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41) Questions are the answer: a breakthrough approach to your most vexing problems at work and in life
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2018.
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"What if you could unlock a better answer to your most vexing problem--in your workplace, community, or home life--just by changing the question? Talk to creative problem-solvers and they will often tell you, the key to their success is asking a different question. Take Debbie Sterling, the social entrepreneur who created GoldieBlox. The idea came when a friend complained about too few women in engineering and Sterling wondered aloud: "why are all...
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2020.
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"Christine Kane, founder of Uplevel You, a leading multi-million dollar business-coaching company, offers wisdom that has helped thousands of once-struggling entrepreneurs go from barely getting by to earn six and even seven figures annually-without sacrificing authenticity and sensitivity"--
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2015.
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"Elmira Bayrasli's worldview was turned upside down when a woman in Bosnia told her, "thanks for the help. But we need work and jobs, not foreign aid." That prompted Bayrasli to embark on a worldwide quest to find how talented people have overcome insurmountable obstacles to build high-growth businesses that are driving wealth and building communities, regions and countries. Through seven remarkable stories, Elmira Bayrasli shows why the next Steve...
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2013.
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"IDEO founder and Stanford d.school creator David Kelley and his brother Tom Kelley, IDEO partner and the author of the bestselling The Art of Innovation, have written a powerful and compelling book on unleashing the creativity that lies within each and every one of us. Too often, companies and individuals assume that creativity and innovation are the domain of the "creative types." But two of the leading experts in innovation, design, and creativity...
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[2012]
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A creative director for Apple explores the way in which the company's culture of simplicity has driven its repeated success, tracing its famous advertising campaigns while exploring the ways in which simplicity can be a powerful business guideline for establishing and measuring goals.
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2017.
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"The experts say that America's best days are behind us, that mediocre long-term economic growth is baked in the cake, and that politically, socially, and racially, the United States will continue to tear itself apart. But David Smick--hedge fund strategist and author of the 2008 bestseller The World Is Curved--argues that the experts are wrong. In recent decades, a Corporate Capitalism of top down mismanagement and backroom deal-making has smothered...