Bestselling author Michael Lewis who wrote “Liars’ Poker” which centered on the 80s Wall Street culture from his perspective as a bond salesman, returns with this second take on Wall Street almost 20 years later to take the reader through a journey of how a…
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Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds
Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the net — presentationzen.com — shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way…
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
Arguably the best book ever on what is increasingly becoming the science of persuasion. Whether you’re a mere consumer or someone weaving the web of persuasion to urge others to buy or vote for your product, this is an essential book for understanding the psychological…
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How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
This grandfather of all people-skills books was first published in 1937. It was an overnight hit, eventually selling 15 million copies.
How to Win Friends and Influence People is just as useful today as it was when it was first published, because Dale Carnegie had an…
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The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch
In 1897, Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, in his study of the patterns of wealth and income, observed that the distribution of wealth was predictably unbalanced. He first discovered this pattern in 19th-century England and found it to be the same for every country and time…
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The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential…in Business and in Life – by Leo Babauta
According to Babauta (Zen to Done), employing the power of less will propel readers from chaos to blissful and productive minimalism. Learning to set limitations, such as penning a three-item Most Important Task list every day and restricting e-mails to five lines, is a cornerstone…
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Getting Things Done by David Allen
With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, “flow,” “mind like water,” and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you’d almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance.
Not quite. Yes, Getting Things Done offers…












