Books from Crown Currency
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Rework
By Jason Fried, David Heinemeier HanssonYou don't need to staff up. You don't need to waste time on paperwork or meetings. You don't even need an office. Those are all just excuses. What you really need to do is stop talking and start working. This book shows you the way.
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American Trash: Hard-Earned Lessons from a Heartland Entrepreneur
By Nate MorrisAmerican Trash is the moving story of how a ninth-generation Kentuckian—a boy who grew up being called “white trash”—applied the innovative thinking we associate with Silicon Valley startups to the ancient problem of waste.
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Making College Pay: An Economist Explains How to Make a Smart Bet on Higher Education
By Beth AkersIn Making College Pay, Akers shows how to improve your odds by making smart choices about where to enroll, what to study, and how to pay for it.
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The Book of Hard Choices: How to Make the Right Decisions at Work and Keep Your Self-Respect
By James A. Autry, Peter RoyThe Book of Hard Choices goes to the heart of these difficult decisions. James Autry and Peter Roy, experienced executives themselves, interviewed numerous leaders about the tough decisions they’ve made on the job.
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The Marketing Mavens
By Noel CaponBy seeing marketing as everyone’s business-not the domain of a few specialists-you’ll get your business in step with the way the world really works . . . and start creating customers.
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American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company
By Bryce G. HoffmanThe inside story of the epic turnaround of Ford Motor Company under the leadership of CEO Alan Mulally.
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Ubuntu!: An Inspiring Story About an African Tradition of Teamwork and Collaboration
By Bob Nelson, Stephen LundinBefore long, it begins to change the way he thinks about the people he works with, about himself, and about how he runs his department and his life.
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Your First Year in Real Estate, 2nd Ed.: Making the Transition from Total Novice to Successful Professional
By Dirk ZellerYou’ll get the insider’s guide to: • Selecting the right company • Developing valuable mentor and client relationships • Using the Internet and social networking to stay ahead of the competition (NEW!) • Setting—and ...
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The Scrum Fieldbook: A Master Class on Accelerating Performance, Getting Results, and Defining the Future
By J.J. SutherlandIn Sutherland’s first book, the national bestseller Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, coauthored with his father, Jeff, the co-creator of Scrum, he laid out the Scrum framework used by almost all of today’s ...
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Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
By Zeke FauxThe “rollicking” (The Economist), “masterfully written” (The Washington Post) account of the crypto delusion, and how Sam Bankman-Fried and a cast of fellow nerds and hustlers turned useless virtual coins into trillions of ...
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The Greatest Stock Picks of All Time: Lessons on Buying the Right Stock at the Right Time
By Julie M. Fenster, W. Randall JonesSuch stocks exist in every economic climate, and Jones shows readers exactly how to find them. In The Greatest Stock Picks of All Time, Jones describes twenty-five of the best stock picks ever and explains what made them great.
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The Startup of You (Revised and Updated): Adapt, Take Risks, Grow Your Network, and Transform Your Career
By Reid Hoffman, Ben CasnochaThey take intelligent risks. They make uncertainty and volatility work to their advantage. These are the very same skills professionals need to get ahead today. This book isn’t about cover letters or résumés.
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Performing Under Pressure: The Science of Doing Your Best When It Matters Most
By Hendrie Weisinger, J. P. Pawliw-FryNobody performs better under pressure. Regardless of the task, pressure ruthlessly diminishes our judgment, decision-making, attention, dexterity, and performance in every professional and personal arena. In Performing Under Pressure, Drs.
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A Pocket Mirror for Heroes
By Baltasar Gracián" Gracian teaches the reader to be "a giant"--"the greatest person possible, a miracle of perfection, a king." Wit, wisdom, courage, elegance, grace, humility, spontaneity--these are the qualities needed to reach heroism in any occupation.
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Take Command: Lessons in Leadership: How to Be a First Responder in Business
By Jake WoodIn this groundbreaking book on high-stakes leadership, Co-founder and CEO of Team Rubicon and former Marine Sniper Jake Wood, shows how to apply hard-learned lessons in leadership and teamwork from the battlefield and disaster zone to your ...
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eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work
By Randall E. StrossHere are the testosterone-pumped conversations, round-the-clock meetings, and gutsy deals that launched the eBoys and their clients into the stratosphere of mega-wealth.
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Managing the Dragon: How I'm Building a Billion-Dollar Business in China
By Jack Perkowski... A Taste of Italy in Nanjing One of the most memorable visits of my entire time in China oc- curred in late 1993 , in Nanjing . With our relationship with CNAIC growing by the day , we were invited to spend three days visiting com ...
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Why She Buys: The New Strategy for Reaching the World's Most Powerful Consumers
By Bridget BrennanBridget Brennan’s Why She Buys shows decision makers how to bridge this divide and capture the business of the world’s most powerful consumers just when they need it most. • No Matter Where You Live, Women Are a Foreign Country: ...
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The Future for Investors: Why the Tried and the True Triumphs Over the Bold and the New
By Jeremy J. SiegelThe new paradigm for investing and building wealth in the twenty-first century. The Future for Investors reveals new strategies that take advantage of the dramatic changes and opportunities that will appear in world markets.
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The Selling of the American Economy: How Foreign Companies Are Remaking the American Dream
By Micheline MaynardIn THE SELLING OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMY, New York Times senior business correspondent Micheline Maynard argues that despite the lingering xenophobia that colors American perception of foreign-owned companies, foreign investments are actually ...