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Reserve a copy of our recommended titles with your Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County library card. Your selection can be sent to your local branch or delivered to your door through our Library-by-Mail program. Not a resident? Check with your local public library!
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Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
We all make snap judgements. Learn how to train the mind to hone in on the most relevant facts and make better instant decisions.
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E-Myth Mastery : the Seven Essential Disciplines for Building a World Class Company
by Michael E. Gerber
Popular small business guru and bestselling author Michael Gerber provides another collection of strategies to work on your business, instead of just at it.
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Girls’ Guide to Building a Million-Dollar Business
by Susan Wilson Solovic
Susan Solovic is the author of The Girls’ Guide to Power and Success, million-dollar business owner and the CEO of SBTV.com. She gives advice and challenges women business owners to defy the statistics that indicate that only 3 percent of women-owned businesses gross a million dollars or more in revenue. Her advice covers starting and growing a million-dollar business
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Hot commodities : how anyone can invest profitably in the world's best market
by Jim Rogers
Basic supply and demand principles are an underlying force of commodities markets. Learn to profit from the cyclical demand for various raw materials.
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Ice Cream Maker : An Inspiring Tale About Making Quality the Key Ingredient in Everything You Do
by Subir Chowdhury
American business excels at being innovative. Yet, when it comes to quality, foreign producers are often more competitive. Enjoy Chowdhury's business parable to learn about his "Listen, Enrich, and Optimize (LEO)" concept, to reexamine quality in your organization.
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Inside Every Woman : Using The 10 Strengths You Didn't Know You Had to Get the Career and Life You Want Now
by Vickie L. Milazzo
Use your femininity to reach your full potential in both your career and personal life.
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Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Red Book of Selling: The 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness
by Jeffrey Gitomer
Understand the answer to the fundamental question Why People Buy, because the author will convince you that this is "all that matters."
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Keeping Good People: Strategies for Solving the #1 Problem Facing Business Today
by Roger E. Herman
This resource is literally a clear, step-by-step, how-to manual for employee satisfaction and retention. It is especially relevant in a strong economy with a tight labor market.
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Likeability Factor: How to Boost Your L Factor and Achieve Your Life's Dreams
by Tim Sanders
Four critical elements of your likeability quotient are friendliness, relevance, empathy, and realness. Use the author's extensive research findings to build your likeability factor.
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Mommy Millionaire: How I Turned My Kitchen Table Idea into a Million Dollars and How You Can, Too!
Levine, Kim
When her husband loses his job, stay-at-home mom Kim Levine leaps to the rescue by making and selling her Wuvits, pretty corn-filled pillows to be used for icy or warm therapeutic relief. Levine gives you the business starting/growing facts while giving tips for balancing mothering and family life. She shares her stories and strategies to help develop a patent idea, make cold calls, and get in the doors of QVC, trade shows, and retail establishments.
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New Normal: Great Opportunities in a Time of Great Risk
by Roger McNamee, David Diamond
Despite the lose of innocence for the average American because of terrorism, outsourcing, technology and other factors that can throw everyone off balance, author McNamee challenges the reader to consider a world of brave new possibilities.
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One Thing You Need to Know: About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success
by Marcus Buckingham
From the author of "First, Break All the Rules" and "Now, Discover Your Strengths" comes more big-picture wisdom for management success.
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Paradox of Choice
by Barry Schwartz
Despite the western world's romance with the freedom of choice, sometimes too many options can cause confusion and anxiety. Learn strategies for shifting through the buzz and the hype, and simplify your decision-making strategies.
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Rule #1 : the Simple Strategy for Successful Investing in only 15 Minutes a Week!
by Phil Town
Your basic math skills can be applied to Town's own personal investing strategies. Let him show you how!
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Start Late, Finish Rich : A No-Fail Plan for Achieving Financial Freedom at Any Age
by David Bach
The seventh book in the Finish Rich series gives positive advice to anyone, especially those nearing retirement. Simply put, "spend less, save more, and make more."
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Start with No : the Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know
by Jim Camp
Negotiators can take advantage of aspects of a deal that are not beyond their control by using "no." Learn to overcome the emotional need to reach a quick compromise, and increase your overall success in business.
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Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy
by Matthew R. Simmons
Simmons, a veteran oil industry analyst, sheds light on the shadowy side of the Saudi petroleum phenomenon. His research questions the long-term viability of unfettered oil production, against the backdrop of the societal and political instabillity of that region.
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Whole New Mind : Moving from The Information Age to the Conceptual Age
by Daniel H. Pink
Design, Story, Symphony, Empathy, Play and Meaning are the six right-brain aptitudes that are necessary to excel, according to author Daniel Pink.
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