You can't fire me. I quit. 

• 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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You've got the power. Now use it!

• 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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You've got mail...again

• 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, women, and the art of talking back

• 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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Monopoly: A new take on an old game

• 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

We meant social distance, not emotional distance

• 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

Commencement and Beyond

• The Imagination Machine  by Martin Reeves & Jack Fuller

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• High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out
  by Amanda Ripley

• Better, Simpler Strategy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee

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• The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right 
  by Gorick Ng

Family Business Advice Fit for a Godfather

• 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

Leaders Must Be Readers

• We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China’s Surveillance State 
   by Kai Strittmatter

• We The Possibility  by Mitchell Weiss

• The Entrepreneurial State  by Mariana Mazzucato

• The Passion Economy  by Adam Davidson

2021? You Got This!

• You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters  
   by Kate Murphy

• Invent & Wander  by Jeff Bezos

• Long Life Learning  by Michelle Weise

• The Deficit Myth  by Stephanie Kelton

Must-Read Books of the Year

• Post-Corona  by Scott Galloway

• How I Built This  by Guy Raz

• The Growing Season by Sarah Frey

• Blindsight  by Prince Ghuman

• The Power of Bad and How to Overcome It  by John Tierney

• The Startup Playbook  by Will Herman and Raj Bhargava

• First Pitch  by Debi Kleiman

• Girl Decoded  by Rana el Kaliouby

• Overground Railroad  by Candacy Taylor

• The Tyranny of Merit  by Michael Sandel

Welcome to the Rest of 2020

• 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

Rewriting Your Story

• How I Built This  by Guy Raz

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• The Growing Season  by Sarah Frey

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• Time Smart  by Ashley Whillans​

Bill Murray, Negotiating, and the Art of the Deal

• 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

Zombies, Books, and the End of the World

• People, Power & Profits  by Joseph Stiglitz 

• The Reality Game by Samuel Woolley

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• Don’t Be Evil  by Rana Foroohar

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• Notes From an Apocalypse by Mark O’Connell

Black Entrepreneurship Matters

• American Prison  by Shane Bauer

• The Master Plan  by Chris Wilson

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• ...and others

Channeling Warren Buffet

• 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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• First Pitch: Winning Money, Mentors, and More for Your Startup by Debi Kleiman

Thinking Fast Means Going Slow

• Girl Decoded   by Rana el Kaliouby

• Lift  by Dan Ward

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• Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy Taylor

MLK and the Unfinished Fight for Economic Justice

• To the Promised Land   by Michael Honey

• Ripples of Hope  by Josh Gottheimer

• VC: An American History  by Tom Nichols

• The Broken Road   by Peggy Wallace Kennedy

The Truth About Sharks

• 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

Love It Or List It

• 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

• Leading With Dignity  by Donna Hicks

• Jump-Starting America by Jonathan Gruber and Simon Johnson

Bill Murray is Everywhere You Want to Be

• 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

Hello, Cleveland

• 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

Fishing for Answers

• 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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• Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World   by Tim Marshall

2019 is Here!

• 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

Time to Reflect on 'Vocational Discernment'

• 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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• Meaningful Work: A Quest To Do Great Business, Find Your Calling and Feed Your Soul  by Shawn Askinosie

Holiday Food and Common Ground

• 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

Head to Sweden...and Bring These Books

• 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 

In Search of a Good Business Book

• 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