Jacob: 2030 books
by Jacob Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2011
The Winning Edge is a must have for all coaches, players, and fans of Texas high school football. It is a scientific investigation of the game. The book clearly explains what really matters in terms of winning and scoring and tells the reader exactly how much those things matter. The Winning Edge...
by Jacob Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Solve business problems, uncover new opportunities, and ignite innovation using the newest collaborative technologies
The Collaborative Organization gives you a strategic approach to building, implementing, and using social and collaborative technologies—such as those created by Jive and...
American Amnesia
How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
A “provocative” (Kirkus Reviews), timely, and topical work that examines what’s good for American business and what’s good for Americans—and why those interests are misaligned.
In American Amnesia, bestselling political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson trace the economic...
The Great Risk Shift
The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2006
America's leaders say the economy is strong and getting stronger. But the safety net that once protected us is fast unraveling. With retirement plans in growing jeopardy while health coverage erodes, more and more economic risk is shifting from government and business onto the fragile shoulders of...
I Am Because You Are
How the Spirit of Ubuntu Inspired an Unlikely Friendship and Transformed a Community
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
In 1998, Jacob Lief, a 21-year-old American university student, met school teacher Malizole "Banks" Gwaxula in a township tavern in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. After bonding over beers and a shared passion for education, Gwaxula invited Lief to live with him in the township. Inspired by their fortuitous...
Winner-Take-All Politics
How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
A groundbreaking work that identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crimes of our time— the growing inequality of incomes between the vast majority of Americans and the richest of the rich.
We all know that the very rich have gotten a lot richer these past few decades...
Cosmopolitan Business Ethics
Towards a Global Ethos of Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
In Cosmopolitan Business Ethics: Towards a Global Ethos of Management, Jacob Dahl Rendtorff maps the concept of global business ethics, related to sustainability and corporate governance, via an examination of the major theories of business ethics and the philosophy of management.
The book...
by Jacob Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
There are hundreds of social media books written each year, and we, the authors, have read most of them. Practical Social Marketing does not follow the path of most social media books which simply explain the importance of social media for business.
Practical Social Marketing is a practitioner’s...
Terms of Service
Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Social networking has grown into a staple of modern society, but its continued evolution is becoming increasingly detrimental to our lives. Shifts in communication and privacy are affecting us more than we realize or understand. Terms of Service crystalizes this current moment in technology and...
by Jacob Torfing
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Governments worldwide struggle to remove policy deadlocks and enact much-needed reforms in organizational structure and public services. In this book, Jacob Torfing explores collaborative innovation as a way for public and private stakeholders to break the impasse. These network-based collaborations...
The Medical Science Liaison Career Guide
How to Break Into Your First Role
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
Even for highly qualified candidates, becoming a Medical Science Liaison is a challenging endeavor! It's nearly impossible to achieve on your own without the proper preparation and guidance... The Medical Science Liaison Career Guide: How to Break into Your First Role will show you, step by step, how...
How to Find a Black Cat in a Dark Room
The Psychology of Intuition, Influence, Decision Making and Trust
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
An inquiry into what it is about our experiences and cultures that brings out the differences and reveals the similarities in us as humans beings, in the vein of Malcolm Gladwell and Daniel Kahneman.
Jacob Burak is on a quest to answer the question “are we as human beings, who are separated...
by Jacob Stoller
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Drawing on in-depth interviews with some of the best known Lean-practicing CEOs, this groundbreaking book shows how to implement lean in virtually every type of company and facet of the organization
The power of lean to build world-class performance requires a corporate-wide commitment to long...
What Matters Now
Lessons on Living with Ease
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Busy. Hurried. Harried. Pulled in a million directions. No matter who you are, you can probably relate to these words and phrases in some capacity. The pace of our modern world is so frantic and frenzied that for many people, being overwhelmed is simply par for the course.
In What Matters Now,...