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Driven
Authors: Authors: Randy Kelley and Douglas Brackmann
Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression
Author: Christopher Knowlton
What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology
Author: Paul Nurse
INNERCISE: The New Science to Unlock Your Brain’s Hidden Power
Author: John Assaraf
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Author: Isabel Wilkerson
Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles
Authors: Authors: David John Turner and William Quinn
The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order
Author: Rush Doshi
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
Author: Garry Kasparov
China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption
Author: Yuen Yuen Ang
Blood and Oil: Mohammed Bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power
Authors: Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
Author: Kim Ghattas
Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace
Author: Carl Safina
Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
Author: Katja Hoyer
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Author: Robert M. Sapolsky
A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
Author: Barbara Oakley
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Author: Oliver Burkeman
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
Author: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil
Authors: Francis de Véricourt, Kenneth Cukier, and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
A People's History of the United States
Author: Howard Zinn
Breakfast is a Dangerous Meal Why You Should Ditch Your Morning Meal For Health and Wellbeing
Author: Terence Kealey
Against The Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
Author: James C. Scott
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
Author: Nate Silver
The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
Authors: Authors: Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler
Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery
Author: David Warsh
Economics for the Common Good
Author: Jean Tirole
The Road to Character
Author: David Brooks
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Authors: Authors: Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
Author: Michael J. Sandel
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Authors: Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes--But Some Do
Author: Matthew Syed
Seriously Curious: The Facts and Figures that Turn Our World Upside Down
Author: Tom Standage
Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World
Authors: Karim R. Lakhani and Marco Iansiti
The First-Time Manager
Authors: Loren B. Belker, Gary S. Topchik, and Jim McCormick
Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average
Author: Joseph T. Hallinan
The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-driven Strategy
Authors: Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi
The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism
Author: Hubert Joly
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Author: Kim Scott
RE:Think Innovation
Author: Carla Johnson
First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
Authors: Authors: Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Author: Brené Brown
Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success
Author: John C. Maxwell
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Author: Simon Winchester
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Author: Niall Ferguson
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
Author: Matt Ridley
Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World
Author: Dan Breznitz
The Wood Age: How One Material Shaped the Whole of Human History
Author: Roland Ennos
How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Author: Katy Milkman
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
Author: Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species In 23 Chapters
Author: Matt Ridley
The Economics Of Small Things
Author: Sudipta Sarangi
Economics in One Virus: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning through COVID-19
Author: Ryan Bourne
Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
Author: Ali Tamaseb
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern WorldAuthor: Adrian Wooldridge
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Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
Author: David Christian
Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
Author: John Brooks
Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
Author: Eric Topol
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
Authors: John J. Ratey and Eric Hagerman
Stitched Stories – Meander, Innovation and Leadership
Author: Smrize
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
Authors: Cass Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman, and Olivier Sibony
How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine ... for Now
Author: Stanislas Dehaene
Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
Author: Ethan Kross
Atomic Habits
Author: James Clear
Thinking Fast and Slow
Author: Daniel Kahneman
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
Authors: Authors: Jay Burreson and Penny Le Couteur
A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
Author: Cal Newport
Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read
Author: Stanislas Dehaene
Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Major Medical Breakthroughs in the Twentieth Century
Author: Morton Meyers
Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
Author: Charles Duhigg
Drinking Water: A History
Author: James Salzman
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Author: Sam Kean
Small Giants: Companies that Choose to be Great Instead of Big
Author: Bo Burlingham
Stitched Stories
Author: Mukri
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change
Author: Jared Diamond
The Upright Thinkers
Author: Leonard Mlodinow
Finish Big
Author: Bo Burlingham
Consciousness and the Brain
Author: Stanislas Dehaene
Tubes
Author: Andrew Blum
Incognito
Author: David Eagleman
The Story of the Human Body
Author: Daniel Lieberman
The Brain- The Story of You
Author: David Eagleman
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
Author: Steven Johnson
Elemental
Author: Tim James
Thinking Fast and Slow
Author: Daniel Kahneman
Indistractable
Author: Nir Eyal
Loonshots
Author: Safi Bahcall
Where Good Ideas Come From
Author: Steven Johnson
Atomic Habits
Author: James Clear
Ikigai
Authors: Héctor García and Francesc Miralles
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Author: Mark Manson
The Number Sense
Author: Stanislas Dehaene
The Dollar Trap
Author: Eswar Prasad
The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Author: Steve Blank
What You Do is Who You Are
Author: Ben Horowitz
Grit
Author: Angela Duckworth
Multi Vitamin Capsule – Capsule Sized Stories from Great Books
Author: Mukri
Only the Paranoid Survive
Author: Andrew Grove
The Power of Habit
Author: Charles Duhigg
Billion Dollar Brand Club
Author: Lawrence Ingrassia
Think Like A Rocket Scientist
Author: Daniel Pink
Think Again
Author: Adam Grant
Narrative Economics
Author: Robert Shiller
ForeCast
Author: Mark Buchanan
How Asia Works
Author: Joe Studwell
How Innovation Works
Author: Matt Ridley
How Soda Shook Up the World
Author: Tristan Donovan
Upstream: How to solve problems before they happen
Author: Dan Heath
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
Authors: Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
The Industries of the Future
Author: Alec Ross
The Emerald Planet: How plants changed Earth's history
Author: David Beerling
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think
Authors: Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
Inside the Box
Author: Drew Boyd & Jacob Goldenberg
[FlashCards] Superfreakonomics
Authors: Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Superfreakonomics Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Authors: Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Outliers
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Play Bigger
Authors: Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, and Kevin Maney
Toyota
Author: References from Various Books
The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses
Author: Eric Ries
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Author: Simon Sinek
The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us
Author: Adam Rutherford
The People’s Money: How China Is Building a Global Currency
Author: Paola Subacchi
How Will You Measure your Life
Author: Clayton Christensen
Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in Business
Author: Aswath Damodaran
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Authors: Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity
Author: Ha-Joon Chang
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Author: Bill Bryson
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Confessions of the Pricing Man
Author: Hermann Simon
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
Author: Tom Standage
Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
Author: Clay Christensen
Uncommon Service
Authors: Francis Feri and Anne Morriss
Strategy That Works
Authors: Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi
The Design of Everyday Things
Author: Don Norman
The Design of Business
Author: Roger L. Martin
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Author: Ha-Joon Chang
Good to Great
Author: Jim Collins
Contagious: Why Things Catch On
Author: Jonah Berger
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
Author: Adam Rutherford
Connecting the Dots
Author: John Chambers
Predictably Irrational
Author: Dan Ariely
Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace
Author: Leonard Mlodinow
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Author: David Epstein
Measure What Matters
Author: John Doerrs
SmartCuts: The Breakthrough Power of Lateral Thinking
Author: Shane Snow
The Infinite Game
Author: Simon Sinek
Food Fix
Author: Mark Hyman
Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World
Author: Pagan Kennedy
An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake
Author: Srinivas Rao
How We Got to Now
Author: Steven Johnson
The Long Tail
Author: Chris Anderson
Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
Author: Rory Sutherland
The Prosperity Paradox
Authors: Clayton M. Christensen, Efosa Ojomo, and Karen Dillon
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
Author: Helen Czerski
Stuff Matters
Author: Mark Miodownik
The Body- A Guide for Occupants
Author: Bill Bryson
The Psychology of Money
Author: Morgan Housel
Made to Stick
Authors: Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Liquid Rules
Author: Mark Miodownik