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John Stanley Ford became IBM's first black software engineer. But not all of the company's white employees accepted having a black colleague and did everything in their power to humiliate, subvert, and undermine Ford. Yet Ford would not quit. While Ford remained at IBM, it came at great emotional cost to himself and his family, especially his son Clyde who followed him to IBM two decades later. As he, too, experienced the same institutional racism, Clyde began to better understand the subtle yet daring ways his father had fought back.

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. O'Leary and Valdmanis take us on a fast-paced insider's journey that will change the way we look at corporations.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to think like one. Ozan Varol reveals nine simple strategies from rocket science that you can use to make your own giant leaps in work and life. Those who can tackle complex and unfamiliar problems, without clear guidelines and with the clock ticking, enjoy an extraordinary advantage.

Dr. Jen Goldman-Wetzler argues that when conflict resolution doesn't work, you can free yourself from conflict instead. The Optimal Outcomes Method helps people change their mindsets and teaches them how to step back from a conflict, no matter how fraught, and figure out what's really causing it. She shows us how to ease tensions and free ourselves, even without others' cooperation.

Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo show how traditional western-centric thinking has failed to explain what is happening to people in a newly globalized world. This precise but accessible book covers many of the most essential issues of our day--including migration, unemployment, growth, free trade, political polarization, and welfare.

A story of success from one of the most unlikely places on the planet. The story develops on a First Nation reservation, in northern Canada. The child of a single mom of 4, living on welfare, was forever changed through a simple act of kindness. Kendal's simple 5-step strategy will prepare you for amazing outcomes.

This book seeks to help women identify specific behaviors that keep them from realizing their full potential, no matter what stage they are in their career.

Carrie Kerpen shares her own career lessons as well as those from a board of fifty powerful women in a wide range of industries to help women everywhere make their aspirations a reality.

Dan Rust gives you the strategies you need to accelerate your career and prevent setbacks from stalling your progress. If you are talented, ambitious, and hardworking, but feel your career just isn't accelerating as rapidly as it should, this book is for you.

From the top ad people all over the world--the ones who create the best television commercials and ads, the ones you love, remember, and wish you had thought of yourself--come their own stories, in their own words, about the first work they ever did, and lived to talk about.