Editor's Choice
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Editor's Choice
Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier
By Dylan Schleicher
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
By Dylan Schleicher
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
By Dylan Schleicher
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
By Dylan Schleicher
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
By Dylan Schleicher
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
By Dylan Schleicher
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
By Dylan Schleicher
Claire Evans tells the story of the computer, and the internet, through the women who developed the languages they speak.
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A Second Chance: For You, For Me, And For The Rest Of Us
By Dylan Schleicher
Catherine Hoke knows that doing something wrong doesn’t make you a bad person, and that one's life shouldn’t be defined by the worst thing they’ve ever done. She works every day to make sure that's true for others.
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Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World
By Dylan Schleicher
Melissa Schilling examines the role of individual genius in innovation, along with how we can cultivate and harness our own and enhance it in the organizations we lead.
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The Tyranny of Metrics
By Dylan Schleicher
Jerry Muller pulls the curtain back on the cult of metrics, and attempts to break our fixation on improving the numbers so we can get back to improving the world we live in.
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