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"Featuring 25 profiles of illustrators, jewelry designers, ceramicists, painters, clothing designers, and printmakers, [this book] provides a behind-the-scenes look at the daily rituals and best practices that keep these creative entrepreneurs on track. With Q&As, insider tips, and DIYs from each maker, these pages offer guidance and encouragement to artists just starting their careers and to professionals looking to take their creative business to...
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A manual for survival and success that asks the most important question today's leaders, in any industry, can ask themselves: What would Google do? To demonstrate how to emulate Google, Jarvis lays out his laws of what he calls "the new Google century," including such insights as: Think distributed; Become a platform; Join the post-scarcity, open-source, gift economy; The middleman has died; Your worst customers are your best friends and your best...
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We live in an "escalator world" filled with shortcuts, quick fixes, and distractions that make it all too easy to slide into procrastination, compromise, and mediocrity. How do successful people stay focused and achieve results? Learn to tackle the work that leads to real success.
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In this film, Ross Campbell, CEO of RCA crisis management, advises companies on how to plan and train for worst-case scenarios. Henotes how rapidly crises get out of control very fast. In certain kinds of crises, companies inevitably lose control to government authorities. Campbell notes that crises can lead to business failure. He discusses planning & rehearsing a crisis response, and setting up a 'dark site' for use in crisis to either communicate...
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The Bogleheads Investing Forum is a popular online resource when it comes to getting answers to your investing questions. This slim volume offers a straightforward system for developing an indexed portfolio by investing in the three market index funds-- U.S. stocks, non-U.S. stocks, and U.S. bonds.
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This report presents the results of our review to determine whether U.S. Customs and Border Protection has established adequate controls and effective oversight of contract workers providing support services to Secure Border Initiative programs. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has not established adequate controls and effective oversight of contract workers responsible for providing Secure Border Initiative program support services. Because of...
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An executive sous chef who has worked alongside cooks from some of the nation's leading restaurants documents an intense twenty-four-hour period that illuminates the allures and adversities of a professional culinary life.
"The back must slave to feed the belly. In this urgent and unique book, chef Michael Gibney uses twenty-four hours to animate the intricate camaraderie and culinary choreography in an upscale New York restaurant kitchen. Here readers...