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  • The Making Of The Greatest Sony
    AJAY SETHI
    Innovation has been the cornerstone of Japanese legend Masaru Ibuka’s business philosophy. Starting from a small radio-repair unit in a bombed-out store in post-war Tokyo, he and his lifelong business partner Akio Morita built a staggering business empire straddling all seven continents.Right from its early days, Sony, as the company came to be called, continued to shock and su...
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    14,12 €

  • Shake It Off Leadership
    Betsy Cerulo
    'Shake it off!', shouts my coach and teammates from the sidelines after I missed a point.  Whether on the court, field or professionally, this phrase has motivated Betsy Cerulo to shake off the losses and get back up to give it her best.  Being a successful business owner for 30 years has brought a myriad of victories and setbacks especially navigating the business playing fiel...
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    25,77 €

  • Burning Down UNESCO
    Howard Burton
    By a curious set of circumstances, Howard Burton found himself hired as a fundraising consultant at UNESCO’s Paris headquarters. Overwhelmed by the bureaucratic double-speak and smug complacency that he encountered everywhere he went, he decided to use his clear-eyed analytical skills to ask a very different sort of question: What, exactly, was UNESCO doing that was actually wo...
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    16,34 €

  • Upward
    The Third-Place Winner of a Fall 2023 BookFest Award in the Women in Business category!Upward is a book every businesswoman who dreams of holding a leadership position should read because it will answer questions such as ...Do you wonder how to overcome challenges in the workplace that hold you back from your leadership goals? Do you wish you could ask current women in leadersh...
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    24,37 €

  • Behemoth, Amazon Rising
    Robin Gaster
    Amazon is the most extraordinary business story of our time. In 25 years, it’s become a $280 billion multi-sector giant, and within 5 years, Amazon may be the biggest company in America. Behemoth, Amazon Rising explains how Amazon built five interlocking rings logistics, Amazon Prime, the Amazon Marketplace, everyday low pricing, and constant innovation. The rings work together...
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    15,14 €

  • Truth & Li(e)bor
    Stelios Contogoulas
    Truth & Li(e)bor is the story of the author’s personal journey and legal battles which consumed over six years of his life.As the story unfolded, the author slowly began to understand that even though he was charged with 'conspiracy to defraud', the real conspiracy might have been elsewhere. Was he one of the conveniently selected scapegoats thrown under the bus, allowing other...
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    9,29 €

  • Tribute
    Michael Frizell
    A black conservative businessman made an unlikely presidential candidate and supporter of Donald J. Trump, but pundits, critics, and admirers have never aptly described Herman Cain. His campaign manager was fond of saying, 'Let Cain be Cain!' A man of deep principles who once called for forming a third party before embracing President Trump became another tragic figure to die o...
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    8,65 €

  • YO SÍ PUDE. DEL VALLE DE LÁGRIMAS A LA CIMA DE LOS LISTILLOS
    López-Davalillo y López de Torre, Jesús María
    En este libro conoceremos parte de la historia de un hombre normal, con una vida monótona, como es la de la mayoría, pero al que la recesión condujo al desempleo a una edad en la que no resulta fácil integrarse de nuevo en el mercado laboral. Si bien, la suerte, el azar o la providencia le presentan la oportunidad de conseguir lo que siempre había soñado y que estaba seguro de ...
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    12,49 €

  • Orbit
    CW Cooke
    For the 1st time in print, the graphic novel about the late night war. Howard Stern. David Letterman. Chelsea Handler. Conan O’Brien. Jon Stewart: The mouthpieces of a generation and the source for info-tainment, these performers continue to parody hot-button social issues, skewer politicians and movie stars, and entertain us. The comic book series has been featured on ABC, NBC...
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    33,70 €

  • Steinbrenner
    Bill Madden
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    13,69 €

  • Orbit
    CW Cooke
    1st time in print! Read the comic book biographies of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg & Jack Dorsey. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs arguably revolutionized how people work and communicate. Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey pioneered new ways to connect socially. Sergey Brin and Larry Page created a way to navigate the massive World Wide Web. Together, ...
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    33,75 €

  • TESTIGO DE RADIO
    Juan de Dios Rodríguez
    En Testigo de Radio el autor hace un recorrido por los últimos cincuenta años de la SER en particular y de la radio en España en general, dando testimonio de lo vivido. Desde los primeros años de la radio musical, Los 40 Principales y El Gran Musical, el ambiente y la relación de la industria discográfica con el medio; el mundo de la radio nocturna en el que la compañía del med...
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    22,99 €

  • Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers
    Tamara Plakins Thornton
    In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a 'meteor in the hemisphere.' Bowditch was a mathematician, astronomer, navigator, seafarer, and business executive whose Enlightenment-inspired perspectives shaped nineteenth-century capitalism while transforming Ame...
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    44,01 €

  • VEGALYA VATEVARCHA DOCTOR
    DAMIEN BROWN
    DAMIEN BROWN, A YOUNG DOCTOR, THINKS HE`S READY WHEN HE ARRIVES FOR HIS FIRST POSTING WITH MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES IN AFRICA. BUT THE TOWN HE`S SENT TO IS AN ISOLATED OUTPOST OF MUD HUTS, SURROUNDED BY LANDMINES; THE HOSPITAL, FOR WHICH HE`S TO BE THE ONLY DOCTOR, IS FILLED WITH MALNOURISHED CHILDREN AND CONDITIONS HE`S NEVER SEEN; AND THE HEALTH WORKERS-ANGOLAN WAR VETERANS T...
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    58,01 €

  • The Making of a Business Leader
    Ron Nash
    Most books about the information technology industry highlight the legendary stories of the colorful and ego-driven entrepreneurs who founded companies and became billionaires. This book takes a different look at the industry and instructs the reader on how to develop the leadership skills which will allow them to succeed in this fast-paced, competitive, innovative, high-talent...
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    12,13 €

  • My Life And Work
    Henry Ford
    My Life and Work is Henry Ford’s autobiographical account of the creation and early days of the Ford Motor Company. Ford was an American industrialist who pioneered a mass production system that drove down the price of manufacturing automobiles making them affordable for the American middle class. The book details many of the business principles that Ford applied to his industr...
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    21,53 €

  • Love Incorporated
    Martyn J Clark
    Have you ever thought that there is just something completely wrong with how we run our companies? Like perhaps there is something right at the heart of how we build organisations, that just doesn’t quite work? Human systems are strange things. Fluid, flexible, easily influenced. But while we imagine them as machines, creating nothing but money, we will continue to create soull...
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    15,62 €

  • Girls Do IT Too
    Sonja Bernhardt
    Embark on a journey as you delve into the life of Sonja Bernhardt-a tenacious and visionary entrepreneur who defied the odds to achieve heart-warming success. This compelling narrative unveils Sonja’s determination, resilience, and unwavering spirit as she deftly navigates the intricate landscape of the technology industry, leaving an indelible mark on both her personal and pro...
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    28,97 €

  • An alien in Abu Dhabi
    Geremiah Misatya
    Have you ever felt that you were an alien? Not because of pointy ears, but because you have suddenly realised you are very different- fundamentally at odds with the way certain others think and behave.This book takes us through the author’s last six months of employment in a significant UAE company, where he established and led a large and very capable IT business applications ...
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    19,87 €

  • An alien in Abu Dhabi
    Geremiah Misatya
    Have you ever felt that you were an alien? Not because of pointy ears, but because you have suddenly realised you are very different- fundamentally at odds with the way certain others think and behave.This book takes us through the author’s last six months of employment in a significant UAE company, where he established and led a large and very capable IT business applications ...
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    16,65 €

  • A CONTRACORRIENTE
    Podadera Báez, Antonio
    Tras toda una vida vinculado al mundo de la hostelería y el ocio, principalmente en Antequera, Antonio Podadera Báez echa la vista atrás para presentarnos A contracorriente, el relato de una trayectoria profesional iniciada casi desde el mismo momento de nacer y salpicada de éxitos, alegrías y reconocimientos, aunque también de decepciones, desengaños y sinsabores. Pese a los o...
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    12,00 €

  • Forty Years of Trident Booksellers and Cafe
    Liz Whitman
    In June 2020, Trident Booksellers and Cafe celebrated its 40th anniversary. This book was made in celebration. It commemorates the history and community of Trident with pictures, stories, poems and more submitted by the Trident community near and far, old and new. May Trident continue to be a scared communal space in Boulder for many years to come! ...
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    31,60 €

  • The Geoff Bell Story
    Geoff Bell
    Geoff Bell revolutionised truck drivers’ accommodation by building Carlisle Truck Inn and running it for 10 years. He built up a fleet of 15 Volvo F86s running round the clock and thus helped forge the modern-day road haulage industry.Then Michael James Bland, his trusted chartered accountant and a partner at Dodd & Co Carlisle, turned out to be a professional fraudster, who de...
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    32,44 €

  • Character is Destiny
    Pehr Gyllenhammar
    In Character is Destiny, Pehr Gyllenhammar shares recollections of his 24-year tenure as CEO of Sweden’s Volvo Group as well as his experiences in the international business community, as a Track II diplomat, and in the highest circle of global industrialists, politicians, and power brokers. He offers a compelling assessment of the characteristics necessary for a business or a ...
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    17,10 €

  • The Business of Connections
    Shelly Yorgesen
    It all began at a castle in Northern Ireland, business owners from all over the globe gathered......now their stories that elevated their businesses & lives are all in ONE BOOK! Steve Jobs said it best, '...you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.'...and now yo...
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    25,47 €

  • Courage to Lead
    Kwabena Darko
    Courage to Lead is a simple and unvarnished perspective of a businessman and poultry farmer who truly believed in building a house on God’s sure foundation, a solid rock. In business, in politics, and in life, I am happy to have lived through every failure and success, and with unapologetic confidence in God’s guiding hand in my life. My courage is rooted in a God whose relentl...
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    21,85 €

  • At War with the Big Dogs
    Chuck Masek
    A true David versus Goliath story.Discover how a small group of hardworking, focused, and determined entrepreneurs forever changed the medical device industry. In the face of betrayal and overwhelming odds, this band of brothers fought with courage, commitment, and enduring faith and came together to disrupt the cash flow and business models of multibillion-dollar corporations,...
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    26,90 €

  • À Procura da felicidade
    Chris Gardner
    A jornada de Chris Gardner - de pai sem-teto a executivo milionário Chris Gardner é um vendedor que, em tempos difíceis, junto com o filho pequeno, luta bravamente contra a pobreza. A luta diária da classe trabalhadora e dos menos favorecidos está retratada na obra. Quando fez vinte anos, Chris Gardner tinha acabado de sair da Marinha e tinha planos de seguir carreira em Medici...
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    30,25 €

  • Ragged A**** Ruffian
    Les J Gilson
    Cup finals, a business rollercoaster, love, loss and laughter - a memoir by a former professional football player, who plied his trade in the 1950s and 1960s, before embarking on a business career just as rife with promotions, championships and relegations. This is Les Gilson’s story. ...
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    24,86 €

  • Ragged A**** Ruffian
    Les J Gilson
    Cup finals, a business rollercoaster, love, loss and laughter - a memoir by a former professional football player, who plied his trade in the 1950s and 1960s, before embarking on a business career just as rife with promotions, championships and relegations. This is Les Gilson’s story. ...
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    19,98 €