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The Goal
Goldratt & Cox
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The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People
Stephen Covey
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Good to Great
Jim Collins
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How to Win Friends & Influence People
Dale Carnegie
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The Effective Executive
Drucker & MacIariello
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The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell
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Purple Cow
Seth Godin
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Freakonomics
Levitt and Dubner
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The World is Flat
Thomas Friedman
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Think And Grow Rich!
Napoleon Hill
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It's Not Luck
Goldratt
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Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Toyota Production System
Taiichi Ono
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Winning
Jack Welch
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Kioysaki with Lechter
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Competitive Strategy
Michael E. Porter
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Getting Things Done
David Allen
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The Machine That Changed the World
Womack, Jones, & Roos
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The Art of War
Sun Tzu
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Who Moved My Cheese?
Spencer Johnson
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Barbarians at the Gate
Bryan Burrough & John Helyar
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Spin Selling
Neil Rackham
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Six Thinking Hats
Edward De Bono
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The Balanced Scorecard
Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
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Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
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The One Minute Manager
Blanchard and Johnson
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Classic Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker
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The Dance of Change
Senge, Kleiner,
Roberts & Roth
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The E-Myth Revisited
Michael Gerber
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The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Built to Last
Collins & Porras
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The Fifth Discipline
Peter Senge
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The Wisdom Of Crowds
James Surowiecki
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The Art of Possibility
Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander
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First, Break All the Rules
Buckingham & Coffman
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Execution
Bossidy & Charan
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Secrets of Closing
the Sale
Zig Ziglar
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The Discipline of Market Leaders
Treacy & Wiersema
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Selling the Dream
Guy Kawasaki
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Competing for the Future
C.K. Prahalad, Gary Hamel
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The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton Christensen
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The Age of Unreason
Charles Handy
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Blink
Malcolm Gladwell
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The Art of the Start
Guy Kawasaki
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Who Says Elephants
Can't Dance?
Louis Gerstner
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The Dip
Seth Godin
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It's Your Ship
Michael Abrashoff
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Re-Imagine!
Tom Peters
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Lean Thinking
Moskowitz & Gofman
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Positioning
Al Ries & Jack Trout
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Thinkertoys
Michael Michalko
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A Whack on the Side of the Head
Roger Von Oech
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What Got You Here Won't Get You There
Marshall Goldsmith
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Out of the Crisis
Deming
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The Team Handbook
Joiner, Scholtes, & Streibel
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The New Economics
Deming
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The Leadership Challenge
Kouzes & Posner
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Emotional Design
Donald Norman
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Up the Organization
Robert Townsend
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A Whole New Mind
Daniel Pink
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Blue Ocean Strategy
Kim & Mauborgne
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To Engineer Is Human
Henry Petroski
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What the CEO Wants
You to Know
Ram Charan
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360 Degree Leader
John C. Maxwell
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The Design of Everyday Things
Donald Norman
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Crossing the Chasm
Geoffrey Moore
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Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant
Kioysaki with Lechter
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Moneyball
Michael Lewis
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The Dilbert Principle
Scott Adams
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Wikinomics
Tapscott & Williams
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The Leader's Handbook
Peter Scholtes
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In Search of Excellence
Peters and Waterman
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Influence
Robert Cialdini
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What Color Is Your Parachute?
Richard Nelson Bolles
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12
Wagner & Harter
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Now, Discover Your Strenths
Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton
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The Box
Marc Levinson
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Den of Thieves
Stewart & Heller
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5 Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni
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Unstuck
Yamashita & Spataro
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When Genius Failed
Roger Lowenstein
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The Innovator's Solution
Christensen and Raynor
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The Ultimate Question
Fred Reichheld
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Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman
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Why Smart
Executives Fail
Sydney Finkelstein
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Sources of Power
Gary Klein
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Purpose
Nikos Mourkogiannis
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Never Eat Alone
Keith Ferrazzi
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Made in America
Walton & Huey
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Maverick
Ricardo Semler
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Confessions of an Advertising Man
David Ogilvy
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The Creative Habit
Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter
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The Wal-Mart Effect
Charles Fishman
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Visual Explanations
Edward Tufte
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Chasing Daylight
Eugene O'Kelly
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Titan
Ron Chernow
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The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy
Pietra Rivoli
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The Art of Innovation
Kelley & Littman
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E-Myth Mastery
Michael Gerber
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Profit from the Core
Chris Zook & James Allen
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Against the Gods
Peter L. Bernstein
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Creating Customer Evangelists
Ben McConnell, Jackie Huba
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Rules for Revolutionaries
Guy Kawasaki
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The Smartest Guys In The Room
Elkind & McLean
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Authentic Leadership
Bill George
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Leadership is An Art
Max De Pree
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Servant Leadership
Robert Greenleaf
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Fooled by Randomness
nessim Nicholas Taleb
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Selling Blue Elephants
Moskowitz & Gofman
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Punished by Rewards
Alfie Kohn
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Leadership and the New Science
Margaret Wheatley
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The Cluetrain Manifesto
Locke, Levine, Searls, Weinberger
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Certain to Win
Chet Richards
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The Speed of Trust
Stephen M. R. Covey
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The Disney Way
Lynn Jackson, Bill Capodagli
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Leading Change
John Kotter
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1001 Ways to Reward EmployeesBob Nelson
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On the Wealth of Nations
P. J. O'Rourke
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