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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: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Author: Steven D. LevittStephen 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: 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: Good to Great
Author: Jim Collins
Good to Great:Why Some Companies Make the Leap … And Others Don’t 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: The Wisdom of Crowds
Author: James Surowiecki
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, first published in 2004, is a book written by James Surowiecki about the aggregation of information in groups, resulting in decisions that, he argues, are often better than could have been made by any single member of the group. The book presents numerous case studies and anecdotes to illustrate its argument, and touches on several fields, primarily economics and psychology.