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Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
""I am a black woman who doesn't play golf, doesn't belong to or go to any club, doesn't like NASCAR, doesn't like country music, and has a Science degree in engineering. I speak differently, very fast, with an accent and a set of vernacular that is New York City, definitely Black tilted. So when someone says I'm going to introduce you to the next CEO of Xerox, and the candidates are lined up against a wall, I would be the first one voted off the...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"More than an honest portrait of a leader at a crossroads, Play Nice But Win is a survival story proving that while anyone with technological insight and entrepreneurial zeal might build something great-it takes a leader to build something that lasts"--
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A fast, funny, deeply hilarious debut--The Glitch is the story of a high-profile, TED-talking, power-posing Silicon Valley CEO and mother of two who has it all under control, until a woman claiming to be a younger version of herself appears, causing a major glitch in her over-scheduled, over-staffed, over-worked life. Shelley Stone might be a little overwhelmed. She runs the company Conch, the manufacturer of a small wearable device that attaches...
Author
Series
Kings of sin volume 1
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The billionaire CEO never planned to marry - until the threat of blackmail forces him into an engagement with a woman he barely knows: Vivian Lau, jewellery heiress and daughter of his newest enemy. It doesn't matter how beautiful or charming she is. He'll do everything in his power to destroy the evidence and their betrothal. There's only one problem: now that he has her... he can't bring himself to let her go. Elegant. Ambitious. Well-mannered....
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jett Gavallan, a former military pilot and now the head of Black Jet Securities, becomes involved in a deal to bring a top Russian media company to the New York Stock Exchange, he uncovers information that the company may not be what it seems.
7) The temps
Author
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Jacob Elliot doesn't want a temporary job in the mailroom at Delphi Enterprises, but after two post-college years of unpaid internships and living in his parents' basement, he needs the work. Then, on his first day, the unthinkable happens: toxic gas descends on a meeting in Delphi's outdoor amphitheater, killing all the regular employees and leaving Jacob stranded inside the vast office complex. Wandering through Delphi headquarters Jacob finds...
8) The edge
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A leader's job--in a radically changing world-is standing on the cliff edge, getting a grip on unfamiliar landscapes, and acquiring the skills for leading the enterprise into new territory. In a world facing the unprecedented challenges of global pandemic and economic disruption, every leader needs to find the edge for leaping across the breach and breaking new ground on the other side. Michael Useem provides rare insight into how ten leaders confronted...
9) Predators
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Leo Painter is the CEO of Earth Global, a large energy, mining, and real-estate development firm. By request of the State Department, he and a party of company executives travel to Botswana. Sekoa is a male lion who shares with many of his bipedal enemies a form of HIV/AIDS. Weakened by the disease, he loses his place as the alpha male in his pride and now, dying and harassed by a pack of hyenas, seeks only a place to rest in peace. Like the lion,...
10) When Hollywood had a king: the reign of Lew Wasserman, who leveraged talent into power and influence
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A history of the Music Corporation of America traces the entertainment giant from its founding in 1924, through its rise to become the most powerful force in the film world under the visionary leadership of Lew Wasserman.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One woman's tenacious journey to escape poverty and create a billion-dollar farming business--without ever leaving the land she loved. The youngest of her parents' combined twenty-one children, Sarah Frey grew up on a struggling farm in Southern Illinois, often having to grow, catch, or hunt her own dinner. She spent much of her early childhood dreaming of running away to Hollywood, Chicago--or really anywhere with central heating. At fifteen, she...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley [distributor]
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When Tony Hawk got his first skateboard at age nine, he had no intention of ever making a living at it--even as he rocketed up the sport's amateur ranks. And of course he had no idea he would become the most famous skateboarder of all time, let alone the head of several successful related businesses. The same focus that drove him to pick himself up off the pavement again and again, that kept him riding through skating's lean times, and that fueled...
Author
Publisher
Legacy Lit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting memoir by the former CEO of Black Entertainment Television (BET), about the glamorous and ugly moments of being a high-powered Black woman executive in the entertainment industry"--
Lee has been the visionary responsible for elevating Black images and storytelling for decades. Now she's telling her own story: about the triumphant and tricky moments of a career in entertainment. Filled with deeply personal revelations, juicy celebrity...
15) King of greed
Author
Series
Kings of sin volume 3
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Powerful, brilliant, and ambitious, Dominic Davenport clawed his way up from nothing to become the King of Wall Street. He has everything-a beautiful home, a beautiful wife, and more money than he could spend in a lifetime. But no matter how much he accumulates, he's never satisfied. In his endless quest for more, he drives away the only person who saw him as enough. It isn't until she's gone that he realizes there may be more to life than riches...
16) Last guard
Author
Series
Psy-Changeling trinity volume 5
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The psy-changelings' lives are at stake when a new darkness threatens to overpower and eliminate them. In a destabilized world with countless lives at stake, two people defined by their aloneness must stand together to stave off ultimate destruction"--
Termed merciless by some, and a robotic sociopath by others, Payal Rao is the perfect Psy: cardinal telekinetic, CEO of a major conglomerate, beautiful--and emotionless. For Canto Mercant, family...
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