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Business Brilliant: Surprising Lessons from the Greatest Self-Made Business
Lewis Schiff

In Business Brilliant, Lewis Schiff combines compelling storytelling with ground-breaking research to show the rest of us what America’s self-made rich already know: It’s synergy, not serendipity that produces success.

After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
Alan S. Blinder

An assessment of the U.S. financial crisis and its lessons explores its complex contributing factors while revealing some of its more devastating consequences, outlining potentially divisive solutions that may be necessary for recovery.

Ninja Innovation: the Ten Killer Strategies
Gary Shapiro

Reveals how to use the ninja way to create a "killer strategy" to enable achieving goals, in a guide for envisioning, executing, and maintaining an innovation-based strategy like those used in the technology world.

Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business
John Mackey

Profiles the business philosophies of such market leaders as Whole Foods, Costco, and Wegmans, revealing how their examples reflect fundamental principles and practices that business managers can adapt to enable conscious leadership and a caring business culture.

Be the Best at What Matters Most: The Only Strategy You Will Ever Need
Joe Calloway

Outlines strategies for outperforming competitors by simplifying, focusing and creating value for customers, sharing thought-provoking questions, activities and action steps for helping a team to maximize results.

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