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Four
The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
2024 || Paperback || Scott Galloway || Penguin Publishing Group
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong.
For all that's been written about the Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering success as insightfully as Scott Galloway.
Instead of buying the myths these companies broadcast, Galloway asks fundam...
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Edge
Turning Adversity into Advantage
2024 || Paperback || Laura Huang || Penguin Publishing Group
Laura Huang, a preeminent Harvard Business School professor, shows that success is about gaining an edge: that elusive quality that gives you an upper hand and attracts attention and support. Some people seem to naturally have it. Now, Huang teaches the rest of us how to create our own from the challenges and biases we think hold us back, and turning them to work in our favor.
How do you find a competitive edge when the obstacles feel insurmountable? How do you get people to take you...
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Jones, S: Burn After Writing (Winter Leaves)
2024 || Paperback || Sharon Jones || Penguin Publishing Group
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Compelling People
The Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential
2014 || Paperback || John Neffinger e.a. || Penguin Publishing Group
Required reading at Harvard Business School and Columbia Business School.
Everyone wants to be more appealing and effective, but few believe we can manage the personal magnetism of a Bill Clinton or an Oprah Winfrey. John Neffinger and Matthew Kohut trace the path to influence through a balance of strength (the root of respect) and warmth (the root of affection). Each seems simple, but only a few of us figure out the tricky task of projecting both at once.
Drawing on cutting-edg...
Collapse
2011 || Paperback || Jared Diamond || Penguin Publishing Group
In Jared Diamond's follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Diamond is also the author of Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions a...
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When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
2024 || Paperback || Daniel H. Pink || Penguin Publishing Group
The instant New York Times Bestseller
#1 Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller
Instant Washington Post Bestseller
"Brims with a surprising amount of insight and practical advice." --The Wall Street Journal
Daniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling author of Drive and To Sell Is Human, unlocks the scientific secrets to good timing to help you flourish at work, at school, and at home.
Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don't know much about timing it...
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Burn After Writing (Floral 2.0)
2024 || Paperback || Sharon Jones || Penguin Publishing Group
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Art of War for Executives
2007 || Paperback || Donald G. Krause || Penguin Publishing Group
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Jones, S: Burn After Writing (Moon Phases)
2024 || Paperback || Sharon Jones || Penguin Publishing Group
Endgame
The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II
2012 || Paperback || David Rohde || Penguin Publishing Group
"Powerful... definitive... Rohde tells the Srebrenica story with all the shades of gray the truth demanded.” —The Washington Post
In 1996, at the height of the Bosnian wars, a correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor named David Rohde uncovered a horrifying story that became an enduring symbol of the genocidal nature of that conflict, earning him his first Pulitzer Prize. Endgame is the full-length narrative of the nightmare he stumbled upon in the town of Srebrenica, wher...