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He didn’t just offer her salvation. He wrote her obedience into every clause. Camille I was one of the top litigators in Manhattan—until someone framed me and my license vanished overnight. Enter Damien Voss: billionaire CEO, predator in a custom suit, and the man who holds the keys to my redemption. But his offer isn’t a job. It’s a contract. A leash. A collar. A command.Obey, or lose everything. I swore I’d fight him. Then he made me strip. Made me kneel. And my body responded before my brain could scream. Damien She was always mine. She just didn’t know it yet. Camille Blake ...

"Great summary and easy-to-read book. I recommended it to friends as an introduction to the topic of Automation." MK, United Kingdom Since the 1800s, automation has been assisting humans in taking up roles in different industries like finance, travel, healthcare, education, and different sectors of life. This invention has developed to what we now see as intelligent automation because of its major capacity to learn and adapt to novel situations through a process called deep learning. Today, intelligent automation is performing amazing roles and making life much easier for us. Intelligent ...

It's Monday. Time to hit the pause button on your personality and get ready for the next meeting because, for the next five days, we'll be speaking the language of business. And, from bloated jargon and monotonous memos to syrupy slogans and deadly dull presentations, the official language of business is bull. The second we get to work, we join the masses who trade the wit and warmth of their voices for a corporate stamp of approval and the comfort of conformity.

Corporations are broken, reflecting no purpose deeper than profit. But the tools we are relying on to fix them - corporate social responsibility, divestment, impact investing, and government control - risk making our problems worse. With lively storytelling and careful analysis, O’Leary and Valdmanis cut through the tired dogma of current economic thinking to reveal a hopeful truth: If we can make our corporations accountable to a deeper purpose, we can make capitalism both prosperous and good.

In The Secret History of the American Empire, Perkins zeroes in on hot spots around the world and, drawing on interviews with other hit men, jackals, reporters, and activists, examines the current geopolitical crisis. Instability is the norm; it's clear that the world we've created is dangerous and no longer sustainable. How did we get here? Who's responsible? What good have we done and at what cost? And what can we do to change things for the next generations?

Businesses are increasingly leaving behind traditional meetings in favor of virtual ones, transitioning from surveys and studies to analytics and algorithms. But here is a startling and often unacknowledged truth: the promise of digital transformation can only be realized when we find a way to balance it with the promise of people. In the end, it’s people and dreams that matter, and companies must never forget the soul that drives them. Restoring the Soul of Business provides practical tools and techniques that every organization can and should implement.

Women on corporate boards is strictly a business issue. Independent research studies demonstrate that public companies with women on their boards are more profitable, more productive, and their workforce is better engaged. Even more compelling, shareholders large and small have the best chance for positive returns on their investments when women are on the boards.

Are you a small or medium-sized business owner, executive, or entrepreneur ready to take your company to the next level? Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) might seem like a strategy reserved for large corporations, but in reality, they offer transformative growth opportunities for businesses of all sizes. In M&A for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Michael Hofer, Ph.D., an expert with years of M&A experience, unveils the secrets of harnessing M&A to accelerate growth, expand into new markets, gain valuable expertise, and secure a stronger competitive position—all tailored to the unique ...

The Business Case for Kindness introduces a new business model - grounded in kindness, respect, and trust (KRT). This new model has the ability to transform a business, a leader, and a team. It also has the ability to make our world a better place. In this book, you will be presented with data, history, and case studies to help you implement the KRT model. You will learn the must have leadership skills in order to thrive in today’s workplace and in the workplace of the future.

This sequel to James P. O’Mealia’s Fiasco combines financial intrigue with personal crisis to create a tense thriller about a friendship that runs bone deep. The relationship between Roger Maydock and Thomas Morris has been fraught with conflict since their prep school days, when they were caught smoking marijuana in their dorm room. Roger fell on his sword for Thomas and was subsequently expelled. Thomas has never gotten over his guilt about what happened. He feels driven to help Roger whenever his friend gets into trouble. In Fiasco, that meant trying to fix one of Roger’s troubled ...

On March 14, 2012, more than three million people read Greg Smith's bombshell op-ed in the New York Times titled Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs. The column immediately went viral, became a worldwide trending topic on Twitter, and drew passionate responses from former Fed chairman Paul Volcker, legendary General Electric CEO Jack Welch, and New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg.

Created for risk professionals and non-risk professionals alike, this easy-to-understand guide helps you meet the increasingly insistent demand to make sophisticated assessments of companies' risk exposure. It provides the latest methods for measuring and transferring credit risk, increasing risk-management transparency, and implementing an organization-wide Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) approach.

Balancing the short term and the long term is a perennial struggle, but new developments put boards squarely at the center of this dilemma and in need of guidance. Much of the $14 trillion of assets that firms like Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street manage is now held in index funds, creating a huge class of permanent institutional investors. These so-called passive investors (unlike activist investors, passive investors don't have power to exit the fund) own almost 60 percent of the Fortune 500 - and they have found their voice.

Administración del tiempoMás que cualquier otra habilidad en tu carrera, la capacidad de manejar el tiempo determinará tu éxito o fracaso. Es una simple ecuación. En cuanto mejor uses tu tiempo, conseguirás más y más grandes serán tus recompensas. Esta práctica guía de bolsillo revela 21 técnicas comprobadas que puede usar inmediatamente para ganar dos o más horas productivas cada día. Ofrece las estrategias que el experto en negocios Brian Tracy ha identificado como las más eficaces que él mismo emplea.

Why, despite our state-of-the-art medical technology, does the United States have among the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the industrialized world? Why do pregnant women who are planning to breastfeed receive "free" samples of infant formula from American obstetricians? Why are American newborns given a vaccine at birth against hepatitis B, a sexually transmitted disease? The Business of Baby arms parents with the information they need to make informed decisions about their own health and the health of their infants.

He didn’t just buy my company. He bought me. Elise I built my empire with nothing but code, caffeine, and willpower. Selling it should’ve been freedom. Instead, I walked straight into a trap. Thirty nights. No exceptions.My name inked at the bottom of a contract I didn’t read. Now he owns me—and worse, part of me wants it. Dominic Clause 13 wasn’t a mistake. It was the plan. She’s mine for thirty nights. Her signature says so. But I don’t just want submission. I want the fight in her eyes. The shame in her pleasure. The ruin in her surrender.And I’m going to take all of it. ...

The inside story of the clash of two of Wall Street's biggest, richest, toughest, most aggressive players - Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman - and Herbalife, the company caught in the middle. With their billions of dollars and their business savvy, activist investors Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman have the ability to move markets with the flick of a wrist. But what happens when they run into the one thing in business they can't control: each other?

Black Faces in White Places is about "the game" - that is, the competitive world in which we all live and work. The audiobook offers 10 revolutionary strategies for playing, mastering, and changing the game for the current generation, while undertaking a wholesale redefinition of the rules for those who will follow. It is not only about shattering the old "glass ceiling" but also about examining the four dimensions of the contemporary black experience: identity, society, meritocracy, and opportunity.

In December 2008, the world watched as master financier Bernard L. Madoff was taken away from his posh Manhattan apartment in handcuffs, accused of swindling thousands of innocent victims - including friends and family - out of billions of dollars in the world's largest Ponzi scheme. Madoff went to jail; he will spend the rest of his life there. But what happened to his devoted wife and sons?