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Businesspeople United States Drama Chief executive officers Chief executive officers Fiction Chief executive officers United States Biography Dysfunctional families Drama Entrepreneurship Jobs, Steve 1955-2011 Leadership Mass media Political aspects United States Drama United StatesMack, John
Summary: A personal memoir about John Mack, the former CEO of Morgan Stanley, which recounts how he helped grow the company over four decades, fostered a collaborative culture, and led the company through the 2008 financial crisis.--adapted from cover page 2
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Element 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MACK, JOHN MACPatterson, James
Summary: Carter von Oehson posts on Instagram that he plans to kill himself. When no body turns up, Carter's father knows he's still alive. He only trusts Dr. Dylan Reinhart and Elizabeth Needham with the secret to how he knows this.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATCohen, Elisabeth
Summary: "A fast, funny, deeply hilarious debut--The Glitch is the story of a high-profile, TED-talking, power-posing Silicon Valley CEO and mother of two who has it all under control, until a woman claiming to be a younger version of herself appears, causing a major glitch in her over-scheduled, over-staffed, over-worked life. Shelley Stone might be a little overwhelmed. She runs the company Conch, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COHDell, Michael
Summary: "More than an honest portrait of a leader at a crossroads, Play Nice But Win is a survival story proving that while anyone with technological insight and entrepreneurial zeal might build something great-it takes a leader to build something that lasts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 DELWoods, Sherryl.
Summary: After losing everything, Callie does a walk-on part for a TV soap opera--and walks right into network president Jason Kane's life. He sees Callie as the hot new star who can make his show's ratings soar and put some sizzle in his sex life. But when strange accidents start plaguing the set, Jason and Callie find out more than they ever wanted to know about life's plot twists and dangers.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOOIsaacson, Walter.
Summary: Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years, as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues, the author has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B JOBSSummary: An alien being comes to Earth to colonize its water riches but instead becomes head of a large corporation and is gradually destroyed by the pleasures, the technology and the richness of life on earth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI MANSummary: An alien, on mission a mission to obtain water, becomes a head of a large corporation. Ultimately, he is overwhelmed by American capitalism and a relationship with a women. Includes director Roeg's full uncut version.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI MANPayne, Nikki
Summary: "Pride and Prejudice meets Black-ish in this exciting new rom-com by debut author Nikki Payne. Liza B-The Only DJ That Gives a Jam-wants to take her neighborhood back from the soulless property developer dropping unaffordable condos on every street corner in DC. But her planned protest at their corporate event takes a turn after she mistakes the smoldering hot CEO for the waitstaff. When they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PAYSummary: The sale of media conglomerate Waystar Royco to tech visionary Lukas Matsson looms ever closer, provoking existential angst and division among the Roys in the fourth and final season of Jesse Armstrong's Emmy-winning drama series. As the siblings anticipate the prospect of this seismic merger, the ensuing power struggle finds them grappling with what their lives will look like after the deal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: One of corporate America's greatest enemies profiles twelve CEOs, including The Body Shop's Anita Roddick, Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard and Vanguard's John Bogle, whom he believes performed extraordinarily well as business leaders and civic reformers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 338.092 NADAlthoff, Susanne
Summary: "Althoff exposes the ways in which the current start-up paradigm was engineered by and for white men, and the ways in which women, non-binary, and trans folks face impossible barriers to landing funding from venture capitalists to make their companies viable"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 ALTIsaacson, Walter.
Summary: Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years, as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks/Simon & Schuster Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 JOBS, STEVE ISALencioni, Patrick
Summary: This book presents a business fable which serves as a timeless and potent reminder that success as a leader can come down to practicing a few vital behaviors which are painfully difficult for each to master.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LENMartin, Kat
Summary: "The eldest of the three wealthy Garrett brothers, Reese Garrett is in the middle of a major purchase for his multimillion-dollar oil and gas company, Garrett Resources. The Poseidon offshore drilling platform venture will greatly enhance the company's value. But when Reese is on a trip out to see the rig, his helicopter crashes, leaving him hospitalized and two men dead. It's discovered the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARSummary: Tells the riveting, behind-the-scenes story of Cantor Fitzgerald. On September 10, 2001, financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald was headquartered on the top 5 floors of the World Trade Center. On September 11, 2001, 658 of their 960 employees were missing, presumed dead, in the nation's worst terrorist attacks. Tells twin stories' the saga of the ravaged business and surviving employees, and an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OUTDorfman, Ariel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Siete Cuentos Editorial 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 DORFrey, Sarah
Summary: "One woman's tenacious journey to escape poverty and create a billion-dollar farming business--without ever leaving the land she loved. The youngest of her parents' combined twenty-one children, Sarah Frey grew up on a struggling farm in Southern Illinois, often having to grow, catch, or hunt her own dinner. She spent much of her early childhood dreaming of running away to Hollywood,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FREY, SARAH FRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FREY FREHesselbein, Frances.
Summary: "The extraordinary life of an extraordinary leader: Frances Hesselbein Leadership is a Journey is written in a personal, intimate tone that delivers key leadership lessons applicable to leaders in every walk of life. Tracing her development as a leader, Hesselbein tells her inspirational story around a dozen guiding principles. The stories will show what shaped her personally and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.5 HESReich, Christopher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC REISummary: Ambushed by his rebellious son Kendall at the end of Season two, Logan Roy begins Season Three in a perilous position, scrambling to secure familial, political, and financial alliances. Tensions rise as a bitter corporate battle threatens to turn into a family civil war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SUCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SUCChristian, Jeffrey E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 CHRLyon, Rachel
Summary: An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld. Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LYO1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE
Botelho, Elena L.
Summary: Everything we thought we knew about what it takes to get to the top is wrong. You must graduate from an elite college or business school. In fact, only 7 percent of the CEOs of today's companies went to a top school--and 8 percent didn't graduate from college at all. Given how cuthroat the competition to get to the corner office is, you can never suffer a career detour or make a major mistake....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2017