10 steps to starting and running a successful business : avoiding the pitfalls / Aaron, Raymond
Starting and running a successful business
Starting a business is exciting--but it can also feel overwhelming. In 10 Steps to Starting and Running a Successful Business: Avoiding the Pitfalls, seasoned entrepreneur Stephen Frankel pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to succeed. With over 30 years of experience launching, scaling, and selling multiple companies, Stephen offers real-world guidance that's practical, honest, and easy to follow. Inside, you'll discover: proven steps to launch and grow your business; smart strategies to avoid common (and costly) mistakes; tips on financing, partnerships, valuation, and scaling; how to navigate globalization, supply chain issues, and more. Stephen doesn't sugarcoat it--he tells it like it is. From idea to execution, this book is your roadmap to building a business that thrives. Whether you're just starting out or looking to level up, 10 Steps to Starting and Running a Successful Business is the mentor you need in your corner. Get ready to build smarter, avoid the traps, and turn your vision into a profitable success!

Art and its market : a manual / Boll, Dirk
Contents : volume 1.

Bad company : private equity and the death of the American dream / Greenwell, Megan
Bad Company by Megan Greenwell exposes the pervasive influence of private equity in American life, from healthcare and housing to media and infrastructure. Through the personal stories of four workers devastated by private equity takeovers, the book reveals how these firms enrich a powerful elite while destabilizing communities and deepening inequality. Combining investigative journalism with human-centered storytelling, it offers a powerful critique of one of the most consequential yet opaque forces in the U.S. economy.

Billionaire, nerd, savior, king : Bill Gates and his quest to shape our world / Das, Anupreeta (Journalist)
Billionaire, nerd, saviour, king
"From the finance editor of The New York Times, an examination of Bill Gates -- one of the most powerful, fascinating, and contradictory figures of the past four decades -- and an eye-opening exploration of our national fixation on billionaires"--

Building unstoppable teams : business lessons inspired by the world's toughest cycling race / Renaud, Gabriel
"Sébastien Sasseville and Gabriel Renaud masterfully transform the lessons learned in the mind-blowing Race Across America into concrete, actionable, and relatable business insights. The book will help leaders and organizations to build high-performing teams, to lead with purpose, to remain engaged, and to win the long game. When Sébastien Sasseville, an athlete with type 1 diabetes, decided to take part in the Race Across America, solo, he knew he was embarking on the most difficult ultra-cycling race in the world. What he didn't realize was that this experience, and the work that needed to be done ahead of it, would inform his thinking around a team-building model that had application beyond sports and deep into workplaces and boardrooms. This crossing of the United States from west to east, in a time trial of no more than 12 days, forces the riders to stay in the saddle for about 21 hours a day. Truly a solitary challenge, but one that is impossible to accomplish without an exceptional team that follows and supports the cyclist night and day. Together, Sébastien and co-author Gabriel Renaud, a high-performance athlete, corporate trainer, and member of the race team, have taken the model they used to build the Race Across America team and written Building Unstoppable Teams, a toolkit for building passionate teams that can accomplish the exceptional. Leadership, commitment, definition of objectives, group dynamics, adaptability, performance, motivation, and recognition are all components of successful team building and key pieces of the toolkit, but it all begins with getting the right people in place: the bees and eagles"--

Carpet cowboys / Collier, Noah
In Dalton, GA, the "Carpet Capital of the World," we find the unsung creators behind the psychedelic carpets lining casinos, offices, and hotel hallways. These visionaries are shaping the ground beneath our feet.

Dividend investing : dependable income to navigate all market environments / Harriman House Ldt
"Dividend Investing is the definitive book on how to construct a portfolio of dividend income paying stocks to create a dependable, consistent source of income. Dividends have long provided a reliable source of income used by everyone from the ultra wealthy to pragmatic hard workers who have diligently saved for retirement. Once established, a dividend stock portfolio can provide income that is not only tax advantaged, but can grow steadily into the future, keeping up with inflation, all while requiring only minimal intellectual work and no physical effort on the part of the investor. Readers will learn how to fully research a stock to reduce the risks of downside and ensure a steady future stream of dividend income. They will then learn how to construct and maintain a well organized portfolio that is appropriately diversified by style of company as well as industry and sector. Readers will learn how to navigate the inevitable missteps of dividend cuts and negative surprises, while maintaining the integrity and income generation ability of their portfolios. The author shares insights and experiences of her clients as they have navigated dividend income investing, and in doing so, brings her readers into a world of like-minded, real people who have worked hard, saved responsibly and are able to use their dividend income streams to live their lives happily and without financial stress."-Publisher website.

False claims : one insider's impossible battle against big pharma corruption / Pratta, Lisa
"Lisa Pratta shares her story of going undercover as a whistleblower at a large Big Pharma company and standing up to systemic corruption, greed, and harassment -- all while caring for her family as a single mother"--

Food, Inc. 2 / Kenner, Robert
Food, Incorporated.
Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo team up with authors Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser to examine the modern food industry's efficiency and vulnerabilities.

Four days a week : the life-changing solution for reducing employee stress, improving well-being, and working smarter / Schor, Juliet
4 days a week
Around the world, long hours and intense pressure are taking their toll. When the pandemic hit in 2020, work-induced stress and burnout skyrocketed. Many reached a breaking point. Now, three-quarters of the world's employees are disengaged and struggling, including in the US and Canada, where half are experiencing high levels of daily stress. Our current work culture ,the five-day, forty-hours-a-week model--which has gone unchanged for nearly a century--is failing. But a remedial countertrend has emerged: the four-day work week. Kickstarter, Bolt, Basecamp, ThredUp, and hundreds of other employers have eliminated the fifth day of work, successfully figuring out how to maintain productivity while seeing remarkable improvements in employee well-being. Hiring is easier and fewer people are quitting. These results are global. Working a four-day week, people feel energized, capable, and more optimistic about their lives--and their jobs. Four Days a Week is the first large-scale study of this trend. Juliet Schor--an expert who has researched and written about work for more than four decades, beginning with her New York Times bestseller The Overworked American in 1992--shares her pioneering analysis of the benefits of a shorter work week, how companies can achieve them, why the concept has taken so long to emerge and gain acceptance, and why doing so will help a company's employees and its bottom line. The book is a blueprint for implementing a change that once seemed radical, but is now within reach.

Generative AI. / Harvard Business Review Press
Generative artificial intelligence
"The world is stunned and transfixed by the marvel (and possible menace) of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools. It's clear that they will transform the business landscape-exactly when and how much are still to be seen. Meanwhile, your smartest competitors already navigating the risks and reaping the rewards of this new technology. They're trying out new business models around generating text and code at astonishing speed. They're automating customer interactions in ways that were never before possible. And they're augmenting human creativity innovate in new ways. How can you take advantage of generative AI and avoid having your business disrupted? Generative AI: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you understand the potential of this new technology, pick the right generative AI projects, and reinvent your business for the new age of AI"--

Give her credit : the untold account of a women's bank that empowered a generation / Williams, Grace L.
"In the 1970s, a new wave of feminism was sweeping America. But in the boys' club of banking and finance, women were still infantilized -- no credit without a male cosigner, and their income was dismissed as unreliable. If bankers weren't going to accommodate women, then women had to take control of their own futures. In 1978 in Denver, Colorado, the opening of the Women's Bank changed everything. It was helmed by bank officer B. LaRae Orullian and the brainchild of whip-smart entrepreneur Carol Green, who forged a groundbreaking path with their headstrong colleagues, among them: Judi Foster, investment research whiz; Edna Mosley, unyielding civil rights advocate with the NAACP; Mary Roebling, renowned financial executive; Betty Freedman, a socialite and fundraiser; and Gail Schoettler, a formidable Denver mover and shaker for social justice. Coming together and facing their own unique road to revolution, they built the most successful female-run bank in the nation. It wasn't easy. Give Her Credit follows the challenges, uphill battles, and achievements of some of the enterprising women of Denver who broke boundaries, inspired millions, and afforded opportunities for every marginalized citizen in the country"--

High road leadership : bringing people together in a world that divides / Maxwell, John C.
The world's most influential leadership expert, John C. Maxwell, tackles the problem of our divided world in his latest book High Road Leadership. "Everything rises and falls on leadership," says Maxwell. "Today it is causing people to fall -- into disputes, frustration, anger, and despair. His solution is to expose the problems of taking the low and middle roads when interacting with others and teach people how to instead take the high road. Leaders who practice high road leadership value all people, do the right things for the right reasons, take accountability for their actions, and place people above their own agenda. In his trademark communication style, Maxwell teaches the principles and practices of high-road leadership that can increase anyone's influence and help them make their world a better place.

Hoodwinked : how marketers use the same tactics as cults / Einstein, Mara
"Combining industry interviews, advertising campaign analysis, and business and scholarly research, Hoodwinked offers an insider's view into how marketers co-opt our emotions in the name of corporate profits. Armed with this information, readers can learn to spot cult-inspired marketing so they can decide how, or if, they should engage with it"--

Making bank : money skills for real life / Simmons, Shannon Lee
Money skills for real life
"The definitive young readers' guide to tracking, saving, spending, enjoying and growing money. "No one knows what money will be like when you grow up. But here's the thing: life costs money. That has always been true and will still be true when you're grown up. Whether you're using babysitting money to buy takeout coffee with your pals today or trading digital tokens to buy an electric hovercar in twenty years, the same skills you must use to afford your Starbucks this week will be used tomorrow and every day after. Learn and practise just five skills around money today and you'll be ready to take on the world, no matter how much things change in five years or fifty years. You got this." Told through a series of conversations, helpful guides, easy tables and definitions, Making Bank invites young readers to discuss a subject that is easy to avoid: money. With her signature charm, Shannon Lee Simmons transforms the thornier aspects of finance into easy-to-understand concepts. Whether it's figuring out how to save for a senior-year trip, wondering what the heck inflation is or trying to wrap your mind around credit, interest and crypto, Shannon approaches every subject with expertise and empathy. By focusing on how to track, save, spend, enjoy and grow their money, Making Bank rebuilds young readers' relationship with it--one skill at a time."--

Marketing with AI for dummies / Singh, Shiv
Marketing with AI
Marketing with AI For Dummies is your introduction to the revolution that's occurring in the marketing industry, thanks to artificial intelligence tools that can create text, images, audio, video, websites, and beyond. This book captures the insight of leading marketing executive Shiv Singh on how AI will change marketing, helping new and experienced marketers tackle AI marketing plans, content, creative assets, and localized campaigns. You'll also learn to manage SEO and customer personalization with powerful new technologies. This easy-to-understand Dummies guide is perfect for marketers at all levels, as well as those who only wear a marketing hat occasionally. Whatever your professional background, Marketing with AI For Dummies will usher you into the future of marketing.

Money management essentials for dummies / Carlson, Bob
Money management
Finance, Personal

Our dollar, your problem : an insider's view of seven turbulent decades of global finance, and the road ahead / Rogoff, Kenneth S.
Our Dollar, Your Problem argues that America's currency might not have reached today's lofty pinnacle without a certain amount of good luck. Drawing in part on his own experiences, including with policymakers and world leaders, Kenneth Rogoff animates the remarkable postwar run of the dollar-how it beat out the Japanese yen, the Soviet ruble, and the euro-and the challenges it faces today from crypto and the Chinese yuan, the end of reliably low inflation and inter-est rates, political instability, and the fracturing of the dollar bloc. Americans cannot take for granted that the Pax Dollar era will last indefinitely, not only because many countries are deeply frus-trated with the system, but also because overconfidence and arrogance can lead to unforced errors. Rogoff shows how America's outsized power and exorbitant privilege can spur financial instability-not just abroad but also at home.

Personal finance for Canadians for dummies / Martin, Tony
Personal finance for Canadians
Finance, Personal -- Canada.

Purple Pie Place / Bayview Entertainment (Firm)
The Purple Pie Place is a seasonal shop that serves delicious pies and ice cream. Located in Custer, South Dakota, they opened in 1981 to serve homemade treats to those visiting the Black Hills. Follow Yuliia on her journey as the fourth owner of the Purple Pie Place throughout the 2022 season!