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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable»rank: 97by: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
: :A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: lt is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives.Why do we not acknowledge ... |
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StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths»rank: 92by: Tom Rath
: :D0 Y0U HAVE THE 0PP0RTUNlTY T0 D0 WHAT Y0U D0 BEST EVERY DAY?Chances are, you don't. All too often, our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths.To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced the first version of its online assessment, StrengthsFinder, in the 2001 management book Now, Discover Your Strengths. The book spent more than five years on the bestseller lists and ignited ... |
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't»rank: 100by: Jim Collins
: :The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and ... |
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World»rank: 13673by: Niall Ferguson
: :Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance. |
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Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse (Lynn Sonberg Books)»rank: 44by: Peter D. Schiff, John Downes
: :The economic tipping point for the United States is no longer theoretical. lt is a reality today. The country has gone from the world's largest creditor to its greatest debtor; the value of the dollar is sinking; domestic manufacturing is winding down - and these trends don't seem to be slowing. Peter Schiff casts a sharp, clear-sighted eye on these factors and explains what the possible effects may be and how investors can protect themselves. For more than a decade, ... |
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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future»rank: 119by: Daniel H. Pink
: :The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't. Drawing on research from around the world, Pink outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are absolute essentials for professional success and personal fulfillment-and reveals how to master them. A Whole New Mind takes readers to a daring new place, and a provocative and necessary ... |
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People»rank: 303530by: Stephen R. Covey
: :Covey's revolutionary program, based on his national bestselling book, is designed to break patterns of self-defeating behavior and replace old patterns with a principle-centered approach to problem-solving. 4 cassettes. Review:Anyone who thinks the audiocassette adaptation of Stephen Covey's bestseller, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, is a shortcut to reading the book has another thing coming. As a preview, the cassette is worth every one of its 90 minutes; as a substitute for the original, it will only ... |
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Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else»rank: 408326by: Geoff Colvin
: :Expanding on a landmark cover story in Fortune, a top journalist debunks the myths of exceptional performance. |
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity»rank: 1560052by: David Allen
: :Expanding on a landmark cover story in Fortune, a top journalist debunks the myths of exceptional performance. |
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference»rank: 47by: Malcolm Gladwell
: :The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing ... |
