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Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
“America’s proudest boast throughout history has been that we have no class system, and that opportunity is available to all. Yet a starting point in an exploration of our nation must be to acknowledge that today we do have a class hierarchy.”
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Fanocracy: Turning Fans Into Customers and Customers Into Fans
"The most powerful marketing force in the world isn’t social media, email blasts, search ads, or even those 15 second commercials before a YouTube video. It’s fandom."
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The Scrum Fieldbook: A Master Class on Accelerating Performance, Getting Results, and Defining the Future
J.J. Sutherland draws on his firm’s extensive experience to take leaders, managers, and employees deeper into the specific challenges and new opportunities of an Agile world.
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Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Scott H. Young offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly.
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Kingdom of Lies: Unnerving Adventures in the World of Cybercrime
By 800-CEO-READ
In the tradition of Michael Lewis and Tom Wolfe, a fascinating and frightening behind-the-scenes look at the interconnected cultures of hackers, security specialists, and law enforcement.
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The Coffee Bean: A Simple Lesson to Create Positive Change
By 800-CEO-READ
From bestselling author Jon Gordon and rising star Damon West comes "The Coffee Bean," an illustrated fable that teaches readers how to transform their environment, overcome challenges, and create positive change.
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You Can't Know It All: Leading in the Age of Deep Expertise
By 800-CEO-READ
Wanda T. Wallace explains how to be a leader without being an expert in her handbook for "novices and experienced managers alike."
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The Gift of Struggle: Life-Changing Lessons About Leading
By 800-CEO-READ
Bobby Herrera, CEO of Populus Group, shares the very real parallels he found between climbing a mountain and putting a team together in business.
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The Last Unknowns: Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions about the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning of Life
By 800-CEO-READ
An excerpt from Daniel Kahneman's Foreword to the conclusion to the Edge Question Series, the world’s bestselling science book series, with more than one million copies sold.
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The Levelling: What's Next After Globalization
By Dylan Schleicher
Michael O'Sullivan's new book comes about at the perfect moment to consider and address the existential questions around, and potential tensions between, globalization and representational democracy.
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