7 Books that Will Help Your Business Grow

by Henry Glickel | Category: Book Review

Posted on Tuesday July 22, 2020 at 06:47:47 PM

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Looking to help your business grow? Spend some time nose deep with these seven books: Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being RemarkableIn his new bestseller, Seth Godin urges you to put a Purple Cow into everything you build, and everything you do, to create something truly noticeable. It's a manifesto for anyone who wants to help create products and services that are worth marketing in the first place.In Search of ExcellenceBased on a study of forty-three of America's best-run companies from a diverse array of business sectors, In Search of Excellence describes eight basic principles of management -- action-stimulating, people-oriented, profit-maximizing practices -- that made these organizations successful.The Smartest Guys in the RoomThe Enron scandal brought down one of the most admired companies of the 1990s. Countless books and articles were written about it, but only The Smartest Guys in the Room holds up a decade later as the definitive narrative. For this tenth anniversary...

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3 Key Tips for Getting Hired Over the Age of Forty

by Sheri Pintarelli | Category: Article

Posted on Sunday July 6, 2020 at 12:49:11 AM

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Looking for a job is hard right out of college, young and fresh, but looking for a job over the age of 40 can be an even harder challenge in many situations. It can certainly be done, and great men and women over the age of 40 are continually hired! Embrace your maturity First, you have matured and are seasoned in life whether having been in or out of the workforce– unless you have been a stay at home mom or unemployed your entire adult life, you have mastered getting up, arriving at work on time and completing responsibilities in the workplace. That is a valuable asset as a potential employee so let it shine through. You know how to take care of responsibilities and have for years worked hard and been successful in your career. It’s time to showcase that when looking for a new job and over the age of 40! But watch yourself- it’s easy to boast about your previous years of experience and expertise. Too much of that attitude can be a turnoff to an employer as well. Step...

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5 Books You Don't Want to Miss this Week

by Henry Glickel | Category: Book Review

Posted on Wednesday July 2, 2020 at 05:15:11 PM

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Reengineering the CorporationJames Champy and Michael HammerThe most successful business book of the last decade, Reengineering the Corporation is the pioneering work on the most important topic in business today: achieving dramatic performance improvements. This book leads readers through the radical redesign of a company's processes, organization, and culture to achieve a quantum leap in performance.Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall StreetMichael LewisA born storyteller, Michael Lewis shows us how things really worked on Wall Street. The bond traders, wearing greed and ambition as badges of honor, might well have swaggered straight from the pages of Bonfire of the Vanities. But for all their outrageous behavior, they were in fact presiding over enormous changes in the world economy. Lewis' job was to transfer money, in the form of bonds, from those outside America who saved to those inside America who consumed.The Power of HabitCharles DuhiggIn The Power of Habit, award-winning...

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