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Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to produce the most notoriously successful game franchises in history - Doom and Quake - until the games they made tore them apart. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistry.

Driven by family values and Indian ethos, yet wholly contemporary and pioneering in their thinking and best practices, Hero firms today are renowned for putting mutually beneficial relationships at the very core of their business philosophy. The book goes deep inside the 'family spirit' that brought employees, customers, channel partners, suppliers and local communities together to create success, welfare and well-being for millions over the past seven decades. A rare story that proves how a principle-driven organization can create exceptional value for society.

डी-मार्टसारखी स्वस्तात गृहोपयोगी वस्तू, किराणा पुरवणारी सुपरमार्केट्स आज धो-धो चालत आहेत, पण ही संकल्पना भारतात आणून, यशस्वीरित्या कोणी चालवली माहिती आहे? चला, जाणून घेऊ.

उद्योजिका होण्याचं ध्यानीमनी नसताना एखादी गृहिणी एक यशस्वी उद्योजिका होते, उद्योगही असा निवडते की त्यामुळे शेतीसाठी मोठ्या प्रमाणावर सेंद्रिय खत तयार होईल, खेड्यापाड्यातल्या अनेक महिलांना रोजगार मिळेल.

Ma vie et mon œuvre: De la ferme du Michigan aux usines de Detroit, suivez le parcours exceptionnel d'Henry Ford. Dans "Ma vie et mon œuvre", le fondateur de Ford Motor Company vous dévoile les secrets de son succès. Autobiographie d'Andrew Carnegie: De l'Écosse à l'Amérique, un destin hors du commun. Andrew Carnegie, le roi de l'acier, vous ouvre les portes de son univers dans cette autobiographie passionnante.

My real story starts with a disaster, an unmitigated, pull-the-rug-from-under-you, clean-out-the-bank-account disaster. But had it not happened, The Police would never have risen to become the biggest rock band in the world; Jools Holland would not have ended up on TV; The Bangles, The Go-Go’s, R.E.M., and many other music stars might never have made it either. It’s strange how a fluke, a disaster, an unlikely event can lead to incredible results. But that is in essence what happened to me....

James Harmon has always had a passion for ambitious causes. As a banker, he successfully advised corporations, like Starbucks, and helped them to become cultural institutions. Dabbling in the movie and music industries, he found meaning in funding the art he felt would make people happy and add to the public good. His unique perspective on investment led him to the Clinton White House as head of EXIM Bank and, eventually, to Egypt, where he represented the State Department shortly after the Arab Spring. Still ​"up and doing," today he co-chairs the board of the World Resources Institute.

Born and raised in a tarpaper shack, Grand Chief Ron Derrickson went on to become one of the most successful Indigenous businessmen in Canada. As a political leader, he served as chief of the Westbank First Nation for a dozen years and was made a grand chief by the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs. Along the way, he has been the target of a full Royal Commission and an assassination attempt by a hitman hired by local Whites. As chief, he increased his community's revenues by 3,500 percent and led his people into a war in the forest over logging rights.

「同僚が次々辞めていく仕事」住宅営業マンが目撃する買い手と売り手の熾烈な攻防戦――

What makes a soldier? What makes a business mind? What makes a philanthropist? In this rich memoir, Canadian icon of mining finance and public service Terry Salman reflects on his remarkable life, offering inspiration and mentorship for others seeking to build their own legacies. He recounts the moments that shaped him: the brotherhood of the U.S. Marines and the lifelong duty of loyalty and community they instilled in him; the traumas he endured as a young sergeant in Vietnam; his return to Canada and the mentors who helped guide his success; and his many roles in helping others.

「若者はまずやらない仕事」住民の不服、苦情、その最前線管理員が見つめる鈍色のドラマ――どん底からの奮闘の記録――大反響を呼んだ『交通誘導員ヨレヨレ日記』シリーズ第4弾

In the late 1930s, legendary financier, philanthropist, and society figure Alfred Lee Loomis gathered the most visionary scientific minds of the 20th century at his state-of-the-art laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York. He established a top-secret defense laboratory at MIT and personally bankrolled pioneering research into new, high-powered radar detection systems that helped defeat the German Air Force and U-boats. With Ernest Lawrence, he pushed Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fund research in nuclear fission, which led to the development of the atomic bomb.

Historien om Janni Brodersen, der blev til Spies, der blev til Spies-Kjær og så til Spies igen, har som et af virkelighedens mest fantasifulde eventyr alle de ingredienser, der fordres. Den fattige pige, "skønheden", med de reelle forældre og den sunde opvækst, der møder "uhyret", der om ikke er prins, så i alle tilfælde den konge, der fører hende ind i de glatbonede haller, hvor penge er en selvfølge, og hvor også de fremtidige mænds status gav hende adgangskortet til jetsettet og de finere kredse.

When Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin signed up for Teach for America right after college and found themselves utter failures in the classroom, they vowed to remake themselves into superior educators. They did that and more. In their early twenties, by sheer force of talent and determination never to take no for an answer, they created a wildly successful fifth-grade experience that would grow into the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), which today includes 66 schools in 19 states and the District of Columbia.

Audiobook, który widzisz przed sobą to druga część z serii zawierającej łącznie pięćdziesiąt krótkich biografii nieprzeciętnych ludzi – przedsiębiorców samouków, którzy często wbrew ciężkim warunkom, biedzie i brakowi szkolnej edukacji odnieśli w życiu wielkie sukcesy, w sposób zasadniczy wpływając na świat, jaki znamy.

A Road Well Traveled offers many lessons to be drawn from the pioneers of the automotive industry and the fascinating lives they led. Some became fabulously wealthy; others died in obscurity. But they developed America's largest industry in the space of one generation and demonstrated the skills and characteristics necessary to achieve such success.

तंत्रज्ञानाचा वापर मूठभर सुखवस्तू लोकांसाठी नाही तर सर्वसामान्य लोकांकरता झाला तर त्यातून सर्वांचंच आयुष्य सुखकर होणार आहे. हीच गोष्ट लक्षात घेऊन आदित्य इंगळहळीकर यांनी पाठीच्या दुखण्यापासून आराम देणारी उपकरणं, तंत्रज्ञान विकसित केलं, लोकांकरता ते उपलब्ध करून दिलं. त्याचीच गोष्ट आता आपण ऐकणार आहोत.

वयाच्या सोळाव्या वर्षांपासून वडिलांच्या कंपनीत काम करण्यास सुरुवात केलेली लहानगी देविता काहीच वर्षात आपल्या मेहनतीच्या जोरावर कंपनीची सीईओ बनली. इतकंच नाही तर टेलिव्हिजन व्यवसायातही तिनं स्वत:चं वेगळ काम निर्माण करून त्यावरही आपली नाममुद्रा उमटवली. देवितासारख्या महत्वाकांक्षी मुलीला हे कसं साध्य झालं?