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iTunes Store: Top 25 Books in Business & Personal Finance 2025-01-27

James Clear - Atomic Habits artwork Atomic Habits
An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
Genre: Management & Leadership
Price: $16.99
Publish Date: October 16, 2018
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 20 million copies sold! Translated into 60+ languages! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights. Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field. Learn how to: make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy);overcome a lack of motivation and willpower;design your environment to make success easier;get back on track when you fall off course;...and much more. Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.



Brené Brown - Dare to Lead artwork Dare to Lead
Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Brené Brown
Genre: Management & Leadership
Price: $2.99
Publish Date: October 09, 2018
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Brené Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead. Don’t miss the five-part Max docuseries Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart ! ONE OF BLOOMBERG ’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential. When we dare to lead, we don’t pretend to have the right answers; we stay curious and ask the right questions. We don’t see power as finite and hoard it; we know that power becomes infinite when we share it with others. We don’t avoid difficult conversations and situations; we lean into vulnerability when it’s necessary to do good work. But daring leadership in a culture defined by scarcity, fear, and uncertainty requires skill-building around traits that are deeply and uniquely human. The irony is that we’re choosing not to invest in developing the hearts and minds of leaders at the exact same time as we’re scrambling to figure out what we have to offer that machines and AI can’t do better and faster. What can we do better? Empathy, connection, and courage, to start. Four-time #1 New York Times bestselling author Brené Brown has spent the past two decades studying the emotions and experiences that give meaning to our lives, and the past seven years working with transformative leaders and teams spanning the globe. She found that leaders in organizations ranging from small entrepreneurial startups and family-owned businesses to nonprofits, civic organizations, and Fortune 50 companies all ask the same question: How do you cultivate braver, more daring leaders, and how do you embed the value of courage in your culture? In Dare to Lead , Brown uses research, stories, and examples to answer these questions in the no-BS style that millions of readers have come to expect and love. Brown writes, “One of the most important findings of my career is that daring leadership is a collection of four skill sets that are 100 percent teachable, observable, and measurable. It’s learning and unlearning that requires brave work, tough conversations, and showing up with your whole heart. Easy? No. Because choosing courage over comfort is not always our default. Worth it? Always. We want to be brave with our lives and our work. It’s why we’re here.” Whether you’ve read Daring Greatly and Rising Strong or you’re new to Brené Brown’s work, this book is for anyone who wants to step up and into brave leadership.



Mark Carney - Values artwork Values
Building a Better World for All
Mark Carney
Genre: Economics
Price: $16.99
Publish Date: March 16, 2021
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

NATIONAL BESTSELLER   A bold and urgent argument by economist and former bank governor Mark Carney on the radical, foundational change that is required if we are to build an economy and society based not on market values but on human values. Our world is full of fault lines--growing inequality in income and opportunity; systemic racism; health and economic crises from a global pandemic; mistrust of experts; the existential threat of climate change; deep threats to employment in a digital economy with robotics on the rise. These fundamental problems and others like them, argues Mark Carney, stem from a common crisis in values. Drawing on the turmoil of the past decade, Mark Carney shows how "market economies" have evolved into "market societies" where price determines the value of everything.      When we think about what we, as individuals, value most highly, we might list fairness, health, the protection of our rights, economic security from poverty, the preservation of natural diversity, resources, and beauty. The tragedy is, these things that we hold dearest are too often the casualties of our twenty-first century world, where they ought to be our bedrock.      In this profoundly important new book, Mark Carney offers a vision of a more humane society and a practical manifesto for getting there. How we reform our infrastructure to make things better and fairer is at the heart of every chapter, with outlines of wholly new ideas that can restructure society and enshrine our human values at the core of all that we build for our children and grandchildren.



Benjamin Graham - The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed artwork The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed
The Definitive Book on Value Investing
Benjamin Graham
Genre: Personal Finance
Price: $16.99
Publish Date: March 17, 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Seller: Harper Collins Canada Limited

“By far the best book on investing ever written.” — Warren Buffett The classic text of Benjamin Graham’s seminal The Intelligent Investor has now been revised and annotated to update the timeless wisdom for today’s market conditions. The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham, taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham's philosophy of "value investing"—which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies—has made The Intelligent Investor the stock market bible ever since its original publication in 1949. Over the years, market developments have proven the wisdom of Graham's strategies. While preserving the integrity of Graham's original text, this revised edition includes updated commentary by noted financial journalist Jason Zweig, whose perspective incorporates the realities of today's market, draws parallels between Graham's examples and today's financial headlines, and gives readers a more thorough understanding of how to apply Graham's principles. Vital and indispensable, this revised edition of The Intelligent Investor is the most important book you will ever read on how to reach your financial goals.



Peter Hollins - The Science of Rapid Skill Acquisition artwork The Science of Rapid Skill Acquisition
Advanced Methods to Learn, Remember, and Master New Skills and Information [Second Edition]
Peter Hollins
Genre: Business & Personal Finance
Price: $6.99
Publish Date: July 24, 2019
Publisher: PublishDrive
Seller: PublishDrive Inc.

Scientific Methods to accelerate your learning to save time, beat competition, and get from Point A to Point B at the speed of light. Learning is the key to bettering your circumstances and becoming the person you want to be. Skills, information, and abilities will never come to you - it’s up to you to seek them out, and this book shows you how to do so in the most effective and efficient manner. Applicable and actionable advice - not just theory and description. Work smarter, not harder. The Science of Rapid Skill Acquisition is the definitive resource to get you where you want to be in terms of a new talent, skill, or ability. You may not realize it, but each day is a set of skills and tasks that we repeat. Each hobby and interest is also a set of skills and tasks. This book focuses on what matters in processing information and being able to use it effectively to your advantage. Rapid skill acquisition is how you get ahead in life professionally and personally. Learn to rapidly train your brain and develop muscle memory. Understand the underlying psychology and biology. Peter Hollins has studied psychology and peak human performance for over a dozen years and is a bestselling author. He has worked with a multitude of individuals to unlock their potential and path towards success. His writing draws on his academic, coaching, and research experience. Tactics that top 1% performers and competitors use. •Theories and principles of learning and what we are doing wrong. • How your expectations matter more than your amount of talent. •How to make a plan to strategically deconstruct and analyze information and skills. How to get better results while working less. •Surprising methods to utilize the people and environment around you. • The art of practicing, pivoting, and correcting yourself. •How to stack your skills and become a unique resource. • Take advantage of learning science to best absorb info.



Simon Sinek - Leaders Eat Last artwork Leaders Eat Last
Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
Simon Sinek
Genre: Management & Leadership
Price: $9.99
Publish Date: January 07, 2014
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

The  New York Times  bestseller by the acclaimed, bestselling author of  Start With Why  and  Together is Better . Now with an expanded chapter and appendix on leading millennials, based on Simon Sinek's viral video "Millenials in the workplace" (150+ million views). Imagine a world where almost everyone wakes up inspired to go to work, feels trusted and valued during the day, then returns home feeling fulfilled. This is not a crazy, idealized notion. Today, in many successful organizations, great leaders create environments in which people naturally work together to do remarkable things.  In his work with organizations around the world, Simon Sinek noticed that some teams trust each other so deeply that they would literally put their lives on the line for each other. Other teams, no matter what incentives are offered, are doomed to infighting, fragmentation and failure. Why? The answer became clear during a conversation with a Marine Corps general. "Officers eat last," he said. Sinek watched as the most junior Marines ate first while the most senior Marines took their place at the back of the line. What's symbolic in the chow hall is deadly serious on the battlefield: Great leaders sacrifice their own comfort--even their own survival--for the good of those in their care.       Too many workplaces are driven by cynicism, paranoia, and self-interest. But the best ones foster trust and cooperation because their leaders build what Sinek calls a "Circle of Safety" that separates the security inside the team from the challenges outside. Sinek illustrates his ideas with fascinating true stories that range from the military to big business, from government to investment banking.



Daniel Goleman & Cary Cherniss - Optimal artwork Optimal
How to Sustain Personal and Organizational Excellence Every Day
Daniel Goleman & Cary Cherniss
Genre: Management & Leadership
Price: $21.99
Publish Date: January 09, 2024
Publisher: Harper Business
Seller: Harper Collins Canada Limited

In his groundbreaking #1 bestseller Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman revolutionized how we think about intelligence. Now, he reveals practical methods for using these inner resources to more readily enter an optimal state of high performance and satisfaction while avoiding burnout.    There are moments when we achieve peak performance: An athlete plays a perfect game; a business has a quarter with once-in-a-lifetime profits. But these moments are often elusive, and for every amazing day, we may have a hundred ordinary and even unsatisfying days. Fulfillment doesn’t come from isolated peak experiences, but rather from many consistent good days. So how do we sustain performance, while avoiding burnout and maintaining balance?  In Optimal, Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss reveal how emotional intelligence can help us have a great day, any day. They explain how to set a realistic, attainable goal of feeling satisfied that you’ve had a productive day — to consistently work at your ‘optimal’ level. Based on research of how hundreds of people build the inner architecture of having a good day, they sketch what an optimal state feels like, and show how emotional intelligence holds the key to our best performance. Optimal is the culmination of decades of scientific discoveries bearing on emotional intelligence. Enhanced emotional intelligence pays off in improved engagement, productivity, and more satisfying days. In this book, you’ll find the keys to competence in emotional intelligence, and practical methods for applying this skill set more readily. It will equip you to become a highly effective leader and enable you to build an organizational culture that empowers workers to sustain high performance.



Robert T. Kiyosaki - Rich Dad's CashFlow Quadrant artwork Rich Dad's CashFlow Quadrant
Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom
Robert T. Kiyosaki
Genre: Personal Finance
Price: $23.99
Publish Date: October 27, 2015
Publisher: Plata Publishing, LLC.
Seller: Perseus Books, LLC

Rich Dad’s CASHFLOW Quadrant is a guide to financial freedom. It’s the second book in the Rich Dad Series and reveals how some people work less, earn more, pay less in taxes, and learn to become financially free. CASHFLOW Quadrant was written for those who are ready to move beyond job security and enter the world of financial freedom. It’s for those who want to make significant changes in their lives and take control of their financial future. Robert believes that the reason most people struggle financially is because they've been spent years in school but were never been taught about money. Robert’s rich dad taught him that this lack of financial education is why so many people work so hard all their lives for money… instead of learning how to make money work for them. This book will change the way you think about jobs, careers, and owning your own business and inspire you to learn the rules of money that the rich use to build and grow their wealth.



Peter Lynch - Beating the Street artwork Beating the Street
Peter Lynch
Genre: Personal Finance
Price: $12.99
Publish Date: March 13, 2012
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Seller: Simon & Schuster Canada

Legendary money manager Peter Lynch explains his own strategies for investing and offers advice for how to pick stocks and mutual funds to assemble a successful investment portfolio. Develop a Winning Investment Strategy—with Expert Advice from “The Nation’s #1 Money Manager.” Peter Lynch’s “invest in what you know” strategy has made him a household name with investors both big and small. An important key to investing, Lynch says, is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. There’s a company behind every stock and a reason companies—and their stocks—perform the way they do. In this book, Peter Lynch shows you how you can become an expert in a company and how you can build a profitable investment portfolio, based on your own experience and insights and on straightforward do-it-yourself research. In Beating the Street, Lynch for the first time explains how to devise a mutual fund strategy, shows his step-by-step strategies for picking stock, and describes how the individual investor can improve his or her investment performance to rival that of the experts. There’s no reason the individual investor can’t match wits with the experts, and this book will show you how.



Grant Cardone - The 10X Rule artwork The 10X Rule
The Only Difference Between Success and Failure
Grant Cardone
Genre: Management & Leadership
Price: $22.99
Publish Date: April 12, 2011
Publisher: Wiley
Seller: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd.

Achieve "Massive Action" results and accomplish your business dreams! While most people operate with only three degrees of action-no action, retreat, or normal action-if you're after big goals, you don't want to settle for the ordinary. To reach the next level, you must understand the coveted 4th degree of action. This 4th degree, also know as the 10 X Rule, is that level of action that guarantees companies and individuals realize their goals and dreams. The 10 X Rule unveils the principle of "Massive Action," allowing you to blast through business clichés and risk-aversion while taking concrete steps to reach your dreams. It also demonstrates why people get stuck in the first three actions and how to move into making the 10X Rule a discipline. Find out exactly where to start, what to do, and how to follow up each action you take with more action to achieve Massive Action results. Learn the "Estimation of Effort" calculation to ensure you exceed your targets Make the Fourth Degree a way of life and defy mediocrity Discover the time management myth Get the exact reasons why people fail and others succeed Know the exact formula to solve problems Extreme success is by definition outside the realm of normal action. Instead of behaving like everybody else and settling for average results, take Massive Action with The 10 X Rule , remove luck and chance from your business equation, and lock in massive success.



T. Harv Eker - Secrets of the Millionaire Mind artwork Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth
T. Harv Eker
Genre: Management & Leadership
Price: $18.99
Publish Date: October 13, 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Seller: Harper Collins Canada Limited

#1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller! Secrets of the Millionaire Mind reveals the missing link between wanting success and achieving it! Have you ever wondered why some people seem to get rich easily, while others are destined for a life of financial struggle? Is the difference found in their education, intelligence, skills, timing, work habits, contacts, luck, or their choice of jobs, businesses, or investments? The shocking answer is: None of the above! In his groundbreaking Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, T. Harv Eker states: "Give me five minutes, and I can predict your financial future for the rest of your life!" Eker does this by identifying your "money and success blueprint." We all have a personal money blueprint ingrained in our subconscious minds, and it is this blueprint, more than anything, that will determine our financial lives. You can know everything about marketing, sales, negotiations, stocks, real estate, and the world of finance, but if your money blueprint is not set for a high level of success, you will never have a lot of money—and if somehow you do, you will most likely lose it! The good news is that now you can actually reset your money blueprint to create natural and automatic success. Secrets of the Millionaire Mind is two books in one. Part I explains how your money blueprint works. Through Eker's rare combination of street smarts, humor, and heart, you will learn how your childhood influences have shaped your financial destiny. You will also learn how to identify your own money blueprint and "revise" it to not only create success but, more important, to keep and continually grow it. In Part II you will be introduced to seventeen "Wealth Files," which describe exactly how rich people think and act differently than most poor and middle-class people. Each Wealth File includes action steps for you to practice in the real world in order to dramatically increase your income and accumulate wealth. If you are not doing as well financially as you would like, you will have to change your money blueprint. Unfortunately your current money blueprint will tend to stay with you for the rest of your life, unless you identify and revise it, and that's exactly what you will do with the help of this extraordinary book. According to T. Harv Eker, it's simple. If you think like rich people think and do what rich people do, chances are you'll get rich too!



Gabriel Weinberg & Justin Mares - Traction artwork Traction
How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
Gabriel Weinberg & Justin Mares
Genre: Small Business & Entrepreneurship
Price: $14.99
Publish Date: October 06, 2015
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

Most startups don’t fail because they can’t build a product. Most startups fail because they can’t get traction.  Startup advice tends to be a lot of platitudes repackaged with new buzzwords, but Traction is something else entirely.   As Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares learned from their own experiences, building a successful company is hard. For every startup that grows to the point where it can go public or be profitably acquired, hundreds of others sputter and die.   Smart entrepreneurs know that the key to success isn’t the originality of your offering, the brilliance of your team, or how much money you raise. It’s how consistently you can grow and acquire new customers (or, for a free service, users). That’s called traction, and it makes everything else easier—fund-raising, hiring, press, partnerships, acquisitions. Talk is cheap, but traction is hard evidence that you’re on the right path. Traction will teach you the nineteen channels you can use to build a customer base, and how to pick the right ones for your business. It draws on inter-views with more than forty successful founders, including Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia), Alexis Ohanian (reddit), Paul English (Kayak), and Dharmesh Shah (HubSpot). You’ll learn, for example, how to:   ·Find and use offline ads and other channels your competitors probably aren’t using ·Get targeted media coverage that will help you reach more customers ·Boost the effectiveness of your email marketing campaigns by automating staggered sets of prompts and updates ·Improve your search engine rankings and advertising through online tools and research Weinberg and Mares know that there’s no one-size-fits-all solution; every startup faces unique challenges and will benefit from a blend of these nineteen traction channels. They offer a three-step framework (called Bullseye) to figure out which ones will work best for your business. But no matter how you apply them, the lessons and examples in Traction will help you create and sustain the growth your business desperately needs.



Nicolas Darvas - How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market artwork How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market
Nicolas Darvas
Genre: Investing
Price: $0.99
Publish Date: November 03, 2015
Publisher: Martino Fine Books
Seller: Ingram DV LLC

Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Hungarian by birth, Nicolas Darvas trained as an economist at the University of Budapest. Reluctant to remain in Hungary until either the Nazis or the Soviets took over, he fled at the age of 23 with a forged exit visa and fifty pounds sterling to stave off hunger in Istanbul, Turkey. During his off hours as a dancer, he read some 200 books on the market and the great speculators, spending as much as eight hours a day studying.Darvas invested his money into a couple of stocks that had been hitting their 52-week high. He was utterly surprised that the stocks continued to rise and subsequently sold them to make a large profit. His main source of stock selection was Barron's Magazine. At the age of 39, after accumulating his fortune, Darvas documented his techniques in the book, How I Made 2,000,000 in the Stock Market. The book describes his unique "Box System", which he used to buy and sell stocks. Darvas' book remains a classic stock market text to this day.



Jon Gordon - The Power of Positive Leadership artwork The Power of Positive Leadership
How and Why Positive Leaders Transform Teams and Organizations and Change the World
Jon Gordon
Genre: Management & Leadership
Price: $19.99
Publish Date: April 11, 2017
Publisher: Wiley
Seller: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd.

We are not positive because life is easy. We are positive because life can be hard. As a leader, you will face numerous obstacles, negativity, and tests. There will be times when it seems as if everything in the world is conspiring against you and your vision seems more like a fantasy than a reality. That’s why positive leadership is essential! Positive leadership is not about fake positivity. It is the real stuff that makes great leaders great. The research is clear. Being a positive leader is not just a nice way to lead. It's the way to lead if you want to build a great culture, unite your organization in the face of adversity, develop a connected and committed team and achieve excellence and superior results. Since writing the mega best seller The Energy Bus , Jon Gordon has worked and consulted with leaders who have transformed their companies, organizations and schools, won national championships and are currently changing the world. He has also interviewed some of the greatest leaders of our time and researched many positive leaders throughout history and discovered their paths to success. In this pioneering book Jon Gordon shares what he has learned and provides a comprehensive framework on positive leadership filled with proven principles, compelling stories, practical ideas and practices that will help anyone become a positive leader. There is a power associated with positive leadership and you can start benefiting yourself and your team with it today.



John Kenneth Galbraith - The Great Crash 1929 artwork The Great Crash 1929
John Kenneth Galbraith
Genre: Economics
Price: $17.99
Publish Date: September 10, 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins
Seller: OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC

John Kenneth Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse. Arguing that the 1929 stock market crash was precipitated by rampant speculation in the stock market, Galbraith notes that the common denominator of all speculative episodes is the belief of participants that they can become rich without work. It was Galbraith's belief that a good knowledge of what happened in 1929 was the best safeguard against its recurrence. Atlantic Monthly wrote, "Economic writings are seldom notable for their entertainment value, but this book is. Galbraith's prose has grace and wit, and he distills a good deal of sardonic fun from the whopping errors of the nation's oracles and the wondrous antics of the financial community."



LAURA CRANDALL - Working With Humans artwork Working With Humans
Tools You Didn't Know You Needed for Conversations You Never Expected to Have
LAURA CRANDALL
Genre: Management & Leadership
Price: $4.99
Publish Date: October 17, 2023
Publisher: Banquet Publishing
Seller: Ingram DV LLC

"Since we all work with humans it's important to humanize our workplaces, and this book shows you how." -RICHARD SCHWARTZ, PhD, bestselling author of No Bad Parts and developer of the Internal Family Systems Model Working With Humans explores and illuminates the essential-but generally ignored-management and communication tools needed to end the daily annoyances that make work harder than it needs to be. Drawing from her three decades of workplace expertise, Laura Crandall guides you through: • Building confidence in how you manage a team and manage yourself. • Navigating tricky conversations and improving your organizational culture. • Learning to communicate well and lead with the quality that most workplaces are lacking: humanity. With clarity, practicality, and humor, Working With Humans inspires you to change patterns that cause frustration in the workplace and have a great time in the process.



Jim VandeHei - Just the Good Stuff artwork Just the Good Stuff
No-BS Secrets to Success (No Matter What Life Throws at You)
Jim VandeHei
Genre: Management & Leadership
Price: $15.99
Publish Date: April 30, 2024
Publisher: Harmony/Rodale/Convergent
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply personal, authentic, and clear-eyed guide to navigating today’s complex world and building a meaningful, successful career and life—no matter where you start out—from the bestselling author and cofounder of Axios and Politico . Jim VandeHei’s high school guidance counselor laid it out clearly: VandeHei wasn’t cut out for college. In 1990, you could find him proving the counselor’s case emphatically, preferring beer to books and delivering pizzas to mapping out career plans. He attended a two-year school before smuggling himself into the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, where after a year he had racked up a 1.4 GPA and was on the verge of getting the boot. Everything changed when he discovered his passions: politics and journalism.  VandeHei went on to cover the presidency and cofound two of the biggest modern news outlets, Politico and Axios, the media companies that upended and revolutionized journalism. He took notes every step of the way. And in Just the Good Stuff , his debut as a solo author, VandeHei writes the book he wishes someone had handed him when he was floundering—not a compendium of conventional wisdom but a real-world guide to achieving that other “good stuff,” health, wealth, happiness, all the blessings and exquisite pleasures we loosely group under that oft used but still under-appreciated rubric—success.  Delivered in his hallmark no-word-wasted style, VandeHei offers essential, no-BS guidance on how to handle everything from finding a calling to building a team to navigating the realities of a changing workplace, showing us that no matter how inauspicious our beginnings, no matter how far down the ladder we begin, no matter what kind of challenges we face, a fulfilling life is within our reach.



Byron Tau - Means of Control artwork Means of Control
How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
Byron Tau
Genre: Business & Personal Finance
Price: $18.99
Publish Date: February 27, 2024
Publisher: Crown
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

You are being surveilled right now. This “startling exposé” ( The Economist ) reveals how the U.S. government allied with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers to monitor us through the phones we carry and the devices in our home. “A revealing . . . startling . . . timely . . . fascinating, sometimes terrifying examination of the decline of privacy in the digital age.”— Kirkus Reviews SHORTLISTED FOR THE SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS AWARD “That evening, I was given a glimpse inside a hidden world. . . . An entirely new kind of surveillance program—one designed to track everyone.” For the past five years—ever since a chance encounter at a dinner party—journalist Byron Tau has been piecing together a secret story: how the whole of the internet and every digital device in the world became a mechanism of intelligence, surveillance, and monitoring. Of course, our modern world is awash in surveillance. Most of us are dimly aware of this: Ever get the sense that an ad is “following” you around the internet? But the true potential of our phones, computers, homes, credit cards, and even the tires underneath our cars to reveal our habits and behavior would astonish most citizens. All of this surveillance has produced an extraordinary amount of valuable data about every one of us. That data is for sale—and the biggest customer is the U.S. government. In the years after 9/11, the U.S. government, working with scores of anonymous companies, many scattered across bland Northern Virginia suburbs, built a foreign and domestic surveillance apparatus of breathtaking scope—one that can peer into the lives of nearly everyone on the planet. This cottage industry of data brokers and government bureaucrats has one directive—“get everything you can”—and the result is a surreal world in which defense contractors have marketing subsidiaries and marketing companies have defense contractor subsidiaries. And the public knows virtually nothing about it. Sobering and revelatory, Means of Control is the defining story of our dangerous grand bargain—ubiquitous cheap technology, but at what price?



Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami & Jeremy M. Weinstein - System Error artwork System Error
Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami & Jeremy M. Weinstein
Genre: Industries & Professions
Price: $19.99
Publish Date: September 07, 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins
Seller: OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC

" System Error  is a triumph: an analysis of the critical challenges facing our digital society that is as accessible as it is sophisticated." — Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New America A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors—experts who have worked at ground zero of the tech revolution for decades—which reveals how big tech’s obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed fundamental human values and outlines steps we can take to change course, renew our democracy, and save ourselves. In no more than the blink of an eye, a naïve optimism about technology’s liberating potential has given way to a dystopian obsession with biased algorithms, surveillance capitalism, and job-displacing robots. Yet too few of us see any alternative to accepting the onward march of technology. We have simply accepted a technological future designed for us by technologists, the venture capitalists who fund them, and the politicians who give them free rein. It doesn’t need to be this way. System Error exposes the root of our current predicament: how big tech’s relentless focus on optimization is driving a future that reinforces discrimination, erodes privacy, displaces workers, and pollutes the information we get. This optimization mindset substitutes what companies care about for the values that we as a democratic society might choose to prioritize. Well-intentioned optimizers fail to measure all that is meaningful and, when their creative disruptions achieve great scale, they impose their values upon the rest of us. Armed with an understanding of how technologists think and exercise their power, three Stanford professors—a philosopher working at the intersection of tech and ethics, a political scientist who served under Obama, and the director of the undergraduate Computer Science program at Stanford (also an early Google engineer)—reveal how we can hold that power to account. Troubled by the values that permeate the university’s student body and its culture, they worked together to chart a new path forward, creating a popular course to transform how tomorrow’s technologists approach their profession. Now, as the dominance of big tech becomes an explosive societal conundrum, they share their provocative insights and concrete solutions to help everyone understand what is happening, what is at stake, and what we can do to control technology instead of letting it control us.



馬克‧道格拉斯 - 賺錢,再自然不過(五版) artwork 賺錢,再自然不過(五版)
心理學造就90%股市行情,交易心理分析必讀經典
馬克‧道格拉斯
Genre: Investing
Price: $16.99
Publish Date: April 18, 2023
Publisher: 大牌出版
Seller: ECROWD MEDIA INC.

讀完這本書,你將全盤掌握: ● 為何頭腦運作思考方式中,天生就有一些方式跟市場展現的特性不合? ● 為何趨勢並沒有消失,但心理潛意識層面會讓我們看出趨勢的能力消失? ● 交易者要用什麼方法,才能同時學會堅持與彈性? ● 如何避免陷入隨機的致富陷阱? ● 如何像投資贏家一樣思考? ● 賭場賺錢的祕密與交易有何關連?



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培養贏的態度,成功的交易80%靠心理,只有20%靠技巧
馬克‧道格拉斯
Genre: Investing
Price: $16.99
Publish Date: May 11, 2021
Publisher: 大牌出版
Seller: ECROWD MEDIA INC.

馬克.道格拉斯是聞名全球的金融交易心理輔導師,生涯曾培育無數績效傲人的交易員。他指出,即便你擁有再好的技術分析和買賣技巧,但倘若心理素質未受訓練,也無法保持長時間的獲利──因為你無法抑制情緒、客觀看待市場,一旦行情發生變化,很難說服自己及時進出場。



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Joel. E. Winston
Genre: Management & Leadership
Price: $3.99
Publish Date: October 21, 2019
Publisher: Joel E. Winston
Seller: Draft2Digital, LLC

Do you lose your self-control when under high-pressure? Or do you make poor decisions in the heat of the moment? Maybe you want to sharpen your negotiation skills with clients and business partners? If so, then keep on reading… It´s no secret, that scientific research executed by the best-selling author Daniel Goleman in his famous book ´Emotional Intelligence´, has proven that emotional intelligence plays a crucial role in success in your life. And even more in your life as an Entrepreneur. You´re under constant stress. You have to deal with all kinds of people all the time in different roles and circumstances: clients, business partners, employees. You have to respond and react quickly to questions, requests, deals, etc. Emotional Intelligence is all about: Your emotional awarenessYour self-controlYour ability to manage people So, it´s easy to imagine that, when you improve the above skills the profit in your business will improve substantially as well. The billionaires Warren Buffet (the world-famous investor) and Elon Muks (CEO of Tesla and SpaceX) attribute their success more to their Emotional Intelligence (EQ) than to their IQ. Here´s a tiny fraction of what you will discover in Emotional Intelligence for Entrepreneurs: Use this simple technique to improve your emotional intelligence in a matter of seconds (Page 36)Tricks to make people executing your orders voluntarily, this will make your job easier and way more pleasant (page 53)An often ignored way to get to know the real issues in your business and discover problems that nobody told you before (page 49)How to avoid unnecessary stress, created by yourself (page 59)The most important secret behind real self-motivation (page 62)7 Ways to motivate your team (page 82)A 30 day, 10 minutes a day, Emotional Intelligence booster program, specially designed for busy Entrepreneurs (page 85)How to change your view on money so you can attract better investors and increase your profits (page 56) And much, much more. You might assume that Emotional Intelligence is something you are born with or developed in your youth. You have it or you don´t have it. Well, the opposite is true; it can be learned. In a 2011 scientific study, performed at Yale University, researchers found proof that the skills which influence your Emotional Intelligence can be learned and improved during your life. In the 30-day Emotional Intelligence Booster Program, you will find a lot of practical examples specially designed to improve your Emotional Intelligence skills as an Entrepreneur. This will help you grow your Emotional Intelligence and profits in only 10 minutes daily. So, if you want to improve yourself,  scroll up, click: ´add to cart´  and be the entrepreneur you want to be.



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Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Chris Voss & Tahl Raz
Genre: Management & Leadership
Price: $21.99
Publish Date: May 17, 2016
Publisher: Harper Business
Seller: Harper Collins Canada Limited

This international bestseller, with more than 3 million copies sold, offers a field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations—whether in the boardroom, in your community, or at home. Life is a series of negotiations, and negotiation is at the heart of collaboration—whether you are a business executive, a salesperson, a parent , a community leader, or a spouse. As a former FBI hostage negotiator, Chris Voss gives you the tools to be effective in any situation: negotiating a business deal, buying (or selling) a car, negotiating a salary, acquiring a home, renegotiating rent, deliberating with your partner, or communicating with your children. Taking the power of persuasion, empathy, active listening, and intuition to the next level, Never Split the Difference gives you the competitive edge in any difficult conversation or challenging situation. This book is a masterclass in influencing others, no matter the circumstances. After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator brought him face-to-face with a range of criminals, including bank robbers and terrorists. Reaching the pinnacle of his profession, he became the FBI’s lead international kidnapping negotiator. Never Split the Difference distills the Voss method, revealing the skills that matter most when it comes to achieving your goals in both your professional and personal life. Step-by-step, Voss show you how to: Establish Rapport Create Trust with Tactical EmpathyGain the Permission to Persuade Shape What Is Fair Calibrate QuestionsTransform Conflict into CollaborationSpot LiarsCreate Breakthroughs by Revealing the Unknown Unknowns Never Split the Difference is your definitive source for defusing potential crises, winning people over, and achieving your goals at work and at home.



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How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
Genre: Management & Leadership
Price: $16.99
Publish Date: November 21, 2017
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Seller: Macmillan

An updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life. Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s SEAL task unit faced a seemingly impossible mission: help U.S. forces secure Ramadi, a city deemed “all but lost.” In gripping firsthand accounts of heroism, tragic loss, and hard-won victories in SEAL Team Three’s Task Unit Bruiser, they learned that leadership—at every level—is the most important factor in whether a team succeeds or fails. Willink and Babin returned home from deployment and instituted SEAL leadership training that helped forge the next generation of SEAL leaders. After departing the SEAL Teams, they launched Echelon Front, a company that teaches these same leadership principles to businesses and organizations. From promising startups to Fortune 500 companies, Babin and Willink have helped scores of clients across a broad range of industries build their own high-performance teams and dominate their battlefields. Now, detailing the mind-set and principles that enable SEAL units to accomplish the most difficult missions in combat, Extreme Ownership shows how to apply them to any team, family or organization. Each chapter focuses on a specific topic such as Cover and Move, Decentralized Command, and Leading Up the Chain, explaining what they are, why they are important, and how to implement them in any leadership environment. A compelling narrative with powerful instruction and direct application, Extreme Ownership revolutionizes business management and challenges leaders everywhere to fulfill their ultimate purpose: lead and win.



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The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Cal Newport
Genre: Management & Leadership
Price: $16.99
Publish Date: March 05, 2024
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Seller: Penguin Random House Canada

A New York Times, Washington Post , USA Today , and IndieBound bestseller "Brilliant and timely" — Oliver Burkeman ~ Do Fewer Things. Work at a Natural Pace. Obsess over Quality . ~ From the New York Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work , a groundbreaking philosophy for pursuing meaningful accomplishment while avoiding overload Our current definition of “productivity” is broken. It pushes us to treat busyness as a proxy for useful effort, leading to impossibly lengthy task lists and ceaseless meetings. We’re overwhelmed by all we have to do and on the edge of  burnout, left to decide between giving into soul-sapping hustle culture or rejecting ambition altogether. But are these really our only choices? Long before the arrival of pinging inboxes and clogged schedules, history’s most creative and impactful philosophers, scientists, artists, and writers mastered the art of producing valuable work with staying power. In this timely and provocative book, Cal Newport harnesses the wisdom of these traditional knowledge workers to radically transform our modern jobs. Drawing from deep research on the habits and mindsets of a varied cast of storied thinkers – from Galileo and Isaac Newton, to Jane Austen and Georgia O’Keefe – Newport lays out the key principles of “slow productivity,” a more sustainable alternative to the aimless overwhelm that defines our current moment. Combining cultural criticism with systematic pragmatism, Newport deconstructs the absurdities inherent in standard notions of productivity, and then provides step-by-step advice for cultivating a slower, more humane alternative. From the aggressive rethinking of workload management, to introducing seasonal variation, to shifting your performance toward long-term quality, Slow Productivity provides a roadmap for escaping overload and arriving instead at a more timeless approach to pursuing meaningful accomplishment. The world of work is due for a new revolution. Slow productivity is exactly what we need.