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Berkshire Hathaway, the $300+ billion conglomerate that Warren Buffett built, is among the world's largest and most famous corporations. Yet for all its power and celebrity, few people understand Berkshire, and many assume it cannot survive without Buffett. This book challenges that assumption. In a comprehensive portrait of the corporate culture that unites Berkshire's subsidiaries, Lawrence Cunningham unearths the traits that assure the conglomerate's perpetual prosperity.

Use storytelling to influence people and move them to action. Need to get your point across? Get staff on board with change? Foster collaboration? Increase sales? Strengthen employee engagement? Build customer loyalty? Drive innovation and creativity? Capture best practices? Align people around a goal? Grow your business? Business Storytelling for Dummies can help you do this - and more.

Féministes avant l'heure, les sorcières ont laissé en héritage leurs savoirs et leurs pouvoirs, autant de clés au service d'une féminité libre et puissante. Symbole subversif de la révolte féministe, la figure de la sorcière est aujourd'hui de retour, prête à questionner nos choix, notre rapport au monde, à la nature, au corps, à la rationalité, à la sexualité... Et ce qu'elle a à nous apprendre peut réellement changer nos vies. Loin du folklore et des clichés, les sorcières sont porteuses d'un savoir riche et multiple, qui dérange et bouscule l'ordre établi. Pourquoi les a-t-on massacrées au XVe siècle, pourquoi a-t-on cherché à les oublier ?

Nathan Runkle would have been a fifth-generation farmer in his small Midwestern town. Instead, he founded our nation's leading nonprofit organization for protecting factory farmed animals. In Mercy for Animals, Nathan brings us into the trenches of his organization's work; from MFA's early days in grassroots activism, to dangerous and dramatic experiences doing undercover investigations, to the organization's current large-scale efforts at making sweeping legislative change to protect factory farmed animals and encourage compassionate food choices.

This is the Hindi translation of Goals by Brian Tracy. This book presents a simple powerful and effective goal setting and goal achieving methodology that has been used by more than one million people to achieve extraordinary things. Brian Tracy opens this book with a story. A group of successful men got together to talk about their lives. Each of them had started from nothing many years before.

★頭のいい人は「型」で話す！【言語化】【思考の整理】【報告】【依頼】【会議】【プレゼン】【営業】・「何が言いたいの？」がなくなる

リーダーは忙しすぎる。びっしり詰まったスケジュール、読み切れないほどのメールやメッセージ、仕事上の目標と自分自身の生活、あらゆる方面から時間や注意を要求され、学ぶ時間やインスピレーションを見つける時間がなかなか取れません。

忙しく働く人のための「勝間流家電・テクノロジーを使い倒した超効率、新知的生産術」。家電を使ってカラダも脳も「疲れさせない」！日々の生活に詰んだ人必見。

シリーズ累計10万部突破！完璧さを手放し、柔軟性を手に入れよう！『宇宙兄弟』に学ぶ次世代リーダー論

世界の優れたリーダーたちは、なぜ成功し続けているのか。実は彼らは、特別なことをしているわけではない。ただ、自らの経験から学び、それを着実に実践へとつなげているだけなのだ。

「読者が選ぶビジネス書グランプリ第1位（経済・マネー部門）」に輝いた前作に続く、待望の第2弾！　サイバーエージェント、朝日放送HDの大株主、テレビ東京、オリコンの個人筆頭株主が教える「脱・会社」時代の生き方

シリーズ累計10万部突破！いろいろなタイプがいるから、チームは面白い！現場でモヤモヤを抱えるすべての人のバイブル

Business-Do is your personal handbook for achieving happiness by systematically turning your dreams into reality. Success looks different to everyone, but author Hiroshi Mikitani exemplifies its essential, universal qualities: as the founder and CEO of Rakuten, Mikitani is a self-made entrepreneur who became Japan's leader in the new global economy - a journey that made him a billionaire. In this book, he shows you how to achieve your own version of success in work and in life.

Many factors shape the success or failure of a new business, whether it's a stand-alone start-up or a venture inside a larger corporation. But the most important and least understood of these factors is the personality of the entrepreneur - the particular combination of beliefs and preferences that drives his or her motivation, decision making, and leadership style. And your builder personality is the one resource you can directly control in growing a business that wins. Simply put, who you are shapes how you build for growth.

Ever had those moments where you've been pondering a problem for ages, trying to make a decision or come up with a new idea, and then the second you get up to make a cup of tea, call a friend to talk it through, or simply decide 'sleep on it', you suddenly find the answers you're looking for, the solutions are obvious, and the new ideas just won't stop coming? Using this knowledge of how the mind works, Brainhack reveals the ways you can use this brain power to change-up your thinking.

Many organizations, even those that may have brilliant starts, falter in their attempts to achieve transformational growth in their later phases. In The Elephant Catchers, Subroto Bagchi distils his years of on-the-ground learning to explore why this happens and what such organizations and their people must do to climb to the next level and beyond.

Millions of people have, at some point in their lives, waited tables. Some did it only in college or got out by sheer determination, good luck...or suicide. Others took it on as permanent employment. And many remain haunted by nightmare scenarios where they are the sole servers in restaurants packed with complaining patrons. For all those disenchanted current and former food service employees, Darron Cardosa has your back.

Johannes Gutenberg was our first geek, the original technology entrepreneur, who had to grapple with all the challenges a Silicon Valley startup faces today. Jeff Jarvis tells Gutenberg's story from an entrepreneurial perspective, examining how he overcame technology hurdles, how he operated with the secrecy of a Steve Jobs, but then shifted to openness, how he raised capital and mitigated risk, and how, in the end, his cash flow and equity structure did him in.

In Paid to Think, international consultant David Goldsmith presents his groundbreaking approach to leadership and management based on research revealing the 12 specific activities that all leaders perform on a daily basis, and he provides you with each activity’s accompanying tools and instructions proven to boost your performance and that of your entire organization.

What does the world want? According to John Battelle, a company that answers that question can unlock the most intractable riddles of both business and culture. And for the past few years, that's exactly what Google has been doing.