Leor's Reading List

Only a few years ago, Leor caught the book bug. Some books have offered him entertainment, others have had a profound impact on him. Skim over this list for an idea of what Leor is into or for recommendations for your own reading list. Enjoy!

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Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

by: Seth Godin

Amazon Price: $11.99 (as of 12/02/2008)

It's not enough just to do - you need to lead. Leaders don't need to lead everyone, just a group of those that are as passionate as they are about something.

Greatest take away - there's no Bureau of Idea Approval. If you have an idea, go make it happen!

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Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync?

by: Seth Godin

Amazon Price: $15.57 (as of 12/02/2008)

Seth Godin gives 14 trends that businesses should follow to use New Marketing. You can't just create a blog and hope your business will blossom ... you have to change the way you do business.

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Secrets of Power Negotiating

by: Roger Dawson

Amazon Price: $11.55 (as of 12/02/2008)

Roger Dawson does an amazing job going over different negotiation strategies. Definitely an eye opener!

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The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living

by: Randy Komisar

Amazon Price: $13.60 (as of 12/02/2008)

Yup, I'm reading this right now.

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The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

by: Timothy Ferriss

Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 12/02/2008)

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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales

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After her plane crashes, a seventeen-year-old girl spends eleven days walking through the Peruvian jungle. Against all odds, with no food, shelter, or equipment, she gets out. A better-equipped group of adult survivors of the same crash sits down and dies. What makes the difference?

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The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin

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The old saying is wrong-winners do quit, and quitters do win.

Every new project (or job, or hobby, or company) starts out exciting and fun. Then it gets harder and less fun, until it hits a low point-really hard, and not much fun at all.

And then you find yourself asking if the goal is even worth the hassle. Maybe you're in a Dip-a temporary setback that will get better if you keep pushing. But maybe it's really a Cul-de-Sac, which will never get better, no matter how....0 points

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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Stephen R. Covey

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The New York Times Bestseller!
Learn how to keep your cool and get the results you want when emotions flare.

When stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong, you have three choices: Avoid a crucial conversation and suffer the consequences; handle the conversation badly and suffer the consequences; or read Crucial Conversations and discover how to communicate best when it matters most. Crucial Conversations gives you the tools you need to step up to life's most difficult and importan...
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How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff

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"There is terror in numbers," writes Darrell Huff in How to Lie with Statistics. And nowhere does this terror translate to blind acceptance of authority more than in the slippery world of averages, correlations, graphs, and trends. Huff sought to break through "the daze that follows the collision of statistics with the human mind" with this slim volume, first published in 1954. The book remains relevant as a wake-up call for people unaccustomed to examining the endless flow of numbers pouring fr...0 points

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Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life by David Allen

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In Getting Things Done, David Allen offered a breakthrough system to enhance productivity-at work and in daily life. Now "the guru of personal productivity" (Fast Company) asks readers what is holding them back and shows how they can be ready for anything-with a clear mind, a clear deck, and clear intentions.

Based on Allen's highly popular e-newsletter, Principles of Productivity, Ready for Anything offers fifty-two principles to clear your head, focus productively, create structures that work...0 points

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Over The Top by Zig Ziglar

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Drawing on his forty plus years as a world-class motivated speaker, Ziglar shows precisely how to achieve what people desire most from life -- to be happy, healthy, reasonably prosperous and secure, and to have friends, peace of mind, good family relationships and hope.0 points

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The World According to Peter Drucker by Jack Beatty

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Peter Drucker's influence is global: his twenty-nine books have sold over five million copies, and they have been translated into nearly every language in the world. His views on management industrial organization, business strategy, leadership development and employee motivation have tutored not just companies but countries -- Drucker served as a guru to the postwar Japanese economic miracle -- and he has an earned reputation for forecasting future social and economic trends. His concepts and....
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Secrets of Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar

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Whether presenting a product or principle, service or idea, we all engage in sales. Zig Ziglar presents winning techniques for getting a positive response and establishing dynamic relationships. Readers discover how to: o project warmth, enthusiasm, and integrity o effectively use 100 creative closes o increase productivity and professionalism o overcome the five basic reasons people will not buy o deal respectfully with challenging prospects0 points

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Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? by Louis Gerstner

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Zero Resistance Selling by Maxwell Maltz

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What's the single biggest obstacle salespeople face? Resistance.
In Zero-Resistance Selling, five of the most respected sales authorities in America have joined together to prepare the first and only customized application of Psycho-Cybernetics to overcome all types of sales resistance.
Any sales representative or sales management professional can use Maxwell Maltz's high-powered battery of mental training exercises to enhance selling ability and get immediate results. Topics include conquering....
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The Psychology Of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman

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Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure our which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this fascinating, ingenious-even liberating-book, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores the needs of users and the principles of cognitive psychology.The problems range from ambiguous and hidden controls to arbitrary relationships between controls and functions, coupled with a lack of feedback o...0 points

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Money and Power: The History of Business by Howard Means

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The dramatic story of greed, money, power, and the moguls and dynasties that have shaped business
From merchant ships to microchips, industry has been defined by the powerful business leaders who have caused seismic shifts in the growth of commerce. The companion book to the acclaimed CNBC documentary, Money and Power takes readers on a gripping journey following the movement of power from east to west-from the feudal estates of medieval Europe to the halls of modern finance, from the teeming s...
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IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black

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Published to extraordinary praise, this provocative international bestseller details the story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany. IBM and the Holocaust provides a chilling investigation into corporate complicity, and the atrocities witnessed raise startling questions that throw IBM's wartime ethics into serious doubt. Edwin Black's monumental research exposes how IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies for the Nazis, step-by-step, from the identifi...0 points

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Real Estate Investing for Canadians for Dummies (For Dummies) by Middlemiss

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Real Estate Investing For Canadians For Dummies offers a clear, comprehensive, and Canadian look at real estate investing. Whether you're a novice or experienced investor, you'll find valuable advice inside, covering everything from investigating properties (and other investment options, such as REITs), to securing financing, to managing properties, to knowing when to sell. Real-life anecdotes, useful web resources, and a balanced perspective will make this the ideal book for people looking to e...0 points

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On Becoming A Leader: The Leadership Classic--Updated And Expanded by Warren Bennis

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With a new introduction by the authorWarren Bennis's formative years, in the 1930s and '40s, were characterized by severe economic hardship and a world war that showcased the extreme depths and heights to which leaders could drive their followers. Today's environment is similarly chaotic, turbulent, and uncertain. On Becoming a Leader has served for nearly fifteen years as a beacon of insight, delving into the qualities that define leadership, the people who exemplify it, and the strategies that...0 points

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Real Estate Investing in Canada: Creating Wealth with the ACRE System by Don R. Campbell

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Finally--A Proven Strategy for Real Estate Investment
Do you wonder if the real estate market has passed you by? Or perhaps you think prices can't go any higher and the real estate bubble is about to burst? Maybe you're of the opinion that the profitable properties have been snapped up and there's no room left for you. Well, here's some great news: amazing opportunities exist in the Canadian real estate market for investors who understand how big-picture economic fundamentals can be combined wi...
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The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki

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What does it take to turn ideas into action? What are the elements of a perfect pitch? How do you win the war for talent? How do you establish a brand without bucks? These are some of the issues everyone faces when starting or revitalizing any undertaking, and Guy Kawasaki, former marketing maven of Apple Computer, provides the answers.
The Art of the Start will give you the essential steps to launch great products, services, and companies-whether you are dreaming of starting the next Micro...
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97 Tips for Canadian Real Estate Investors by Don R. Campbell, Peter Kinch, Barry McGuire, Russell Westcott

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From the Bestselling Author of real Estate Investing in Canada.
What can you learn from four Canadian real estate experts who have 100-plus years of collective investing experience?
Whether you are a beginning investor or own a portfolio of residential units, 97 Tips for Canadian real Estate Investors will provide you with insights, strategies and success stories to help you build wealth faster and save time and money.
You'll discover the challenges and pitfalls they have experienced-and how....
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The One Minute Apology: A Powerful Way to Make Things Better by Ken Blanchard, Margret McBride

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With his phenomenal bestsellers The One Minute Manager and Raving Fans, Ken Blanchard changed the way we approach management, leadership, and customer service. Now Blanchard, along with coauthor Margret McBride, presents a concept that, when implemented properly, is one of the most powerful actions for improving company and employee morale. This is also a book that can extend well beyond the business realm and can repair relationships that we thought were broken forever.

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Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

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Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime?

These may not sound like typical questions for an econo-mist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life-from cheating and crime to sports and ch...
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Nothing Down for the 2000s: Dynamic New Wealth Strategies in Real Estate by Robert G. Allen

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With more than a million copies in print, Robert Allen's Nothing Down for the '90s has probably helped more people achieve success in real estate than any book in history. Countless numbers of his readers are now financially independent and many actual millionaires attribute their wealth to his techniques. Why has this blockbuster bestseller been so successful? The answer is simple: it works! Now, in one of the most practical books you'll ever read, Robert Allen has created effective new wealth....0 points

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Multiple Streams of Income: How to Generate a Lifetime of Unlimited Wealth! Second Edition by Robert G. Allen

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In Multiple Streams of Income, bestselling author Robert Allen presents ten revolutionary new methods for generating over $100,000 a year—on a part-time basis, working from your home, using little or none of your own money. For this book, Allen researched hundreds of income-producing opportunities and narrowed them down to ten surefire moneymakers anyone can profit from. This revised edition includes a new chapter on a cutting-edge investing technique.0 points

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Rich Dad, Poor Dad (Rich Dad) by Robert T. Kiyosaki

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Personal-finance author and lecturer Robert Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective through exposure to a pair of disparate influences: his own highly educated but fiscally unstable father, and the multimillionaire eighth-grade dropout father of his closest friend. The lifelong monetary problems experienced by his "poor dad" (whose weekly paychecks, while respectable, were never quite sufficient to meet family needs) pounded home the counterpoint communicated by his "rich dad" (that "...0 points

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Big Bucks! by Ken Blanchard, Sheldon Bowles

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With Big Bucks! bestselling authors Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles unlock the secrets of making serious money for both you and your company. Through a series of easy-to-follow steps and powerful strategies, Blanchard and Bowles show how anyone can create lasting wealth. By focusing on concepts like commitment, intensity, purpose, and even fun, the authors have crafted a totally new--and irresistible--paradigm for unlimited success.

Written in the parable style of their previous books, Raving F...
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It Only Takes 1% to Have a Competitive Edge in Sales by Thomas A Freese

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Life is not fair. Selling is not fair either. Look around and you will see that the salesperson with the best product doesn't always win the sale. It's because every salesperson out there claims to have the best service, the highest quality, and the best deal. As a result, customers are quick to commoditize these similiar-sounding claims of greatness, and they instead gravitate toward products, companies, and salespersons who can differentiate themselves in some way.
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Gung Ho! Turn On the People in Any Organization by Ken Blanchard

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Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles, co-authors of the New York Times business bestseller Raving Fans, are back with Gung Ho! Here is an invaluable management tool that outlines foolproof ways to increase productivity by fostering excellent morale in the workplace. It is a must-read for everyone who wants to stay on top in today's ultra-competitive business world.
Raving Fans taught managers how to turn customers into full-fledged fans. Now, Gung Ho! brings the same magic to employees. Through the....
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Secrets of Question Based Selling: How the Most Powerful Tool in Business Can Double Your Sales Results by Thomas Freese

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Question Based Selling ( QBS®) is a commonsense approach to sales, based on the theory that "what" salespeople ask-and "how" they ask-is more important than anything they will ever say. This technique makes sense because in order to present solutions, you first must learn your customer's needs.

How do you uncover a prospect's needs? By asking questions. But not just any questions. You must ask the right questions at the right time. And this book provides a step-by-st...0 points

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Non-Traditional Methods of Buying Real Estate by Paul Gordon

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An invaluable guide for anyone wishing to purchase tax sale property. Includes sections on: Sheriff's Sales; Real Estate Auctions; Crown Land; Foreclosures; Federal Surplus Land; and more. Intended for Canadian readers but may have international applications0 points

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The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works by Ricardo Semler

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Ricardo Semler thinks that companies ought to put employee freedom and satisfaction ahead of corporate goals.
Imagine a company where employees set their own hours; where there are no offices, no job titles, no business plans; where employees get to endorse or veto any new venture; where kids are encouraged to run the halls; and where the CEO lets other people make nearly all the decisions. This company-Semco-actually exists, and despite a seeming recipe for chaos, its revenues have g...
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The Toyota Way by Jeffrey Liker

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How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industry

In factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles and business philosophy behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliabili...
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Go It Alone!: The Secret to Building a Successful Business on Your Own by Bruce Judson

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There is an epidemic of unhappiness in the American workplace. A full 70 percent of workers in the United States report that they are disengaged from their jobs. When asked, "Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day?" only 20 percent of nearly 2 million employees said yes. It is no wonder that 56 percent of all Americans dream of starting their own business. So why don't they do so? Because starting one's own business is seen as difficult, expensive, and risky.

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In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-run Companies by THOMAS J PETERS, ROBERT H WATERMAN JR

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The Peter Principle by Laurence J. Peter

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This bestselling business classic of more than twenty-five years' duration is a dead-on account of why boredom, bungling, and bad management are built into every organization. Through hilarious case histories and cartoons adapted from Punch, Dr. Peter shows how America's corporate career track drives employees relentlessly upward -- until they get promoted into jobs they just can't do and wind up desperately treading water, driving their colleagues crazy, and dragging down productivity and profi...0 points

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Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach To Customer Service by Ken Blanchard, Sheldon Bowles

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"Your customers are only satisfied because their expectations are so low and because no one else is doing better. Just having satisfied customers isn't good enough anymore. If you really want a booming business, you have to create Raving Fans."
This, in a nutshell, is the advice given to a new Area Manager on his first day--in an extraordinary business book that will help everyone, in every kind of organization or business, deliver stunning customer service and achieve miraculous bottom-line res...
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Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson

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Who Moved My Cheese? is a simple parable that reveals profound truths about change. It is an amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a "Maze" and look for "Cheese" to nourish them and make them happy.
Two are mice named Sniff and Scurry. And two are "little people" -- beings the size of mice who look and act a lot like people. Their names are Hem and Haw.
"Cheese" is a metaphor for what you want to have in life -- whether it is a good job, a loving relationship, money, a poss...
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The One Minute Manager by Ph.D. Kenneth Blanchard, M.D. Spencer Johnson

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The blockbuster #1 national bestselling phenomenon is back... not that it ever really went away. An easily-read story which quickly demonstrates three very practical management techniques, it also includes information on several studies in medicine and in the behavioral sciences, which help readers understand why these apparently simple methods work so well with so many people. The book is brief, the language is simple, and best of all...it works.0 points

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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins

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The Challenge
Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning.
But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?
The Study
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First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman

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The greatest managers in the world seem to have little in common. They differ in sex, age, and race. They employ vastly different styles and focus on different goals. Yet despite their differences, great managers share one common trait: They do not hesitate to break virtually every rule held sacred by conventional wisdom. They do not believe that, with enough training, a person can achieve anything he sets his mind to. They do not try to help people overcome their weaknesses. They consistently d...0 points

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Post-Capitalist Society by Peter F. Drucker

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Business guru Peter Drucker provides an incisive analysis of the major world transformation taking place, from the Age of Capitalism to the Knowledge Society, and examines the radical affects it will have on society, politics, and business now and in the coming years. This searching and incisive analysis of the major world transformation now taking place shows how it will affect society,economics, business, and politics and explains how we are movingfrom a society based on capital, land, and lab...0 points

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Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz

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From the Impresario of NBC's hit show The Apprentice

TRUMP ON TRUMP: "I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: if you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big."

And here's how he does it: the art of the deal.

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Why We Buy: The Science Of Shopping by Paco Underhill

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Is there a method to our madness when it comes to shopping? Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "a Sherlock Holmes for retailers," author and research company CEO Paco Underhill answers with a definitive "yes" in this witty, eye-opening report on our ever-evolving consumer culture. Why We Buy is based on hard data gleaned from thousands of hours of field research -- in shopping malls, department stores, and supermarkets across America. With his team of sleuths tracking our every move, from....0 points

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Call of the Mall : The Geography of Shopping by the Author of Why We Buy by Paco Underhill

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The author of the international bestseller Why We Buy -- praised by The New York Times as "a book that gives this underrated skill the respect it deserves" -- now takes us to the mall, a place every American has experienced and has an opinion about.

Paco Underhill, the Margaret Mead of shopping, has run hundreds of research assignments in malls across the country (and in Tokyo and European capitals). He has visited them, observed his fellow mall-ers, looked long and hard for his car in mammoth...
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Purple Cow by Seth Godin

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You're either a Purple Cow or you're not. You're either remarkable or invisible. Make your choice.

What do Starbucks and JetBlue and KrispyKreme and Apple and DutchBoy and Kensington and Zespri and Hard Candy have that you don't? How do they continue to confound critics and achieve spectacular growth, leaving behind former tried-and true brands to gasp their last?

Face it, the checklist of tired 'P's marketers have used for decades to get their product noticed -Pricing, Promotion, Publicity, t...0 points

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Small Is The New Big by Seth Godin

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An Audiofile Earphones Award Winner Is it better to be CEO of Craigslist or the head of UPS? Bestselling business author Seth Godin reveals why small is better (among other surprises) in this full-size dose of brilliant, provocative thinking. Big used to matter. . . and then small happened. Enron (big) got audited by Andersen (big) and failed (big). American Airlines (big) is getting creamed by Jet Blue (smaller and way faster). Today, little companies often make more money than big companies. S...0 points

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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

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"The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life," writes Malcolm Gladwell, "is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do." Although anyone familiar with the theory of memetics will recognize this concept, Gladwell's The Tipping Point has quite a few interest...0 points

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Unleashing the Ideavirus by Seth Godin

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Free Prize Inside: The Next Big Marketing Idea by Seth Godin

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Purple Cow was the #1 bestselling marketing book on Amazon in 2003. Now in Free Prize Inside, Seth Godin is back with practical advice on how to put Purple Cow thinking to work inside your organization (big or small, profit or non) to MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN. The next big marketing idea is a proven strategy for making your products or services so remarkable that they practically sell themselves.
Purple Cow taught marketers the value of standing out from the herd, which is how companies like Krisp...
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Revolutionary Wealth by Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler

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Starting with the publication of their seminal bestseller, Future Shock, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given millions of readers new ways to think about personal life in today's high-speed world with its constantly changing, seemingly random impacts on our businesses, governments, families and daily lives. Now, writing with the same rare grasp and clarity that made their earlier books classics, the Tofflers turn their attention to the revolution in wealth now sweeping the planet. And once ag...0 points

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Machiavelli: The Prince (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Niccolo Machiavelli

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In his introduction to this new translation by Russell Price, Professor Skinner presents a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text as a response both to the world of Florentine politics, and as an attack on the advice-books for princes published by a number of his contemporaries. This new edition includes notes on the principal events in Machiavelli's life, and on the vocabulary of The Prince, as well as biographical notes on characters in the text.0 points

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