Central Skagit Library District

A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives. In the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name....

From a novice translator to CEO of the champagne house Veuve Clicquot North America, Mireille Guiliano shares her insights and experiences on how to work well. Whether it's balancing career and personal life, the pros and cons of risk taking, qualities of leadership, mentoring, the undervalued art of communicating, passion, etiquette, or style, Guiliano gives us a refreshing guide filled with advice that every working woman will need in today's economic...

Combines storytelling with research and practical guidance to shatter commonly held myths about wealth and identifies the seven distinct principles practiced by successful individuals.

The best-selling author and media personality shares her smartest and most practical no-nonsense business principles drawn from her own experiences and those of other highly accomplished people.

Networks of relationships among employees are increasingly the means by which organizations create value and foster innovation. From ten years of research tracking top-performing leaders at over 60 companies, Professor Cross found that successful leaders manage informal networks to compensate for weaknesses in formal structures, and thus improve collaboration, knowledge-sharing and best practices. In doing so, they are less susceptible to the loss...

Napoleon Hill's quintessential volume Think and grow rich, the all-time bestseller in the field of professional success, outlines the laws of success and sets the standard of today's motivational thinking.

Contains a guide to achieving personal success through networking, and provides step-by-step information to maximize interpersonal relationships--friends, coworkers, associates, and family--who can help on the road to satisfaction, including strategies for handling rejection.

PART 1 Introduction Change in business is nothing new – it’s the pace of change. The digital revolution has destroyed old businesses and created vast new empires. To survive, organizations must be quick to adapt – but people, generally, don’t like change. How can change be best managed?. Drivers Of Change: these might be threats or opportunities, they may come from inside or outside the organization, they may involve a merger or restructuring...

The founders of the Jack Welch Management Institute, a fully accredited online MBA program, present a guide to overcoming modern business challenges, with recommendations for creating effective strategies, leading others, and building a thriving career.

This looks at a cafe during the establishment and growth phases over the first year. Discussions were held with the owner and staff on the ups and downs of starting a business, the plans, changes and adaptation that had to be made, the importance of a good chef and service staff and the desire to never give up even when not enough profit is being made. This is a cafe wine bar in Sydney called Roasted Grape but could be a similar business in the USA...