Any dumb-ass can do it : learning moments from an everyday CEO of a multi-billion-dollar company / Finney, Martha I.
Any dumbass can do it
"In his book, Any Dumb-Ass Can Do It: Learning Moments from an Everyday CEO of a Multi-Billion-Dollar Company, Chairman Emeritus Garry Ridge tells the story of how he helped grow WD-40 Company into one of the world's most recognized and beloved brands"--

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."--

Bench strength : judging a century of tax avoidance in Canada / Harnish, Kerry
"Kerry Harnish, an expert in tax policy and a former senior official with Finance Canada, provides an authoritative account of the Supreme Court of Canada's approach to income tax avoidance from 1920 to 2019. He takes us on a journey exploring Canada's national income tax system, through the opinions of the Court's nine most influential judges in income tax over the period. Weaved into the narrative are fascinating antidotes related to many cases and important historical, political, and economic events that likely influenced the Supreme Court and its judges when deciding the disputes. Backed by statistical analysis, Bench Strength reveals that the Supreme Court and its judges denied income tax avoidance in 83% of the disputes decided before the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was enacted in April 1982. However, since then, the Court and its judges have allowed income tax avoidance in 73% of the disputes. Does a cultural shift emphasizing individual rights over duties, and the enactment of the Charter in 1982, explain this reversal in the Supreme Court's approach to income tax avoidance in the Charter era?"--

BrandJitsu : move your brand from 'meh' to memorable / Dargie, Michael
"Your brand is the most important part of your business--it's a living thing. Learn to find, shape, and share your brand story with the world. Consider this: every individual and business tells a story to the world, and that story is their brand. It's a saga, constantly unfolding, experienced in real-time by everyone around it. Now ask yourself, are you consciously shaping and broadcasting that brand story? Is it under your diligent care and control, or is it running amok, causing chaos everywhere it goes? Or, perhaps even more tragic, is it sitting in a corner sulking, wondering why no one notices it? BrandJitsu is a practical and effective way to get that pesky brand under control so that it tells the story you want it to tell--a meaningful and memorable tale that will not just attract the attention of your ideal customers but also the best employees, partners, and suppliers. Mastering BrandJitsu won't take years. It's a skill that can be quickly learned, understood, and applied as soon as you finish reading this book. It teaches you to sharpen your focus, strategically align your brand's DNA, and ensure your story is not just heard but felt, leaving a lasting impression on everyone it touches."--

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"--

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"--

Get on the job and organize : standing up for a better workplace and a better world / Brisack, Jaz
For fans of Fight like hell and A history of America in ten strikes, the leader of the Starbucks and Tesla union movements shares stories from the front lines to help us organize our own workplaces. Get on the job and organize is a compelling, inspirational narrative of the Starbucks and Tesla unionization efforts, telling the broader story of the new, nationwide labor movement unfolding in our era of political and social unrest. As one of the exciting new faces of the American Labor Movement, Jaz Brisack argues that while workers often organize when their place of work is toxic, it's equally important to organize when you love your job. With an accessible voice and profound insight, Brisack puts everything into the context of America's long tradition of labor organizing and shows us how we too can organize our workplaces, from how to educate yourself and your colleagues, to what backlash can be expected and how to fight it, to what victory looks like even if the union doesn't necessarily "win."

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 things are made : a journey through the hidden world of manufacturing / Minshall, Tim
An illuminating journey through the world of manufacturing and its seismic influence on our lives.

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!

Hubris maximus : the shattering of Elon Musk / Siddiqui, Faiz
"The rise, fall, and revival of the Caesar of Silicon Valley. Elon Musk has cast himself as the savior of humanity, an altruistic force whose fortune is tied to noble pursuits from halting our dependence on fossil fuels to colonizing Mars. Once frequently heralded as a modern-day Edison, Musk has taken up a new place in the public consciousness with his growing desire to disrupt not just the automotive and space industries but the policies that shape our nation, placing him at the center of America's most complex undertakings in manufacturing, politics, and defense and technology, even as his increasingly erratic personal behavior has raised questions about his stability and judgement. Musk famously leads his companies from a bully pulpit, eroding guardrails and cutting through red tape whenever possible with little regard for the fallout as long as it serves his larger goals. Many in his orbit have seen their lives upended or their careers throttled by believing in his utopian vision. As the scale of the wagers he makes with his fortune and concerns about his credibility have grown in recent years, he alternately seems to be in complete command or on the verge of a meltdown. Yet in the long run, he has only become wealthier, and now the stakes have risen. Thanks to astute political maneuvering, Musk is no longer limited to gambling with a company's bottom line or the livelihoods of his workers; he is poised to apply his uncompromising approach to business to the foundational rules and regulations that hold our society together. At a moment when America's tech gods are more influential than ever, Hubris Maximus is a cautionary tale about the pitfalls of lionizing magnetic leaders. Washington Post journalist Faiz Siddiqui offers a gripping, detailed portrait of a singularly messy and lucrative period in Musk's career, as well as a case study in the power of using one's platform to shape the public narrative in a world that can't turn away from its screens. --Pubisher's website.

Marketcrafters : the 100-year struggle to shape the American economy / Hughes, Chris
One hundred year struggle to shape the American economy
"A revelatory and unexpected history of the rise of American capitalism--and an argument that entrepreneurial leaders in government, not the mythical "free market," created the most dynamic economy the world has ever known"--

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.

Moral ambition : how to stop wasting your talent and start making a difference / Bregman, Rutger
A career consists of 2,000 workweeks, and how you spend that time is one of the most important decisions of your life. Still, millions of people are stuck in in mind-numbing, pointless, or just plain harmful jobs. There's an antidote to this waste of talent, and it's called moral ambition. Moral ambition is the will to be among the best, but with different measures of success. Not a fancy title, fat salary, or corner office, but a career dedicated to the best solutions to the world's biggest problems--whether that means tackling climate change, making pandemics history or fighting Big Tobacco. In "Moral ambition", author Rutger Bregman reveals how our conventional definitions of success are harming us and the planet, and shows how we can shift the focus from personal gain to societal benefit. In the process, he explains, we will join a growing movement of pioneers who are already living out this ethos. They're the builders, the problem-solvers, the doers who have chosen a path less traveled. A guidebook to finding that path for ourselves, Moral Ambition reminds us that the real measure of success lies not in what we accumulate, but in what we contribute, and shows how we, too, can build a legacy that truly matters.

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"--

Obsolete : how change brands are changing the world / Baker, Chris
Brand name products
Branding (Marketing)
Customer relations
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"--