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August 2016 Business Bestsellers

1

Self Made: Becoming Empowered, Self-Reliant, and Rich in Every Way

Nely Galan

Products / Spiegel & Grau

2

Chop Wood Carry Water How to Fall in Love with the Process of Becoming Great

3

You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C's to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life

Jon Gordon, Mike Smith

Products / Wiley

4

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

5

Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization

Parag Khanna

Products / Random House

6

Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines

Thomas H Davenport, Julia Kirby

Products / Harper Business

7

Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

Liz Wiseman, Greg McKeown

Products / Harper Business

8

Fiercely You: Be Fabulous and Confident by Thinking Like a Drag Queen

Jackie Huba, Shelly Stewart Kronbergs

Products / Berrett-Koehler Publishers

9

Worth Dying for: A Navy Seal's Call to a Nation

Rorke Denver, Ellis Henican

Products / Howard Books

10

The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us

Joel Kotkin

Products / Agate B2

11

Relationship Economics: Transform Your Most Valuable Business Contacts Into Personal and Professional Success (Revised, Updated)

David Nour

Products / Wiley

12

Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain

Dana Suskind

Products / Dutton

13

The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

Jon Gordon, Ken Blanchard

Products / Wiley..

14

Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (and What to Do about It)

Salim Ismail, Michael S Malone, Yuri Van Geest

Products / Diversion Books.

15

Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Brené Brown

Products / Random House

16

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Nir Eyal

Products / Portfolio

17

Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family

Bob Chapman, Raj Sisodia

Products / Portfolio

18

Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change: Inspire the People and Succeed Where Others Fail

H James Dallas

Products / Wiley

19

Becoming the Best: Build a World-Class Organization Through Values-Based Leadership

Harry M Jansen Kraemer

Products / Jossey-Bass

20

The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism

Arun Sundararajan

Products / MIT Press

21

Conversational Capacity: The Secret to Building Successful Teams That Perform When the Pressure Is on

Craig Weber

Products / McGraw-Hill Companies

22

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

D Michael Abrashoff

Products / Grand Central Publishing

23

The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life

Bernard Roth

Products / Harper Business

24

Four Secrets to Liking Your Work: You May Not Need to Quit to Get the Job You Want

Edward Muzio, Deborah Fisher, Erv Thomas

Products / FT Press

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