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Business Book Suggestions
Larry Gennari writes a regular column in the Boston Business Journal reviewing business books and other thoughtful publications as part of our curation for Authors & Innovators each year.
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The Case for Good Jobs
by Zeynep Ton
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The Portfolio Life
by Christina Wallace
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Crisis-Proofing Today's Learners
by Jean Eddy
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The Way We Build
by Mark Ehrlich
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Your Brain on Art: How The Arts Transform Us
by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross
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Kind of a Big Deal
by Saul Austerlitz
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Generations
by Jean Twenge
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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
by Henry Grabar
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Gradual: The Case For Incremental Change in a Radical Age.
by Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox
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King: A Life
by Jonathan Eig
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Chokepoint Capitalism
by Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin
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Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America
by Brendan Ballou
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Deeply Responsible Business: A Global History of Values-Driven Business
by Geoffrey Jones
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Magic Words: What to Say to Get Your Way
by Jonah Berger
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STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut In An Endlessly Noisy World
by Dan Lyons
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Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
by Mehdi Hasan
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The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America
by Saket Soni
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The Future Normal: How We Will Live, Work, and Thrive In The Next Decade
by Rohit Bhargarva and Henry Coutinho-Mason
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Mindreader
by Dr. David Lieberman
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Foolproof
by Tess Wilkinson-Ryan
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Still Broke
by Rick Wartzman
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The Future Of Business Journalism: Why It Matters For Wall Street And Main Street
by Chris Roush
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Chip War: The Fight For The World’s Most Critical Technology
by Chris Miller
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Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict With China
by Michael Beckley and Hal Brands
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This is What it Sounds Like by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas
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Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet by Michael Meyer
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Rebel With A Clause by Ellen Jovin
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Purpose + Profit by George Serafeim
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When Women Lead by Julia Boorstin
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The Man Who Broke Capitalism by David Gelles
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Build For Tomorrow by Jason Feifer
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Golden by Justin Zorn and Leigh Marz
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The Art of Insubordination by Todd Kashdan
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Influence Is Your Superpower by Zoe Chance
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This is What it Sounds Like
by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas
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The Prepared Leader
by Erika James and Lynn Perry Wooten
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The Answer is You
by Alex Amouyel
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Purpose & Profit
by George Serafeim
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When Women Lead
by Julia Boorstin
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Build Your Board, Build Your Business
by Barbara Clarke
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Startup Boards
by Brad Feld, Matt Blumberg and Mahendra Ramsinghani
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The Art of Conscious Conversation
by Chuck Wisner
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The Man Who Broke Capitalism
by David Gelles
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Launchpad Republic
by Howard Wolk and John Landry
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Build for Tomorrow
by Jason Feifer
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Golden: The Power of Silence in a World Of Noise
by Justin Zorn and Leigh Marz
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The Eloquence of The Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath The Sea by Bill Francois
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The Eye Test: A Case For Human Creativity in The Age of Analytics
by Chris Jones
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Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet by Michael Meyer
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See, Solve, Scale: How Anyone Can Turn an Unsolved Problem Into a Breakthrough Success by Danny Warshay
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The Privatization of Everything
by Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelian
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Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture and Why People Will Believe Anything by Kelly Weill
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Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times by Monica Guzman
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Results: Getting Beyond Politics to Get Important Work Done
by Charlie Baker and Steve Kadish
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Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking by Leonard Mlodinow
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Influence Is Your Superpower by Zoe Chance
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The Art of Insubordination: How To Dissent And Defy Effectively
by Todd Kashdan
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Major Labels by Kelefa Sanneh
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Branding for Buyout by Ted Schlueter
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Making Numbers Count by Chip Heath and Karla Starr
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American Afterlife by Shannon Dawdy
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Rescuing Socrates by Roosevelt Montas
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The Voice Catchers by Joseph Turow
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The Power of Geography by Tim Marshall
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Running Out: In Search Of Water On The High Plains by Luca Bessires
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Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
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Machiavelli for Women by Stacey Vanek Smith
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You Have More Influence Than You Think by Vanessa Bohns
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The New Builders by Seth Levine and Elizabeth MacBride
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American Made by Farah Stockman
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The Power of Trust by Sandra Sucher
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Think Again by Adam Grant
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High Conflict by Amanda Ripley
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Better, Simpler Strategy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee
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The Unspoken Rules by Gorick Ng
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Living a Life That Matters by Rabbi Harold Kushner
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The Raging 2020s by Alec Ross
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Untapped Talent by Jeffrey Korzenik
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American Made: What Happens To People When Work Disappears by Farah Stockman
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Power for All by Julie Battilana & Tiziana Casciaro
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The Power of Nothing to Lose: The Hail Mary Effect in Politics, War and Business. by William Silber
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The Transformation Myth: Leading Your Organization Through Uncertain Times by Gerald Kane & Anh Nguyen Phillips
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You Have More Influence Than You Think by Vanessa Bohns
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Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust & Connection,
No Matter the Distance by Erica Dhawan
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Beyond Collaboration Overload by Rob Cross
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Republic of Detours by Scott Borchert
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Machiavelli For Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace by Stacey Vanek Smith
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The Premonition by Michael Lewis
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The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy 1865-1915 by Jon Grinspan
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Antitrust by Amy Klobuchar
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The New Builders by Seth Levine & Elizabeth McBride
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The Power of Trust by Sandra Sucher & Shalene Gupta
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Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
by Alec MacGillis
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Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding From Anywhere
by Tsedal Neely
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The Human Cloud by Matthew Mottola and Matthew Coatney
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Humor, Seriously: Why Humor is A Secret Weapon In Business And In Life by Jennifer Aaker & Naomi Bagdonas
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The Imagination Machine by Martin Reeves & Jack Fuller
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High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out
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Better, Simpler Strategy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee
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The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right
by Gorick Ng
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Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook
by Josh Baron& Rob Lachenauer
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Think Again by Adam Grant
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Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships With Family, Friends, and Colleagues by David Bradford & Carole Robin
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We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China’s Surveillance State
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We The Possibility by Mitchell Weiss
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The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato
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The Passion Economy by Adam Davidson
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You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters
by Kate Murphy -
Invent & Wander by Jeff Bezos
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Long Life Learning by Michelle Weise
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The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton
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Post-Corona by Scott Galloway
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How I Built This by Guy Raz
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The Growing Season by Sarah Frey
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Blindsight by Prince Ghuman
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The Power of Bad and How to Overcome It by John Tierney
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The Startup Playbook by Will Herman and Raj Bhargava
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First Pitch by Debi Kleiman
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Girl Decoded by Rana el Kaliouby
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Overground Railroad by Candacy Taylor
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The Tyranny of Merit by Michael Sandel
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The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good
by Michael Sandel
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If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
by Jill Lepore
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Good Company by Arthur Blank
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The Entrepreneur's Journey by Hambleton Lord, Christopher Mirabile and Joseph Mandato
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Protocol by Capricia Penavic Marshall
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Blindsight by Matt Johnson and Prince Ghuman
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Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
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Entrepreneurial Negotiation by Samuel Dinnar & Lawrence Susskind
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People, Power & Profits by Joseph Stiglitz
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The Reality Game by Samuel Woolley
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The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau
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The Power of Bad and How to Overcome It
by John Tierney and Roy Baumeister
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Girl Decoded by Rana el Kaliouby
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Lift by Dan Ward
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To the Promised Land by Michael Honey
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Ripples of Hope by Josh Gottheimer
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VC: An American History by Tom Nichols
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The Broken Road by Peggy Wallace Kennedy
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Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral & Drive Major Economic Events by Robert Shiller
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Messengers, Who We Listen to, Who We Don’t and Why by Stephen Martin and Joseph Marks
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Reboot: Leadership and The Art of Growing Up by Jerry Colonna
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Creative Construction by Gary Pisano
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The AI Advantage by Tom Davenport
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The Technology Fallacy by Gerald Kane
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Leading With Dignity by Donna Hicks
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Jump-Starting America by Jonathan Gruber and Simon Johnson
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How We Make Stuff Now by Jules Pieri
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Are We There Yet: The American Automobile, Past, Present and Driverless by Dan Albert
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FinTech, Small Business & the American Dream by Karen Mills
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Crooked River Burning by Mark Winegardner
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The Birth of Loud by Les Paul and Leo Fender
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The Final Days of EMI by Eamonn Forde
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Music on the Chain by Anthony McGuire
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Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table by Langdon Cook
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Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
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AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee
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Inspired: How to Build an Organization where Everyone Loves to Work by Aron Ain
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Factfulness by Hans Rosling
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The Job: Work and its Future in a Time of Radical Change by Ellen Ruppel Shell
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The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make A Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau
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Entrepreneurial Negotiation by Samuel Dinnar and Lawrence Susskind
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The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy and Society by William Kerr
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Devotions by Mary Oliver
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Reach by Andy Molinsky
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The Startup Playbook by Will Herman and Rajat Bharagava
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Detonate by Geoff Tuff and Steven Goldbach
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A New U: Faster & Cheaper Alternatives to College by Ryan Craig
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The Challenge Culture by Nigel Travis
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Success Through Diversity by Carol Fulp
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