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How do you go from hitting your lowest low to living the life of your dreams? Shine tells the story of one entrepreneur’s inspiring journey to rebuild his life, find health, happiness, and become the creator of one of America’s most successful healthy meal delivery companies. At the age of 39, Adam Zbar was 50 pounds overweight, in the middle of a divorce, and stressed out as his start-up ran out of money. Today, in the best shape of his life, Adam helps millions of Americans eat better and live healthier through his company Sun Basket.

Newspaperman tells the story of how an immigrant's shy son from Queens, New York, rose to the top of his industry, powered by little more than passion, brains, and hard work. Phillips began his career working as a copyboy for the New York Herald Tribune for 16 dollars a week... and ended it as publisher of The Wall Street Journal and CEO of its parent corporation, Dow Jones & Company. The life story of Warren Phillips is the story of the American newspaper business.

Esse é o audiolivro definitivo sobre a vida de um dos homens mais respeitados e fascinantes do mundo: Warren Buffett. O lendário investidor pela primeira vez autorizou alguém a produzir sua biografia, concedendo a Alice Schroeder acesso irrestrito a seus familiares, amigos e parceiros–e, é claro, a ele mesmo.

La notable historia de cómo, empezado con una pequeña fábrica en Bolton, Joe Foster convirtió a Reebok en una de las marcas deportivas más famosas del mundo.

Star della Formula Uno, manager di fama internazionale, creatore di club per miliardari e personaggio da copertina: è lui, Flavio Briatore, l'uomo che buona parte degli italiani vorrebbero come maestro di vita. II perché è presto detto: Briatore, figlio di maestri elementari della profonda provincia cuneese, con un semplice diploma di geometra in tasca, è diventato multimiliardario, e oggi gira il mondo a bordo del suo jet privato. Simbolo vivente che "se vuoi, puoi" - come recita il suo motto - e che il successo e la bella vita sono alla portata di tutti.

Gli stimoli nati dalle numerose edizioni dell'evento Evolution Forum Day, che hanno visto protagonisti Zanardi, Velasco, Iacchetti, Crepet, Gnocchi, Cucinelli, Cannavaro, Atzori, Pontremoli, Montali, Sintini, Dallara, Marzari, Sechi, Preatoni, Simoncelli, Gresini, Lanza, Ferrara, Traisci, Liguori, sono l'occasione e il punto di partenza per una serie di riflessioni maturate dall'autore, Gianluca Spadoni, nel corso della sua vita e della sua crescita personale, culturale e professionale.

Journalistes d'investigation, Sheera Frenkel et Cecilia Kang démontent les mécanismes de Facebook et dénoncent ses dérives dans ce livre explosif. Ou comment l'entreprise, sous la direction de Mark Zuckerberg et Sheryl Sandberg, tous deux aveuglés par leur ambition, a poursuivi sa croissance en niant des faits accablants : fuites des données personnelles, violation de la vie privée, propagation de discours haineux et complotistes.

In 2000, Chris Cicchinelli was 25 and at a crossroads. He had just been forced to leave a promising position at a large retail franchise when his mother, Patty Brisben, called. She wanted her son’s help in growing her women-only, in-home and virtual party business featuring relationship enhancement products.

Portraits of Power is not just an autobiography of a man who for several decades has played an active role in India’s march towards becoming a formidable economy; it is indeed, on multiple levels, a book that profiles myriad institutions that work in harmony to make things happen. And in everything that N. K. Singh has done, so in this book, too, there is both incisive clarity and insightful anecdotal heft.

Many long-lasting love stories often begin as college romances. The story of Aakriti and Anshul was no different. A go-getter from the start, Anshul was someone who had both the respect and confidence of his batch-mates. A romantic at heart, he was an ambitious guy who always aspired to do something that could impact the lives around him. Aakriti, on the other hand, was a fresher from a premier college of Delhi University. Their paths crossed at a ragging session where Aakriti was being introduced to the seniors and Anshul watched on, awestruck by her spirited air.

Vipul and Richa are a couple who partnered up in life as well as work. What brought them together was a sheer brush of luck, but what brought them along so far has more to do with the business they had started as partners. They created shortcircuit.in, which is designed to offer a funny and pleasant break to the customers from the drudgery of everyday life. It’s a wacky brand offering the craziest, quirkiest and funniest of products, which can bring humour and fun into people’s lives.

In today’s fast-paced world, where thousands of goods are being sold and purchased every second, no one stops to think from where this seemingly inexhaustible supply of resources comes. Or about the consequences of the continued use of these products. Sellers and manufacturers also don’t make any efforts to supply the market with a sense of responsibility. Aparna had known long before she even got into studying business that someday she wanted to enter mainstream enterprising.

As destiny had schemed, Shruti crossed paths with Udai at his birthday party, where they were introduced by Udai’s best friend. What could have been any other normal encounter turned into a magical connection where art, love, and life transcended between the two souls, and thus began the story of Shruti and Udai. They came together from very different educational fields, and their love for each other and for art inspired them to create a start-up named Wearmates. It offers a wide range of creative wearable products with the right amount of style, spunk, and depth.

Amit and Natasha met each other on an online portal, and when they got to know each other better, they realized that there was instant chemistry between them. The only natural thing to happen then was for them to get together and get into a relationship that would eventually lead to marriage. But where the story of love ends for most people post-marriage, for them things took a more interesting and challenging turn.

A seemingly regular couple, Madhurita and Yuvraj met through what would appear to be a typical Indian match-making process. Dr. Yuvraj R. Kaginkar, a renowned expert in veterinary sciences, was working as the CEO of Sarama Petcare. He was paid handsomely and was respected universally for his work and research. Dr. Madhurita was happily established with her profession in London when she was proposed as the match of the accomplished doctor.

What once began as a work compulsion for Mehak and Anand soon turned into an instant connection between them, and eventually matured into a healthy friendship and a lasting relationship. Just as unpredictable as their relationship, fate had planned to extend their partnership beyond marriage. While the two travelled around different locations for their education and work, they sustained a long-distance relationship for a period of four years. This unconditional love resulted in their marriage.

Bhavin and Priya together dedicated their passion and knowledge of business development into preparing a platform that could benefit many people in the country. Priya had earned her master’s degree in international finance and was a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). After completing another master’s degree in commerce, she moved to the UK to gain some in-depth knowledge of the subject.

As a couple who were as conventionally professional as it gets, Disha and Ravi’s leap in life was a drastic one. They happened to cross paths while working in the same organization, which was one of the most reputed firms in the world. As two ambitious people who believed in a continuous growth process, Ravi and Disha soon started exploring further options in life.

In stark and compelling prose, Thomas W. Jones tells his story as a campus revolutionary who led an armed revolt at Cornell University in 1969 and then altered his course over the next 50 years to become a powerful leader in the financial industry including high-level positions at John Hancock, TIAA-CREF, and Citigroup as Wall Street plunged into its darkest hour.

Veteran adman and author Ambi Parameswaran has relied on one process of learning above all others: powerful conversations with clients and customers. A challenging customer, in his view, goes from being someone who poses an obstacle to quality work to someone with eye-opening ideas and concepts. Approached as an exercise in listening and learning, these conversations can become long-term lessons.