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Centered: Trading Your Plans for a Life That Matters

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  Centered: Trading Your Plans for a Life That Matters READ MORE Centered: Trading Your Plans for a Life That Matters This riveting story of a top-earning NFL center and his family who walked away from it all to follow God's call to alleviate hunger as farmers--a life they knew absolutely nothing about--illustrates the sacrifice and ultimate reward of obedience to our heavenly Father even when it doesn't make earthly sense.A remarkable story where family, deep self-reflection, and an unshakable belief in a path predestined by God triumph over fortune and comfort.--John Harbaugh, head coach of the Baltimore RavensNFL lineman Jason Brown had everything in the world. He was the highest-paid center in the game. He lived in luxury. Millions of people saw and admired him every week. Then in 2012, Jason heard a call from God that changed everything.Leaving behind an incredibly successful football career that paid millions, Jason turned toward a life he knew nothing about: farming. It ...

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

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  Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action READ MORE Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action A powerful and penetrating exploration of what separates great companies and great leaders from the rest. -Polly LaBarre, coauthor of Mavericks at Work Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty?In studying the leaders who've had the greatest influence in the world, Simon Sinek discovered that they all think, act, and communicate in the exact same way-and it's the complete opposite of what everyone else does. People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers might have little in common, but they all started with why.Drawing on a wide range of real-life stories, Sinek weaves together a clear vision of what it truly takes to lead and inspire. CLICK HERE ANOTHER BOOKS                 ...

Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural and Open System Perspectives

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  Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural and Open System Perspectives READ MORE Organizations and Organizing: Rational, Natural and Open System Perspectives This broad, balanced introduction to organizational studies enables the reader to compare and contrast different approaches to the study of organizations. This book is a valuable tool for the reader, as we are all intertwined with organizations in one form or another. Numerous other disciplines besides sociology are addressed in this book, including economics, political science, strategy and management theory. Topic areas discussed in this book are the importance of organizations defining organizations organizations as rational, natural, and open systems environments, strategies, and structures of organizations and organizations and society. For those employed in fields where knowledge of organizational theory is necessary, including sociology, anthropology, cognitive psychology, industrial engineering, managers in cor...

La riqueza en cuatro pisos (Spanish Edition)

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  La riqueza en cuatro pisos (Spanish Edition) READ MORE La riqueza en cuatro pisos (Spanish Edition) La riqueza en cu4tro pisos es el manual de autoayuda financiera para los Hispanos. ?ste es el primer paso para emprender el camino hacia la independencia en tus finanzas personales.En estos tiempos cuando millones de personas no ahorran, viven de cheque en cheque, no tienen control de sus finanzas, el estr?s por las deudas los agobia o terminan perdiendo lo que tienen, es imprescindible comenzar a construir bases s?lidas y buscar el norte que nos llevar? a la paz financiera.En estos tiempos estamos experimentando uno de los derrumbes econ?micos m?s grandes en d?cadas. Despidos, p?rdida del dinero invertido, m?s embargos hipotecarios y negocios en bancarrota. Millones de hispanos se sienten en un abismo enfrentando este caos financiero con sentimiento de miedo e incertidumbre.Tambi?n son tiempos de oportunidad para tomar un nuevo rumbo, traer el orden necesario a nuestras finanzas p...

Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization

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  Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization READ MORE Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization Winner of the Bruno Kreisky Prize, Karl Renner InstitutA Financial Times Best Economics Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year A Livemint Best Book of the YearOne of the world's leading economists of inequality, Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Drawing on vast data sets and cutting-edge research, he explains the benign and malign forces that make inequality rise and fall within and among nations. He also reveals who has been helped the most by globalization, who has been held back, and what policies might tilt the balance toward economic justice.The data [Milanovic] provides offer a clearer picture of great economic puzzles, and his bold theorizing chips away at tired economic orthodoxies.--The EconomistMilanovic has written an outstanding book...Informative, wide-r...

Chapter 13 Bankruptcy: Keep Your Property & Repay Debts Over Time

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  Chapter 13 Bankruptcy: Keep Your Property & Repay Debts Over Time READ MORE Chapter 13 Bankruptcy: Keep Your Property & Repay Debts Over Time Stop creditors. Get more time to pay. Chapter 13 bankruptcy offers unique debt solutions not available in Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Yes, you'll pay into a repayment plan. But your money will go toward the debts that matter most--like your mortgage, car loan, support obligations, and taxes. Remaining debts, such as credit card balances, medical bills, and utility bills, usually get only a fraction of what you owe.Some of Chapter 13 bankruptcy's other features include allowing filers to:keep all propertyavoid foreclosure and vehicle repossessionpay the fair market value for a car, andstop lawsuits, wage garnishments, and bank levies.Here, you'll find clear explanations of the Chapter 13 process to help you:decide if Chapter 13 is your best optionestimate your monthly plan payment, andfind and work effectively with the right lawyer...

Flex: Reinventing Work for a Smarter, Happier Life

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  Flex: Reinventing Work for a Smarter, Happier Life READ MORE Flex: Reinventing Work for a Smarter, Happier Life Seasoned trends forecaster and consultant Annie Auerbach takes a fresh look at women’s professional lives today by rethinking the 9 to 5 in this “no-nonsense guide to thinking and behaving more flexibly in order to have a happier, better, less frenetic life” (Marie Claire)—now widely available for American readers and updated with an author note addressing work in the post-Covid age.The recent coronavirus outbreak has proven what Annie Auerbach has long championed: working 9-5 in an office doesn’t work for most us. It’s time to change the rules.We can be efficient and productive when we’re allowed the freedom of flexibility—to meet deadlines working during the hours and in the places we choose. But before the coronavirus pandemic, only 47 percent of American workers had access to flexible working options. Annie Auerbach advises major corporations, including Nike, Google...

Giving It All Away...and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously

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  Giving It All Away...and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously READ MORE Giving It All Away...and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously David Green believes that generosity and building a legacy based on giving can lead to getting back what you want: a family that stays together, prays together, and shares life joyfully.Green tells the story of caring for the small things and starting Hobby Lobby in their garage. He shares the difference between the worlds of “having and hoarding” and a world of “giving and generosity,” the principle of working for God and not for men, and that now is not too soon to consider what you want your legacy to be.As proof of how living by those principles can change your life, Green shares that when Hobby Lobby came close to bankruptcy in 1986 and when the Supreme Court challenged the Hobby Lobby’s right-to-life beliefs in 2014, the company emerged with its integrity intact. Green sees the life of giving as a life of...

When the Wolves Bite: Two Billionaires, One Company, and an Epic Wall Street Battle

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  When the Wolves Bite: Two Billionaires, One Company, and an Epic Wall Street Battle READ MORE When the Wolves Bite: Two Billionaires, One Company, and an Epic Wall Street Battle The inside story of the clash of two of Wall Street's biggest, richest, toughest, most aggressive players--Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman--and the little company caught in the middle.With their unprecedented amounts of capital and their savvy understanding of business, activist investors Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman have the ability to move markets and change the fortunes of investors, workers, and even large companies with the flick of a wrist. But what happens when they run into the one thing in business they can't control: each other?On January 25, 2013, Scott Wapner, the host of CNBC's The Halftime Report, found out firsthand. Ackman and Icahn engaged in an uninterrupted, twenty-seven-minute televised war of accusations and insults over a company called Herbalife, on which they had opposing views--a...

The Babylonian Woe

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  The Babylonian Woe READ MORE The Babylonian Woe Every conclusion arrived at as a result of study of the fragments of information available in respect to money and its creators in the world of the Ancient Civilizations, indicates the existence of a far reaching conspiracy in respect to monetary issuance influencing the progression of man's history in the earliest times of which written record exists. It is also outstandingly clear that it was parent to that acknowledged and most obvious conspiracy such as exists today. Hence was able to develop that conspiracy against mankind most exemplified by a continuous propaganda of hate against all authority: in pre-antiquity and antiquity against the many city gods, and in relatively modern times against the kings that rose out of the ruins of that which had been Rome. As those controlling totally the economic life of a state through monetary creation and emission, must have felt that kings and gods were more of a nuisance than anything el...

The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

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  The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age READ MORE The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age At the apogee of its powers in the seventeenth century, Holland was a tiny island of prosperity in a sea of want. Its homes were well-furnished and fanatically clean its citizens feasted on 100-course banquets and speculated fortunes on new varieties of tulip. Yet, in the midst of plenty, the Dutch were ill at ease. In this brilliantly innovative book--which launched his reputation as one of our most perspicacious and stylish historians--Simon Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of a nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in dread of being corrupted by its happiness.Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, Schama re-creates, in precise and loving detail, a nation's mental furniture. He tells of bloody...