11 best-selling business books like How to Wash a Chicken: Mastering the Business Presentation by Tim Calkins

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How to Wash a Chicken: Mastering the Business Presentation

By: Tim Calkins

3.98

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

How to Wash a Chicken is not a book about public speaking (or chickens), it’s a comprehensive playb…

If you liked the business plot in How to Wash a Chicken: Mastering the Business Presentation by Tim Calkins , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals

By: Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

4.40

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Don't simply show your data — tell a story with it! Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
"Sometimes bar charts are avoided because they are common. This is a mistake. Rather, bar charts should be leveraged because they are common, as this means less of a learning curve for your audience."

-Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals

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2. High Output Management

By: Andrew S. Grove

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

The essential skill of creating and maintaining new businesses--the art of the entrepreneur--can be… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes

3. Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and be Your Own Person

By: Shonda Rhimes

5.00

Format: 64 pages,

In this poignant, hilarious and deeply intimate call to arms, Hollywood's most powerful woman, the … read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership

By: Harry M. Jansen Kraemer Jr.

3.54

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Silver Medal Winner, Business and Leadership, 2012 Nautilus Book Awards Respected former CEO, profe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
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5. A Year in Provence

By: Peter Mayle

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

National Bestseller In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to r… read more

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  • nonfiction

6. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writ… read more

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7. Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

By: Kim Malone Scott

4.00

Format: None pages,

From the time we learn to speak, we're told that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say … read more

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8. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

By: Ben Horowitz

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Hardcover

A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally h… read more

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9. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

By: Douglas Stone , Bruce Patton , Sheila Heen

3.93

Format: 592 pages,

Whether you're dealing with an under performing employee, disagreeing with your spouse about money … read more

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10. Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message

By: None

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking women's leadership expert and popular conference speaker gives women the practical… read more

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11. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

By: Candice Millard

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject po… read more

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12. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

By: Daniel James Brown

4.34

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit and Unbroken, the dramatic story of the American rowi… read more

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13. Elon Musk

By: Walter Isaacson

4.40

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"

-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

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14. The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store

By: Cait Flanders

3.47

Format: 189 pages, Hardcover

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER In her late twenties, Cait Flanders found herself stuck in the co… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I wanted to be surrounded by those who valued living over working, Spending time outdoors over spending time online, and doing things for themselves over paying for every possible convenience"

-Cait Flanders, The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store

"Stuff I purchased with every intention of using, but only because I told myself it would somehow help. I wasn't good enough, but this stuff would make me better. I wanted to read, wear, and do everyt…"

-Cait Flanders, The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store

"I couldn't ever blame them for trying to get me to shop with them or ship for myself or simply enjoy my money - this was a behavior many people learned and exhibited in all kinds of circumstances in …"

-Cait Flanders, The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store

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15. Notes on a Nervous Planet

By: Matt Haig

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A follow-up to Matt Haig's internationally bestselling memoir, Reasons to Stay Alive, a broader loo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Be kind to yourself."

-Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

"Don’t worry about things you can’t control."

-Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

"Don’t let anyone or anything make you feel you aren’t enough."

-Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

"Accept feelings and accept that they are just that: feelings."

-Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

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16. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

By: Adam M. Grant

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
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17. Roman Stories

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more

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18. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

By: Richard P. Feynman

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A New York Times bestseller—the outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific mi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is."

-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

"I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!"

-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

"All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't."

-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

"You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick."

-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

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19. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A timely investigation into the campus assault on free speech and what it means for students, educa… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"Practice the virtue of "intellectual humility." Intellectual humility is the recognition that our reasoning is so flawed, so prone to bias, that we can rarely be certain that we are right."

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

"The college admissions process nowadays makes it harder for high school students to enjoy school and pursue intrinsic fulfillment. The process "warps the values of students drawn into a competitive f…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

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20. The Book of Ichigo Ichie: The Art of Making the Most of Every Moment, the Japanese Way

By: Héctor García

3.94

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Learn to make every moment a once-in-a-lifetime experience with this definitive guide to the Japane… read more

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  • nonfiction
"You are a miracle, and there has never been-- nor will there ever be--anyone like you - Pau (Pablo) Casals"

-Héctor García, The Book of Ichigo Ichie: The Art of Making the Most of Every Moment, the Japanese Way

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21. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

By: Bill Gates

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business by Mel Brooks

22. All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business

By: Mel Brooks

4.24

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

At 95, the legendary Mel Brooks continues to set the standard for comedy across television, film, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I didn’t realize it but I might have created the first cell phone. Had I patented it, I probably would have made so much money that I wouldn’t have had to write this book."

-Mel Brooks, All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business

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23. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

By: Bent Flyvbjerg

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most by Greg McKeown

24. Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

By: Greg McKeown

4.03

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Essentialism takes on the holy grail of human performance:… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
"What job have I hired this grudge to do?"

-Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

"There is no mastery without mistakes, and there is no learning later without the courage to be rubbish."

-Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

"Life doesn't have to be as hard and complicated as we make it. Each of us has -- as Robert Frost wrote -- "Promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep." No matter what challenges, obstacles or ha…"

-Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

Cover of No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings

25. No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

By: Reed Hastings

4.28

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Netflix cofounder… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
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26. Last Night in Montreal

By: Emily St. John Mandel

3.73

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Lilia Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. She spends her childhood and adol… read more

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"She was unsettling. But sometimes there was something perfect about it."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal

"It was never very easy to reach her, like loving someone who was rarely in the same room"

-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal

"His only part in the story: to observe and remember the chain of events. Not all of us will be cast in the greatest dramas; someone has to remember them"

-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal

"What she aspired to was a kind of delirious perfection. What Lilia wanted was to travel, but not only that; she wanted to be a citizen of everywhere, free-wheeling and capable of instant flight."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal

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27. Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting

By: Lisa Genova

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating exploration of the intricacies of how we remember, why we forget, and what we can do … read more

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  • nonfiction
"You don't need memory to love or feel loved."

-Lisa Genova, Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting

"Forgetting happens. If you stress about it, it'll happen even more."

-Lisa Genova, Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting

"Our brains don’t remember everything, but maybe what they remember is enough."

-Lisa Genova, Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting

"We frequently invent new information, often inaccurate, to fill in gaps in our memories so that the narrative feels more complete or pleasing."

-Lisa Genova, Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting

Cover of Dawnshard (The Stormlight Archive, #3.5) by Brandon Sanderson

28. Dawnshard (The Stormlight Archive, #3.5)

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.42

Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition

From Brandon Sanderson—author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive and its fourt… read more

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"See?"

-Brandon Sanderson, Dawnshard (The Stormlight Archive, #3.5)

"Now,"

-Brandon Sanderson, Dawnshard (The Stormlight Archive, #3.5)

"They wanted to wow us, maybe?"

-Brandon Sanderson, Dawnshard (The Stormlight Archive, #3.5)

"Vstim said to always read contracts with friends an extra time,"

-Brandon Sanderson, Dawnshard (The Stormlight Archive, #3.5)

Cover of Trust and Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others by Stephen M.R. Covey

29. Trust and Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Unleash Greatness in Others

By: Stephen M.R. Covey

3.97

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Speed of Trust , a revolutionary new way to lead, deemed “the de… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
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30. How to Wash a Chicken: Mastering the Business Presentation

By: Tim Calkins

3.98

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

How to Wash a Chicken is not a book about public speaking (or chickens), it’s a comprehensive playb… read more

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Transform Your Habits

Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals

Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

4.40

Transform Your Habits

High Output Management

Andrew S. Grove

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and be Your Own Person

Shonda Rhimes

5.00

Transform Your Habits

From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership

Harry M. Jansen Kraemer Jr.

3.54

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Transform Your Habits

The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

Michael Bungay Stanier

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others

Cheryl A. Bachelder

4.02

Transform Your Habits

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

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