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Strengths Finder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths
Strengths Finder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths
by Tom Rath
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DO YOU DO WHAT YOU DO BEST EVERY DAY? Chances are, you don’t. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths. To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced StrengthsFinder... (read more)

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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In: Second Edition
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In: Second Edition
by Roger Fisher and William L. Ury
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Getting to Yes offers a concise, step-by-step, proven strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in every sort of conflict — whether it involves parents and children, neighbors, bosses and employees, customers or corporations, tenants or... (read more)

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Who Moved My Cheese?
Who Moved My Cheese?
by Spencer Johnson
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From one of the world's most recognized experts on management comes a simple parable filled with insights designed to help readers manage change quickly and prevail in changing times. Written for all ages, the story takes less than an hour to read, but... (read more)

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
by Stephen R. Covey
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In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by... (read more)

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Outliers: The Story of Success
Outliers: The Story of Success
by Malcolm Gladwell
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If you've ever wondered what so-and-so had that you didn't, you need to read Outliers. Gladwell's writing is always engaging, especially when he illuminates the mysterious elements that allow one person to succeed beyond all others.... (read more)

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The Magic of Thinking Big
The Magic of Thinking Big
by David Schwartz
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SET YOUR GOALS HIGH...THEN EXCEED THEM! Millions of people throughout the world have improved their lives using The Magic of Thinking Big. Dr. David J. Schwartz, long regarded as one of the foremost experts on motivation, will help you sell better... (read more)

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How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to Win Friends and Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
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Now this phenomenal book has been revised and updated to help reades achieve their maximum potential in the complex and competitive 80s!... (read more)

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The One Minute Manager
The One Minute Manager
by Kenneth Blanchard
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The blockbuster #1 national bestselling phenomenon is back... not that it ever really went away. An easily-read story which quickly demonstrates three very practical management techniques, it also includes information on several studies in medicine and... (read more)

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Whole New Mind (05 Edition)
Whole New Mind (05 Edition)
by Daniel Pink
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The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic right-brain thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't. Drawing on research... (read more)

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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
by Kerry Patterson and Joseph Grenny and Al Switzler and Ron McMillan
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"Most books make promises. This one delivers. These skills have not only helped us to change the culture of our company, but have also generated new techniques for working together in ways that enabled us to win the largest contract in our industry's... (read more)

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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
by Carol S. Dweck
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World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea–the power of our mindset. Dweck explains why it’s not just our abilities and talent... (read more)

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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
by David Allen
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In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across... (read more)

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Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions
Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions
by John S Hammond
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Where should I live? Is it time to switch careers? What is the best course of action for me? Decisions shape our experiences, from choosing which job offer to accept, to buying the right car, to selecting a good accountant. How do we know which choice is... (read more)

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Now, Discover Your Strengths
Now, Discover Your Strengths
by Marcus Buckingham
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Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths, much less the ability to build our lives around them. Instead, guided by our parents, by our teachers, by our managers, and by psychology's fascination with pathology, we become... (read more)

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The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
by Benjamin and Rosamund Stone Zander
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Presenting twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity into all human endeavors, The Art of Possibility is the dynamic product of an extraordinary partnership. The Art of Possibility combines Benjamin Zander's experience as conductor of the... (read more)

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The 48 Laws of Power
The 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene
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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention-grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws... (read more)

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Decision Traps: Ten Barriers to Brilliant Decision-Making and How to Overcome Them
Decision Traps: Ten Barriers to Brilliant Decision-Making and How to Overcome Them
by J Edward Russo
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Make Every Decision Your Best Decision Executives rate decision-making ability as the most important business skill, but few people have the training they need to make good decisions consistently. Becoming a good decision-maker is like training to be a... (read more)

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
by Stephen R. Covey
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In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step... (read more)

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Art of Seduction
Art of Seduction
by Robert Greene
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This mesmerizing exploration of the most subtle, elusive, and effective form of power is a masterful analysis of civilization's greatest seducers, from Cleopatra to JFK, as well as the classic literature of seduction from Freud to Kierkegaard and Ovid to... (read more)

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Never Eat Alone : Other Secrets To Success, One Relationship At a Time (05 Edition)
Never Eat Alone : Other Secrets To Success, One Relationship At a Time (05 Edition)
by Keith Ferrazzi
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Do you want to get ahead in life? Climb the ladder to personal success? The secret, master networker Keith Ferrazzi claims, is in reaching out to other people. As Ferrazzi discovered early in life, what distinguishes highly successful people from... (read more)

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