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Switchers: how smart professionals change careers--and seize success
Par Dawn Graham. 2018
Are you stuck in an unsatisfying job? In the wrong profession? An industry that just isn't a fit? This book…
provides proven strategies that will get you where you want to go. 2018.Smart collaboration: how professionals and their firms succeed by breaking down silos (RB development)
Par Heidi K Gardner. 2017
Gardner shows that firms earn higher margins, inspire greater client loyalty, attract and retain the best talent, and gain a…
competitive edge when specialists collaborate across functional boundaries. Gardner, a former McKinsey consultant and Harvard Business School professor now lecturing at Harvard Law School, has spent over a decade conducting in-depth studies of numerous global professional service firms. Her research with clients and the empirical results of her studies demonstrate clearly and convincingly that collaboration pays, for both professionals and their firms. 2017.Still surprised: a memoir of a life in leadership (Your coach in a box)
Par Patricia Ward Biederman, Warren G Bennis. 2010
Steve Jobs
Par Walter Isaacson. 2011
'Steve Jobs' provides an account of Jobs' professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews…
Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs' family members, this book is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation. Includes strong language. 2011.Steve Jobs: American genius
Par Amanda Ziller. 2011
Steve Jobs revolutionized the way we work, listen to music, watch movies, and communicate. By pushing boundaries and always thinking…
one step ahead, Jobs became an icon, equally as famous for his advanced ideas and design aesthetic as his sleek black turtlenecks. What inspired him? How did he do his job? What made him the man he was? Grades 5-8. 2011.Sans prescription ni ordonnance
Par Jean Coutu, Jean Couture. 2010
Qui peut prétendre connaître le vrai Jean Coutu? La discrétion dont il a toujours fait preuve sur sa vie est…
inversement proportionnelle à l'omniprésence de la marque de commerce qu'il a si habilement popularisée. Alors qui donc est celui dont le nom évoque à lui seul la pharmacie de détail? 2010.Sam Walton, made in America: my story (ITK audio)
Par Sam Walton, John Huey. 2017
Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single…
dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, Sam never lost the common touch. Genuinely modest, but always sure of his ambitions and achievements. Sam shares his thinking in a candid, straight-from-the-shoulder style. 2017.Roughneck: the life and times of Big Bill Haywood
Par Peter Carlson. 1983
Biography of the former cowboy, prospector, and silver miner who became the radical leader of the Industrial Workers of the…
World - the celebrated "Wobblies." He led miners in the bloody "labour wars" in Cripple Creek, Colorado, and textile workers in the famous "bread and roses" strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Prosecuted in two criminal cases, a "guilty" Haywood jumped bail and escaped to exile in Russia. Some strong language. 1983.River queen: the amazing story of tugboat titan Lucille Johnstone
Par Paul Levy. 2006
Lucille Johnstone was a living legend in the BC business world. In 1948, Lucille was working as a "girl Friday"…
for River Towing; forty years later Rivtow was a $250 million corporation, Lucille its president and CEO. This is the story of a brilliant leader known as much for her kindness and social conscience as for her talents in the boardroom. 2006.Rhodes: The Race For Africa
Par Antony Thomas. 1997
The life of Cecil Rhodes, who was born in 1853 and sailed to Africa at sixteen because of poor health.…
Describes his modest beginning as a cotton farmer and his transformation into a diamond magnate, who also earned a fortune in gold. Rhodes annexed much of Africa for Great Britain and became one of the most powerful, and mistrusted, men of his time. 1997.Relentless: the true story of the man behind Rogers Communications
Par Robert Brehl, Ted Rogers. 2008
For the fist time, Ted Rogers tells the story of how he built Rogers Communications into one of the largest…
companies in Canadian history, and in just one generation. Rogers is characteristically frank about his successes and his failures. c2008.Resonant Leadership: how great leaders create-- and sustain-- resonance in turbulent times (Your coach in a box)
Par Richard E Boyatzis. 2008
Authors Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee argue that today's leaders face unprecedented challenges that result in a vicious cycle of…
stress and sacrifice. Here, they marshal decades of multidisciplinary research and hands-on consulting work to provide a practical framework for how leaders can create and sustain resonance in their relationships, their teams, and their organizations. Through vivid examples, the authors show how three key elements - mindfulness, hope, and compassion - are essential to enabling renewal and sustaining resonance. 2008.Resumes for mid-career job changes: with sample cover letters, third edition (VGM professional resumes series)
Par McGraw-Hill Staff. 2006
Includes nearly 100 sample resumes in a variety of eye-catching formats, and 20 cover letters. Explains how to create a…
concise and stylish resume using worksheets, and how to format and submit them electronically. 2006.Redefining success: still making mistakes
Par W. Brett Wilson. 2013
The popular co-star of CBC’s award-winning Dragons’ Den recounts how he was forced to redefine his life, making health and…
key relationships his first priorities. Through trial and error, he discovered that these simple virtues are foundations for real, enduring success, both in business and in life. Not just for entrepreneurs and business people, this book outlines how we can change our lives for the better by re-evaluating our personal definitions of success, then reworking them into a life plan that is feasible, lasting, and rewarding. Bestseller. 2013, c2012.Rebels, rascals & royalty: the colourful North of LACO Hunt
Par L. A. C. O Hunt, Barbara Hunt. 1983
Memoirs of a northern trader turned civil servant. Mr. Hunt came to Canada in 1928 with the Hudson's Bay Company…
and travelled all over the North. He describes how the region evolved over time and bemoans the attempts to apply the southern values to northern situations. 1983.Rebel talent: why it pays to break the rules at work and in life
Par Francesca Gino. 2018
From an early age, we are taught to follow the rules. But going along to get along comes at a…
steep price for our careers and personal lives. Award-winning Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino shows us why creative rebellion is essential at work and in life. 2018.Quand l'intuition trace la route
Par Danièle Henkel. 2013
" Danièle Henkel est connue pour sa réussite en affaires et, plus récemment, pour sa participation à la populaire émission…
Dans lœil du dragon, diffusée sur les ondes de Radio-Canada. Son premier livre met à lavant-scène non pas tant la recette de son succès professionnel que le caractère exceptionnel de son cheminement. Dans ce récit autobiographique aux allures de roman, lauteure partage les moments clés de sa vie qui lui ont permis de devenir la femme daffaires au style bien particulier que lon connaît. Le lecteur la suit de sa naissance au Maroc, dune mère juive et dun père allemand, à son enfance en Algérie, son mariage à un musulman choisi par son frère en passant par ses expériences professionnelles, son départ pour le Québec et sa réalité dimmigrante. " -- 4e de couv.Purchase two kilts
Par P N Wilson. 2001
This text is the story of Professor Peter Wilson, an agricultural scientist of international renown and enviably wide experience. In…
these pages he communicates his experience and wisdom in a thoroughly captivating way. He has travelled widely, working for long periods in Africa and the West Indies, and the close and fruitful rapport formed with both the indigenous populations and the expatriates is one of the engaging aspects of this work. On his return to this country the author has worked with distinction in the field of Agricultural Science, both in the commercial and the academic spheres. 2001.La saga des Rothschild: l'argent, le pouvoir et le luxe
Par Tristan Gaston-Breton. 2017
Cet ouvrage raconte, pour le grand public et à la manière d'une saga, l'histoire de la dynastie en partant de…
ses lointaines origines au cœur du ghetto de Francfort jusqu'à nos jours. Il évoque non seulement l'histoire de la branche française mais aussi celle de toutes les autres (anglaise, allemande, autrichienne et italienne). Au fil des pages, on croise Mayer Amschel, l'étonnant fondateur de la dynastie, parcourant les routes d'Allemagne à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, Nathan, le chef de la famille anglaise, menant une bataille acharnée contre Napoléon Ier, James, au train de vie princier et à la vaste influence, mais aussi Edmond, l'un des pionniers du sionisme, Louis Nathaniel, emprisonné par Himmler et expulsé d'Autriche, Victor, homme de gauche, espion au service de Sa Majesté et, peut-être également, des Soviétiques De nombreuses femmes comme Betty, la femme de James, Charlotte, peintre et collectionneuse, Miriam, ethnologue de réputation mondiale, ou bien encore Noémie, qui créa de toutes pièces la station de Megève. À travers la multitude des personnages et des événements, mais aussi de leur mode de vie, de leurs passions, des demeures qu'ils firent construire et des réceptions fastueuses qu'ils donnèrent, ce sont les mille et une facettes d'une dynastie ayant conquis très tôt le monde et dont l'influence ne s'est jamais démentie, que ce livre raconte. 2017.