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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
What if the greatest threat to your company isn’t a competitor’s innovation—but your own team’s inability to deliver? In Execution, seasoned leaders confront the brutal chasm between grand visions and chaotic reality, where every hesitation risks fortunes, careers, and the survival of empires. But when the true enemy is a culture of empty promises and deferred action, will you master the discipline to transform ambition into results… or become another ghost in the graveyard of unrealized potential?
- Originally Published: 2002
- Publisher: Crown Business, 2002
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 320
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0609610572
- Access: Members
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Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
What if the greatest threat to your success isn’t your competition, but your own leadership? In Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek reveals how the survival of teams—and the humans within them—hangs on a simple, radical choice: protect your people first, or watch trust crumble as self-interest devours progress. But when loyalty clashes with bottom lines and generations collide, will you cling to outdated hierarchies… or risk everything to build a tribe where sacrifice sparks revolution?
- Originally Published: 2014
- Publisher: Portfolio, 2017
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 368
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1591845324
- Access: Members
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Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to drive your career and create a remarkable future
What if everything you’ve been taught about work is a lie? Linchpin by Seth Godin challenges you to confront the suffocating grip of conformity, where the “factory worker” mindset—obedient, replaceable, and shackled by fear—clashes with the explosive potential of your inner artist. Imagine a world where your survival hinges not on following rules but on defying them, where emotional labor and unapologetic creativity become your weapons against obsolescence. But when your deepest fears rise to sabotage your genius, will you surrender to the lizard brain—or rewrite the rules of what it means to matter?
- Originally Published: 2010
- Publisher: Piatkus Books, 2010
- Genre: Self-help
- Pages: 256
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0749953355
- Access: Members
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Measure What Matters: OKRs – The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth
What if the secret to success isn’t working harder—but measuring smarter? John Doerr unveils the explosive power of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), the silent engine behind giants like Google and Intel, where audacious goals meet ruthless focus. But as organizations chase moonshots and teams drown in data, a dangerous irony surfaces: Your metrics might be counting steps… while the mountain crumbles. Are you tracking progress—or just polishing the illusion of it?
- Originally Published: 2017
- Publisher : Penguin Business, 2018
- Pages: 306
- Genre: Business
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0241348482
- Access: Prime Membership
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Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
What if the very person championing your growth is secretly capping your potential? In Multipliers, Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown expose how leaders ignite—or extinguish—the genius hidden in every team. When data reveals most organizations squander half their collective intelligence, a silent battle rages between those who drain brilliance and those who unleash it. Are you multiplying the minds around you… or are you the bottleneck no one dares name?
- Publisher: Harper Business
- Published: June 15, 2010
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 288
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0061964398
- Access: Members
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No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
What if everything you thought about workplace rules was holding your company hostage? In No Rules Rules, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings gambles on a radical culture of “freedom and responsibility”—scrapping vacations, approvals, and hierarchies to fuel explosive innovation. But when trust collides with human fallibility, can a company thrive without guardrails… or will the pursuit of reinvention ignite its own demise?
- Originally Published: 2020
- Publisher: Virgin Books, 2020
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 320
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780753553664
- Access: Members
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Principles: Life and Work
What if the greatest obstacle to your success isn’t the world’s chaos—but the lies you tell yourself? In Principles, Ray Dalio unveils a ruthless blueprint for confronting reality’s sharp edges, where ego crumbles, pain becomes fuel, and radical truth rewires how you live, lead, and love. But when every decision demands staring into the mirror of your deepest flaws… will you cling to comfort—or let the truth set you free?
- Originally Published: September 2017
- Publisher: Avid Reader Press, 2019
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 592
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1501124020
- Access: Members
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Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
What if your brain is secretly rewiring itself with every conversation you have—and you’re powerless to stop it? In Social Intelligence, Daniel Goleman unveils how every glance, sigh, and awkward silence sculpts your relationships, career, and even your health. Imagine a world where your boss’s smirk could tank your confidence, your partner’s silence could predict a breakup, and a stranger’s laugh might save your life—because it already does. But when science reveals that your worst social blunders are etched into your neurons, will you master the hidden rules of human connection… or let your amygdala sabotage you forever?
- Originally Published: 2006
- Publisher: Bantam Books, 2006
- Genre: Social Psychology
- Pages: 374
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0470444344
- Access: Members
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The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
What if 83% of your best ideas vanish into the daily chaos—and your team’s survival depends on breaking free? The 4 Disciplines of Execution reveals how leaders battle an invisible enemy—the “whirlwind” of urgent tasks—to transform scattered efforts into laser-focused results that defy stagnation. But when distraction masquerades as productivity and complacency as progress, can your organization execute its future…or become another casualty of the urgent?
- Originally Published: 2012
- Publisher: Free Press, 2012
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 352
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1451627053
- Access: Members
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The Small Big: Small Changes That Spark Big Influence
What if adjusting a single word could make others say “yes” twice as often? The Small Big reveals how subtle shifts—like tweaking a request’s timing or reframing a message—tap into deep-seated human instincts, turning resistance into agreement. But when every interaction holds hidden psychological levers, will you master them… or remain oblivious to the tiny changes that reshape destinies?
- Originally Published: 2014
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd., 2015
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 302
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1781252758
- Access: Members
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Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Handbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell
What if Silicon Valley’s trillion-dollar secret wasn’t code, algorithms, or venture capital—but a gruff, beer-loving coach who never wrote a line of software? Trillion Dollar Coach unveils the untold story of Bill Campbell, the enigmatic mentor who quietly shaped Apple, Google, and Amazon’s empires by transforming cocky geniuses into leaders who bled humanity, not ego. But when the stakes soared beyond stock prices to the soul of innovation itself, did his radical lessons in loyalty and love hold the cure for modern success… or expose its fatal flaw?
- Originally Published: April 16, 2019
- Publisher: John Murray, 2020
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 352
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1473675988
- Access: Members
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What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
What if the very behaviors that catapulted you to success are now your greatest liability? In What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, a top executive discovers that subtle flaws—like winning too relentlessly or dismissing others’ ideas—risk unraveling a career built on relentless drive. But when confronting these blind spots forces a choice between ego and evolution, will clinging to old habits cost everything they’ve fought to achieve… or reveal the ruthless truth about what it takes to stay on top?
- Originally Published: 2007
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 2007
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 256
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1401301309
- Access: Members
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What They Don’t Teach you at Harvard Business School
What if your MBA only taught you 10% of what it takes to dominate the boardroom? Mark H. McCormack—the sports agent who turned handshakes into a billion-dollar empire—exposes the unwritten laws of business: where reading microexpressions trumps spreadsheets, and loyalty is currency. But when every deal hinges on instincts no classroom can teach, how many calculated risks would you take before your next move becomes your last?
- Originally Published: 1984
- Publisher: Profile Books, 2014
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 240
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 9781781253397
- Access: Members
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Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
What if the greatest threat to America isn’t an external enemy, but the absence of leaders with the guts to lead? Lee Iacocca, the maverick auto titan who resurrected Chrysler, unleashes a fiery manifesto on the epidemic of cowardice and greed gutting boardrooms and ballot boxes alike. As trust crumbles and crises mount, his battle cry demands: Will you follow the failed script of power—or dare to rewrite the rules before it’s too late?
- Originally Published: April 2007
- Publisher: Scribner, 2008
- Genre: Biography
- Pages: 288
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1416532491
- Access: Members
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Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
What if the most disruptive business empire of our time didn’t rely on visionary genius—but on a playbook so counterintuitive it defies every corporate norm? Working Backwards pulls back the curtain on Amazon’s unorthodox rise, revealing how two insiders cracked the code to obsessive customer focus, ruthless operational precision, and a culture where “high standards” mean rewriting the rules of success. But when relentless innovation collides with the pressure to outpace an entire industry, can these principles survive their own scale—or will the empire’s greatest strengths become its fatal flaw? What’s your company’s excuse?
- Originally Published: 2021
- Publisher: St. Martin’s Press, 2021
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 286
- BookType: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9781250275714
- Access: Members