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bibliography Biographies. biography Biography Domestic fiction. History. Jazz Novels.McCann, Jim
Summary: The founder and CEO of 1-800-Flowers discusses how he used the art of conversation to achieve his goals and enhance his career and offers personal insights and how-to guidance on how to use the gift of gab as a leadership tool.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 MCCLevine, Alison.
Summary: A polar explorer and mountaineer uses her experiences to develop a set of modern leadership principles that will inspire business "climbers" to reach their peaks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 LEVRothenberg, Gunther Erich
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.27 ROTNapoleon
Summary: Creating the fighting force -- Preparations for war -- A military education -- The combat arms -- Generalship and the art of command --Army organization -- Strategy -- Fortification -- The army in the field -- The operational art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.02 NAPMachiavelli, Niccolò
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duncan Baird Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320 MACOgle, Richard.
Contents: Outing the mind -- Spaces to think with : reason, imagination, and the discovery of DNA -- Genius, imagination, and the nature of mind -- The fools on the hill : tipping points and the microcomputer revolution -- Darwinian networks, or why the fit get fitter -- The mathematical ecology of creativity -- Sex and the single doll : Barbie, Ruth Handler, and the navigation problem -- Think different...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business School Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.3 OGLGerhardt, Michael J.
Summary: "A novel and brilliant look at how Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership: acclaimed historian Michael J. Gerhardt, who appeared during the impeachment proceedings of President Trump, reveals how a group of five men mentored an obscure lawyer with no executive experience to become American's greatest leader"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 GERRiess, Helen
Summary: "A neuroscience-based view that argues not only that empathy is necessary for our personal happiness and planetary survival, but its essential components, how to gain them, and how to use them in any circumstance"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 RIEStosz, Sandra
Summary: "Today, our nation is like a ship being tossed in tumultuous seas. The winds and waves of change have divided and distanced our society, threatening to wash away the very principles our nation was founded upon. Now more than ever, our nation needs leaders with the moral courage to stand strong and steady-leaders capable of uniting people in support of a shared purpose by building the trust and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Köehlerbooks 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 STOPedersen, Dan
Summary: "The founder of the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons program, aka "TOPGUN," shares the untold story of how he and eight other young pilots revolutionized the art of aerial combat and created the center for excellence and incubator of leadership that thrives to this day."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PEDERSEN, DAN PEDRosso, Henry A.
Contents: Setting realistic expectations -- Growing a successful fund raising program -- Developing leadership for fund raising -- The art of asking with composure -- It's all about being friends-- Diversifying funding sources -- Classic mistakes and their lessons -- Evaluating fund raising programs and capabilities -- Our heritage -- A blend of art and science -- Language and the gentle art of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass Publishers 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 361.706 ROSAaker, Jennifer Lynn
Summary: "Anyone-even you!-can learn how to harness the power of humor in business (and life), based on the popular class at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Many people understand humor's power intuitively. But when it comes to using it with intention, far fewer know how. As a result, humor is vastly underleveraged in most workplaces today, impacting our performance, relationships, and health,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 152.4 AAKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Business AakerAtkinson, Rick
Summary: "Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other masterly books about World War II, has long been admired for his unparalleled ability to write deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative history. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he tells the story of the first twenty months of the bloody struggle to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 ATKCharan, Ram.
Summary: A noted business consultant introduces his nine-step program for creating profitable, sustainable, internally generated growth in a business, in a handbook with useful tools, anecdotes, and real-life business stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 CHARadinger, Elli H.
Summary: Love your family, care for your those around you, never give up and always find time to have fun -- these are the golden rules of wolves. These remarkably intelligent animals take empathetic care of their old and injured, bring up their young lovingly and are able to forget everything when playing. They think, dream, make plans, communicate intelligently with one another -- and behave more like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michael Joseph 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.773 RADKishimoto, Masashi
Summary: Deidara's Ultimate Art faces off against the all-powerful new Sasuke; and inside the Land of Rain lies a secret of the Akatsuki that questions the leadership of Pain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 NARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Manga, Call number: YA FIC KISHawke, Ethan
Summary: Hawke's narrator is a young man in torment, disgusted with himself after the collapse of his marriage, still half-hoping for a reconciliation that would allow him to forgive himself and move on as he clumsily, and sometimes hilariously, tries to manage the wreckage of his personal life with whiskey and sex. What saves him is theater: in particular, the challenge of performing the role of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWMaxwell, John C.
Summary: "#1 New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell responds to the most popular questions he's received to help readers achieve greater success. John Maxwell, America's #1 leadership authority, has mastered the art of asking questions, using them to learn and grow, connect with people, challenge himself, improve his team, and develop better ideas. In this compact derivative of Good Leaders...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.5 MAXBranson, Richard.
Summary: " While building the Virgin Group over forty years, Richard Branson has never shied away from seemingly outlandish challenges that others (including his own colleagues on several occasions) considered sheer lunacy. He has taken on giants like British Airways and won, and monsters like Coca-Cola and lost. Now Branson gives an inside look at his strikingly different swashbuckling style of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.5 BRAArt Ensemble of Chicago
Contents: Coming soon (1:31) -- African woman = Umafazi w ese Afriki (13:54) -- Fundamental destiny (9:13) -- Fresh start (6:41) -- Khauleza = Hurry up (2:43) -- The bottom line (5:31) -- Black man = Indoda emnyama (9:18)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: DIW 1990