Retail Pride: The Guide to Celebrating Your Accidental Career
Retail Pride: The Guide to Celebrating Your Accidental Career

Author: Ron Thurston

Publisher: Lioncrest Publishing

Published: 2020-09-18

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781544515939

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When will you get a real career? When will you stop working nights and weekends? When do you plan to use your college degree? If you work in retail, these are questions you often hear. Does this make you feel like the career you love was all just an accident? You're not alone. The retail industry employs millions, yet most people don't end up there by design. Ron Thurston wrote Retail Pride as an indispensable guide for every retail employee, manager, and multi-store leader looking to accelerate their potential and grow their career. It's filled with straightforward, practical tips for developing your talents, connecting with customers, and building your leadership skills. Based on more than twenty-five years of Ron's retail leadership experience, you'll discover a sense of belonging in the words of someone who has been a champion for the industry and shares your journey.

The New Rules of Retail
The New Rules of Retail

Author: Robin Lewis

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2014-08-12

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1137480890

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In The New Rules of Retail, industry gurus Robin Lewis and Michael Dart explained how unprecedented consumer power, enabled by technology and globalization, is revolutionizing retail. They warned that survival in these dynamic times called for a business model based on three distinct competencies: preemptive, perpetual distribution; a neurological customer connection; and total control of the value chain. In the years since that book published, many of their predictions have come true. Now, they revisit timeless case studies like Ralph Lauren and Sears, as well as new additions like Trader Joe's, Lululemon, and Warby Parker, to assess how retailers must continue to evolve in the era of e-commerce, data mining, and tiered distribution. They also identify the five current trends that are currently driving consumer demand, including technology integration and channel consolidation, as exemplified by Jeff Bezos at Amazon. This is a fully revised and updated guide from two proven retail prognosticators.

The Positive Effect
The Positive Effect

Author: April Sabral

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2022-01-24

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1982278900

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In this book, she recalls the steps she took to achieve success, including how to: • leverage the principles of accepting, creating, and teaching (A.C.T.) to lead with awareness; • recognize the value that retail employees provide an organization; • promote care and empathy throughout an organization; • cultivate a postive attitude during tough times.

Build Brand You
Build Brand You

Author: Vince Thompson

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9781642251951

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LOOKING TO LAND YOUR FIRST JOB AFTER COLLEGE? START HERE. You're going to college to get a good job. The problem is, there's no class on How to Get A Job in college. And in today's job market, making that leap from student to employee is going to be more challenging than ever. That's where this book comes in. Build Brand You: How to Use Your College Experience to Find and Win Your First Job is a step-by-step guide to building the network, the résumé, and--most importantly--the mindset you need to stand out from the competition and win the job you want.

The Fundamentals to Become a Successful Store Manager
The Fundamentals to Become a Successful Store Manager

Author: J. A. Thomas, III

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-08-27

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781523432462

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"The Fundamentals To Become a Successful Store Manager" is an informative and easy to understand book covering topics specific to the store manager such as: making a profit, managing payroll dollars, setting goals, interviewing, dealing with change, and many more. It also addresses employee related topics including: teaching assistant managers, conducting proper staff meetings, the art of training, motivation, and limiting employee turnover. The subjects covered in this book are basic and straightforward. Anyone can read this and learn how to perform at a higher level, with better trained employees, and greater customer satisfaction. It is a must read for all store managers, assistant managers, and anyone who aspires to become a manager. Whether you manage a hardware store or a hotel. From managing a convenience store to a car wash...the fundamentals covered in this book will make you better than you've ever been.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm

Author: Robert Lefkowitz

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-02-02

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1643136399

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The rollicking memoir from the cardiologist turned legendary scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize that revels in the joy of science and discovery. Like Richard Feynman in the field of physics, Dr. Robert Lefkowitz is also known for being a larger-than-life character: a not-immodest, often self-deprecating, always entertaining raconteur. Indeed, when he received the Nobel Prize, the press corps in Sweden covered him intensively, describing him as “the happiest Laureate.” In addition to his time as a physician, from being a "yellow beret" in the public health corps with Dr. Anthony Fauci to his time as a cardiologist, and his extraordinary transition to biochemistry, which would lead to his Nobel Prize win, Dr. Lefkowitz has ignited passion and curiosity as a fabled mentor and teacher. But it's all in a days work, as Lefkowitz reveals in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Stockholm, which is filled to the brim with anecdotes and energy, and gives us a glimpse into the life of one of today's leading scientists.

The Beach Trap
The Beach Trap

Author: Ali Brady

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2022-06-14

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0593440153

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Two best friends torn apart by a life-altering secret. One summer to set the record straight. When twelve-year-olds Kat Steiner and Blake O’Neill meet at Camp Chickawah, they have an instant connection. But everything falls apart when they learn they’re not just best friends—they’re also half sisters. Confused and betrayed, the girls break off all contact. Fifteen years later, when their father dies suddenly, Kat and Blake discover he’s left them a joint inheritance: the family beach house in Destin, Florida. The two sisters are immediately at odds. Blake, who has recently been demoted from regular nanny to dog nanny, wants to sell the house, while social media influencer Kat is desperate to hold on to the place where she lived so many happy memories. Kat and Blake reluctantly join forces to renovate the dilapidated house, with the understanding that Kat will try to buy Blake out at the end of the summer. The women clash as Blake’s renovation plans conflict with Kat’s creative vision; meanwhile, each sister finds herself drawn into a summer romance. As the weeks pass, the two women realize the most difficult project they face this summer will be coming to grips with their shared past—and learning how to become sisters.

An Ordinary Man
An Ordinary Man

Author: Paul Rusesabagina

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006-04-06

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1101201312

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The remarkable autobiography of the globally-recognized human rights champion whose heroism inspired the film Hotel Rwanda “Fascinating…your book is called An Ordinary Man, yet you took on an extraordinary feat with courage, determination, and diplomacy.” – Oprah, O, The Oprah Magazine As Rwanda was thrown into chaos during the 1994 genocide, Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, turned the luxurious Hotel Milles Collines into a refuge for more than 1,200 Tutsi and moderate Hutu refugees, while fending off their would-be killers with a combination of diplomacy and deception. In An Ordinary Man, he tells the story of his childhood, retraces his accidental path to heroism, revisits the 100 days in which he was the only thing standing between his “guests” and a hideous death, and recounts his subsequent life as a refugee and activist.

Sophie's World
Sophie's World

Author: Jostein Gaarder

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2007-03-20

Total Pages: 599

ISBN-13: 1466804270

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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Rules for 50/50 Chances
Rules for 50/50 Chances

Author: Kate McGovern

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Published: 2015-11-24

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 0374301603

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Seventeen-year-old Rose Levenson has a decision to make: Does she want to know how she's going to die? Because when Rose turns eighteen, she can take the test that tells her if she carries the genetic mutation for Huntington's disease, the degenerative condition that is slowly killing her mother. With a fifty-fifty shot at inheriting her family's genetic curse, Rose is skeptical about pursuing anything that presumes she'll live to be a healthy adult-including her dream career in ballet and the possibility of falling in love. But when she meets a boy from a similarly flawed genetic pool and gets an audition for a dance scholarship across the country, Rose begins to question her carefully laid rules.