Editor's Choice
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Editor's Choice
In Praise of Wasting Time
Alan Lightman takes us on an exploration of time and our inner lives that we can use to reclaim our mental health and creativity.
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Editor's Choice
Would You Do That to Your Mother?: The "Make Mom Proud" Standard for How to Treat Your Customers
Jeanne Bliss provides a single question that will make our businesses better, in every sense of the word "better."
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High-Speed Empire: Chinese Expansion and the Future of Southeast Asia
Will Doig's book on Chinese expansion is a quick and concise guide through that terrain that will take you just a few hours.
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Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier
Maya Rao writes about "the ways in which the largest oil rush in modern US history wrestled with ephemeral and lasting interests, scam and legitimacy, and the power and failings of free enterprise."
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New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World—and How to Make It Work for You
Jeremy Heimans & Henry Timms detail how technology-enabled collaboration and mass participation are enabling a new power that is changing the world before our very eyes.
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How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job
Our businesses, and society, are better off with more women in leadership. Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith have written a how-to guide for women to seize those positions of power and influence.
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The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work That Wows and Jobs That Last
Tom Peters' latest book is in many ways a culmination of all he has learned over the past half-century, and a reminder of the simplest way to succeed in business: put people first.
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Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It
Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik have written a book about the increasing complexity of the world that makes it easy to understand, and oddly enjoyable to read.
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Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance—and What We Can Do About It
Jeffrey Pfeffer explains why making employee health and well-being integral to the company’s culture and values is not only good for the employees, but a competitive advantage that is also good for the company’s bottom line.
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Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
Claire Evans tells the story of the computer, and the internet, through the women who developed the languages they speak.