Business & Economics
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Leadership Through Hell and High Water
by Jean–Marc Guillamot
In 2016, wildfires devastated Fort McMurray, Alberta. Eighty Six thousands residents were displaced, and twenty-four hundred homes and buildings were destroyed. With almost $9 billion in damages, it’s recognized as the most expensive natural...
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From Nothing To 90
Failures, Successes, Betrayal and Overcoming Doubt by Will Klein
In From Nothing to 90, Will Klein chronicles his life from hardscrabble beginnings as an adopted child in a Saskatchewan family struggling through the “Dirty Thirties” to early success as a newsboy and onto great business achievement despite...
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The Storytelling Salesman
Enriching Tales for Better Business by James "Jimmy Van" VanderLinden
These stories from the business world are for professionals looking to improve at work. Is your business failing to live up to expectations? Stuck in an unsatisfying job with seemingly nowhere to go? Do you manage people—or aspire to? Drawing on...
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Best Boss Ever
A Quick How-to-Guide for Inspiring Excellence as a Frontline Leader by Glenn Dorey
The underlying challenge for any leader is to optimize the potential of their team. Everything in this book relates to a leader’s ability to inspire great performance for those who they have the privilege to lead. It is not about a leader’s own...
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The Spirit of Work
Timeless Wisdom, Current Realities by Marie Gervais
Since the Industrial Revolution, the idea of “work” has been disconnected from what it means to be human. Even today, many workplaces are missing attributes like relationality, harmony, unity and equality. What if a more holistic approach—one...
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The Ploughman and the Astronaut
The Evolutionary Journey to WealthNess by Don Nilson
The Ploughman and the Astronaut is not your average financial planning book. This is a finance self-help book for the intellectually curious. It is for people who not only want to learn what to do with their money, but who also want to understand...
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Grind Don't Quit
by Jamie Holtom and Jim Christian
Life is hard, and the challenges it presents can be overwhelming at times. But as much as we might want to give up, we eventually come to moments when we need to make decisions and keep moving forward. Grind, Don’t Quit offers inspiration and an...
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A Project Controller's Handbook
Insights from Twenty Years of Accounting in Project Environments by Alana Reid
For those of us involved in financial reporting or project environments, the challenges we face are many. Whether we’re forecasting our labour requirements or performing a variance analysis, there is no shortage to the issues—both technical and...
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The Next Chapter
Change The Mindset - Change Your Life by Robert Miller and Monika Lowry
The Next Chapter proposes that our lifestyles, homes, and escapes are not places, things, or events but rather mindsets shaped by expectations and priorities we have set for ourselves and our futures. And then The Next Chapter gets right down to...
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Translating Business Negotiations into Law
by Linda Frazer
In performing business negotiations, many of us find ourselves on shifting ground. Is it really tenable to call your lawyers every time you make a purchase or forge a new contract? And when something goes wrong, what resources do you have to fall...
