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Decisive
Decisive
Written by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307956392
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Decisive
How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Written by Chip Heath and Dan Heath


Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $26.00

Chip and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick, tackle one of the most critical topics in our work and personal lives: how to make better decisions.
 
   Research in psychology has revealed that our decisions are disrupted by an array of biases and irrationalities: We’re overconfident. We seek...

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Decisive
Decisive
Written by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
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ISBN: 9780307956415
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Decisive
How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Written by Chip Heath and Dan Heath


Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $13.99

Chip and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick, tackle one of the most critical topics in our work and personal lives: how to make better decisions.
 
   Research in psychology has revealed that our decisions are disrupted by an array of biases and irrationalities: We’re overconfident. We seek...

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Decisive
Decisive
Written by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Read by Kaleo Griffith
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
ISBN: 9780449011119
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Decisive
How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Written by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Read by Kaleo Griffith


Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $40.00

Chip and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick, tackle one of the most critical topics in our work and personal lives: how to make better decisions.
 
   Research in psychology has revealed that our decisions are disrupted by an array of biases and irrationalities: We’re overconfident. We seek...

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Decisive
Decisive
Written by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Read by Kaleo Griffith
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ISBN: 9780449011126
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Decisive
How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Written by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Read by Kaleo Griffith


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $20.00

Chip and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick, tackle one of the most critical topics in our work and personal lives: how to make better decisions.
 
   Research in psychology has revealed that our decisions are disrupted by an array of biases and irrationalities: We’re overconfident. We seek...

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Sexy Little Numbers
Sexy Little Numbers
Written by Dimitri Maex and Paul B. Brown
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307888341
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Sexy Little Numbers
How to Grow Your Business Using the Data You Already Have
Written by Dimitri Maex and Paul B. Brown


Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $27.50

Imagine if you could identify your business’s most profitable customers, craft a better marketing strategy to communicate with them, and inspire them to buy more?

Well now you can. And the best part is that you can do it using the data you already have.

Today, everything we do creates data, and...

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Sexy Little Numbers
Sexy Little Numbers
Written by Dimitri Maex and Paul B. Brown
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ISBN: 9780307888365
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Sexy Little Numbers
How to Grow Your Business Using the Data You Already Have
Written by Dimitri Maex and Paul B. Brown


Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $14.99

Imagine if you could identify your business’s most profitable customers, craft a better marketing strategy to communicate with them, and inspire them to buy more?

Well now you can. And the best part is that you can do it using the data you already have.

Today, everything we do creates data, and...

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Sexy Little Numbers
Sexy Little Numbers
Written by Dimitri Maex and Paul B. Brown, Read by Steve Kramer
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ISBN: 9780449009918
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Sexy Little Numbers
How to Grow Your Business Using the Data You Already Have
Written by Dimitri Maex and Paul B. Brown
Read by Steve Kramer


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $20.00

Imagine if you could identify your business’s most profitable customers, craft a better marketing strategy to communicate with them, and inspire them to buy more?

Well now you can. And the best part is that you can do it using the data you already have.

Today, everything we do creates data, and...

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Everything Is Obvious
Everything Is Obvious
Written by Duncan J. Watts
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307951793
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Everything Is Obvious
How Common Sense Fails Us
Written by Duncan J. Watts


Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $16.00

Why is the Mona Lisa the most famous painting in the world? Why did Facebook succeed when other social networking sites failed? Did the surge in Iraq really lead to less violence? How much can CEO’s impact the performance of their companies? And does higher pay incentivize people to work hard?

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White House Burning
White House Burning
Written by Simon Johnson and James Kwak
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307906960
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White House Burning
The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You
Written by Simon Johnson and James Kwak


Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $26.95

America is mired in debt—more than $30,000 for every man, woman, and child. Bitter fighting over deficits, taxes, and spending bedevils Washington, D.C., even as partisan gridlock has brought the government to the brink of default. Yet the more politicians on both sides of the aisle rant and the citizenry fumes...

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White House Burning
White House Burning
Written by Simon Johnson and James Kwak
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ISBN: 9780307907127
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White House Burning
The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You
Written by Simon Johnson and James Kwak


Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $11.99

America is mired in debt—more than $30,000 for every man, woman, and child. Bitter fighting over deficits, taxes, and spending bedevils Washington, D.C., even as partisan gridlock has brought the government to the brink of default. Yet the more politicians on both sides of the aisle rant and the citizenry fumes...

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White House Burning
White House Burning
Written by Simon Johnson and James Kwak, Read by Nicholas Hormann
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780307987433
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White House Burning
The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You
Written by Simon Johnson and James Kwak
Read by Nicholas Hormann


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $20.00

America is mired in debt—more than $30,000 for every man, woman, and child. Bitter fighting over deficits, taxes, and spending bedevils Washington, D.C., even as partisan gridlock has brought the government to the brink of default. Yet the more politicians on both sides of the aisle rant and the citizenry fumes...

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Collaborate or Perish!
Collaborate or Perish!
Written by William Bratton and Zachary Tumin
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307592392
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Collaborate or Perish!
Reaching Across Boundaries in a Networked World
Written by William Bratton and Zachary Tumin


Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: January 17, 2012
Price: $26.00

In Collaborate or Perish! former Los Angeles police chief and New York police commissioner William Bratton and Harvard Kennedy School’s Zachary Tumin lay out a field-tested playbook for collaborating across the boundaries of our networked world. Today, when everyone is connected, collaboration is the game changer. Agencies and firms, citizens and...

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Collaborate or Perish!
Collaborate or Perish!
Written by William Bratton and Zachary Tumin
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307592422
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Collaborate or Perish!
Reaching Across Boundaries in a Networked World
Written by William Bratton and Zachary Tumin


Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: January 17, 2012
Price: $15.99

In Collaborate or Perish! former Los Angeles police chief and New York police commissioner William Bratton and Harvard Kennedy School’s Zachary Tumin lay out a field-tested playbook for collaborating across the boundaries of our networked world. Today, when everyone is connected, collaboration is the game changer. Agencies and firms, citizens and...

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Collaborate or Perish!
Collaborate or Perish!
Written by William Bratton and Zachary Tumin, Read by William Bratton and Zachary Tumin
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780307970466
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Collaborate or Perish!
Reaching Across Boundaries in a Networked World
Written by William Bratton and Zachary Tumin
Read by William Bratton and Zachary Tumin


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 17, 2012
Price: $20.00

In Collaborate or Perish! former Los Angeles police chief and New York police commissioner William Bratton and Harvard Kennedy School’s Zachary Tumin lay out a field-tested playbook for collaborating across the boundaries of our networked world. Today, when everyone is connected, collaboration is the game changer. Agencies and firms, citizens and...

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The Penguin and the Leviathan
The Penguin and the Leviathan
Written by Yochai Benkler, Read by Marc Cashman
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ISBN: 9780307969101
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The Penguin and the Leviathan
How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest
Written by Yochai Benkler
Read by Marc Cashman


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $17.50

What do Wikipedia, Zip Car’s business model, Barack Obama's presidential campaign, and a small group of lobster fishermen have in common? They all show the power and promise of human cooperation in transforming our businesses, our government, and our society at large. Because today, when the costs of collaborating are lower... Read more >
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The Penguin and the Leviathan
The Penguin and the Leviathan
Written by Yochai Benkler
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385525763
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The Penguin and the Leviathan
How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest
Written by Yochai Benkler


Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $25.00

What do Wikipedia, Zip Car’s business model, Barack Obama's presidential campaign, and a small group of lobster fishermen have in common? They all show the power and promise of human cooperation in transforming our businesses, our government, and our society at large. Because today, when the costs of collaborating are lower... Read more >
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The Penguin and the Leviathan
The Penguin and the Leviathan
Written by Yochai Benkler
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307590190
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The Penguin and the Leviathan
How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest
Written by Yochai Benkler


Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $13.99

What do Wikipedia, Zip Car’s business model, Barack Obama's presidential campaign, and a small group of lobster fishermen have in common? They all show the power and promise of human cooperation in transforming our businesses, our government, and our society at large. Because today, when the costs of collaborating are lower... Read more >
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Good Strategy Bad Strategy
Good Strategy Bad Strategy
Written by Richard Rumelt
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307886255
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Good Strategy Bad Strategy
The Difference and Why It Matters
Written by Richard Rumelt


Format: eBook
On Sale: July 19, 2011
Price: $14.99

Clears out the mumbo jumbo and muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world
 
Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader, whether the CEO at a Fortune 100 company, an entrepreneur, a... Read more >
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Good Strategy Bad Strategy
Good Strategy Bad Strategy
Written by Richard Rumelt
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307886231
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Good Strategy Bad Strategy
The Difference and Why It Matters
Written by Richard Rumelt


Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: July 19, 2011
Price: $28.00

Clears out the mumbo jumbo and muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world
 
Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader, whether the CEO at a Fortune 100 company, an entrepreneur, a... Read more >
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It's All Politics
It's All Politics
Written by Kathleen Kelly Reardon Ph.D.
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780385515160
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It's All Politics
WINNING IN A WORLD WHERE HARD WORK AND TALENT AREN'T ENOUGH
Written by Kathleen Kelly Reardon Ph.D.


Format: eBook
On Sale: May 25, 2011
Price: $9.99

From It’s All Politics


Like business in general, politics is not a spectator sport. You cannot afford to be apolitical at work if you have any aspirations for advancement. The only way to avoid politics is to avoid people—by finding an out-of-the-way corner where you can do your job. Of course, it’s... Read more >
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The Great Game of Business
The Great Game of Business
Written by Jack Stack
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307791375
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The Great Game of Business
Unlocking the Power and Profitability of Open-Book Management
Written by Jack Stack


Format: eBook
On Sale: April 20, 2011
Price: $16.99

In the early 1980s, Springfield Remanufacturing  Corporation (SRC) in Springfield, Missouri, was a  near bankrupt division of International Harvester.  That's when a green young manager, Jack Stack,  took over and turned it around. He didn't know how to  "manage" a company, but he did know about the  principal, of athletic competition and democracy:  keeping score, having fun, playing... Read more >
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Cracking Creativity
Cracking Creativity
Written by Michael Michalko
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307790361
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Cracking Creativity
The Secrets of Creative Genius
Written by Michael Michalko


Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: April 13, 2011
Price: $14.99

In this trailblazing book, internationally renowned business creativity expert Michael Michalko shows how creative people think—and how to put their secrets to work for you. To create this book, Michalko researched and analyzed hundreds of history's greatest thinkers—from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso—and then brought their techniques into the modern... Read more >
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Everything Is Obvious
Everything Is Obvious
Written by Duncan J. Watts
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780385531696
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Everything Is Obvious
*Once You Know the Answer
Written by Duncan J. Watts


Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $11.99

Why is the Mona Lisa the most famous painting in the world? Why did Facebook succeed when other social networking sites failed? Did the surge in Iraq really lead to less violence? How much can CEO’s impact the performance of their companies? And does higher pay incentivize people to work hard?

If... Read more >
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Everything Is Obvious
Everything Is Obvious
Written by Duncan J. Watts, Read by Duncan J. Watts
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780307879974
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Everything Is Obvious
*Once You Know the Answer
Written by Duncan J. Watts
Read by Duncan J. Watts


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 29, 2011
Price: $17.50

Why is the Mona Lisa the most famous painting in the world? Why did Facebook succeed when other social networking sites failed? Did the surge in Iraq really lead to less violence? How much can CEO’s impact the performance of their companies? And does higher pay incentivize people to work hard?

If... Read more >
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Thinkertoys
Thinkertoys
Written by Michael Michalko
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307757906
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Thinkertoys
A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques
Written by Michael Michalko


Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2010
Price: $12.99

Rethink the Way You Think
 
In hindsight, every great idea seems obvious. But how can you be the person who comes up with those ideas?
In this revised and expanded edition of his groundbreaking Thinkertoys, creativity expert Michael Michalko reveals life-changing tools that will help you think like a genius. From the... Read more >
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