Abundance / Klein, Ezra
"Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to rethink big, entrenched problems that seem mired in systemic scarcity: from climate change to housing, education to healthcare"--

AI valley : Microsoft, Google, and the trillion-dollar race to cash in on artificial intelligence / Rivlin, Gary
Microsoft, Google, and the trillion-dollar race to cash in on artificial intelligence
"A journalist shadows the leading thinkers in the field of Artificial Intelligence, introducing the breakthroughs and developments that will change the way we live and work"--

At the trough : the rise & rise of Canada's corporate welfare bums / Carbonneau, Laurent
At the trough :
"A searing critique of Canada's long-standing reliance on corporate subsidies. From the railroad excesses of the nineteenth century to the Trudeau government's record-breaking payouts to profitable multi-nationals such as Volkswagen and Stellantis, journalist and policy analyst Laurent Carbonneau demonstrates how Canadian governments of all stripes repeatedly prioritize short-term politics and corporate lobbying over long-term public welfare. Year after year, federal and provincial politicians write huge cheques to private enterprise in the name of industrial strategy. Year after year, these generous grants and tax breaks enrich corporate shareholders (often foreign) while doing next to nothing to enhance economic development. It is an appalling misuse of public money at a time when Canadians, who pay for this largesse through their taxes, are grappling with unaffordable housing, over-stretched healthcare and childcare services, and stagnating wages. With humour and shrewd analysis, Carbonneau issues a timely call to action, urging Canadians to demand a fairer, more prosperous economy designed for the public good, not corporate interests."--

Build a business you love : mastering the 5 stages of business / Ramsey, Dave
In Build a Business You Love, Dave lays out the EntreLeadership System, the road map that takes the guesswork out of growth for business owners like you. Because after more than a decade of helping leaders grow their businesses -- and through direct experience with his own company -- Dave has found that there are five distinct stages of growth every business has to conquer to reach its potential: Stage 1: Treadmill Operator Stage 2: Pathfinder Stage 3: Trailblazer Stage 4: Peak Performer Stage 5: Legacy Builder. Throughout the book, Dave breaks down each of the stages and their unique challenges in detail to help you solve the right problems, at the right time, in the right way. You'll learn how to navigate everything business ownership throws at you -- from hiring the right people, to finding and training leaders, to creating and operating a budget, to nailing down strategic plans that get results, and more. Build a Business You Love is the essential guide for business owners who want to grow their business the right way and leave a legacy they're proud of.

Click : how to make what people want : a proven system from the world's most successful startups / Knapp, Jake
How to make what people want
"From the New York Times bestselling authors of Sprint, a guide for starting big projects the smart way-based on firsthand experience with more than three hundred new products and businesses"--

Conquering crisis : ten lessons to learn before you need them / Mcraven, William H. (William Harry)
"In the spirit of Make Your Bed and The Wisdom of the Bullfrog, Admiral William H. McRaven tells stories from his life and career that illustrate the principles of effective leadership during times of crisis"--

Crack-up capitalism : market radicals and the dream of a world without democracy / Slobodian, Quinn
Market radicals and the dream of a world without democracy
"Look at a map of the world and you'll see a colorful checkerboard of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. Over the last decade, globalization has shattered the map into different legal spaces: free ports, tax havens, special economic zones. With the new spaces, ultracapitalists have started to believe that it is possible to escape the bonds of democratic government and oversight altogether. Crack-Up Capitalism follows the most notorious radical libertarians -- from Milton Friedman to Peter Thiel -- around the globe as they search for the perfect space for capitalism. Historian Quinn Slobodian leads us from Hong Kong in the 1970s to South Africa in the late days of apartheid, from the neo-Confederate South to the former frontier of the American West, from the medieval City of London to the gold vaults of right-wing billionaires, and finally into the world's oceans and war zones, charting the relentless quest for a blank slate where market competition is unfettered by democracy. A masterful work of economic and intellectual history, Crack-Up Capitalism offers both a new way of looking at the world and a new vision of coming threats"--

Data & AI imperative : designing strategies for exponential growth / John Wiley & Sons
Data and artificial intelligence imperative
"This book covers data landscape analysis, use case identification, planning and strategy development, implementation oversight, and evaluation and scaling of data initiatives. It focuses on applying pre-trained generative AI models rather than developing custom LLMs, which are costly and complex. Using a tested framework, the book guides you in aligning data resources with business objectives, selecting impactful use cases, crafting effective strategies, and ensuring successful execution and scaling of AI initiatives"--

How not to invest : the ideas, numbers, and behaviors that destroy wealth -- and how to avoid them / Ritholtz, Barry
This book was designed to reduce mistakes. Your mistakes with money. Tiny errors, epic fails and everything in between. You can do thousands of things right, but make just a few of the errors we discuss, and you destroy much of your portfolio. If you could learn how to avoid the unforced errors investors make all the time, you would make your life so much richer and less stressful. The counterintuitive truth is avoiding errors is much more important than scoring wins. How Not To Invest shows you a few simple tools and models that will help you avoid the most common mistakes people make with their money. Learn these, and you are ahead of 98% of your peers. Make fewer errors, end up with more money. How Not To Invest lays out the most common errors investors make. Barry Ritholtz reveals his favorite mistakes, including the lessons we can learn from some of the wealthiest and most error-prone investors. We all make mistakes. The goal with this book is to help you make fewer of them, and to have the mistakes you do make be less expensive.

How to laugh at death & taxes : what executors, willmakers, heirs, and beneficiaries need to know / Amsden, Barbara
How to laugh at death and taxes
This book is for everyone at some time in their life. If you're breathing, this book's for you ... or your parents, friends, teenagers moving into their first apartment, newlyweds, new parents, siblings, ... oh, and the person or people you name as executor. Hope to be a beneficiary or heir? Yup, you too. Think you can do it alone? Be my guest, but first Google "executor horror stories." What makes this book different? It's four for the price of one: You can use it when you're naming, accepting to be, or serving as executor, and if you're an heir or beneficiary. It's by a layperson who survived: Most of what you'll find about naming, being, and dealing with executors comes from legal, financial, or tax experts, and governments. Makes sense. For them, death is a growth industry. But for you, it's about naming someone you trust to look after your affairs when you die, understanding the effort and risks if you've been asked to be an executor, managing an estate effectively if you're acting as one, and knowing where you stand if you expect to inherit. It offers useful tools: The book provides plain-language explanations, checklists, templates, and tips. It's long-lasting: While legal, tax, accounting, and financial rules change, and the book mainly uses Ontario examples, the process to follow and the questions to ask experts will not. Also, the approach is generally similar to that in many other countries. Caution: To help relieve the subject's misery and tedium, this book uses humour -- be warned!

Inner entrepreneur : a proven path to profit and peace : how to start, build, buy, scale, and sell your business / Sabatier, Grant
"From the creator of Millennial Money and the international bestselling author of Financial Freedom comes a comprehensive blueprint detailing how to start, build, buy, scale, and sell a business that expands your life"--

Lost in work : escaping capitalism / Horgan, Amelia
'Work hard, get paid.' It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie--at least for most of us. For young people today, the old assumptions are crumbling; hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure, well-paying job in the future. Far from equating to riches and fulfillment, 'work' increasingly means precarity, anxiety and alienation. Amelia Horgan poses three big questions: what is work? How does it harm us? And what can we do about it? Along the way, she explores the many facets of work under capitalism: its encroachment on our personal lives; the proliferation of temporary and zero-hours contracts; burnout; and how different jobs are gendered or racialized. While abolishing work altogether is not the answer, Lost in Work shows that when workers are able to take control of their workplaces, they become less miserable, and even open doors allowing them to fight back against the elite.

Meltdown : scandal, sleaze and the collapse of Credit Suisse / Mavin, Duncan
For centuries, Swiss banks have served the globe's wealthiest individuals, employing a strict culture of anonymity and gaining massive wealth in the process. But when Credit Suisse collapsed, the veil of secrecy came down and the world was suddenly privy to the corruption, scandal and empty hubris that keep our biggest banks alive. It was a 166-year-old bastion of Swiss banking, amongst the most important and influential financial institutions in the world -- but a veneer of high-class service disguised a darker, dirtier reality. From its sterile Zurich headquarters, the bank catered to a clientele that included dictators, drug dealers and former Nazi officers, and helped fleece its own clients out of billions of dollars. This continued for decades, even as Credit Suisse continued to expand, acquiring smaller banks and granting its own executives lucrative bonus contracts. Meltdown is the story of how the house of cards fell apart. Bloomberg investigative journalist and bestselling author of Pyramid of lies Duncan Mavin takes readers inside the bank's hushed marble corridors, detailing its secretive culture and the series of increasingly selfish decisions, made by a handful of men at the top, which ultimately led to disaster. This is the fascinating history of one of the biggest financial institutions of our times -- and a thrilling exposé of the wider financial services sector -- which promises to give readers a shocking and brutally honest look into a previously-unknown world of greed, lies and unrelenting human ambition.

More everything forever : AI overlords, space empires, and Silicon Valley's crusade to control the fate of humanity / Becker, Adam
"Tech billionaires have decided that they should determine our futures for us. According to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, and more, the only good future for humanity is one powered by technology: trillions of humans living in space, functionally immortal, served by superintelligent AIs. In More Everything Forever, science writer Adam Becker investigates these wildly implausible and often profoundly immoral visions of tomorrow-and shows why, in reality, there is no good evidence that they will, or should, come to pass. Nevertheless, these obsessions fuel fears that overwhelm reason-for example, that a rogue AI will exterminate humanity-at the expense of essential work on solving crucial problems like climate change. What's more, these futuristic visions cloak a hunger for power under dreams of space colonies and digital immortality. The giants of Silicon Valley claim that their ideas are based on science, but the reality is darker: they come from a jumbled mix of shallow futurism and racist pseudoscience. More Everything Forever exposes the powerful and sinister ideas that dominate Silicon Valley, challenging us to see how foolish, and dangerous, these visions of the future are"--

No more tears : the dark secrets of Johnson & Johnson / Harris, Gardiner
Dark secrets of Johnson & Johnson
"An explosive, deeply reported exposé of Johnson & Johnson, one of America's oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies from an award-winning investigative journalist"--

Obsolete : how change brands are changing the world / Baker, Chris
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Branding (Marketing)
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Green marketing
Social change

Personal finance in plain English : definitions, examples, uses / Cagan, Michele
"The personal finance book you wished you had in school! Managing your money is not an easy job, and it's made even more complicated by the specific terminology used in personal finance. Reading through a loan agreement, credit card terms and conditions, or a stock market report can leave even the most financially responsible people wondering what exactly does this mean? Now, Personal Finance in Plain English has the answers. You'll find straightforward explanations of 350 personal finance terms ranging from banking and taxes to credit cards, student loans, and mortgages, to stock, cryptocurrency, retirement planning, and more. This quick, easy-to-use glossary teaches you what the term means, how the concept works, and how it is used. Read through the chapters for a solid primer in personal finance or refer to specific definitions as needed when reviewing your financial documents. Take control of your financial goals and master the complex language of finance with Personal Finance in Plain English"--

PMP exam prep for dummies / Richards, Crystal J.
Project Management Professional exam prep for dummies
"Discover an exciting and lucrative new career in project management. Project management is one of the most flexible, engaging, and lucrative careers available today. And nothing gets you ready for it quite like the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam, which awards the gold-standard qualification in the field. PMP Exam Prep For Dummies walks you through every step you need to take to acquire your PMP credential. The book covers all aspects of the PMP certification exam, helping you learn to manage a project's people, processes, and business priorities with ease. Applicable to virtually any industry -- including health, construction, and information technology -- the book offers: Critical info about the certification process, the application, the exam, and more; Strategies for learning the most relevant parts of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK); Complimentary access to an online practice question bank you can use to sharpen your skills and get ready for the test"--

Predictable profits : transform your business from one-off sales to recurring revenue with memberships and subscriptions / Mclaren, Stu
Launch, grow, and scale your membership business. What if you could stop chasing one-off sales and build a business that pays you consistently, month after month? In Predictable Profits, membership expert Stu McLaren pulls back the curtain on how to create a thriving membership business that doesn't just bring in revenue--but does so predictably, allowing you to focus on what truly matters. Predictable Profits is packed with real-life success stories, actionable insights, and all the inspiration you need to build a membership site that does more than just generate revenue--it creates financial stability, positive impact, and ultimate freedom. Turn what you already know, love, and do into a thriving online business. This remarkable book will show you how.

Retire filthy rich with real estate : your step-by-step guide to building wealth through property / Sharma, Ravi (Real Estate Investor)
"Retire Filthy Rich with Real Estate gives you a playbook for investing strategically and building lasting wealth. Inside, you’ll learn proven methods for achieving financial freedom, from your first real estate purchase to a six-property portfolio. Discover practical advice for navigating the complex and competitive property market, including the basics of deposits, grants and loans — plus more advanced strategies for maximising equity and cashflow."--