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Retire With Confidence: 52 Questions to Ask Before You Retire—With Expert Answers Book Cover
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Retire With Confidence: 52 Questions to Ask Before You Retire—With Expert Answers

Randy L. Thurman

  • May 16 - May 31
  • 979 entries
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Are you truly ready for retirement, or just hoping for the best?

Most Americans spend more time planning a vacation than planning their retirement. If you’re among the millions approaching this life-changing transition, you can’t afford to wing it.

Retire With Confidence eliminates the guesswork with answers to 52 essential questions every pre-retiree should be asking. This comprehensive guide leads you through the critical decisions that will make or break your retirement—from Social Security and Medicare to investments and tax strategy.

Perfect for:
• Adults 50+ considering retirement
• Anyone within 10 years of leaving the workforce
• Financial advisors seeking client resources
• Adult children helping aging parents

Inside, you’ll discover how to:
• Calculate your true retirement needs
• Optimize Social Security and Medicare decisions
• Navigate complex tax implications
• Protect your legacy and loved ones
• Avoid the costliest retirement mistakes

Written by a nationally recognized retirement advisor with decades of experience, this isn’t another generic retirement book filled with one-size-fits-all advice. Each question is designed to address your unique situation and guide you toward personalized solutions. Don’t let uncertainty rob you of the retirement you’ve earned. Get the clarity and confidence you need to retire successfully.
  • Business
  • Self help
The Necessary Goodbye: How Great Leaders Fire with Clarity, Confidence, and Compassion Book Cover
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The Necessary Goodbye: How Great Leaders Fire with Clarity, Confidence, and Compassion

Peter D. Banko

  • May 16 - May 31
  • 535 entries
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Every Great Leader Must Face the Hardest Part of the Job

The Necessary Goodbye is a practical, eye-opening guide to one of leadership’s most misunderstood and avoided firing someone. Written for new and emerging leaders, aspiring executives, and anyone navigating real-world team challenges, this book delivers a confident, compassionate roadmap for leading through tough transitions.

Drawing from nearly two decades of CEO-level experience, Peter D. Banko offers a direct and deeply human approach to handling terminations with clarity, confidence, and respect. This is not another corporate management manual. It’s a leadership education rooted in wisdom, real-world stories, and references to literature, psychology, music, religion, and culture.

You’ll learn how
Handle termination conversations with empathy and precision Reframe firing as a leadership act—not a personal failure Preserve trust, culture, and team morale during tough decisions Lead from your values, even when the path is difficult
If you’re leading people or preparing to, The Necessary Goodbye gives you the perspective and tools to do what’s necessary, and do it well.
  • Business
  • Non-fiction
The Human-Agent Orchestrator: Leading and Scaling AI-Driven Organizations Book Cover
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The Human-Agent Orchestrator: Leading and Scaling AI-Driven Organizations

Pascal Bornet

  • May 25 - Jun 25
  • 101 entries
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From the authors of a Forbes "Top 10 Must-Read Tech Book" for 2025.

“The magic isn’t in bigger AI models, it’s in Orchestration.”
—Andrew Ng, Founder, DeepLearning. AI and Coursera

“The era of the user is ending. The era of the Orchestrator has begun.”
—Marshall Goldsmith, two-time Thinkers50 #1 Global Leadership Thinker

We are the last generation to manage only humans. The next will manage hybrid teams of humans and AI agents. Most leaders are not ready.

The rare organizations achieving 200% productivity gains from AI are not using better technology than those achieving 20%. They are managing it differently.

The authors learned this from failure. Across many AI deployments, the pattern became clear: capable agents failed not from weak technology, but from a missing management layer.

Human-Agent Orchestration is that layer: a new discipline for designing, directing, and scaling work across humans and AI agents. Built from four years of research across 432 organizations and hard lessons learned in the field.

Not how to build AI agents. How to lead them.
Not another tool. A new management discipline.

What you will learn:
• The 70/30 Rule: which management skills transfer to agents, and which will quietly sabotage your team.
• The Supervision Trap: why the way you currently work makes you the bottleneck instead of the leader.
• The Orchestration Design Canvas: six layers to build a system that runs without you: Source, Success, Safety, Steering, Switch, and Sharpen.
• The Autonomy Dial: when to give agents the keys, and when to keep humans at the wheel.
• Default Governance: agents do not take control. Humans abdicate it.
• The Human Layer Index: how to detect human erosion before your best people leave.
• The Identity Shift: how to save your team from Scope Collapse, Mastery Vacuum, and Purpose Drift.

This book is for leaders using AI, deploying agents, and trying to scale impact without scaling chaos.

Old leadership controlled the work. New leadership designs the system that produces it.

AI will not replace leaders. But leaders who cannot orchestrate AI will be replaced by those who can.

Stop clicking. Start conducting.
  • Business
  • Non-fiction
1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World Book Cover
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1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World

Liaquat Ahamed

  • May 4 - Jun 2
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From the author of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Lords of Finance, another magnificent and timely reckoning with the first truly global financial calamity through the prism of the famous banking family at the center of the whirlwind

Over the course of the 1850s and 1860s, during the first era of globalization, the world experienced an unprecedented economic boom. Fueling this expansion was an explosion in borrowing through the global bond market, which provided financing for the century's most costly and transformative the railroad. At the hub of the bond market stood one family—the Rothschilds. With offices in London, Paris, Vienna, and Frankfurt, and through their agent August Belmont in New York, the Rothschilds were arguably the wealthiest and most powerful family in world history, possessing an unmatched ability to mobilize capital on a massive scale and wielding unparalleled political influence.

The boom predictably swelled into a series of bubbles that burst simultaneously in the early 1870s, cascading from one country to the next across Europe and the world. Governments of the major economic powers responded by blundering amid the tumult into a precipitous remaking of the global currency system—a move that not only exacerbated the ensuing economic collapse but set the stage for a prolonged twenty-year period of punitive deflation. This deflation sparked waves of populism and anti-globalization sentiment.

As Liaquat Ahamed shows us in this enthralling history, the crisis of 1873 was, among other things, a death blow to Reconstruction in the United States and the proximate cause of the Ottoman Empire's slow death spiral and Britain's takeover of Egypt. Ironically, as markets grew irrationally frenzied, the Rothschilds had presciently managed to protect themselves from the worst financial effects. Nevertheless, when the deluge came, they were viciously scapegoated everywhere as part of a wider spasm of  hatred directed at "Jewish finance," a strain of antisemitism that would come to full evil flower in Austria and Germany during the 20th century.

1873 is a marvelous birds-eye reckoning with the full dimension of the crisis, from its build-up to its long aftermath. Through the Rothschilds and a cast of other eyewitnesses, including Karl Marx and Mark Twain making cameos at crucial moments, we have witnesses on the ground to give us the human perspective. And we have a great and brilliant financial historian’s firm grasp of the larger forces at play to create a truly cohesive global narrative with thrilling explanatory power.
  • History
  • Business
The One and the Ninety-Nine: Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagion Book Cover
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The One and the Ninety-Nine: Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagion

Luke Burgis

  • May 1 - May 31
  • 1,790 entries
  • US & CA
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How to become yourself without losing everyone else.

We’re living in a time when it’s harder than ever to become a whole person—and to stay in authentic community. Some people dissolve into their group identities and lose themselves entirely. Others withdraw into ephemeral, online collectives they can float into and out of without consequence. Both are symptoms of the same a fragmented sense of self in an age of social contagion. This fragmentation is more than a personal crisis—it’s the soil in which hollow and often dangerous mass movements take root, offering counterfeit belonging to those desperate for meaning.

The One and the Ninety-Nine is a timely and inspiring exploration of what it means to forge a stable identity in the face of coercion, conformity, and the contagious desires of the crowd. Through compelling and original insights drawn from philosophy, psychology, and personal experience, author Luke Burgis examines how our lives are shaped by the groups we belong to—and how we, in turn, shape those groups. He offers a roadmap for engaging with modern society without losing our unique sense of personhood, and reveals the essential rites of passage and personal challenges that differentiate a life of meaning from one dictated by societal expectations.

People who are able to find their solid self and thrive in the space between the one and the many—who can act with integrity while being part of a community—live freer and more comfortable lives and become models for others. The One and the Ninety-Nine is a call to reject passive conformity, rediscover the depth of personality, and choose a life that is both truly personal and deeply connected.
  • Non-fiction
  • Business
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