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61) Task lyst
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A company accidentally creates the perfect app to anonymously connect criminals with people desperate for work, exposing the dark underbelly of the gig economy --
62) Lying
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"Most forms of private vice and public evil are kindled and sustained by lies. Acts of adultery and other personal betrayals, financial fraud, government corruption--even murder and genocide--generally require an additional moral defect: a willingness to lie. In [this book] ... Harris argues that we can radically simplify our lives and improve society by merely telling the truth in situations where others often lie"--Dust jacket flap.
63) Teen, Inc
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Fourteen-year-old Jaiden has been raised by NECorp since his parents were killed when he was a baby, so when he discovers that the corporation has been lying about producing illegal levels of mercury emissions, he and his two friends decide to try to do something about it.
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"Drawing from his experience as an award-winning global leadership speaker, US Navy Captain, Commanding Officer, university professor, and executive coach, Mark Brouker reveals the leadership tactics that have transformed company cultures and generated success--from the boardroom to the battlefield--by focusing on the single pillar of leadership that is most often overlooked: trust. Through step-by-step guidance, easy-to-use leadership techniques,...
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Most of us think we act with integrity - but do we really? Many people think they do, but it is this very belief that they use to excuse small ethical breaches. Lawyer and politician Stuart Brody challenges readers to make integrity a daily practice in our life and work. Most people believe that integrity is something you "just have" and as "good people," we think we are naturally doing "the right thing." We are certain we act with integrity when...
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This insightful and brilliant analysis of ethics teaches readers valuable skills in evaluating tough choices and arriving at sound conclusions.
An essential guide to ethical action updated for our challenging times, How Good People Make Tough Choices by Rushworth M. Kidder offers practical tools for dealing with the difficult moral dilemmas we face in our everyday lives. The founder and president of the Institute for Global Ethics, Dr. Kidder provides...
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Because of trust in leadership, in each other, and in the mission, a tiny company like John Deere grew into a worldwide leader. On the opposite spectrum, a lack of trust is what eventually sank the seemingly unsinkable corporation of Enron. A culture of trust for all companies large and small is invaluable. Trust turns deflection into transparency, suspicion into empowerment, and conflict into creativity. And what many have learned unfortunately is...
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"A book on why most things are more expensive or lower quality, and why we're all still working long hours for the same or lower wages. Does it ever seem like most things you buy are more expensive or not as good as they once were, or both? Does it ever seem odd that, despite having access to much better communication and cheaper transportation, we're all working just as many hours and for the same wages as workers decades ago? Well, we now know you're...
70) The insatiables
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INSATIABLES \ (¿)in-€sā-shY-bYls \ Idealists, dreamers. Prefer imagined lives over real lives. Love the chase. As soon as they get something they want, they tire of it and want something else, so must be rewarded slowly and sparingly. Why be a Level 1 when you can be a respected and significant Level 2? Prestige! Glamour! Power! Okay, so it's still within Findlay Global Manufacturing, Inc., but who cares? Halley Faust is prepared to be as ruthless...
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What is spirituality anyway? Isn't spirituality about emotion? And isn't work about the rational mind? Being God's Partner will help people of every faith reconcile the cares of their work and the strivings of their souls-and restore the hidden link between them. By exploding our assumptions that work and spirituality are irreconcilable, Salkin explores how spirituality can enhance our 9-to-5 lives. "It is time to be as rich internally as we are externally,"...
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Business ethics and behavior expert Dov Seidman's New York Times bestseller How: Why HOW We Do Anything Means Everything, is now available on audio in its new expanded edition.
The flood of information, unprecedented transparency, increasing interconnectedness-and our global interdependence-are dramatically reshaping today's world, the world of business, and our lives. We are in the Era of Behavior and the rules of the game have fundamentally changed....
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Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice Pratt, a working class woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a lasting friendship throughout many years. Their lives become mired in turmoil as their adult children's extramarital affairs, unethical business practices and a dark paternity secret threaten to derail family fortunes and unravel the lives of all involved. Alice's self-centered daughter, Andrea, is betraying her husband Chris...
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An insider's account of how consumers are scammed by the investment advice industry, and how to avoid throwing your money away.
The investment advice and management industry is built on fraud: the idea that professional advisors can predictably and consistently help you get a better rate of return on your investments. The industry sells us on this lie using manipulative tactics that are studied, refined, Wall Street-minted, Madison Avenue-packaged-and...
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"An inspiring and informative guide for a new generation of leaders who are ready to speak up against toxic behaviour and bullying in the workplace. We've all heard of the Bystander Effect, where people see bad behaviour and they walk on by. Bystanders have been called out by the #MeToo Movement, Black Lives Matter and March4Justice, to name just three. It's not OK to ignore bad behaviour and it never has been. In the workplace (even in the highest...
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Today we imagine green business to be a new thing. This book shows that it is not, and that there were green entrepreneurs who had huge concerns about environmental sustainability, and built businesses that they hoped could address these issues, including Whole Foods Market, Aveda, and The Body Shop, among others.
78) Guru
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A villager, Gurukant Desai, son of a village schoolteacher, comes to Bombay in 1958 and rises from its streets to become the biggest tycoon in Indian history.
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Journalist Ida Tarbell wrote serialized stories from 1902 to 1904 exposing the Standard Oil Company monopoly and the role of owner John D. Rockefeller in creating commercialized American ideals and materialistic values. Tarbell describes Rockefeller's business practices, personal characteristics, and physical appearance. This "muckraking" form of journalism led to regulation of Standard Oil.
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