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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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