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The Total Money Makeover Workbook

December 9, 2022 By Jeremy Shapiro

The Total Money Makeover Workbook

You CAN take control of your money. Build up your money muscles with America’s favorite finance coach. Okay, folks, do you want to turn those fat and flabby expenses into a well-toned budget? Do you want to transform your sad and skinny little bank account into a bulked-up cash machine? Then get with the program, […]

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Keeping the Books: Basic Recordkeeping and Accounting for Small Business

December 8, 2022 By Jeremy Shapiro

Keeping the Books: Basic Recordkeeping and Accounting for Small Business

The premier resource for basic bookkeeping and business record management, Keeping the Books is a comprehensive, yet down to earth, treatment of one of the most important, yet often neglected, aspects of running a business. User-friendly and packed with easy-to-understand illustrations, worksheets, and forms, this popular financial reference tool is completely updated, and replete with […]

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The Richest Man in Babylon

December 6, 2022 By Jeremy Shapiro

The Richest Man in Babylon by George Clason

The Richest Man in Babylon, based on “Babylonian parables”, has been hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift, financial planning, and personal wealth. In simple language, these fascinating and informative stories set you on a sure path to prosperity and its accompanying joys. A celebrated bestseller, it offers an […]

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Crucial Conversations

June 15, 2022 By Jeremy Shapiro

Crucial Conversations

The book that revolutionized business communications has been updated for today’s communication challenges. Crucial Conversations provides powerful skills to ensure every conversation―especially difficult ones―leads to the results you want. Written in an engaging and witty style, it teaches readers how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back to productive dialogue when others blow up […]

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Seeing the Forest for the Trees

April 26, 2022 By Jeremy Shapiro

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Manager’s Guide to Applying Systems Thinking

Systems thinking can help you tame the complexity of real-world problems by providing a structured way of balancing a broad, overall view with the selection of the right level of detail, truly allowing you to “see the forest for the trees”.  Only by taking a broad view can we avoid the twin dangers of a […]

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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

April 20, 2022 By Jeremy Shapiro

The Checklist Manifesto

The New York Times bestselling author of Better and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies―neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer […]

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The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

January 27, 2022 By Jeremy Shapiro

There are laws of nature, so why shouldn’t there be laws of marketing?  As Al Ries and Jack Trout – the world-renowned marketing consultants and best-selling authors of Positioning – note, you can build an impressive airplane, but it will never leave the ground if you ignore the laws of physics, especially gravity. Why then, they ask, […]

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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

January 25, 2022 By Jeremy Shapiro

Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin?Do you sometimes feel overworked and underutilized?Do you feel motion sickness instead of momentum?Does your day sometimes get hijacked by someone else’s agenda?Have you ever said “yes” simply to please and then resented it? If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the Way […]

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The Pumpkin Plan

January 6, 2022 By Jeremy Shapiro

Each year Americans start one million new businesses, nearly 80 percent of which fail within the first five years. Under such pressure to stay alive—let alone grow—it’s easy for entrepreneurs to get caught up in a never-ending cycle of “sell it—do it, sell it—do it” that leaves them exhausted, frustrated, and unable to get ahead […]

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The Compound Effect

January 3, 2022 By Jeremy Shapiro

The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, based on the principle that little, everyday decisions will either take you to the life you desire or to disaster by default.  No gimmicks. No Hyperbole. No Magic Bullet. The Compound Effect is a distillation of the fundamental principles that have guided the most phenomenal achievements in business, relationships, and beyond. This […]

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