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I was supposed to ruin him. Upload the receipts, cancel the billionaire, collect my payday. What I wasn’t supposed to do? Moan “yes, Daddy” before I’d even found the damn copy room. Dominic Kane is everything I hate. Capitalism in a custom suit. Power with a clenched jaw. A filthy mind behind a cleaner-than-clean NDA. But then he told me to sit still. Called me baby girl. Said if I wanted to keep the job, I’d better start behaving like I’m his. And I folded like a bad alibi. Now he feeds me praise and pleasure. Leaves marks where my ethics used to live. Tells me I look pretty ...

Are you working with extremely difficult people who make your life miserable? They put you down. They take advantage of you. They want power over you, and lack empathy for anyone but themselves. Charming you one minute, they seek to destroy your good reputation the next. You don't know which side of them will come forth. The vicious side berates, tortures and embarrasses you and uses you for narcissistic supply. Accomplishing tasks under their toxic schemes is difficult. Anxious and confused, you long to work elsewhere but you're stuck. NOT ANYMORE. You have the power to change that today. ...

It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions made by a small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of the economic meltdown, the effects of which set the stage for World War II and reverberated for decades.

Read the complete Exotic Desires series in this box set. No Cliffhanger. After having lost the only woman he’d ever loved, twenty-seven year-old Reed Stirling rejects his parents' plans for him to take over the family business and travels to Europe, searching for a revelation as to what he's supposed to do with his life. What he finds instead is something else entirely. Don't miss the Sinful Desires steamy spin-off series, Exotic Desires by best-selling author M.S. Parker.

I'm Mila Banks, the ultimate jinx. Not just in theory—I've got a track record. Seven weddings, seven disasters. Everything from a groom with a concussion to an attack of red ants (a long story) has happened because of me. So, when my bestie, Nadia, insists on making me her maid of honor, I can't help but try to find a way out of it. To make matters more complicated, my boss, Grayson Manning, is going to be the best man. Did I mention I'm head over heels for him?

Managing people is difficult wherever you work. But in the tech industry, where management is also a technical discipline, the learning curve can be brutal - especially when there are few tools, texts, and frameworks to help you. In this practical guide, author Camille Fournier (tech lead turned CTO) takes you through each stage in the journey from engineer to technical manager.

Surrounded by incompetence? Feeling like you’re trapped in a never-ending meeting with clueless coworkers? Welcome to the survival guide you didn’t know you desperately needed. For anyone navigating today’s chaotic workplace filled with baffling decisions, endless meetings, and maddening mediocrity, How to Work with Stupid People offers a practical, witty, and research-backed blueprint to protect your sanity — and your career. Drawing on 30 years of experience inside corporate madhouses, JS Paxton unpacks the psychology of irrational behavior and gives you tactical strategies to ...

A collection of three addicting workplace romances by USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Charity Ferrell.

All of this is fake. The expensive dates, the luxury vacations, the smoldering kisses… No way am I catching feelings for my fake, billionaire boyfriend. Nope... No way. --♥-- Five years. That’s how much time I wasted tied down to my narcissistic, cheating ex. When my brother asks me to help launch his new tech company, I jump at the chance for a fresh start. Forget men. Forget romance. My family and career are all I care about. Then, I run into my brother’s new investor at the launch party. Literally. Immediately, the tall, dark, and handsome billionaire is annoyed. Apparently, ...

Girl meets a handsome stranger, gets swept off her feet, and has the best night of her life. Sounds like a dream, right? If only... When I wake up the next morning in a stunning penthouse overlooking the Seattle waterfront to a note saying, “have a safe flight back to Chicago,” his message is loud and clear: One and done. Famous last words. Guess who’s waiting to greet me on the first day at my new job? It turns out the mega-rich Asher Kingcaid is far from one and done.

Within each corporation are anywhere from a few to hundreds of separate tribes. In Tribal Leadership, Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright demonstrate how these tribes develop - and show you how to assess them and lead them to maximize productivity and growth. A business management book like no other, Tribal Leadership is an essential tool to help managers and business leaders take better control of their organizations by utilizing the unique characteristics of the tribes that exist within.

No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving - every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change.

Daddy would die if he knew his best friend took my v-card. Drake Vance is obscenely hot, ridiculously rich, and completely off-limits. With tailored suits and a face that belongs on a magazine cover. He’s also my dad’s best friend and twice my age. As a favor, he hires me to be the chef at his new tech firm. One night. One mistake. And I gave him my v-card. That’s all it was supposed to be. But then he’s in my kitchen, tasting my cooking like he owns the place. Driving me home, hand on my thigh like it belongs there. Looking at me like he’s already decided—I’m his. I should ...

Ava, the girl next door, has proven herself to be much more over the past few months. She is no longer just a childhood crush in need of protection. She has become Alex's trusted friend, and she’s helped and supported him. As their chemistry continues to grow, all they need is the right opportunity to take their relationship to the next level. Meanwhile, Gwen learns about Alex's unconventional lifestyle and begins to distance herself from him. But Ava, who has befriended the professor, is determined to change Gwen’s mind by arranging a camping trip for the three of them. Once again, ...

When the sirens go off, the fun starts… Best friends Jonathon and Robert have shared everything since they first met in kindergarten…toys, an apartment, and now, a woman. The duo has loved their coworker Claudia from afar for years now, but they’ve always been afraid to approach her. She’s beautiful, private, and completely professional. She seems to hate both of them, at least until the day they’re trapped alone together in a tornado shelter… Everyone else was smart enough to head home before the storms came, but when Claudia, Jonathon, and Robert stay at work to finish an ...

My cheating ex’s brother hated me so how can I trust him with my most precious secret? Years ago, his brother broke my heart and Ezra laid the blame at my feet. Now, the hockey legend is a tall, dark and brutally handsome billionaire and my company’s biggest client. I tell him we can be civil. Dirty dancing and sizzling hot kisses count as being civil, right? When he discovers the son his brother didn’t want, I’m a wary mama bear trying to protect my cub while he’s determined to make me melt. He becomes my son’s hero and vows to make me forget every man before him. He’s very ...

Will Guidara was twenty-six when he took the helm of Eleven Madison Park, a struggling two-star brasserie that had never quite lived up to its majestic room. Eleven years later, EMP was named the best restaurant in the world. How did Guidara pull off this unprecedented transformation? Radical reinvention, a true partnership between the kitchen and the dining room—and memorable, over-the-top, bespoke hospitality.

Toxic Workplace! is the first book to tackle the underlying systems issues that enable a toxic person to create a path of destruction in an organization, pervading others' thoughts and energies, even undermining their very sense of well-being. Based on all-new research with over 400 leaders, many from the Fortune 500 list, this book illustrates how to manage existing toxic behaviors, create norms that prevent the growth or regrowth of toxic environments, and ultimately design organizational communities of respectful engagement.

By providing extremely detailed and accurate descriptions of nine recognizable personalities, The 9 Types of Leadership is an unmatched tool for business people to use to decode the mysteries involved in understanding why people do what they do, why we have conflicts with some people but not others, and how we can become aware of our blind spots. Most importantly, it can help leaders know themselves in a deeper way so they can more effectively lead others.

What happens when a cocky surgeon bosses around a sassy nurse? She hands him a dose of the cold shoulder. After the death of my brother, I couldn’t bear to work in the very halls of the hospital where he died. Seeking a fresh start, I accept a position in the emergency room of a new hospital, in a desperate attempt to piece my life together again.