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Negotiation Genius

How to Overcome Obstacles & Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table & Beyond
From two leaders in executive education at Harvard Business School, here are the mental habits and proven strategies you need to achieve outstanding results in any negotiation.

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business, negotiations
Read: 03/01/2017
ISBN: 978-0-553-90494-9
Pages: 352
Published: 09/25/2007
Authors: Deepak Malhotra, Max H. Bazerman

The Leadership Lessons of U.S. Navy Seals

The Navy Seal Way to Win in Business
Leadership and teamwork techniques of the military elite, where partnering is mandatory, and failure is never an option.

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business, leadership, management
Read: 06/15/2006
ISBN: 978-0-07-141678-8
Pages: 256
Published: 12/22/2002
Authors: Jeff & Jon Cannon

Power

Why Some People Have It and Others Don't
An in-depth look into how people power actually functions and operates and why some people have it and others don't. Jeffrey Pfeffer, a world renown leader in management theory and business dives deep to find the keys to obtaining and holding power.

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business, politics, management, leadership
Read: 08/10/2010
ISBN: 978-0-06-178908-3
Pages: 288
Published: 09/14/2010
Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer

What I Learned Losing A Million Dollars

Jim Paul's meteoric rise took him from a small town in Northern Kentucky to governor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, yet he lost it all -- his fortune, his reputation, and his job -- in one fatal attack of excessive economic hubris. In this honest, frank analysis, Paul and Brendan Moynihan revisit the events that led to Paul's disastrous decision and examine the psychological factors behind bad financial practices in several economic sectors.

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business, investing
Read: 07/01/2016
ISBN: 978-0-553-90494-9
Pages: 192
Published: 08/09/2014
Author: Jim Paul

Into the Woods

A Five-Act Journey Into Story
Take a historical, philosophical, scientific, and psychological journey to the heart of storytelling. Discover the five act structure and it's methods.

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storytelling, writing, creative
Read: Unread
ISBN: 978-0141978109
Pages: 336
Published: 05/29/2014
Authors: John Yorke

The 4-Hour Workweek

Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan–there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, or earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, The 4-Hour Workweek is the blueprint.

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business, automation, entrepreneurship
Read: 07/01/2015
ISBN: 978-0307465351
Pages: 416
Published: 12/15/2009
Authors: Tim Ferriss

Resonate

Present Visual Stories That Transform Audiences
By leveraging techniques normally reserved for cinema and literature, Resonate reveals how to transform any presentation into an engaging journey. You will discover how to understand your audience, create persuasive content, and elicit a groundswell response.

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business, presenetations, public speaking
Read: 08/11/2015
ISBN: 978-0470632017
Pages: 248
Published: 09/28/2010
Authors: Nancy Duarte

Do More Faster

While you'll ultimately have to make your own decisions about what's right for your business, Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup can get your entrepreneurial endeavor headed in the right direction

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business, entrepreneurship, startups
Read: 03/01/2014
ISBN: 978-0470929834
Pages: 336
Published: 08/01/2010
Authors: David Cohen, Brad Feld

Tribal Leadership

Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
The authors, management consultants and partners of JeffersonLarsonSmith, offer a fascinating look at corporate tribes—groups of 20–150 people within a company that come together on their own rather than through management decisions—and how executives can use tribes to maximize productivity and profit. Drawing upon research from a 10-year study of more than 24,000 people in two dozen organizations, they argue that tribes have the greatest influence in determining how much and what quality work gets done.

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business, management
Read: 05/01/2015
ISBN: 978-0061251320
Pages: 320
Published: 08/13/2009
Authors: Dave Logan, John King

How to Win Friends & Influence People

For more than sixty years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives.

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personal development,
Read: 03/01/2011
ISBN: 978-0762462018
Pages: 320
Published: 08/25/1937
Authors: Dale Carnegie

The Everything Store

Jeff Bezo and The Age of Amazon
Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now.

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business, e-commerce, entrepreneurship
Read: 11/15/2013
ISBN: 978-0316219266
Pages: 384
Published: 08/15/2013
Authors: Brad Stone

Picture Perfect Posing

Practicing the Art of Posting for Photographers and Models
If you want to learn how to compose photos that puts you above the rest, read this book.

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photography, portraits,
Read: 06/15/2014
ISBN: 978-0321966469
Pages: 335
Published: 03/13/2014
Authors: Roberto Valenzuela