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Doughnut Economics

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Co-Create: How Your Business Will Profit from Innovative and Strategic Collaboration

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Relationship Economics: Transform Your Most Valuable Business Contacts Into Personal and Professional Success

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Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations: Ancient Philosophy for Modern Problems

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The Hiring Prophecies: Psychology behind Recruiting Successful Employees: A milewalk Business Book

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Out of Reach but in Sight: Using Goals to Achieve Your Impossible

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Interview Intervention

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Inclusion: Diversity, The New Workplace & The Will To Change

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Epiphany Z: Eight Radical Visions For Transforming Your Future

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Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and Impact

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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

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Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family

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Great at Work: How Top Performers Work Less and Achieve

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Let’s Get Small

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Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

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The Wisdom of Crowds

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

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The Fine Art of Small Talk: How To Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills — and Leave a Positive Impression!

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How Will You Measure Your Life?

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Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude

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The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organization

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Dress for Success

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Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

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The Responsible Company: What We’ve Learned From Patagonia’s First 40 Years

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Principles: Life and Work

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Beneath a Scarlet Sky

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Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance and What We Can Do About It

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Leaders: Myth and Reality

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Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

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The Compound Effect

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Kids These Days

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How to Raise an Adult

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Excellent Sheep

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Labor 2030: The Collision of Demographics, Automation and Inequality

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Born to Run

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