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Apple's Tim Cook defends tax claim
Apple boss Tim Cook defends its tax strategy at a Senate hearing, after the tech giant is accused of being among America's largest tax avoiders.


Former Saab cars chiefs arrested
Three former top executives from car maker Saab Automobile have been arrested in Sweden on suspicion of accounting fraud charges.


Microsoft unveils Xbox One console
Microsoft unveils the third generation of its video games console in an event at its headquarters at Redmond, Washington.


Record closing high for US shares
Shares on Wall Street picked up on Tuesday to a new all-time high as investors bet that the US central bank would continue supporting the economy.


JP Morgan boss wins shareholder vote
JP Morgan chairman and chief executive Jamie Dimon will keep both jobs after shareholders voted in his favour.



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Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO's Quest for Meaning and Authenticity Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO's Quest for Meaning and Authenticity
by August Turak

In addition to his work as an entrepreneur, corporate executive, and consultant, for the last sixteen years August Turak worked alongside the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey, watching firsthand as they undertook new enterprises and sustained an incredibly successful business practice.



Rapid Realignment: How to Quickly Integrate People, Processes, and Strategy for Unbeatable Performance Rapid Realignment: How to Quickly Integrate People, Processes, and Strategy for Unbeatable Performance
by George Labovitz and Victor Rosansky

Rapid Realignment is based on a dynamic model with four key elements—strategy, people, processes, and customers. To that mix, leadership, culture, and measurement are essential to achieving and sustaining alignment among the four elements.



Social Marketology: Improve Your Social Media Processes and Get Customers to Stay Forever Social Marketology: Improve Your Social Media Processes and Get Customers to Stay Forever
by Ric Dragon

Manage all your social media marketing efforts with repeatable, improvable processes. In Social Marketology, cofounder Ric Dragon of the renowned search engine marketing firm DragonSearch, takes social media marketing to the next step—showing how to choose the best tools for your needs and develop a strategy tailored to your goals.



Leading at The Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition Leading at The Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition
by Dennis N. T. Perkins

Leading at The Edge demonstrates the importance of a strong leader in times of adversity, uncertainty, and change. Today’s leaders have much to learn from this gripping account of survival against all odds. Leading at The Edge will help them navigate the rough waters of any turbulent environment and achieve success in the face of adversity.



Pandora's Risk: Uncertainty at the Core of Finance Pandora's Risk: Uncertainty at the Core of Finance
by Kent Osband

Sparking a revolution in investment risk analysis, Osband recasts the market as a learning machine rather than a knowledge machine. The market continually errs, corrects itself, and makes new errors. Respecting that process, without idolizing it, will promote wiser investment, trading, and regulation. With uncertainty embedded at its core, Osband's rational approach points to a finance theory worthy of twenty-first-century investing.



Managers, Can You Hear Me Now?: Hard-Hitting Lessons on How to Get Real Results Managers, Can You Hear Me Now?: Hard-Hitting Lessons on How to Get Real Results
by Denny Strigl and Frank Swiatek

The former head of Verizon Wireless is talking. Can you afford not to hear what he has to say?



Consider: Harnessing the Power of Reflective Thinking In Your Organization Consider: Harnessing the Power of Reflective Thinking In Your Organization
by Daniel Forrester

"STOP, THINK, AND DON’T DO SOMETHING STUPID!" This is the warning Dr. Robert Bea drills into his Civil and Environmental Engineering students at the University of California in Berkeley. Bea wants to dramatize what he terms the inevitable "oh shit" moments that present themselves -- before an actual engineering calamity like the Deepwater Horizon/BP disaster happens.



The Network Is Your Customer: 5 Strategies to Thrive in a Digital Age The Network Is Your Customer: 5 Strategies to Thrive in a Digital Age
by David L. Rogers

In The Network Is Your Customer, digital strategy expert David Rogers shows business owners and company leaders how to think strategically about customer networks and harness their power to create new opportunities for any organization.



The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs: Insanely Different Principles for Breakthrough Success The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs: Insanely Different Principles for Breakthrough Success
by Carmine Gallo

Author Carmine Gallo gets into the mind of one of today's more innovative leaders in business to reveal his 7 wonders for innovation and creativity. Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple, is the CEO of the decade and now reveals the operating system behind all his great thinking.



What Could Happen If You Do Nothing? A Manager's Handbook for Coaching Conversations What Could Happen If You Do Nothing? A Manager's Handbook for Coaching Conversations
by Jane Murphy

"What could happen if you do nothing?" offers managers clear, usable tools to enhance the way they listen and engage their people. This is an essential resource for developing employees to their full potential and for fostering better working relationships for individuals, teams, and the business itself.



Make Work Great: Supercharge Your Team, Reinvent the Culture, and Gain Influence One Person at a Time Make Work Great: Supercharge Your Team, Reinvent the Culture, and Gain Influence One Person at a Time
by Edward G. Muzio

As a manager, you've tried to keep things positive, but nothing seems to work. You can't control the economy, what's going on in your employees' lives, or other factors -- so what can you do to build and sustain a winning culture in your workplace?



Master Your Debt: Slash Your Monthly Payments and Become Debt Free Master Your Debt: Slash Your Monthly Payments and Become Debt Free
by Jordan E. Goodman, with Bill Westrom

The world of borrowing and debt management has changed dramatically, leaving people confused about how best to secure their financial future. This book is the only guide with detailed advice to help you become debt free or master the debt you have, based on the latest laws and new government programs and policies implemented under the Obama administration.