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Free now: Business books from FT Press
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As CEO of General Electric for the past twenty years, he has built its market cap by more than $450 billion and established himself as the most admired business leader in the world. His championing of initiatives like Six Sigma quality, globalization, and e-business have helped define the modern corporation.
At the same time, he’s a gutsy boss who has forged a unique philosophy and an operating system that relies on a “boundaryless” sharing of ideas, an intense focus on people, and an informal, give-and-take style that makes bureaucracy the enemy.
In anecdotal detail and with self-effacing humor, Jack Welch gives us the people (most notably his Irish mother) who shaped his life and the big hits and the big misses that characterized his career. Buy this autobiography for only $2.99 today.
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Innovate or die.
For thirty years, Gary Shapiro has observed the world’s most innovative businesses from his front-row seat as leader of the Consumer Electronics Association. Now he reveals the ten secrets of “ninja innovators” like Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and many others.
What does it take to succeed? Discipline. Mission-oriented strategy. Adaptability. Decisiveness. And a will for victory. In short, today’s most successful businesses are “ninja innovators.” Drawn from Gary Shapiro’s three decades of experience leading the consumer electronics industry, Ninja Innovation takes readers behind the scenes of today’s top enterprises, uncovering their ten essential strategies for success.
In order to stay in front of the pace of innovation, Shapiro observes, top companies must operate as an elite strike force—just like the legendary medieval warriors known as ninjas. Ninjas weren’t called upon to do the ordinary; they had to perform truly extraordinary tasks, while risking everything.
Taking readers inside the most cutting-edge businesses, Ninja Innovation is the ultimate guide to achieving victory in today’s innovate-or-die economy. Read the book on your Kindle today when you download for $2.99.
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Free now: Business books from FT Press and Pearson Prentice Hall
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Before you can lead others, you must learn to lead yourself. Yet those tasked with leadership roles must discover what their people—and their companies—respond to as they go. The Leader’s Pocket Guide provides readers with concise, on-the-job expertise to inspire and direct them on their professional journey.
Organized into three easy-reference sections—Self, Colleagues, and Organization—the book supplies readers with tactical tips.
Augmented by up-to-date research on the role of leaders and the expectations followers have for them, this pithy, powerful, and portable guide contains energizing action tips, self-assessments, and “Think About…” sections to spur readers on to reach continuously greater heights of leadership excellence.
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During the most dizzying days of the financial crisis, Washington Mutual, a bank with hundreds of billions of dollars in its coffers, suffered a crippling bank run. The story of its final, brutal collapse in the autumn of 2008, and its controversial sale to JPMorgan Chase, is an astonishing account of how one bank lost itself to greed and mismanagement, 
and how the entire financial industry—and even the entire country— lost its way as well.
Kirsten Grind’s The Lost Bank is a magisterial and gripping account of these events, tracing the cultural shifts, the cockamamie financial engineering, and the hubris and avarice that made this incredible story possible. The men and women who become the central players in this tragedy— the regulators and the bankers, the home buyers and the lenders, the number crunchers and the shareholders—are heroes and villains, perpetrators and victims, often switching roles with one another as the drama unfolds.
Written as compellingly as the finest fiction, The Lost Bank makes it clear that the collapse of Washington Mutual was not just the largest bank failure in American history. It is a story of talismanic qualities, reflecting the incredible rise and the precipitous collapse of not only an institution but of trust, fortunes, and the marketplaces for risk across the world. You can purchase this book today for $2.99.
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Free now: Power Verbs for Presenters: Hundreds of Verbs and Phrases to Pump Up Your Speeches and Presentations from FT Press
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Electrify your presentations, speeches, and pitches…and get the results you want!
The right verbs
• ignite your communication
• make it memorable, impactful, dynamic
• attract audiences like moths to flame
Jam-packed with examples drawing on thousands of years of storytelling, literature, and experience. Indispensable for every manager, entrepreneur, salesperson, and student!
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We all make bad decisions. It’s part of being human. The resulting mistakes can be valuable, the story goes, because we learn from them. But do we? Historian Zachary Shore says no, not always, and he has a long list of examples to prove his point.
From colonialism to globalization, from gender wars to civil wars, or any circumstance for which our best solutions 
backfire, Shore demonstrates how rigid thinking can subtly lead us to undermine ourselves. In the process, he identifies seven “cognition traps” to avoid. These insidious yet unavoidable mind-sets include:
-Exposure Anxiety: fear of being seen as weak
-Causefusion: confusing the causes of complex events
-Flat View: seeing the world in one dimension
-Cure-Allism: thinking that one-size solutions can solve all problems
-Infomania: an obsessive relationship to information
-Mirror Imaging: thinking the other side thinks like you do
-Static Cling: the refusal to accept that circumstances have changed
Drawing on examples from history, politics, business and economics, health care, even folk tales and popular culture, Shore illustrates the profound impact blunders can have. But he also emphasizes how understanding these seven simple cognition traps can help us all make wiser judgments in our daily lives. Buy this book today for only $2.99.
What do the latest financial thinking and ancient spiritual teachings reveal to us about financial freedom? Top financial advisor Brent Kessel insists financial success and security is “not about the money.” Rather, it’s about what’s inside us—first understanding your emotional relationship to money, and only then taking action. It’s Not About the Money expertly and 
compassionately guides you along the path to financial security and true peace of mind.
Kessel, founder of two top wealth-management firms, has the inside scoop on the higher wisdom of personal finances, and he wants to share it with you. Through extensive experience as a financial advisor and spiritual seeker, Kessel has discovered that people need to understand their core financial story in order to make meaningful changes. Some of us are savers or caretakers, says Kessel, while others are pleasure seekers and spend like Hollywood stars; some people are idealists who place greater value on creativity or compassion than on financial security; some of us innocently believe our finances will work out without effort; and others obsess about building empires with lasting value.
It’s Not About the Money will help you identify your money type, providing information and resources as well as exercises and meditations to inspire a fresh approach to your relationship with money that will change your life. Buy this resource book for $3.99 today.
