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Title: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Being an expert in your field and keeping your judgment unclouded by subconscious desires, will allow you to make better decisions. Making a good decision doesn't require massive amounts of deliberation. Malcolm Gladwell's Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking is all about rapid decision making and how to avoid 'Hamlet-style paralysis' when making difficult choices about your business.

Title: Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Author: Jim Collins, Jerry Porras
Built to Last is a compilation of the results of a six year study of eighteen of America’s most enduring companies and their relationships with their own “market” competitor

Title: Flip: How to Turn Everything You Know on Its Head--and Succeed Beyond Your Wildest Imaginings
Author: Peter Sheahan
Published: 2008
In Flip he uncovers what the superstars of modern business have in common: an ability to flip—to think counterintuitively and then act boldly, with no regard for business as usual conventions. Sheahan teaches today's decision makers how to embrace change and successfully operate in an economy that runs on new ideas. Those who take on these lessons will be in position to join other flipstars such as Richard Branson, Google, Toyota, Rupert Murdoch, and Apple.

Title: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Author: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
A huge crime wave hit the United States in the 1990's and many experts were conservatively forecasting the end of the world, including President Clinton. James Alan Fox, who was commissioned to report on the situation to the Attorney General, predicted optimistically that crime would rise 15% over the next decade; pessimistically he predicted it would more than double. See what really happened.

Title: Good to Great:Why Some Companies Make the Leap … And Others Don’t
Author: Jim Collins
This book answers the search for enduring excellence. It is not just a business problem, it's a human problem. The principles within this book can be applied to other organizations, not just business enterprises. Good schools can learn to become great schools. Good government agencies can learn to be great government agencies.

Title: How to Win Friends and Influence People
Author: Dale Breckenridge Carnegie
Published: 1936
Providing tips and strategies for communicating with people, How to Win Friends and Influence People is one of the bestselling self-help books ever published. In contrast with some modern theories of psychology, which emphasize autonomy, self-expression, and assertiveness, How to Win Friends echoes Lord Chesterfield's view that pleasing others is both a duty and a paradoxical route to personal success.

Title: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Author: Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? In Made to Stick, accomplished educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath tackle head-on these vexing questions. Inside, the brothers Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain sure-fire methods for making ideas stickier, such as violating schemas, using the Velcro Theory of Memory, and creating curiosity gaps.

Title: The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Author: Timothy Ferriss
Who are the New Rich? They are people who make their money (quite a lot of money) by doing the minimum amount necessary to obtain the maximum effect. They do not work for others-others work for them. Their concern for money is not so much to have a great deal of it, but to have enough to achieve their objectives-objectives that are clearly defined. A blind pursuit of money is not their goal. Being financially rich and having the ability to live like a millionaire are fundamentally two different things. Creating choices is the objective of the New Rich. This book reveals how the New Rich create choices with the least effort and cost.

Title: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Author: Stephen Covey
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People presents an inside-out approach to effectiveness that is centered on principles and character. Inside-out means that the change starts within oneself. For many people, this approach represents a paradigm shift away from the Personality Ethic and toward the Character Ethic.

Title: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Rare events do occur much more than we dare to think. Our thinking is usually limited in scope and we make assumptions based on what we see, know, and assume. Reality, however, is much more complicated and unpredictable than we think. Extreme events do happen and have a big effect. Examples abound, including September 11th. The Internet with its various effects was scarcely anticipated, and it is a development that has had a significant effect. The effects of extreme events are even higher due to the fact that they are unexpected.

Title: The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
Author: Clayton M. Christensen
Focusing on 'disruptive technology'--the Honda Super Cub, Intel's 8088 processor, or the hydraulic excavator, for example--Clayton M. Christensen shows why most companies miss 'the next great wave.' Whether in electronics, retailing, or pretty much any industry, a successful company with established products will get pushed aside unless managers know when to abandon traditional business practices. Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, The Innovator's Dilemma presents a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation.

Title: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point introduces the dynamic behind social epidemics. It is that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once. Malcolm Gladwell begins by discussing the inexplicable resurgence of at-the-time-terminally-uncool Hush Puppies shoes among a handful of hipsters in Manhattan’s cutting-edge enclaves in the 1990s, a trend which soon spread across the United States and resulted in exponential increases in the company’s sales. Using this phenomenon as an introduction to the book’s analytical theme, Gladwell states that he will identify, dissect, and explain the mechanisms by which certain trends take hold, while others fail.

Title: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Author: Thomas L. Friedman
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century is a best-selling book by Thomas L. Friedman analyzing the progress of globalization with an emphasis on the early 21st century. First released in 2005.

Title: Winning
Author: Jack Welch, Suzy Welch
Winning is basically what everyone is asking for. All question are to acquire and strategies that help us win. Winning is great. Winning in business creates wealth, security, jobs and retirement funds. Winning is business makes a huge impact on those around us.
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