Featured New Business & Management Titles
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Writing AI Prompts For Dummies
Learn the art of writing effective AI prompts and break into an exciting new career field
Unlock the full power of generative AI with Writing AI Prompts For Dummies, a comprehensive guide that will teach you how to confidently write effective AI prompts. Whether it's text, images, or even videos and music you're aiming to create, this book provides the foundational knowledge and practical strategies needed to produce impressive results.
Embark on a journey of discovery with Writing AI Prompts For Dummies and learn how to:
- Craft AI prompts that produce the most powerful results.
- Navigate the complexities of different AI platforms with ease.
- Generate a diverse range of content, from compelling narratives to stunning visuals.
- Refine AI-generated output to perfection and integrate that output effectively into your business or project.
This resource is brimming with expert guidance and will help you write AI prompts that achieve your objectives. Whether you're a marketer, educator, artist, or entrepreneur, Writing AI Prompts For Dummies is your indispensable guide for leveraging AI to its fullest potential. Get ready to harness the power of artificial intelligence and spark a revolution in your creative and professional efforts.
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The Disruptors
Fearless, innovative, driven and daring. These are the qualities of a disruptor: a business that is willing to take risks to achieve incredible success.
In The Disruptors, leading business journalist Sally Percy investigates the stories behind some of the world's most innovative businesses, who took unconventional and trailblazing approaches to overcome the competition and achieve success.
Spotify, Nintendo, TikTok and A24. These are all businesses that have taken disruptive pathways to success and have redefined their industries. The Disruptors dives into the strategies behind these stories, offering valuable insights into innovative and daring entrepreneurship. -
Your First Million
Build lasting wealth and impact with lessons from the "bold and relentless disruptor" changing the face of entrepreneurship in America (Black Enterprise).
Having lived nearly her entire life below the poverty line before going on to attain wealth and success as an entrepreneur and investor, Arlan Hamilton knows that entrepreneurship is the quickest path to money and power--particularly for those who haven't had much of it in the past. In Your First Million, she shows how anyone--no matter what they look like or how much money they have--can tap into all the new tools they have at their disposal to get their million-dollar idea off the ground.
Readers will learn how to: identify unmet needs, raise money, choose the right collaborators, create multiple income streams, and turn their unique knowledge and experience into a profitable business--while reinvesting in their communities and empowering others to do the same.
If we can change who gets to decide what new ideas are worthy, and who gets to turn those ideas into reality, not only can we change our own circumstances--we can change the world.
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Business Writing with AI For Dummies
Learn how to generate high quality, business documents with AI
This essential guide helps business writers and other professionals learn the strengths and weaknesses of AI as a writing assistant. You'll discover how AI can help you by chopping through writer's block, drafting an outline, generating headlines and titles, producing meaningful text, maintaining consistency, proofreading and editing, and optimizing content for search engines. Employees in all industries spend enormous amounts of energy writing, editing, and proofreading documents of all kinds. Now, you can improve your efficiency and boost the quality of your work, thanks to AI writing tools like ChatGPT, Jaspar, Grammarly, and beyond. With clear instructions and simple tips, Business Writing with AI For Dummies guides you through the process of using AI for common business writing tasks.
- Produce high quality, specialized writing quicker and at a lower cost
- Use AI to draft business-related content like emails, articles, business plans, grant proposals, bios, websites, and many others
- Incorporate AI into your writing process to make your workday more efficient
- Take advantage of AI so you can focus your human creativity on going beyond the basics
For business professionals facing tight deadlines or large volumes of writing tasks, this easy-to-use Dummies guide will be a game changer.
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The AI-Driven Leader
The difference between growing your business and going out of business is your ability to think strategically. The problem: Leaders are stuck in the operational weeds, while their competition gains an edge with AI. The time to act is now.
In The AI-Driven Leader, you'll learn how to:
The AI-Driven Leader gives you a simple path to harness AI as your Thought Partner. Grow your business, outpace the competition, and get more done in less time.
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Broke Millennial Takes On Investing
A guide to investing basics by the author of Broke Millennial, for anyone who feels like they aren't ready (or rich enough) to get into the market
Millennials want to learn how to start investing. The problem is that most have no idea where to begin. There's a significant lack of information out there catering to the concerns of new millennial investors, such as:
* Should I invest while paying down student loans?
* How do I invest in a socially responsible way?
* What about robo-advisors and apps--are any of them any good?
* Where can I look online for investment advice?
In this second book in the Broke Millennial series, Erin Lowry answers those questions and delivers all of the investment basics in one easy-to-digest package. Tackling topics ranging from common terminology to how to handle your anxiety to retirement savings and even how to actually buy and sell a stock, this hands-on guide will help any investment newbie become a confident player in the market on their way to building wealth. -
Expectations Investing
Most investment books try to assess the attractiveness of a stock price by estimating the value of the company. Expectations Investing provides a powerful and insightful alternative to identifying gaps between price and value.
Michael J. Mauboussin and Alfred Rappaport suggest that an investor start with a known quantity, the stock price, and ask what it implies for future financial results. After showing how to read expectations, Mauboussin and Rappaport provide a guide to rigorous strategic and financial analysis to help investors assess the likelihood of revisions to these expectations. Their framework traces value creation from the triggers that shape a company's performance to the impact on the value drivers. This allows a practitioner of expectations investing to determine whether a stock is an attractive buy or sell candidate.
Investors who read this book will be able to evaluate stocks of companies in any sector or geography more effectively than those who use the standard approaches of most investors. Managers can use the book's principles to devise, adjust, and communicate their company's strategy in light of shareholder expectations.
This revised and updated edition reflects the many changes in accounting and the business landscape since the book was first published and provides a wealth of new examples and case studies. -
Value Investing
Explore the modern extension of value investing in this essential text from "the guru to Wall Street’s gurus"
The substantially rewritten Second Edition of Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond delivers an incisive and refined approach to investing grounded on almost 100 years of history, beginning with Graham and Dodd. Founded on the value investing course taught for almost twenty-five years by co-author Bruce Greenwald at Columbia Business School, the book helps investors consistently land on the profitable side of the trade.
Readers will learn how to search for underpriced securities, value them accurately, hone a research strategy, and apply it all in the context of a risk management practice that mitigates the chance of a permanent loss of capital.
The new edition includes:
- Two innovative new chapters discussing the valuation of growth stocks, a perennial problem for investors in the Graham and Dodd tradition
- New profiles of successful investors, including Tom Russo, Paul Hilal, and Andrew Weiss
- An extended discussion of risk management, including modern best practices in an environment where it is often divorced from individual security selection
A substantive expansion of an already highly regarded book, Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond is the premier text discussing the application of timeless investing principles within a transformed economic environment. It is an essential resource for portfolio managers, retail and institutional investors, and anyone else with a professional or personal interest in securities valuation and investing.
Successful value investing practitioners have graced both the course and this book with presentations describing what they really do when they are at work. Find brief descriptions of their practices within, and video presentations available on the web site that accompanies this volume: www.wiley.com/go/greenwald/valueinvesting2e
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AI Investing For Dummies
Winning strategies for investors looking to boost gains with artificial intelligence
AI is one of the hottest investment trends on Wall Street. AI Investing For Dummies gives you all the must-know details on how artificial intelligence can benefit investors. You’ll learn how powerful AI can be in helping you make better decisions, identify hidden opportunities, and build wealth in stocks, bonds, commodities, and real estate. This easy-to-understand Dummies guide also covers budgeting, taxes, estates, and planning for college and retirement—all with AI-specific tactics that can improve efficiency, mitigate risk, and level up your portfolio’s performance. You’ll also find all the info you need to sift through and implement the right resources and solutions for you.
- Understand the benefits and drawbacks of AI investing
- Debunk the biggest myths about AI investing
- Get an in-depth analysis of the top AI stocks to watch
- Learn how to avoid common pitfalls in AI investing
- Take a peek at the role of AI in shaping the future of finance
This is the ideal Dummies resource for consumers and investors who are new to AI and want to wrap their heads around this emerging technology.
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15 Lies Women Are Told at Work
USA TODAY BESTSELLER
“A book to gift to your sister, mother, friend, aunt, best friend, and beyond, and it’s filled with the wisdom that exponentially transforms your career and life.” —Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper
A masterclass in success from the mailroom to the boardroom from one of the most powerful women in corporate America, discover the un-common-sense women need to succeed—and the lies to ignore along the way.
Bonnie Hammer’s legendary career spans five decades in a turbulent, male-driven industry. Today, Bonnie is a powerful leader at the very top of her field, and women at all levels constantly ask her: What is your secret to success?
Her power—and her staying power—comes from rejecting common myths about how women are “supposed” to act in the workplace. She knows that the traditional wisdom women are told about work—pithy phrases like “don’t mix work with play,” “talk is cheap,” “follow your dreams,” “know your worth,” “trust your gut,” and “you can have it all”—hold women back. Having risen from an entry-level production assistant whose chief charge was a dog, to a transformative, top executive at NBCUniversal, Bonnie challenges conventional workplace wisdom and shares the uncommon sense women need to succeed.
Bonnie has mentored countless women in every industry, and she leads NBCUniversal’s masterclass for female executives. She’s known for telling the uncensored and uncompromising truth—even when it isn’t easy to hear. Now, she gives you, the reader, her private masterclass—replacing the lies women have been fed about work with her unique time-tested wisdom. You will leave with powerful new truths and easily digestible, practical advice to apply in your own life.
Written with humor and heart, and full of insights and research that illuminate her points, 15 Lies Women Are Told at Work is a portable mentor for working women. It doesn’t just explain one woman’s rise to the top in a tough industry; it shows how any woman can rise as high as she wants in her own work world. -
The Whole Story
An Adam Grant Summer Reading Pick 2024
Whole Foods Market’s Cofounder and CEO for 44 years, John Mackey offers an intimate and provocative account of the rise of this iconic company and the personal and spiritual journey that inspired its remarkable impact.
The growth of Whole Foods isn’t just a business success story—it’s the story of a retail, cultural, and dietary revolution that has forever changed the industry and the way we eat. After more than four decades at the helm, John Mackey is ready to share never-before-told tales of the people and passions behind the beloved brand.
The Whole Story invites readers on the adventure of building Whole Foods Market: the colorful cast of idealists and foodies who formed the company’s DNA, the many breakthroughs and missteps; the camaraderie and the conflict, and the narrowly avoided disasters. Mackey takes us inside some of the most consequential decisions he had to make and honestly shares his regrets looking back.
Beyond the Whole Foods story, Mackey also dives into his:- Spiritual journey: from Christianity to New Age mysticism, Eastern wisdom, and life-changing awakenings through psychedelics
- Political and intellectual development: from countercultural co-op dweller to libertarian and Conscious Capitalist
- Philosophical and ethical awakenings: especially with regard to animal welfare and the tension between his personal values and industry practices
- Personal passions: most notably, his love of long-distance, ultra-light backpacking on the great trails of our country and planet
For the millions of people who know and love Whole Foods, Mackey’s story is a candid look at the fellowship and meaning born of a shared mission and how an inimitable entrepreneur shepherded a startup hippy food store into the market-leading international brand it is today. -
How the World Ran Out of Everything
By the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey to understand the worldwide supply chain--exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that bring products to your doorstep, and the ruthless business logic that has left local communities at the mercy of a complex and fragile network for their basic necessities.
"A tale that will change how you look at the world." --Mark Leibovich
One of Foreign Policy's "Most Anticipated Books of 2024"
How does the wealthiest country on earth run out of protective gear in the middle of a public health catastrophe How do its parents find themselves unable to locate crucially needed infant formula How do its largest companies spend billions of dollars making cars that no one can drive for a lack of chips
The last few years have radically highlighted the intricacy and fragility of the global supply chain. Enormous ships were stuck at sea, warehouses overflowed, and delivery trucks stalled. The result was a scarcity of everything from breakfast cereal to medical devices, from frivolous goods to lifesaving necessities. And while the scale of the pandemic shock was unprecedented, it underscored the troubling reality that the system was fundamentally at risk of descending into chaos all along. And it still is. Sabotaged by financial interests, loss of transparency in markets, and worsening working conditions for the people tasked with keeping the gears turning, our global supply chain has become perpetually on the brink of collapse.
In How the World Ran Out of Everything, award-winning journalist Peter S. Goodman reveals the fascinating innerworkings of our supply chain and the factors that have led to its constant, dangerous vulnerability. His reporting takes readers deep into the elaborate system, showcasing the triumphs and struggles of the human players who operate it--from factories in Asia and an almond grower in Northern California, to a group of striking railroad workers in Texas, to a truck driver who Goodman accompanies across hundreds of miles of the Great Plains. Through their stories, Goodman weaves a powerful argument for reforming a supply chain to become truly reliable and resilient, demanding a radical redrawing of the bargain between labor and shareholders, and deeper attention paid to how we get the things we need.
From one of the most respected economic journalists working today, How the World Ran Out of Everything is a fiercely smart, deeply informative look at how our supply chain operates, and why its reform is crucial--not only to avoid dysfunction in our day to day lives, but to protect the fate of our global fortunes.
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Best Story Wins
An inspiring, practical, and timely new guide on how to harness the power of storytelling in our communications at work.
Whether you're standing up in front of a crowd at a conference or chatting with a colleague in an elevator, storytelling is the most effective way to get your point across. It works in ninety-second Superbowl television spots, it works in ten-second social media formats, and it works in that email you have to fire off in five seconds flat.
Why? The short answer is that people don't make decisions based on logic. They make decisions based on emotions. To persuade, influence, and inspire, you need to make an emotional connection. And storytelling is the best way of doing that.
Journalist-turned-business coach Mark Edwards has developed his own methodology for telling compelling stories at work. Best Story Wins shows how storytelling will make better communicators of us all. -
Diversity Dividend
From entry-level to the boardroom, what works to create large-scale change in organizations looking to accelerate their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and reap financial benefits.
Every leader endeavors to invest in and manage their key asset—talent—to be as high-performing as possible. Like a winning stock, successful diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) actions pay back over time. That dividend is paid both to the company—through not only higher performance but also talent acquisition, training, and other savings—and to society in general. In Diversity Dividend, Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio offers a fresh, detailed look at how to realize gender and racial equity along the company-employee pathway—from attracting and interviewing applicants to onboarding, promoting, and sustaining hires—and how to remove systemic barriers at the organizational level that prevent women and underrepresented groups from advancing.
While other books have delved into DEI and the challenges inherent in sustaining successful efforts, no book has done so in concert with the depth and scope of data, basis in science, and application in the real world. In Diversity Dividend, Cecchi-Dimeglio artfully combines accessible anecdotal cases—where success was achieved or where, despite best intentions and efforts, things did not go as expected—with scientifically rigorous solutions as well as applications of data and big data.
As empowering as it is comprehensive, Diversity Dividend helps remove the guesswork and near-superstition that naturally arise when some methods work and others fail, thereby giving leaders the tools and insight to make informed choices at the right moments to create lasting change. -
How Work Works
A PORCHLIGHT BEST BUSINESS BOOK AWARD WINNER
AN INC. MAGAZINE NON-OBVIOUS BOOK AWARDS PICK
A unique and revelatory guide to understanding and navigating the unwritten rules of the workplace--the key to achieving success, finding meaning, and staying true to your authentic self in today's business world--from the organizational expert and celebrated author of The Fix.
In her two decades researching organizations, Michelle King has discovered that people who succeed possess a particularly unique skill: They know how workplaces work. More specifically, to get ahead, they do not rely on the often generic and outdated written formal rules that for a century have defined the workplace. Instead, they have learned to gauge how they should behave and perform by becoming aware of informal (and unspoken) rules that exist just below the surface, rather than "formal" organizational guidelines. In this one-of-a-kind guide, King offers her proprietary framework based on over ten years of research and hundreds of employees who reached leadership positions. By focusing on five key areas -- navigating informal networks; developing self-awareness and awareness of others; learning the skills you need to be adaptive to changing conditions; getting support for your next promotion; and finding meaning and fulfillment at work--King teaches every professional how to understand and make these systems work for them and achieve their career ambitions.
The new world of work requires a new way of working. With more people vying for top positions, a volatile unpredictable global workplace, and an ever-evolving landscape, it is increasingly important for employees to understand how to negotiate the unspoken and intangible elements of workplace culture.. In How Work Works, King dispels old myths and provides keen observations about what it means to find belonging, build networks, manage the informal and ultimately thrive at work.
Business Library Card
Do you have a business or non-profit based in Wilmette or Kenilworth? Access our powerful business databases, books on the latest business and management trends, and much more.
To qualify for a Wilmette library business card, you need:
- Identification of the owner or manager, who will be responsible for all materials associated with the account
- A current tax bill, lease agreement, or utility bill with the business’ or non-profit’s name and address within the Wilmette/Kenilworth Public Library District
To apply, simply bring the above items to the Circulation Desk during business hours. Wilmette Public Library business cards are good for one year and are renewable.
Questions? Call the Circulation Desk at 847.256.5025.
SCORE Mentorship Counseling
SCORE One-on-One Counseling for Small Businesses
Schedule a free, one-hour session with a SCORE mentor. Sessions will be held in the library's Small Meeting Room or a study room.
SCORE is a resource partner for the Small Business Administration. Its regional mentors work with Wilmette Public Library to connect entrepreneurs with seasoned mentors. Founded in 1964 as the Service Corps of Retired Executives, it is the nation’s largest network of volunteer business mentors, with 10,000 volunteers serving all 50 U.S. states and territories.
To schedule a mentorship appointment, please contact business librarian John Amundsen at jamundsen@wilmettelibrary.info.
Private Meeting Rooms & Meeting/Event Spaces
Private Study Rooms
Need a private meeting space? The library offers study rooms that can accommodate four people - Wilmette Public Library cardholders can reserve up to two hours a day and up to one week in advance. View Availability & Reserve >>
Larger Meeting and Event Spaces
Need something larger? Wilmette Public Library cardholders can reserve our Small Meeting Room (15 max capacity) or Auditorium (90 max capacity) for a nominal fee. Contact Marti Bellefontaine for more information.
Business Reference Appointments
Have a business reference question, need help with our resources, or don't know where to begin?
Contact business librarian John Amundsen via email or call 847.256.6954 to set up a reference appointment over the phone, via virtual meeting, or in person at the library.
Strictly Business Voices Blog
Strictly Business Voices is the library's business services blog. Follow us for contributions from community leaders and discussions on business trends, as well as information on our business programs and services.
Print Investment Newsletters
- Bob Carlson's Retirement Watch*
- DRIP Investor*
- Kiplinger Tax Letter
- Kiplinger Letter : Forecasts for Management Decision making
- Moneyletter
- Kiplinger's Investing for Income
- Kiplinger's Personal Finance
- Kiplinger’s Retirement Report
- No Load Fund Investor
- Richard E. Band’s Profitable Investing
* Available to browse online in-library; please ask a librarian for assistance.
Print Business & Investment Newspapers and Magazines
- Advertising Age
- Barron’s*
- Business Week
- Crain’s Chicago Business*
- Entrepreneur
- Financial Times
- Forbes
- Fortune
- Harvard Business Review*
- Inc.
- Investor’s Business Daily
- Small Business Opportunities
- Small Business Tax News
- Wall Street Journal*
*Available to browse online in-library; please ask a librarian for assistance.
Business & Investment Databases
Barron's
Barron's is a leading source of financial news, providing in-depth analysis and commentary on stocks, investments and markets.
Crain's Chicago Business
Gale Business: Entrepre- neurship
Gale offers small business resources, market research, and planning tools to support entrepreneurs at every stage of the business lifecycle.
Gale Business: Insights
Gale Business: Insights delivers international company and industry intelligence including detailed profiles, news, case studies, scholarly articles, and more.
Gale Business: Plan Builder
Leads prospective entrepreneurs of all experience levels through a step-by-step process to build business plans and other documents essential for gaining access to capital and growing enterprises.
Gale Courses
Available 24/7, Gale Courses provides more than 360 six-week long, online programs taught by college instructors.
Gale Demographics Now
Mapping and market research tool featuring demographics data, market research and directory information on 24 million businesses and 206 million residents.
Gale Directory Library
The Gale Directory Library collects directories on companies, publishers, and associations, with search and export tools useful to generating mailing lists, analyzing trends, and more.
Legal Information Source
Navigate legal matters of all kinds with reliable “how-to” information and thousands of federal, multi-state and state-specific legal forms.
LexisNexis (Nexis Uni)
Nexis Uni (LexisNexis) features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn Learning offers video tutorials on business, creative, and technology topics.
Mergent Archives
Mergent Archives collects over a century's worth of global corporate and industry related documents, with reports covering more than 100 countries and industries.
Mergent Intellect
Mergent Intellect features information on both public and private companies worldwide, including business data, industry news, executive contact information, the ability to access industry profiles, a job search database, and more.
Morningstar
Morningstar offers real-time access to comprehensive data and independent analysis on thousands of investments, spanning mutual funds, stocks, exchange-traded funds, and closed-end funds.
NetAdvantage
NetAdvantage, by Standard and Poor's, provides information on companies, industries, the stock market, the economy, and long- and short-term prospects for equities, bonds, funds and industries.
Record Information Services
Record Information Services provides Illinois public record data and marketing lists in a searchable database.
Reference Solutions (Reference USA)
Data Axle Reference Solutions (formerly ReferenceUSA) offers access to comprehensive, verified business and consumer listings.
Small Business Source
Access the top consumer small business reference books, hundreds of full-text magazines and “how-to” instructions to independently address a wide range of small business topics.
Statista
A database that encompasses statistical data for 170+ industries including market and consumer data and reports.
Udemy
An online learning platform offering self-directed courses on topics including data science, development, IT, leadership and management, marketing, personal development, project management, and more, with most offering a certificate of completion.
Value Line
Value Line is a comprehensive investment tool that enables both new and experienced investors to make timely, better-informed decisions.
Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is considered a preeminent publication for business news and information on financial markets worldwide. Complete issues are available from 1984 through the most recent issue.
Weiss Ratings
Rates safety and financial stability for banks, credit unions, insurers, stocks and mutual funds. Includes a Medigap Plan selection tool.