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Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind
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Darnyelle Jervey Harmon (Goodreads Author)
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We Should All Be Millionaires: A Woman’s Guide to Earning More, Building Wealth, and Gaining Economic Power
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Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder
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Reshma Saujani (Goodreads Author)
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She Thinks Like a Boss: Leadership—9 Essential Skills for New Female Leaders in Business and the Workplace
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Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
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Tori Dunlap (Goodreads Author)
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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
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How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job
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Sally Helgesen (Goodreads Author)
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The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know
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Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers
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Lois P. Frankel (Goodreads Author)
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My Money My Way: Taking Back Control of Your Financial Life
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Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
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Amy Cuddy (Goodreads Author)
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Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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New Startup Mindset: Ten Mindset Shifts to Build the Company of Your Dreams
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Sandra Shpilberg (Goodreads Author)
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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The 4-Hour Workweek
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Timothy Ferriss (Goodreads Author)
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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The Lean Startup
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Eric Ries (Goodreads Author)
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The Art of War
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How to Win Friends & Influence People
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
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The 48 Laws of Power
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Robert Greene (Goodreads Author)
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Think and Grow Rich
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
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The One Minute Manager
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Kenneth H. Blanchard (Goodreads Author)
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Steve Jobs
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Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)
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The Prince
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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves
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Thriving At Work: What They Didn't Teach You in School
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Michael Dam (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Secret to Startup Failure: Fail Fast. Fail Cheap. Fail Happy.
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Sonia Lin (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Massive Action Equal Massive Results: Learn the Critical Mental Framework to Focus Your Energy, Reach Your Goals Quicker and Live an Insanely Awesome Life
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Sunil Saxena (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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Walking the Corporate Beat: Police School for Business People
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Michael Tabman (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Atlas Shrugged
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Early Warning Signals
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G. Scott Graham (Goodreads Author)
4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Bigger Than This: How to Turn Any Venture Into An Admired Brand
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Fabian Geyrhalter (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 213 ratings
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Closing Deals: Make an Offer
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Snapshot Systems (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Alice im Wunderland
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Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
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4.15 avg rating — 386,437 ratings
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Les Misérables
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Too Good to Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff
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Erin Arvedlund (Goodreads Author)
3.46 avg rating — 667 ratings
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Economics in One Lesson
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Match in the Root Cellar: How You Can Spark a Peak Performance Culture
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Chris McGoff (Goodreads Author)
4.41 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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4.08 avg rating — 10,967 ratings
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The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
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3.93 avg rating — 35,841 ratings
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The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
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The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
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Chris Murray (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 174 ratings
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Never Work Again: Work Less, Earn More and Live Your Freedom
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3.57 avg rating — 273 ratings
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Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
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4.37 avg rating — 13,937 ratings
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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Mitch Albom (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 787,538 ratings
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Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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Classic Drucker: Wisdom from Peter Drucker from the Pages of Harvard Business Review
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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The Effective Executive
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The Medieval Market Economy
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The Canterbury Tales
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Don Quixote
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The Little Foxes
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Business Doctors: Management Consulting Gone Wild
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Sameer Kamat (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 277 ratings
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A Manager's Guide to Unleashing the Intrapreneur
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Debbie Wooldridge (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 25 ratings
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THE BROKEN RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
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Hack the Buyer Brain
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Joe Hill
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 119,953 ratings
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The Street Lawyer
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 121,470 ratings
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Becoming An Authority: Stop Waiting For Permission To Dominate Your Niche And Start Making A Difference
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Tara Jacobsen (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Sales and Marketing Success: Targeting Your Perfect Customer Who Will Buy & Buy
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Rebekah Welch (Goodreads Author)
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The I Ching or Book of Changes
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Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great
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Management Challenges for the 21st Century
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Hard Times
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The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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The 10 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Freelancing: What Nobody Else has Told You
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Career's Quest: Proven Strategies for Mastering Success in Your Profession: Networking and Building Professional Relationships
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Shubham Shukla (Goodreads Author)
4.52 avg rating — 109 ratings
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The Art of Part Time Travel (Matthew Lightfoot Travel Books)
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Matthew Lightfoot (Goodreads Author)
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CEO-Stories: Children Employed by Owners
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THE CHEATSHEET TO BEAT YOUR RIVALS IN BUSINESS & AT WORK: Actionable tips for street smart entrepreneurs & rising executives
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Selling with EASE: The Four Step Sales Cycle Found in Every Successful Business Transaction
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Chris Murray (Goodreads Author)
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The Future of Leadership in the Age of AI: Preparing Your Leadership Skills for the AI-Shaped Future of Work
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The Power of Positive Thinking
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99 Creative WOWs Words of Wisdom for Business
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General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
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Tobacco Road
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Building BIG Networks: How Making Connections Can Help Your Business
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Tara Jacobsen (Goodreads Author)
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Big Things Have Small Beginnings: Learn to Play in the Great Game
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
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Das Kapital
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
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The Conquest of Gaul
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Colonialism and Neocolonialism
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The Condition of the Working Class in England
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The Irish Famine
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MNG TURBULENT TIMES
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Emergency Public Relations: Crisis Management in a 3.0 WorldRead this and you will indeed be reviewing and recommending it to business leaders, academics and more. This book should be on the shelf in libraries, colleges and is a must read for large corporations down to the sole proprietor.
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