6 Top management books like Why CEOs Fail: The 11 Behaviors That Can Derail Your Climb to the Top--And How to Manage Them by David L. Dotlich

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Why CEOs Fail: The 11 Behaviors That Can Derail Your Climb to the Top--And How to Manage Them

By: David L. Dotlich

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

If any of the following behaviors sound like you or someone you work with, beware! In Why CEOs Fail…

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1. Mother Night

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.23

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: Alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Mother Night is a darin… read more

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"When you're dead you're dead."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

"It’s all I’ve seen, all I’ve been through,"

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

"Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

"The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

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2. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

In his widely praised book, award-winning psychologist Jonathan Haidt examines the world's philosop… read more

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3. Six Thinking Hats

By: Edward de Bono

3.50

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

The multi million-copy bestseller Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono, author of Lateral Thinking a… read more

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  • management
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4. The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels

By: Michael D. Watkins

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Since its original release, The First 90 Dayshas become the bestselling globally acknowledged bible… read more

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
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5. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

By: Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler

3.84

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a r… read more

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"Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context."

-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

"As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact. Every trip to the bathroom …"

-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

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6. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

By: Shashi Tharoor

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and del… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact

By: Chip Heath , Dan Heath

2.00

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

The New York Timesbestselling authors of Switchand Made to Stickexplore why certain brief experienc… read more

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  • leadership
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8. Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)

By: Orson Scott Card

4.10

Format: 382 pages, Paperback

Now available in mass market, the revised, definitive edition of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning … read more

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"The piggies were not to be disturbed-"

-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)

"Darkness bound them closer than light."

-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)

"I am a disbeliever in the unbelievable."

-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)

"Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to."

-Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)

9. The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

By: Daniel Coyle

4.11

Format: 70 pages, Hardcover

An essential book that unlocks the secrets of highly successful groups and provides readers with a … read more

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10. I Am a Strange Loop

By: Douglas R. Hofstadter

3.76

Format: None pages,

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11. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

By: Roger Fisher , Bruce Patton , William Ury

3.95

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Describes a method of negotiation that isolates problems, focuses on interests, creates new options… read more

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"Never yield to pressure, only to principle."

-Roger Fisher, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

"Recast an attack on you as an attack on the problem."

-Roger Fisher, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

"Sidestep their attack and deflect it against the problem."

-Roger Fisher, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

"Rather than resisting the other side’s criticism, invite it."

-Roger Fisher, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

12. Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women

By: W. Brad Johnson , David Smith

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

Increasingly, new employees and junior members of any profession are encouraged--sometimes strident… read more

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13. The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

By: Gene Kim , George Spafford , Kevin Behr

4.16

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. It's Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bi… read more

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14. Fast Like a Girl

By: Mindy Pelz

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Includes a 30-Day fasting reset that uses the power of your cycle—even if you no longer have one! … read more

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15. 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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  • leadership
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16. Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion

By: Gabrielle Stanley Blair

4.51

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in p… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Leslie F*cking Jones

By: Leslie Jones

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Som… read more

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"Dad"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"Some of the stories about my childhood is vague, because a bitch is 55 and I've smoked a lot of weed."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I was built for strong... I was never a victim. And even though really bad shit happened to me, I know it's my job to help other back girls and women get strong like me."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I even attended a Christian singles night lecture kind of thing—I was single, it was free, and it was Church. Honestly, that night should be an episode of American Horror Story. The woman leading it …"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

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18. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath

By: Peter Zeihan

4.18

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more

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  • business
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19. Call Us What We Carry

By: Amanda Gorman

4.28

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, Amanda Gorman’s remarkable new collection reveal… read more

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"Loss is the cost of loving"

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"We write Because you might listen."

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"And the norms and notions of what “just is"

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

"We've learned that quiet isn't always peace."

-Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

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20. 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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"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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21. What We Owe the Future

By: William MacAskill

3.84

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

An Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"—that positively influencing the long-term fu… read more

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22. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

By: Daniel Kahneman

3.66

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking… read more

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  • business
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23. So You Want to Talk About Race

By: Ijeoma Oluo

4.49

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from w… read more

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"Conversations on racism should never be about winning."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

"Our humanity is worth a little discomfort, it's actually worth a lot of discomfort."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

"Our police forces were created not to protect Americans of color, but to control Americans of color."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

"When we say ‘Asian American’ we are talking about so much more than can be fit in a single stereotype."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

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24. Dare to Lead

By: Brené Brown

4.18

Format: 332 pages, ebook

In her #1 NYT bestsellers, Brené Brown taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong and bra… read more

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25. Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence

By: Amy B. Zegart

3.96

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating and authoritative account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America’s lea… read more

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26. HBR Guide to Crafting Your Purpose

By: John Coleman

3.87

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Stop searching for purpose. Build it. We're living through a crisis of purpose. Surveys indicate th… read more

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27. Space 2.0: How Private Spaceflight, a Resurgent NASA, and International Partners are Creating a New Space Age

By: Rod Pyle

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

We're on the cusp of new era in the great adventure of space exploration. More than a half-centu… read more

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28. DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing It Right

By: Lily Zheng

4.29

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

The definitive comprehensive and foundational text for critically analyzing and applying actionable… read more

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29. Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work

By: Ruchika T. Malhotra

4.31

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

How organizations can foster diversity, equity, and taking action to address and prevent workplace… read more

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30. Why CEOs Fail: The 11 Behaviors That Can Derail Your Climb to the Top--And How to Manage Them

By: David L. Dotlich

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

If any of the following behaviors sound like you or someone you work with, beware! In Why CEOs Fail… read more

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31. Bias Interrupted: Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good

By: Joan C. Williams

4.16

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts, with remarkably few results. Too… read more

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Transform Your Habits

The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Jonathan Haidt

4.43

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Six Thinking Hats

Edward de Bono

3.50

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The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels

Michael D. Watkins

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler

3.84

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Transform Your Habits

HBR Guide to Project Management

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3.79

Transform Your Habits

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Edward de Bono

3.50

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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler

3.84

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Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play: Transforming the Buyer/Seller Relationship

Stephen R. Covey , Mahan Khalsa , Randy Illig

4.11

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