EASY MONEY>BOOKSHELF Emotionomics: Leveraging Emotions for Business Success By Dan Hill The big idea: What people really think or feel about something, whether it’s an advertising message or a manager’s announcement, is often different from what they say. Facial coding, which is the interpretation of expressions in our faces, is the better way of understanding [...]

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EASY MONEY>BOOKSHELF Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century By Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez The big idea: The common reason it’s difficult for people to make ends meet is that we live in a consumer culture that [...]

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EASY MONEY>BOOKSHELF The Motley Fool Million Dollar Portfolio: How to Build and Grow a Panic-Proof Investment Portfolio By David Gardner and Tom Gardner The big idea: Building a million dollar portfolio is a matter of following tried-and-tested investment strategies over the long haul, at least 10 years, namely dividend investing, blue chip bargains, small-cap treasures, [...]

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The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers By Keith R. McFarland Think of this book as “Good to Great” for mid-sized companies, given that author Keith McFarland was prodded by management guru Jim Collins to answer his own question about how companies are able to break through their initial stages while others struggle [...]

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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: No Schedules, No Meetings, No Joke—The Simple Change That Can Make Your Job Terrific By Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson The authors, creators of the Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) at Best Buy, convincingly present an alternative to the traditional time-oriented definition of work. They’re persuasive because they’ve [...]

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