceived and consequently disastrous.

Using AI at Work: Time Management for Busy Professionals is a non-technical, tool-agnostic playbook for managers, team leads, and business owners who are buried in meetings, messages, and decisions. It shows you how to prioritize better, control your calendar, and reclaim 5–10 hours a week without adding complexity or burning out.

Dans ce récit aussi palpitant qu’inspirant, Danièle Henkel partage les moments clés de sa vie, de sa naissance au Maroc à sa carrière en affaires au Québec, en passant par son enfance en Algérie, son mariage à un homme choisi par son frère, son arrivée à Montréal et sa vie de mère de quatre enfants. On découvre ainsi la personnalité forte et attachante d’une femme pour qui des obstacles apparemment insurmontables sont autant de conquêtes à remporter. Le portrait d’une femme qui sait allier humanité et sens des affaires.

This first novel in The Deptford Trilogy introduces Ramsay, a man who returns from World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross but who is destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As we hear Ramsey tell his story, we begin to realize that, from childhood, he has influenced those around him in a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious way.

The Power of Consistency lays out the Personal Prosperity Plan, a simple process to create meaningful results by unleashing the power of focus and your subconscious mind. Taking you step by step through the FEAR process - focus, emotional connection, action, and responsibility - this audiobook will teach you: How to get focused on what you want; How to become deeply emotionally committed to achieving your goals.

Most business books tell you how to succeed. This one tells you what happens when you don’t—and why that’s where the real education begins. The Business of Hard Choices is a sharp, irreverent, and deeply practical guide to the decisions that keep entrepreneurs awake at three in the morning. Should you grow fast or grow carefully? Cut costs or improve quality? Diversify or double down? Bluff your way through or admit you’re a beginner? And when everything falls apart, should you close the shop, sell it, or quietly transform it into something else entirely?

In 1986, before Michael Lewis became the best-selling author of The Big Short, Moneyball, and Flash Boys, he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to New York- and London-based bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush. Liar’s Poker is the culmination of those heady, frenzied years - a behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business.

When the storm hits, most people hide. A few go out —and make a fortune. This book is the ultimate guide to turning snow, ice, and chaos into profit, structure, and lasting success. Written from the front lines of real winter operations, it reveals how small, mobile crews can outmaneuver giant fleets, how to turn seasonal work into a year-round income, and how to build a loyal team that thrives when the temperature drops. This is more than a manual —it’s a mindset. It’s about transforming hardship into advantage, urgency into opportunity, and cold nights into nice profit.

Organized around the transition from student to professional life, Business and Professional Communication, Fifth Edition gives listeners the tools they need to move from interview candidate to team member to leader. Coverage of new communication technology and social media, and an emphasis on building skills for business writing and presentations help students gain a deeper understanding of the role of communication in successfully handling situations like job interviewing, providing feedback to supervisors, and working in teams.

Modern civilization rests on metals, yet their true nature remains widely misunderstood. Bridges collapse, pipelines crack, turbines creep, and components fail not because metallurgy is insufficiently empirical, but because its deepest foundations are rarely acknowledged. Beneath grains, phases, and heat treatments lies a reality governed by electrons, spins, vibrations, and probabilities. This book argues that metals are not substances in the classical sense, but stabilized quantum processes.

A knock on Spenser's office door can only mean one thing: a new case. This time the visitor is a local lawyer with an interesting story. Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw & Cartwright, and over the years she's developed a friendship with wives of very...

This is The Shift, where “for the love of the game” has given way to an exclusive world of wealth and greed. Learn about it from someone who has lived it as a coach, mentor, and most importantly, as a father.

Ryan Wright is founder and CEO of a principal trading firm whose traders include veterans of Jane Street, Point72, and DRW. In The Art and Business of Professional Trading, he argues that the amateur's obsession with predicting price direction is a trap. In a market dominated by algorithms and...

Imelda Dooley is scared. Really scared. She's played hard and fast and now she's been caught. She's pregnant and now she's on her own. Her father, not a man to mess with, will see that somebody pays for this. And it's not going to be her. So Imelda Dooley tells a lie. A lie that literally causes...

Perfect for a recent college graduate as well as those looking to climb the ladder in their respective jobs or industries, Business Etiquette Made Easy is an essential guide for any working professional.

Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation whose origins predate the Christian Church. Financially transparent, internally democratic it wants to buy its own state in order to acquire a seat at the United Nations. Kate's job is to keep abreast of current technological developments and her global reach encompasses Silicon Valley to the remote Himalayas.

Step into a new era of project management education with this comprehensive, audio-first study guide built for the PMBOK Guide 8th edition, the global standard shaping how project work is understood and applied in practice. This edition brings clearer principles, practical focus areas, and an integrated performance domain structure designed for real-world delivery across predictive, agile, and hybrid environments.

This collection of short, business-themed stories is designed to help you improve your professional German through learning in context — one of the most effective approaches to German language learning for the workplace. Whether you need to communicate confidently in German business meetings, write professional emails, or simply hold your own in day-to-day office German, this course gives you the tools to get there.

John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) founded the Standard Oil Company, revolutionized the oil business and, after adjusting for inflation, may have been the richest person in world history. Rockefeller's business practices were fiercely condemned, but he and Standard Oil had a policy of not responding to the attacks of critics. Random Reminiscences of Men and Events (1909) is in part a personal memoir, in part a response to his critics, and in part a book of advice on making money and philanthropy.

We have all been told that the key to success is a brilliant strategy. Plan your moves, outsmart your rivals, dominate the market. But what if the whole idea of strategy is mostly a story we tell ourselves after the fact—a comforting bedtime tale for grown-ups who are terrified of chaos?