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What the CEO Wants You to Know: Using Business Acumen to Understand How Your Company Really Works
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Include books by the same authorDigital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance
Erica Dhawan · 288 pages
What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
Stephen A. Schwarzman · 400 pages
Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People
G. Richard Shell · 290 pages
The award-winning guide to business negotiation used by top negotiators and training programs all over the world—completely updated and revisedAs director of the renowned Wharton Executive Negotiation Workshop, Professor G. Richard Shell has taught thousands of business leaders, administrators, and other professionals how to survive and thrive in the sometimes rough-and-tumble world of negotiation
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace · 368 pages
"In 1986, Ed Catmull co-founded Pixar, a modest start-up with an immodest goal: to make the first-ever computer animated movie. Nine years later, Pixar released Toy Story, which went on to revolutionize the industry, gross $360 million, and establish Pixar as one of the most successful, innovative, and emulated companies on earth. This book details how Catmull built an enduring creative culture --
Becoming a Resonant Leader: Develop Your Emotional Intelligence, Renew Your Relationships, Sustain Your Effectiveness
Annie McKee · 256 pages
The 6 Types of Working Genius
Patrick Lencioni · 228 pages
The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
Stephen M.R. Covey · 384 pages
This book challenges our age-old assumption that trust is merely a soft, social virtue, and instead demonstrates that it is a hard-edged, economic driver--a learnable and measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more energizing. CEO Covey informs readers how to inspire lasting trust in their personal and professional relationships, and in
Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy
Patrick Bet-David · 275 pages
The Real-Life MBA: Your No-Bs Guide to Competing, Team-Building, and Getting Ahead in Business Today
Jack Welch, Suzy Welch · 272 pages
The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation
Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson · 221 pages
What's the secret to sales success? If you're like most business leaders, you'd say it's fundamentally about relationships and you'd be wrong. The best salespeople don't just build relationships with customers. They challenge them.
Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others Through Mindfulness, Hope and Compassion
Richard E. Boyatzis · 304 pages
The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
Josh Kaufman · 424 pages
Getting an MBA is an expensive choice-one almost impossible to justify regardless of the state of the economy. Even the elite schools like Harvard and Wharton offer outdated, assembly-line programs that teach you more about PowerPoint presentations and unnecessary financial models than what it takes to run a real business. You can get better results (and save hundreds of thousands of dollars) by s
Now, Discover Your Strengths: How to Develop Your Talents and Those of the People You Manage
Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton · 272 pages
The Power of Framing: Creating the Language of Leadership
Gail T. Fairhurst · 266 pages
"This updated edition explores the basic components of the framing process including communication goals, mental models, context, priming for spontaneity, language use, and believability frames (for ethical communication). This new edition is organized to emphasize the skills, science, art ethics and the history of research on framing. The author offers a better understanding of the subject, a dia
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Daniel H. Pink · 256 pages
From Daniel H. Pink, the author of the groundbreaking bestseller A Whole New Mind, comes his next big idea book: a paradigm-changing examination of what truly motivates us and how to harness that knowledge to find greater satisfaction in our lives and our work.We've been conditioned to think that the best way to motivate ourselves and others is through external rewards like money—the carrot-and-th
Everything is Negotiable: How to Get the Best Deal Every Time
Gavin Kennedy · 384 pages
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
Michael Bungay Stanier · 227 pages
Want to say less, work less, and have more impact? Stanier gives you the seven core questions that will help you provide more effective support to your employees and co-workers. By unlocking their potential, you'll be able to unlock your own.
The Girl's Guide to Being a Boss (Without Being a Bitch): Valuable Lessons, Smart Suggestions, and True Stories for Succeeding as the Chick-in-Charge
Caitlin Friedman, Kimberly Yorio · 232 pages
Forget what you've heard. Nice girls can get the corner office.As women, we haven't always had the best role models at work. We've either worked for men or we've had female bosses who are, well, big bitches. Woman still don't have much of a road map right now when it comes to taking charge at the office, so the team who brought you the national bestseller The Girl's Guide to Starting Your Own Bus
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Adam M. Grant · 336 pages
""Reading Originals made me feel like I was seated across from Adam Grant at a dinner party, as one of my favorite thinkers thrilled me with his insights and his wonderfully new take on the world."--Malcolm Gladwell, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outliers and The Tipping Point "Originals is one of the most important and captivating books I have ever read, full of surprising and powerful
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Chip Heath, Dan Heath · 325 pages
The four principles that can help us to overcome our brains' natural biases to make better, more informed decisions – in our lives, careers, families and organizations. In Decisive, Chip Heath and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Made to Stick and Switch, tackle the thorny problem of how to overcome our natural biases and irrational thinking to make better decisions, about our work, lives,
Leading Change
John P. Kotter · 208 pages
From the ill-fated dot-com bubble to unprecedented M&A activity to scandal, greed, and, ultimately, recession -- we've learned that widespread and difficult change is no longer the exception. It's the rule. The author's eight-step process for managing change with positive results has become the foundation for leaders and organizations across the globe. By outlining the process organizations have u
Who Moved My Cheese?
Spencer Johnson · 95 pages
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 metaph