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Mateo Askaripour’s “Black Buck” Cleverly Analyzes Race, Ambition, and Truth

Grab a cup of coffee and settle in with this one! Peppered with humor and chock full of guidance on how to excel in sales and life, author Mateo Askaripour exposes what goes on in the workplace with Black Buck (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). He aims for his black and brown…

Jennifer BlankfeinFebruary 4, 2021

Business

From Fashion Cult to Unraveling: The Story of Victoria’s Secret

Victoria’s Secret is one of the most influential and polarizing brands to ever infiltrate the psyche of the American consumer. Almost right at its start in the late 1970s, the company developed a cult following for its glamorous catalogs. Back then, shoppers had few alternatives to the stodgy department stores…

BookTribApril 8, 2025

Business

Transform Job Loss Into a Launchpad for Success

“A cold-hearted system that doesn’t need you.” Make you feel good? It wasn’t supposed to — yet. A company, writes William Alexandre in his very informative new book So You Lost Your Job: What Next?, “does not have feelings, is never happy or sad, can’t lose or hate anyone, judges…

Jim AlkonDecember 3, 2024

Business Nonfiction

Mastering The Game: Wilbur Ross on Power, Profit, and Perseverance

It was one of his earliest and most unforgettable moments in corporate life. Young Wilbur Ross was closing a real estate deal with the legendary Bill Zeckendorf at the real estate magnate’s panoramic and totally circular office. Catching Ross gawking at his surroundings, Zeckendorf comes up from behind, puts his…

Jim AlkonSeptember 10, 2024

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In Both Finance and Football, the Right Play Is Essential for Success

In other words, if you don’t prepare for the road ahead, you might as well brace for the worst. That is one of the key messages in The Winning Playbook (Indigo River Publishing), co-authored by Rob Welsh and Jonathan Scott. Lack of preparation almost without fail ends in disappointment. “That’s…

Jim AlkonAugust 16, 2022

Business Recommended

Two Business Experts’ Guide to Sending Company Growth Into Hypersonic Speed

Perhaps co-authors James Philip Arbuckle and Kane Carpenter can appreciate the reference to the old Saturday Night Live Point/Counterpoint skit in which Jane Curtin and Dan Ackroyd offer a satirical take on the one-on-one debate format and Ackroyd responds to his adversary with the infamous line about her character that…

Jim AlkonNovember 8, 2023

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A Bedazzling Faith-Based Entrepreneurial Business Guide: “Blinger”

Businesswoman Angie Cella’s divinely-motivated idea compelled her to start her own business. Her glittering success culminated in her winning the Women in Toys’ 2020 Inventor of the Year Wonder Woman Award. The book, Blinger: An Entrepreneur’s Faith-Based Journey (Rosetta Books), chronicles Cella’s venture to create a product and bring her…

K.L. RomoOctober 5, 2021

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One Man at the Intersection of Business Leadership and the Gaming Industry

“Game design is not rocket science.” At least not to one fictional video game developer in Paul Tozour’s The Four Swords: A Parable of Leadership, Video Games and Dead Dragons. Yet anyone reading this most unusual study into the world of game building and the lessons garnered from the process…

BookTribJuly 31, 2023

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It’s a Numbers Game: 6 Step-By-Step Guides to Success in Business and Leadership

It’s common knowledge that the business world is always evolving, but there’s something to be said about our current work culture. We’re in an unprecedented new era of the girlboss, the daily grind and the hustle — all pushes to become more efficient, productive and self-confident versions of ourselves. And…

BookTribAugust 22, 2022

Miscellany

Advice to Writers: Be Determined and Stay in the Game

My tenth novel will be published in September. I began writing it more than four years ago. The delay in its publication is mostly due to the fact that I parted ways with my former literary agent as well as my former publisher. When I broke ranks with them I…

Joseph OlshanJuly 17, 2018

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How to Innovate For Radically Greater Social Good

Despite enormous investments of time and money, are we making a dent on the social and environmental challenges of our time? What if we could exponentially increase our impact? Around the world, a new generation is looking beyond greater profits for meaningful purpose. But unlike business, few social interventions have…

BookTribOctober 25, 2018

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“Re-Generation X” Is a Path to Restore Gen Xers’ Financial Stability

“There are no sacred cows. I used to think the most important part of any company was the employees. I was wrong. The most important people are the clients. You people mean nothing.” Those are the words that author and former AIG data intelligence employee Jamil Hasan attributes to the…

Jim AlkonDecember 14, 2020

Business Business - Featured Nonfiction

Determining Which Way to Lean With “8 Paradoxes of Leadership Agility”

Tim was willing to give extra attention to a challenged team member, but it came at the expense of effectively managing the whole team. Adeline as a leader was an agent of change, but her middle managers were stuck within the safety of the status quo. “The road to leadership…

Jim AlkonJuly 14, 2020

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Women of Color and Corporate America’s Clarion Call for Redefining the Workplace

In Deepa Purushothaman’s new book, The First, The Few, The Only: How Women of Color Can Redefine Power in Corporate America (Harper Business), she lays the groundwork for how women of color can redefine success on their own terms. For too long, corporate structures and cultural conditioning have made them believe that…

Wyatt SemenukMarch 17, 2022

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Perfect Blueprint for Starting Up Your Own Business

But dreams are easily shattered: The Small Business Administration indicates that 20 percent of all small businesses fail in their first year; 50 percent last no more than five years; and 33 percent can give themselves a gold watch for lasting at least 10 years. If you’re looking for…

Jim AlkonFebruary 19, 2019

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Video: Missed It? Watch Interview with Carolyn Carpeneti and Taking Flight: Mastering Executive Function

What should we do when our children struggle academically? Should we let them fail so they’ll learn from their mistakes and do better next time? Perhaps. But what if they lack the organizational tools to succeed? Carolyn Carpeneti’s son had effectively coped with learning differences through high school and was…

BookTribJune 16, 2016

Mateo Askaripour’s “Black Buck” Cleverly Analyzes Race, Ambition, and Truth

From Fashion Cult to Unraveling: The Story of Victoria’s Secret

Transform Job Loss Into a Launchpad for Success

In Both Finance and Football, the Right Play Is Essential for Success

Two Business Experts’ Guide to Sending Company Growth Into Hypersonic Speed

A Bedazzling Faith-Based Entrepreneurial Business Guide: “Blinger”

One Man at the Intersection of Business Leadership and the Gaming Industry

It’s a Numbers Game: 6 Step-By-Step Guides to Success in Business and Leadership

Advice to Writers: Be Determined and Stay in the Game

“Re-Generation X” Is a Path to Restore Gen Xers’ Financial Stability

Determining Which Way to Lean With “8 Paradoxes of Leadership Agility”

Women of Color and Corporate America’s Clarion Call for Redefining the Workplace

Perfect Blueprint for Starting Up Your Own Business

Video: Missed It? Watch Interview with Carolyn Carpeneti and Taking Flight: Mastering Executive Function

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