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• Author : Leslie Odom, Jr.
• Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
• File Size : 13,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2018-03-27
• Total pages : 192
• ISBN : 9781250139979
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Leslie Odom Jr., burst on the scene in 2015, originating the role of Aaron Burr in the Broadway musical phenomenon Hamilton. Since then, he has performed for sold-out audiences, sung for the Obamas at the White House, and won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. But before he landed the role of a lifetime in one of the biggest musicals of all time, Odom put in years of hard work as a singer and an actor. With personal stories from his life, Odom asks the questions that will help you unlock your true potential and achieve your goals even when they seem impossible. What work did you put in today that will help you improve tomorrow? How do you surround yourself with people who will care about your dreams as much as you do? How do you know when to play it safe and when to risk it all for something bigger and better? These stories will inspire you, motivate you, and empower you for the greatness that lies ahead, whether you’re graduating from college, starting a new job, or just looking to live each day to the fullest.

• Author : Tavis Smiley
• Publisher : Smiley Books
• File Size : 42,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2013-02-05
• Total pages : 289
• ISBN : 9781401933913
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A radio and TV host and best-selling author of What I Know for Sure offers the best advice that he has gleaned from this successful life. Reprint.

• Author : Barbara Hong
• Publisher : Learning Specialists
• File Size : 36,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2018-04-12
• Total pages : 288
• ISBN : 0974653918
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College freshmen workbook to help students take charge of their education. Practical yet detailed self-help charts and schedules to get each student on a path to becoming self-determined, self-aware, self-regulate, self-advocate, and self-empowered.

• Author : Benjamin A. Chapin
• Publisher : CreateSpace
• File Size : 41,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2014-05-01
• Total pages : 48
• ISBN : 1499643292
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Download Failing Upwards in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

"When I think of failure, I like to think of it as a hurdle on a race track. It is up ahead of myself (the runner) and I need to calculate when to change my direction upwards. Is my hurdle (failure) the end of the road? No, it's just an obstacle in the way I need to overcome in order to cross the finish line. That explains what this book is about in a nut shell." ~ Benjamin A. Chapin Failure is a part of every great success we have in life. Instead of having fear, we need to embrace failure firmly, look for the signs and learn every time we face it. Failure is not a burden and offers incredible value if we know how to approach it. This book was written to help people embrace that concept. At the end of this book, you will have a firm understanding of failure and how to use it to your benefit. What You Will Learn• Control the fears of failure in your mind • Discover what failure looks like and how to handle it • Learn from the failures of the past • Experience the joy of helping others through their own failures Does failure hold you back?Do you dwell on thoughts of failure in the areas you are trying to progress in? Do you attempt to avoid failure at all costs? Does it seem you just keep failing at every turn? Do you want to better your life? Do you have a desire to help others through their own failures? If you answered "Yes" to some or all of these questions, you will benefit from this book. Failure will happen in life with everything we attempt to do. At some point, you are going to fail and you have to recognize that failure when it happens so you can pivot your direction and continue upwards toward your success.

• Author : Megan McArdle
• Publisher : Penguin
• File Size : 42,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2014-02-11
• Total pages : 320
• ISBN : 9780698151499
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Download The Up Side of Down in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

“Clever, surprisingly fast-paced, and enlightening.” —Forbes Most new products fail. So do most businesses. And most of us, if we are honest, have experienced a major setback in our personal or professional lives. So what determines who will bounce back and follow up with a home run? What separates those who keep treading water from those who harness the lessons from their mistakes? One of our most popular business bloggers, Megan McArdle takes insights from emergency room doctors, kindergarten teachers, bankruptcy judges, and venture capitalists to teach us how to reinvent ourselves in the face of failure. The Up Side of Down is a book that just might change the way you lead your life.

• Author : Tom Eisenmann
• Publisher : Currency
• File Size : 24,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2021-03-30
• Total pages : 370
• ISBN : 9780593137024
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Download Why Startups Fail in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.

• Author : Ryan Babineaux,John Krumboltz
• Publisher : Penguin
• File Size : 16,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2013-12-26
• Total pages : 208
• ISBN : 9780698146549
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Download Fail Fast, Fail Often in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

"Bold, bossy and bracing, Fail Fast, Fail Often is like a 200-page shot of B12, meant to energize the listless job seeker." —New York Times What if your biggest mistake is that you never make mistakes? Ryan Babineaux and John Krumboltz, psychologists, career counselors, and creators of the popular Stanford University course “Fail Fast, Fail Often,” have come to a compelling conclusion: happy and successful people tend to spend less time planning and more time acting. They get out into the world, try new things, and make mistakes, and in doing so, they benefit from unexpected experiences and opportunities. Drawing on the authors’ research in human development and innovation, Fail Fast, Fail Often shows readers how to allow their enthusiasm to guide them, to act boldly, and to leverage their strengths—even if they are terrified of failure.

• Author : Dean Karlan,Jacob Appel
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• File Size : 38,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2018-12-18
• Total pages : 174
• ISBN : 9780691183138
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Download Failing in the Field in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

A revealing look at the common causes of failures in randomized control experiments during field reseach—and how to avoid them All across the social sciences, from development economics to political science, researchers are going into the field to collect data and learn about the world. Successful randomized controlled trials have brought about enormous gains, but less is learned when projects fail. In Failing in the Field, Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel examine the taboo subject of failure in field research so that researchers might avoid the same pitfalls in future work. Drawing on the experiences of top social scientists working in developing countries, this book describes five common categories of failures, reviews six case studies in detail, and concludes with reflections on best (and worst) practices for designing and running field projects, with an emphasis on randomized controlled trials. Failing in the Field is an invaluable “how-not-to” guide to conducting fieldwork and running randomized controlled trials in development settings.

• Author : Sarah McVanel
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 31,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2019-05-21
• Total pages : 272
• ISBN : 0991957237
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Download Flip Side of Failing in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

Flip Side of Failing shines a light on failure and provides readers with analyses and strategies to free themselves from "not good enough." Through real-life stories, reflective exercises, wise coaching questions and research findings, you'll be ready to embrace the flip side of failing to leverage and recognize greatness all around you.

• Author : John Micklethwait,Adrian Wooldridge
• Publisher : HarperCollins
• File Size : 33,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2020-09-15
• Total pages : 176
• ISBN : 9780063065314
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Download The Wake-Up Call in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

"[An] executive summary of modern political history studded with sweeping assertions and telling anecdotes." -- The New York Times Book Review "Thought-provoking." -- Kirkus Reviews “A shot in the arm...powerful.” -- The Financial Times "The Wake-Up Call, refreshingly concise and eminently readable, highlights how the modern crisis of governance compounded the challenges of the pandemic." -- Bloomberg "The Wake-Up Call argues that Covid-19 has exposed not just one president's shortcomings but a much more profound degeneration of governance dating back long before 2016...You will read no more interesting book on the political consequences of the pandemic than this." -- Niall Ferguson, author of Civilization: The West and the Rest NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2020 (BLOOMBERG) An urgent and informed look at the challenges America and world governments will face in a post Covid-19 world. The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed that governments matter again, that competent leadership is the difference between living and dying. A few governments proved adept at handling the crisis while many others failed. Are Western governments healthy and strong enough to keep their citizens safe from another virulent virus—and protect their economies from collapse? Is global leadership passing from the United States to Asia—and particularly China? The Wake-Up Call addresses these urgent questions. Journalists and longtime collaborators John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge identify the problems Western leaders face, and outline a detailed plan to help them become more vigilant, better prepared, and responsive to disruptive future events. The problems that face us are enormous; as The Wake-Up Call makes clear, governments around the world must re-engineer the way they operate to successfully meet the challenges ahead.

• Author : Charlotte Druckman
• Publisher : Abrams
• File Size : 26,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2019-10-29
• Total pages : 748
• ISBN : 9781683356813
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“A mix of essays, Q&As and short riffs . . . writing that is combative, funny, skeptical, angry, occasionally sanctimonious and altogether riveting.” —NPR.org Edited by Charlotte Druckman and featuring esteemed food journalists and thinkers, including Soleil Ho, Nigella Lawson, Diana Henry, Carla Hall, Samin Nosrat, Rachael Ray, and many others, this compilation illuminates the notable and varied women who make up the food world. Exploring issues from the #MeToo movement, gender bias in division of labor and the workplace, and the underrepresentation of women of color in leadership, to cultural trends including food and travel shows, the intersection of fashion and food, and the evolution of food writing in the last few decades, Women on Food brings together food’s most vital female voices. “A potent reminder of just how much women shape and are shaped by the culture of food.” —The New York Times “It’s sharp, witty, entertaining and has insights from a host of brilliant food writers.” —The Guardian “A thought-provoking and sometimes anger-inducing tome that should be required reading for anyone working in the restaurant business, or anyone interested in the gender politics of food.” —The Times “An entertaining and thought-provoking ‘variety show’ of previously unpublished essays, interviews, and ephemera from women working in the world of food . . . This celebration of women’s influence in the industry and primer on the discrimination they still face will satisfy foodies and feminists alike.” —Publishers Weekly

• Author : Kim Hvidkjaer
• Publisher : BenBella Books
• File Size : 9,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2022-02-15
• Total pages : 240
• ISBN : 9781637740606
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Download How to F*ck Up Your Startup in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Every business owner dreams of success, but the majority of businesses are doomed to fail. This book offers a journey through the pitfalls that cause 90% of companies to crash—and the crucial remedies entrepreneurs can use to avoid (or fix) them. Kim Hvidkjær was 29 years old when he became a millionaire. Two years later, after a cluster of disasters, he found himself basically broke. Now, having rebuilt his fortune as the founder of several successful enterprises and studied thousands of failed startups, Hvidkjær has become an expert in failure: what it means, what it looks like, and the strategies that business owners can use to prevent it. In How to F*ck Up Your Startup, he takes us on an entertaining and enlightening journey through the complex patterns of failure in the life cycle of a business, covering: Attitude mistakes Business model missteps Market research snafus Funding and financial blunders Product development errors Organization oversights Sales slip-ups Growing pains Most important, he tackles what to do when your business has gone wrong. Hvidkjær fleshes out a tangible, usable blueprint for entrepreneurs looking to learn (the easy way) from the mistakes of businesses gone before. Chock-full of easy-to-follow business lessons that will keep you from f*cking up your startup, this down-to-earth guide offers crucial, actionable advice for seasoned business owners and startup founders alike. A masterclass in failure, How to F*ck Up Your Startup is required reading for reaching success.

• Author : Jon Fitch
• Publisher : Independently Published
• File Size : 40,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2018-12-17
• Total pages : 214
• ISBN : 179187990X
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Download Failing Upward/Death by Ego in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

Jon Fitch takes you back to the early days of mixed martial arts by sharing his old journal entries and reflecting on them. Follow along as he goes from struggling Division 1 wrestler to MMA super star. See firsthand what it was like back in the Wild West early days of the sport. Back before the sport was regulated and there were no guarantees that you would even get paid. See for yourself how the sport evolved, how AKA evolved and how Jon Fitch the fighter and the man evolved. The journal entries start while Jon is still in college wrestling for the Purdue Boilermakers where he was a 4-year letter winner and team captain. Then he travels across the country with his English bulldog, Bricks, to pursue a fighting career in a sport most people had never heard of at the time, MMA. After arriving in San Jose, California, he helped to build the American Kickboxing Academy into one of the greatest powerhouses in MMA. He also tried out and was almost on the first season of The Ultimate Fighter. Experience the process he went through in real time and see how he handled it. Get an inside look at the struggle that go along with the life of a fighter, from health issues to trouble with making money and relationships. It's not all sunshine and rainbows for those who choose this life.

• Author : RAYMOND. HULL HULL (RAYMOND. PETER, DR LAURENCE J.),Laurence J. Peter
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 25,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2020-10
• Total pages : 192
• ISBN : 1788166051
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In a hierarchy, every employee rises to the level of their own incompetence.This simple maxim, defined by this classic book over 40 years ago, has become a beacon of truth in the world of work. From the civil service to multinational companies to hospital management, it explains why things constantly go wrong: promotion up a hierarchy inevitably leads to over-promotion and incompetence. Through barbed anecdotes and wry humour the authors define the problem and show how anyone, whether at the top or bottom of the career ladder, can avoid its pitfalls. Or, indeed, avoid promotion entirely!

• Author : Hendrik J. Troskie
• Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
• File Size : 44,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2021-09-01
• Total pages : 310
• ISBN : 9781543766219
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Download The Snake Master in PDF, Epub, and Kindle

‘I am telling you up front,’ says Hendrik. ‘You are responsible for the thoughts that live in your mind. No one else has the power to do it. You must take control. You must check every thought before you allow it to occupy that precious space. Let me also warn you now. It is more difficult than you think. You must escape Plato’s cave. To do that you must come with me. Let’s go on an adventure. Just remember adventures are messy. The destination is uncertain and ambiguous, the route complex, and yes, sometimes it is volatile. That is just how adventures are. ‘You do not have to do much. You go to your favourite reading spot, in front of a fireplace, if that is what you like. Take a drink or two. We are going to be a while. So be brave, gather your courage, and pack a sense of humour. Come on, let’s not waste any more time. Come with me now. Let’s escape Plato’s cave.’