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August 2012 Business Bestsellers

1

Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: How I Went from Gang Member to Multimillionaire Entrepreneur (Updated)

Ryan Blair

Products / Portfolio

2

What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential

Robert S Kaplan

Products / Harvard Business Review Press

3

How Companies Win: Profiting from Demand-Driven Business Models No Matter What Business You're in

Rick Kash, David Calhoun

Products / Harper Business

4

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

Matt Ridley

Products / Harper

5

How to Market to People Not Like You

Kelly McDonald

Products / Wiley

6

Strengthsfinder 2.0

Gallup

Products / Gallup Press.

7

TouchPoints

Douglas Conant

Products / Jossey-Bass

8

What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful (Revised)

Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter

Products / Hachette Books

9

Safe Money Millionaire: The Secret to Growing Wealthy Without Losing Your Money in the Wall Street Roller Coaster

Brett Kitchen, Ethan Kap

Products / Morgan James Publishing.

10

Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant (Revised)

W Chan Kim, Renée a Mauborgne

Products / Harvard Business Review Press

11

Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It

Marshall Goldsmith

Products / Hachette Books

12

From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership

Harry M Jansen Kraemer

Products / Jossey-Bass

13

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Seth Godin

Products / Portfolio

14

Escape Velocity: Free Your Company's Future from the Pull of the Past

Geoffrey A Moore

Products / Harper Business

15

The Adversity Paradox: An Unconventional Guide to Achieving Uncommon Business Success

J Barry Griswell, Bob Jennings

Products / St. Martin's Press

16

The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage

B Joseph Pine, James H Gilmore

Products / Harvard Business Review Press

17

Engage! (Revised and Updated)

Brian Solis

Products / Wiley

18

It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy (Revised, Updated)

D Michael Abrashoff

Products / Grand Central Publishing

19

Make the Impossible Possible One Man's Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Ext

20

The Power of Many: Values for Success in Business and in Life

Meg Whitman, Joan O'c Hamilton

Products / Crown Currency

21

The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story about a Powerful Business Idea (Go-Giver, Book 1 (Expanded)

Bob Burg, John David Mann

Products / Portfolio

22

Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

Liz Wiseman, Greg McKeown

Products / Harper Business

23

Y-Size Your Business: How Gen Y Employees Can Save You Money and Grow Your Business

Jason Ryan Dorsey

Products / Wiley

24

Brains on Fire: Igniting Powerful, Sustainable, Word of Mouth Movements

Robbin Phillips, Greg Cordell, Geno Church

Products / Wiley

25

The Next Evolution of Marketing: Connect with Your Customers by Marketing with Meaning

Bob Gilbreath

Products / McGraw-Hill Companies

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