What is Your Life's Work?: Answer the BIG Question About What Really Matters...and Reawaken the Passion for What You Do
by Bill Jensen
published by Collins
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How to Act Like a CEO: 10 Rules for Getting to the Top and Staying There
by D.A. Benton
published by McGraw-Hill
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What Color is Your Parachute 2006: A Practical Manual for Job-hunters And Career-Changers
by Richard Nelson Bolles
published by Ten Speed Press
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Rites of Passage at $100,000 to $1 Million+: Your Insider's Lifetime Guide to Executive Job-Changing and Faster Career Progress in the 21st Century
by John Lucht
published by Viceroy Press
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Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change
by William Bridges
published by Perseus Books Group
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In Transition: From the Harvard Business School Club of New York's Career Management Seminar
by Mary Lindley Burton
published by Collins
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Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
by Daniel Goleman
published by Bantam
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Letitia Balderige's New Complete Guide to Executive Manners
by Letitia Baldridge
published by Scribner
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The Evelyn Wood Seven Day Speed Reading and Learning Program
by Stanly Frank
published by Barnes & Noble
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The Highest Goal: The Secret That Sustains You in Every Moment
by Michael Ray & Jim Collins
published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Your highest goal is what gives real meaning to your life, what truly motivates and sustains you. It has nothing to do with worldly success or achievement, but Stanford University professor Michael Ray found that all of the successful people who had been through his course ultimately attributed their success to it. Here Ray shares what he learned through decades of teaching his creativity course to help you discover, and live by, your own highest goal.

Leading Organizations from the Inside Out: Unleashing the Collaborative Genius of Action-Learning Teams
by Bruce LaRue, Paul Childs & Kerry Larson
published by John Wiley & Sons
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The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action
by Jeffrey Pfeffer & Robert I. Sutton
published by Harvard Business School Press
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Did you ever wonder why so much education and training, management consultation, organizational research and so many books and articles produce so few changes in actual management practice? ask Stanford Business School Professors Pfeffer and Sutton. We wondered, too, and so we embarked on a quest to explore one of the great mysteries in organizational management: why knowledge of what needs to be done frequently fails to result in action or behavior consistent with that knowledge. The authors describe the most common obstacles to action—such as fear and inertia—and profile successful companies that overcome them

The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
by Peter F. Drucker
published by Collins
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The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
by John Maxwell & Zig Ziglar
published by Nelson Business
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
by Alfred Lansing
published by Carroll & Graf Publishers
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
published by Little, Brown, 2005
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
published by Back Bay Books, 2002
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First Things First
by Steven Covey, A. Roger Merrill & Rebecca R. Merrill
published by Simon & Schuster
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The Millionaire Mind
by Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D.
published by Andrews McMeel Publishing
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The Road to CEO: The World's Leading Executive Recruiters Identify the Traits You Need to Make It to the Top
by Sharon Voros
published by Adams Media Corporation
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Lessons From The Top: The Search for America's Best Business Leaders
by Thomas J. Neff, James M. Citrin & Paul B. Brown
published by Currency
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Beware of the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt: Do What You Love, Love What You Do, and Deliver More Than You Promise
by Harvey Mackay
published by Ballantine Books
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We Got Fired!: . . . And It's the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Us
by Harvey Mackay
published by Ballantine Books
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Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step
by Edward de Bono
published by Harper Paperbacks
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Six Thinking Hats
by Edward de Bono
published by Back Bay Books
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Champions of Change: How CEOs and Their Companies are Mastering the Skills of Radical Change
by David A Nadler
published by Jossey-Bass
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Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People
by Charles A. Reilly III
published by Harvard Business School Press
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The 9 Natural Laws of Leadership
by Warren Blank
published by Amacom
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The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
by Michael Watkins
published by Harvard Business School Press, 2003
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