Burchard, Brendon
Summary: "THESE HABITS WILL MAKE YOU EXTRAORDINARY. Twenty years ago, author Brendon Burchard became obsessed with answering three questions: 1.Why do some individuals and teams succeedmore quicklythan others andsustainthat success over the long term? 2.Of those who pull it off, why are somemiserableand others consistentlyhappy on their journey? 3.What motivates people to reach for higher levels of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House, Inc. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 BURHamilton, Arlan
Summary: "Having lived nearly her entire life below the poverty line before going on to attain wealth and success as an entrepreneur and investor, Arlan Hamilton knows that entrepreneurship is the quickest path to money and power-particularly for those who haven't had much of it in the past. In Your First Million, she shows how anyone-no matter what they look like or how much money they have-can tap...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: From the offices of insolvent newspapers to the vibrant yet uncertain online publishing scene, journalists are struggling to reinvent a troubled industry. This program follows bloggers, hackers, independent publishers, and social media mavericks working in the trenches of Chicago, a hub of digital media innovation. Shot over a two-year period, the film focuses on events such as the bankruptcy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: In this deceptively casual TEDTalk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn't just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and paradigms that companies simply can't. A researcher at the London think tank Demos, Leadbeater was early to notice the rise of "amateur innovation" - great ideas from outside the traditional walls,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Anand, Bharat Narendra
Summary: "For readers of The Innovator's Dilemma comes an incisive new approach to one of the key questions of our time--how to thrive rather than be destroyed by digital transformation--from Harvard Business School Professor of Strategy Bharat Anand. Companies everywhere face two major challenges today: getting noticed and getting paid. To confront these obstacles, Bharat Anand examines a range of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.2 ANAPendleton, Madeline
Summary: "A big-hearted, no-bullshit memoir from TikTok superstar Madeline Pendleton about her journey from living paycheck to paycheck to creating a multi-million-dollar business that offers a compassionate alternative to capitalism. Imagine a job where you work four days a week and earn as much as the CEO. You also get full benefits, a gym membership, free lunch, and unlimited time off, including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PENDLETON, MADELINE PENSummary: Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are the two richest men in America and very close friends. Though a generation apart in age and founders of two very different businesses, each has a deep admiration for the other, and they share a sense of responsibility to use their success in the service of social causes. This program documents a day both men spent in September of 2005 at the University of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Funk, McKenzie.
Summary: "An investigation into how entrepreneurial people and institutions around the globe are cashing in on the new world being created by global warming--and who will pay the price for it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 FUNBahcall, Safi
Summary: "'Loonshots is a brilliant and wonderfully entertaining book, an unstoppable read, full of surprises and rich with insight into how people create and nurture things that change the world. It's also an important book. Bahcall, a physicist and biotech entrepreneur, is unfolding the secrets behind successes everywhere.' --Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone and The Wild Trees What do James...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 BAHBeach, Jim (James)
Summary: You want to start your own business, but "risk" isn't your middle name. You're not alone. Many successful entrepreneurs are averse to risk?but they have learned the tricks to working around it. And now you can too, with School for Startups. This practical guide shows you how to build a business the smart way?without risking major assets such as your house, savings account, or health insurance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand)
Summary: This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline that explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial economy. Superbly practical, Innovation and Entrepreneurship explains what established businesses, public service institutions, and new ventures need to know and do to succeed in today's economy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.6 DRU1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 658.6 DRU
Cuban, Mark
Summary: The stars of ABC's Shark tank explain how a kid can discover a great business idea and get it off the ground.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Fadell, Tony
Summary: Tony Fadell led the teams that created the iPod, iPhone and Nest Learning Thermostat and learned enough in thirty plus years in Silicon Valley about leadership, design, startups, Apple, Google, decision-making, mentorship, devastating failure and unbelievable success to fill an encyclopedia. So that's what this book is. An advice encyclopedia. A mentor in a box. Tony uses examples that are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 FADAguirre, Ann
Summary: "Danica Waterhouse is a fully modern witch. After a messy breakup, she makes a pact with her cousin: they'll keep their hearts protected and have fun, without involving the overly opinionated Waterhouse matriarchs. No need to add criticism on top of heartache! Titus Winnaker has family trouble of his own. After a tragic loss, all he's got is his sister, his bakery--Sugar Daddy's--and a romantic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AGUDiOrio, Rana
Summary: The word 'entrepreneur' may feel distant to some, but this book, with its elegantly expressed concepts and superb imagery, makes entrepreneurial values accessible to children at a personal level--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Pickle Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 338 DIODuffy, Scott.
Summary: "A serial entrepreneur offers a plan for launching successful ventures About ninety-seven percent of a rocket's fuel is used in the first three feet of its launch. The same is true in launching a new business, product, or service. Those first few steps are absolutely critical. Scott Duffy has developed a practical approach for turning your big idea into a thriving venture by focusing on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.11 DUFKivirist, Lisa
Summary: "Females are farming in record numbers. Covering everything from business planning to tool use to integrating family into farm operations, Soil Sisters is a comprehensive blueprint for women who dream of bringing their vision of agricultural entrepreneurship to life. This unique guide blends inspiring stories of successful female farmers with practical information and resources for women...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Society Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630 KIVRoper, Ingrid
Summary: Presents ideas, tips, and true accounts to encourage girls to make, manage, and save money. Includes business starter tools such as business cards and price tags.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Co. 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 658 ROPWarrillow, John
Summary: "How smart companies can use subscriptions to win customers, increase cash flow, and ignite growth What do Zipcar, Netflix, and WhatsApp have in common? They are pioneers of the new subscription economy in which people pay automatically for much more than publications. John Warrillow, the acclaimed author of Built to Sell, offers a blueprint for winning subscribers for any kind of business....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.6 WARWeinzweig, Ari
Summary: Part 3 continues to share the "secrets" that have helped take Zingerman's from a 25-seat, 4-person start up to a nationally known, $49,000,000-organization employing over 600 people. It includes Secrets #30-39 and explores our belief that some of the most important work we do to build great organizations and lead rewarding lives is the work we need to do within ourselves. The book includes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zingerman's Press 2013
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.5 WEIWilkinson, Amy
Summary: "Based on in-depth interviews with more than 200 leading entrepreneurs, a business executive and senior fellow at Harvard's Center for Public Leadership identifies the six essential disciplines needed to transform your ideas into real-world successes, whether you're an innovative manager or an aspiring entrepreneur. How do some people turn ideas into enterprises that endure? Startup founders...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.6 WILKagan, Noah
Summary: "The founder and CEO of AppSumo.com, Noah Kagan, knows how to launch a seven-figure business in a single weekend-and he's done it seven times. Million Dollar Weekend will show you how. But, if the barriers to starting a business are getting lower and lower, why is it SO HARD TO DO for SO MANY PEOPLE? Why are there so many wantrepreneurs playing at business on social media and so few...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Senor, Dan
Summary: "From the coauthors of the New York Times bestseller Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle comes the highly anticipated follow up, The Genius of Israel, which outlines the defining factors behind Israel's successful track record of innovation and explaining how other nations can learn from its development"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 SENShaich, Ron
Summary: "How did Ron Shaich, the visionary founder of Panera Bread, build a little bakery in St. Louis into 2,400 restaurants with 6 billion dollars in revenue and annual returns of 25 percent, outperforming Starbucks, Chipotle, and all others? By seeing the future and clearing a path to it, leading and innovating from the future back. Now, Shaich shares his story, starting with its humble...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business Review Press 2023