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Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life

Joann S. Lublin - Harper Business
Format: Hardcover

A retired Wall Street Journal editor and mother compares two generations of women - boomers and GenXers - to examine how each navigates the emotional and professional challenges involved in juggling managerial careers and families.For the first time in American history, a significant number...
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Inclusify: The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams

Stefanie K. Johnson - Harper Business

Humans have two basic desires: to stand out and to fit in. Companies respond by creating groups that tend to the extremewhere everyone fits in and no one stands out, or where everyone stands out and no one fits in. How do we find that happy medium where workers can demonstrate their individuality...
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The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind

Jonah Berger - SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: Hardcover

From the author of New York Times bestsellers Contagious and Invisible Influence, comes a revolutionary approach to changing anyone's mind.

Everyone has something they want to change. Marketers want to change their customers' minds and leaders want to change organizations....

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Energy: A Human History

RICHARD RHODES - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond.People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power...
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Busy: How to Thrive in a World of Too Much

Tony Crabbe - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Business psychologist Tony Crabbe outlines a unique four-step approach to combating one of the modern life's great problems: being too busy.
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Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles -- and All of Us

Rana Foroohar - Currency
Format: Hardcover

A penetrating indictment of how today's largest tech companies are hijacking our data, our livelihoods, our social fabric, and our minds - from an acclaimed Financial Times columnist and CNN analyst "Don't be evil" was enshrined as Google's corporate mantra back in its early...
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The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty

Clayton M Christensen - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

Clayton M. Christensen, the author of such business classics as The Innovator's Dilemma and the New York Times bestseller How Will You Measure Your Life, and co-authors Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon reveal why so many investments in economic development fail to generate sustainable prosperity,...
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Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

Jake Knapp - Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Format: Print book

From three partners at Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at more than a hundred companies.Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What's the most important place to focus your effort, and how do you start? What will your idea...
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Make Life Beautiful

Syd and Shea McGee - Harper Horizon
Format: Hardcover

Who doesn't want to live a beautiful life?For the one million-plus followers who turn to Syd and Shea McGee for advice on building a beautiful home and life, Make Life Beautiful will be a behind-the-scenes look into how the couple transformed Shea's small room of fabric samples...
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The Red Menace: How Lipstick Changed the Face of American History

Ilise S. Carter - Prometheus
Format: Hardcover

In America, lipstick is the foundation of empires; it's a signature of identity; it's propaganda, self-expression, oppression, freedom, and rebellion. It's a multi-billion-dollar industry and one of our most iconic accessories of gender. This engaging and entertaining history...
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