Flip: How to Turn Everything You Know on Its Head -- and Succeed Beyond Your Wildest Imaginings
By Peter Sheahan
(William Morrow, $25.95)
Peter Sheahan is only 28 years old, so he shouldn't really have enough knowledge to...
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LOUIS D. PETERSON
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Random House, $26.95). ?A Black Swan is an...
What book should every businessperson be reading right now? Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration, by Felipe Fernandez- Armesto (Norton, $17.95)...
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True Green at Work: 100 Ways You Can Make the Environment Your Business By Kim McKay and Jenny Bonnin
George Washington and the Art of Business: The Leadership Principles of America's First Commander-in-Chief...
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A Whole New Mind: Why Right- Brainers Will Rule the Future, by Daniel H. Pink (Riverhead Books, $15). "According to Daniel Pink, 'the M.F.A. is the new M.B.A.' As the...
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The Leaders We Need - And What Makes Us Follow By Michael Maccoby (Harvard Business School Press, $26.95)
"There is only one irrefutable definition of a leader," writes Maccoby, a psychoanalyst and anthropologist...
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The Toothpick: Technology and Culture By Henry Petroski (Knopf, $27.95) This is at once a volume about cultural evolution and commercial acumen. Petroski (The Pencil) looks back at the prehistoric origins of the...