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Making It in America: A 12-Point Plan for Growing Your Business and Keeping Jobs at Home
John D. Bassett reveals the "private thinking and our fresh leadership approach" that allowed Vaughan-Bassett Furniture to keep production in America as the rest of the industry moved it overseas, and not only survive, but thrive in that environment.
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Failed It!: How to Turn Mistakes Into Ideas and Other Advice for Successfully Screwing Up
In his new book, Erik Kessels celebrates the fine art of making mistakes and moving ideas.
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Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
A lover of maps from an early age, Parag Khanna talks about how to view and navigate the world "when both the 'death of globalization' and the 'age of hyper-globalization' are heralded with equal confidence."
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Good for the Money: My Fight to Pay Back America
Bob Benmosche tells the story of how he pulled AIG back from the brink of bankruptcy and engineered one of history's most astonishing corporate turnarounds.
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Quench Your Own Thirst: Business Lessons Learned Over a Beer or Two
Founder of The Boston Beer Company, Jim Koch, offers his unique perspective when it comes to business, beer, and turning your passion into a successful company or career.
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Mastering the New Media Landscape
Barbara Cave Henricks and Rusty Shelton teach us some ways to futureproof our media presence.
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Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy—And How to Make Them Work for You
Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall Van Alstyne, and Sangeet Paul Choudary explain how the platform revolution is transforming the world as we know it and the work we do & and are able to do—along the way.
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The Storyteller's Secret: From TED Speakers to Business Legends, Why Some Ideas Catch On and Others Don't
Internationally bestselling author Carmine Gallo reveals the secrets to telling powerful, inspiring, and game-changing stories.
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Persuadable: How Great Leaders Change Their Minds to Change the World
Al Pittampalli's new book argues that a genuine willingness for leaders to change their own minds it the ultimate competitive advantage.
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The Smarter Screen: Surprising Ways to Influence and Improve Online Behavior
Behavioral economist Shlomo Benartzi tackles how we interact with the proliferation of the internet and screens in our everyday lives, and how they can be designed in a way that encourages us to make better decisions on them.
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