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LET IT GO

by Stephanie Shirley • 2012

A Kindertransport child grows up to build a women-only tech empire, then gives it all away.

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500+

👩‍💻 Women In Tech 🧳 Refugee Stories 🚂 Kindertransport Stories 🧩 Autism Advocacy 👩‍👧 Working Mothers

LET IT GO

A Kindertransport child grows up to build a women-only tech empire, then gives it all away.

by Stephanie Shirley 2012 308 pages

4.26

500+ ratings

👩‍💻 Women In Tech 🧳 Refugee Stories 🚂 Kindertransport Stories 🧩 Autism Advocacy 👩‍👧 Working Mothers

Transaction Man

by Nicholas Lemann • 2019

America traded institutions for deals, then deals for networks. Each era left more people behind.

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🏢 Corporate Governance 📜 Financial History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 📈 Shareholder Capitalism 🏚️ Institutional Decline

Transaction Man

America traded institutions for deals, then deals for networks. Each era left more people behind.

by Nicholas Lemann 2019 320 pages

3.71

318 ratings

🏢 Corporate Governance 📜 Financial History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 📈 Shareholder Capitalism 🏚️ Institutional Decline

101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them

by Tom Kendrick • 2010

A fix for every project problem: from scope creep to stalled teams to impossible deadlines.

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📋 Project Management 👥 Team Leadership 🔄 Change Management 🤝 Stakeholder Management ⚡ Conflict Resolution

101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them

A fix for every project problem: from scope creep to stalled teams to impossible deadlines.

by Tom Kendrick 2010 208 pages

3.54

48 ratings

📋 Project Management 👥 Team Leadership 🔄 Change Management 🤝 Stakeholder Management ⚡ Conflict Resolution

What Motivates Getting Things Done

by Mary Lamia • 2009

Fear and anxiety aren't productivity bugs. They're the engine, once you learn to harness them.

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🔬 Procrastination Research 🧠 Emotional Drivers ⏰ Deadline Motivation 📋 Task Management 🌤️ Positive Reframing

What Motivates Getting Things Done

Fear and anxiety aren't productivity bugs. They're the engine, once you learn to harness them.

by Mary Lamia 2009 150 pages

3.25

171 ratings

🔬 Procrastination Research 🧠 Emotional Drivers ⏰ Deadline Motivation 📋 Task Management 🌤️ Positive Reframing

The Power of Vulnerability

by Barry Kaplan • 2018

How to turn coworkers into a team of leaders by leading with vulnerability, not authority.

4.07

🧠 Psychological Safety 🔓 Vulnerable Leadership 🧘 Inner Work ⚖️ Conflict Resolution 🏆 High-Performing Teams

The Power of Vulnerability

How to turn coworkers into a team of leaders by leading with vulnerability, not authority.

by Barry Kaplan 2018 261 pages

4.07

42 ratings

🧠 Psychological Safety 🔓 Vulnerable Leadership 🧘 Inner Work ⚖️ Conflict Resolution 🏆 High-Performing Teams

Identity and Data Security for Web Development

by Jonathan LeBlanc • 2016

Assume the database will be breached: the encryption, authentication, and UX tradeoffs worth making.

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🔒 Web Security 🔐 Applied Cryptography 🔑 Authentication Systems 🛡️ Secure Coding 🗄️ Data Protection

Identity and Data Security for Web Development

Assume the database will be breached: the encryption, authentication, and UX tradeoffs worth making.

by Jonathan LeBlanc 2016 204 pages

3.33

43 ratings

🔒 Web Security 🔐 Applied Cryptography 🔑 Authentication Systems 🛡️ Secure Coding 🗄️ Data Protection

Not Working

by D.W. Gibson • 2012

What a paycheck conceals: Americans on the identity, health, and dignity that left with the job.

3.68

🎙️ Oral History 💸 Economic Precarity 🔨 Work And Identity 📉 Great Recession 🔄 Career Transitions

Not Working

What a paycheck conceals: Americans on the identity, health, and dignity that left with the job.

by D.W. Gibson 2012 479 pages

3.68

60 ratings

🎙️ Oral History 💸 Economic Precarity 🔨 Work And Identity 📉 Great Recession 🔄 Career Transitions

Get Rich Slow

by Sarah Riegelhuth • 2012

No windfalls, no lucky breaks: just the slow, small habits that compound into real wealth.

3.50

🧾 Personal Finance 🏗️ Wealth Building 🐢 Slow Wealth 💳 Debt Management 📊 Investment Basics

Get Rich Slow

No windfalls, no lucky breaks: just the slow, small habits that compound into real wealth.

by Sarah Riegelhuth 2012 224 pages

3.50

14 ratings

🧾 Personal Finance 🏗️ Wealth Building 🐢 Slow Wealth 💳 Debt Management 📊 Investment Basics

Coach Wooden's Greatest Secret

by Pat Williams • 2014

Ten NCAA titles came down to sock technique and a refusal to skip the boring parts.

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📋 Coaching Methodology 🔍 Attention To Detail 🏋️ Mastery Of Fundamentals 🔄 Habit Formation 🌱 Small Wins

Coach Wooden's Greatest Secret

Ten NCAA titles came down to sock technique and a refusal to skip the boring parts.

by Pat Williams 2014 192 pages

4.22

149 ratings

📋 Coaching Methodology 🔍 Attention To Detail 🏋️ Mastery Of Fundamentals 🔄 Habit Formation 🌱 Small Wins

Confessions of an Event Planner

by Judy Allen • 2009

Behind the elegant table settings: what an event planner really does when the guests run wild.

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🎪 Event Planning 🏨 Hospitality Industry ⚖️ Ethical Dilemmas 🚨 Crisis Management 🤝 Client Relationships

Confessions of an Event Planner

Behind the elegant table settings: what an event planner really does when the guests run wild.

by Judy Allen 2009 288 pages

3.27

33 ratings

🎪 Event Planning 🏨 Hospitality Industry ⚖️ Ethical Dilemmas 🚨 Crisis Management 🤝 Client Relationships

Your Best Just Got Better

by Jason W. Womack • 2011

Your day holds 96 blocks of time. The real upgrade is knowing which ones you work best in.

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📈 Professional Growth ✅ Personal Productivity ⏰ Time Management ⚡ Energy Management 🧱 Habit Design

Your Best Just Got Better

Your day holds 96 blocks of time. The real upgrade is knowing which ones you work best in.

by Jason W. Womack 2011 272 pages

3.72

332 ratings

📈 Professional Growth ✅ Personal Productivity ⏰ Time Management ⚡ Energy Management 🧱 Habit Design

Productive Tensions

by Christopher B. Bingham • 2022

Why the best innovators stop fixing contradictions and start using them instead.

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🔄 Innovation Strategy ⚡ Paradox Thinking 🧠 Heuristics 🎯 Jobs To Be Done 🌐 Open Innovation

Productive Tensions

Why the best innovators stop fixing contradictions and start using them instead.

by Christopher B. Bingham 2022 184 pages

4.35

20 ratings

🔄 Innovation Strategy ⚡ Paradox Thinking 🧠 Heuristics 🎯 Jobs To Be Done 🌐 Open Innovation

The New Rules of Sales and Service

by David Meerman Scott • 2014

Buyers now control the process. The playbook for winning with speed, stories, and service.

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🛠️ Sales Playbooks 📝 Content Marketing 🧲 Inbound Marketing 🤝 Social Selling 🧑‍💼 Consultative Selling

The New Rules of Sales and Service

Buyers now control the process. The playbook for winning with speed, stories, and service.

by David Meerman Scott 2014 272 pages

3.87

143 ratings

🛠️ Sales Playbooks 📝 Content Marketing 🧲 Inbound Marketing 🤝 Social Selling 🧑‍💼 Consultative Selling

Business Over Turkish Coffee

by Zafer Parlar • 2001

Relationships before deals, meals before meetings: the unwritten rules of Turkish business.

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🏢 Cross-Cultural Business 🧠 Cultural Intelligence 🤝 Relationship Building 🎩 Business Etiquette 💬 Communication Styles

Business Over Turkish Coffee

Relationships before deals, meals before meetings: the unwritten rules of Turkish business.

by Zafer Parlar 2001 142 pages

3.89

18 ratings

🏢 Cross-Cultural Business 🧠 Cultural Intelligence 🤝 Relationship Building 🎩 Business Etiquette 💬 Communication Styles

How To Get A Job You Love 2015-2016 Edition

by John Lees • 2002

Most jobs stay hidden. The search that finds them begins with who you are, not what's posted.

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📈 Career Development 🔄 Career Change 🎙️ Job Interviews 🤝 Networking 🏷️ Personal Branding

How To Get A Job You Love 2015-2016 Edition

Most jobs stay hidden. The search that finds them begins with who you are, not what's posted.

by John Lees 2002 329 pages

3.69

148 ratings

📈 Career Development 🔄 Career Change 🎙️ Job Interviews 🤝 Networking 🏷️ Personal Branding

The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family

by Patrick Lencioni • 2008

A whiteboard, a weekly check-in, and one priority: how a CEO runs her household like her best team.

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2k+

📖 Leadership Fable 🏡 Family Management 🗺️ Strategic Planning 🏢 Business For Home 📋 Simplified Management

The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family

A whiteboard, a weekly check-in, and one priority: how a CEO runs her household like her best team.

by Patrick Lencioni 2008 240 pages

4.03

2k+ ratings

📖 Leadership Fable 🏡 Family Management 🗺️ Strategic Planning 🏢 Business For Home 📋 Simplified Management

Owning the Sun

by Alexander Zaitchik • 2022

How patents turned medicine into a monopoly. The century-long story from Aspirin to COVID.

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🏭 Pharmaceutical Industry ⚖️ Intellectual Property 💊 Medical Monopolies 🔬 Public Science 🏛️ Antitrust

Owning the Sun

How patents turned medicine into a monopoly. The century-long story from Aspirin to COVID.

by Alexander Zaitchik 2022 304 pages

3.79

122 ratings

🏭 Pharmaceutical Industry ⚖️ Intellectual Property 💊 Medical Monopolies 🔬 Public Science 🏛️ Antitrust

The Great Indian Fraud

by Smarak Swain • 2020

Financial innovation outruns regulation by years. In that gap, India's biggest frauds are built.

4.21

🕵️ Financial Fraud 🏢 Corporate Crime 💰 Money Laundering 📈 Securities Fraud 🇮🇳 Indian Economy

The Great Indian Fraud

Financial innovation outruns regulation by years. In that gap, India's biggest frauds are built.

by Smarak Swain 2020

4.21

77 ratings

🕵️ Financial Fraud 🏢 Corporate Crime 💰 Money Laundering 📈 Securities Fraud 🇮🇳 Indian Economy

The Victory of Reason

by Rodney Stark • 2005

The 'Dark Ages' were an era of explosive innovation, lit by the Church's obsession with reason.

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500+

🏰 Medieval Innovation 💰 Origins Of Capitalism ⛪️ Church And State 🗽 Political Freedom ✝️ Faith And Reason

The Victory of Reason

The 'Dark Ages' were an era of explosive innovation, lit by the Church's obsession with reason.

by Rodney Stark 2005 304 pages

3.99

500+ ratings

🏰 Medieval Innovation 💰 Origins Of Capitalism ⛪️ Church And State 🗽 Political Freedom ✝️ Faith And Reason

Fundamentals of Software Architecture

by Mark Richards • 2020

Every architecture choice is a wager on a shifting context. A framework for placing better bets.

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2k+

🧩 Trade-Off Analysis 🏛️ Architectural Styles 🧱 Modularity ⚠️ Risk Management 📝 Architecture Documentation

Fundamentals of Software Architecture

Every architecture choice is a wager on a shifting context. A framework for placing better bets.

by Mark Richards 2020 422 pages

4.24

2k+ ratings

🧩 Trade-Off Analysis 🏛️ Architectural Styles 🧱 Modularity ⚠️ Risk Management 📝 Architecture Documentation

The Problem of Twelve

by John Coates • 2023

A few institutions now own and control almost everything: an old democratic trap with no clean exit.

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🏛️ Corporate Governance ⚖️ Financial Regulation 💪 Concentrated Power 🗳️ Shareholder Activism 💰 Private Equity

The Problem of Twelve

A few institutions now own and control almost everything: an old democratic trap with no clean exit.

by John Coates 2023 190 pages

3.52

177 ratings

🏛️ Corporate Governance ⚖️ Financial Regulation 💪 Concentrated Power 🗳️ Shareholder Activism 💰 Private Equity

Honest SEO

by Jason Hennessey • 2023

The honest path to the top of Google: build authority, earn links, and skip the spam.

4.19

🔍 Seo Strategy 📝 Content Marketing 📈 Digital Marketing 🔗 Link Building 📍 Local Seo

Honest SEO

The honest path to the top of Google: build authority, earn links, and skip the spam.

by Jason Hennessey 2023 288 pages

4.19

54 ratings

🔍 Seo Strategy 📝 Content Marketing 📈 Digital Marketing 🔗 Link Building 📍 Local Seo

Supercommunicator

by Frank J. Pietrucha • 2014

Your audience's brain has changed. Here's how to adapt your explanations so they actually land.

3.35

🧩 Simplifying Complexity 📱 Digital Communication 🎨 Visual Storytelling 👥 Audience Engagement 🛠️ Technical Communication

Supercommunicator

Your audience's brain has changed. Here's how to adapt your explanations so they actually land.

by Frank J. Pietrucha 2014 272 pages

3.35

82 ratings

🧩 Simplifying Complexity 📱 Digital Communication 🎨 Visual Storytelling 👥 Audience Engagement 🛠️ Technical Communication

Leading Project Teams

by Anthony T. Cobb • 2011

Technical skills alone can't lead projects. The missing half: people skills, and how to build them.

3.44

📋 Project Management 🤝 Team Leadership 🗣️ People Skills ⚡ Conflict Resolution 🎯 Stakeholder Management

Leading Project Teams

Technical skills alone can't lead projects. The missing half: people skills, and how to build them.

by Anthony T. Cobb 2011 248 pages

3.44

18 ratings

📋 Project Management 🤝 Team Leadership 🗣️ People Skills ⚡ Conflict Resolution 🎯 Stakeholder Management

Communicate with Confidence, Revised and Expanded Edition

by Dianna Booher • 1994

The listening, trust, and feedback skills that make people want to hear what you say next.

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🏢 Workplace Communication 👂 Active Listening 📝 Giving Feedback 💬 Difficult Conversations 🤝 Credibility And Trust

Communicate with Confidence, Revised and Expanded Edition

The listening, trust, and feedback skills that make people want to hear what you say next.

by Dianna Booher 1994 496 pages

3.83

134 ratings

🏢 Workplace Communication 👂 Active Listening 📝 Giving Feedback 💬 Difficult Conversations 🤝 Credibility And Trust

Coaching for Breakthrough Success

by Jack Canfield • 2012

Managers solve problems. Coaches unlock people. Twelve principles to make the switch.

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🎯 Coaching Methods 🤲 Servant Leadership 🌱 Growth Mindset 🔄 Feedback Culture 💪 Empowering Leadership

Coaching for Breakthrough Success

Managers solve problems. Coaches unlock people. Twelve principles to make the switch.

by Jack Canfield 2012 305 pages

4.27

129 ratings

🎯 Coaching Methods 🤲 Servant Leadership 🌱 Growth Mindset 🔄 Feedback Culture 💪 Empowering Leadership

Innovation

by Mark Dodgson • 2010

Most innovations fail, and the pattern of those failures is not a bug but a design feature.

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📚 Innovation Studies 🔄 Organizational Change 🤖 Technology And Society 💥 Creative Destruction 🧪 Failure And Learning

Innovation

Most innovations fail, and the pattern of those failures is not a bug but a design feature.

by Mark Dodgson 2010 168 pages

3.28

190 ratings

📚 Innovation Studies 🔄 Organizational Change 🤖 Technology And Society 💥 Creative Destruction 🧪 Failure And Learning

Transformational Speaking

by Gail Larsen • 2009

Forget scripts and tricks. Your most powerful talk comes from the life you've already lived.

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🎤 Public Speaking 📖 Storytelling 🧬 Personal Storytelling 🎭 Stage Presence 👥 Audience Engagement

Transformational Speaking

Forget scripts and tricks. Your most powerful talk comes from the life you've already lived.

by Gail Larsen 2009 208 pages

4.02

157 ratings

🎤 Public Speaking 📖 Storytelling 🧬 Personal Storytelling 🎭 Stage Presence 👥 Audience Engagement

Plan Your Prosperity

by Kenneth L. Fisher • 2012

Why your retirement allocation should ignore your age: the four-goal, one-benchmark method.

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🕰️ Retirement Planning 💰 Personal Finance 📊 Asset Allocation 📈 Long-Term Investing 🧮 Compounding

Plan Your Prosperity

Why your retirement allocation should ignore your age: the four-goal, one-benchmark method.

by Kenneth L. Fisher 2012 192 pages

3.44

146 ratings

🕰️ Retirement Planning 💰 Personal Finance 📊 Asset Allocation 📈 Long-Term Investing 🧮 Compounding

Next-Level Negotiating

by Harvard Business Review • 2022

Negotiate the deals, career moves, and identity traps your current playbook never prepared you for.

4.23

🗣️ Negotiation Skills 📈 Career Advancement 🧠 Emotional Intelligence 🤝 Integrative Bargaining 💪 Self-Advocacy

Next-Level Negotiating

Negotiate the deals, career moves, and identity traps your current playbook never prepared you for.

by Harvard Business Review 2022 208 pages

4.23

22 ratings

🗣️ Negotiation Skills 📈 Career Advancement 🧠 Emotional Intelligence 🤝 Integrative Bargaining 💪 Self-Advocacy

Libraries that Learn

by Jennifer A. Bartlett • 2019

Nine shifts that turn a static library into a learning engine, from analytics to adaptive spaces.

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🏛️ Library Management 🧠 Knowledge Management 💻 Digital Libraries 👤 User-Centered Design 🔍 Information Literacy

Libraries that Learn

Nine shifts that turn a static library into a learning engine, from analytics to adaptive spaces.

by Jennifer A. Bartlett 2019 184 pages

3.22

9 ratings

🏛️ Library Management 🧠 Knowledge Management 💻 Digital Libraries 👤 User-Centered Design 🔍 Information Literacy

Dual Momentum Trend Trading

by Lee Tang • 2015

A daily-chart system with layered moving averages to catch trends early and exit on time.

3.63

📈 Swing Trading 📊 Technical Analysis ⚡ Momentum Trading 📏 Moving Averages 🔒 Risk Management

Dual Momentum Trend Trading

A daily-chart system with layered moving averages to catch trends early and exit on time.

by Lee Tang 2015 68 pages

3.63

16 ratings

📈 Swing Trading 📊 Technical Analysis ⚡ Momentum Trading 📏 Moving Averages 🔒 Risk Management

Systems Leadership

by Ian MacDonald • 2006

Organizations fail when leaders treat people as objects. Authority and clarity are the engine.

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🏗️ Organizational Design 🔄 Systems Thinking ⚖️ Authority Structures 🏆 Meritocracy At Work 🔀 Change Management

Systems Leadership

Organizations fail when leaders treat people as objects. Authority and clarity are the engine.

by Ian MacDonald 2006 312 pages

4.23

31 ratings

🏗️ Organizational Design 🔄 Systems Thinking ⚖️ Authority Structures 🏆 Meritocracy At Work 🔀 Change Management

The Secret of Scent

by Luca Turin • 2006

Smell is quantum, not lock-and-key. One maverick's proof, from enantiomers to commercial success.

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500+

👃 Olfactory Science 📜 Perfume History ⚛️ Quantum Biology ⚔️ Scientific Controversy 🍓 Flavor Chemistry

The Secret of Scent

Smell is quantum, not lock-and-key. One maverick's proof, from enantiomers to commercial success.

by Luca Turin 2006 224 pages

3.73

500+ ratings

👃 Olfactory Science 📜 Perfume History ⚛️ Quantum Biology ⚔️ Scientific Controversy 🍓 Flavor Chemistry

Synchronicity

by Joseph Jaworski • 1996

The leader's inner shift: how surrendering control unlocks a flow of meaningful coincidences.

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1k+

🤲 Servant Leadership ✨ Synchronicity 🐝 Collective Intelligence 🌐 Interconnectedness 🛡️ Hero's Journey

Synchronicity

The leader's inner shift: how surrendering control unlocks a flow of meaningful coincidences.

by Joseph Jaworski 1996 226 pages

4.18

1k+ ratings

🤲 Servant Leadership ✨ Synchronicity 🐝 Collective Intelligence 🌐 Interconnectedness 🛡️ Hero's Journey

Public Speaking for Authors, Creatives and Other Introverts

by Joanna Penn • 2014

Turn your writing into a speaking career without draining your introvert battery.

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🎤 Public Speaking 🌿 Introvert Strengths ⚡ Energy Management 📝 Content Marketing 💼 Speaking Business

Public Speaking for Authors, Creatives and Other Introverts

Turn your writing into a speaking career without draining your introvert battery.

by Joanna Penn 2014 192 pages

4.13

181 ratings

🎤 Public Speaking 🌿 Introvert Strengths ⚡ Energy Management 📝 Content Marketing 💼 Speaking Business

Startup Weekend

by Marc Nager • 2011

An idea, a weekend, and the right strangers: how 54 hours launches a startup.

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272

🛠️ Lean Startup 🧪 Experiential Learning 🎤 Pitching Skills 🔍 Customer Validation 🚀 Startup Formation

Startup Weekend

An idea, a weekend, and the right strangers: how 54 hours launches a startup.

by Marc Nager 2011 208 pages

3.58

272 ratings

🛠️ Lean Startup 🧪 Experiential Learning 🎤 Pitching Skills 🔍 Customer Validation 🚀 Startup Formation

The Business Coach

by Bradley J. Sugars • 2006

Build a business that runs without you: the systems, team, and profit formula.

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🏢 Small Business Coaching ⚙️ Business Systems 🔓 Owner Independence 💰 Profit Optimization 📢 Lead Generation

The Business Coach

Build a business that runs without you: the systems, team, and profit formula.

by Bradley J. Sugars 2006 272 pages

3.86

139 ratings

🏢 Small Business Coaching ⚙️ Business Systems 🔓 Owner Independence 💰 Profit Optimization 📢 Lead Generation

Your Creative Brain

by Shelley Carson • 2013

Creativity isn't a birthright. Seven trainable brain states, and you can access any of them.

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🧠 Creative Process 🔬 Cognitive Neuroscience 💡 Divergent Thinking 🧘 Mental Flexibility 🌊 Flow State

Your Creative Brain

Creativity isn't a birthright. Seven trainable brain states, and you can access any of them.

by Shelley Carson 2013 386 pages

3.87

233 ratings

🧠 Creative Process 🔬 Cognitive Neuroscience 💡 Divergent Thinking 🧘 Mental Flexibility 🌊 Flow State

Building a Millionaire Mindset

by Wimbrey • 2020

Three inner pillars hold up every first generation fortune. The playbook for building yours.

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🏗️ Wealth Building 💰 First Generation Wealth 🧠 Entrepreneurial Mindset 🛠️ Self Made Ethos 🧭 Mentorship

Building a Millionaire Mindset

Three inner pillars hold up every first generation fortune. The playbook for building yours.

by Wimbrey 2020 272 pages

4.11

72 ratings

🏗️ Wealth Building 💰 First Generation Wealth 🧠 Entrepreneurial Mindset 🛠️ Self Made Ethos 🧭 Mentorship

ITIL®4 – A Pocket Guide

by Van Haren Publishing • 2019

ITIL 4 untangled: why the biggest name in service management pivoted from process to customer value.

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📋 IT Service Management 🏆 Certification Prep 🔄 Continual Improvement 📡 Digital Transformation 🏃 Agile And Lean

ITIL®4 – A Pocket Guide

ITIL 4 untangled: why the biggest name in service management pivoted from process to customer value.

by Van Haren Publishing 2019 180 pages

3.57

7 ratings

📋 IT Service Management 🏆 Certification Prep 🔄 Continual Improvement 📡 Digital Transformation 🏃 Agile And Lean

How to Write Letters that Sell

by Christian H. Godefroy • 2016

Your headline wins or loses half your audience. The playbook for everything that follows.

4.05

🖊️ Copywriting 📬 Direct Response ✍️ Persuasive Writing 🧠 Sales Psychology 📰 Headline Writing

How to Write Letters that Sell

Your headline wins or loses half your audience. The playbook for everything that follows.

by Christian H. Godefroy 2016 241 pages

4.05

21 ratings

🖊️ Copywriting 📬 Direct Response ✍️ Persuasive Writing 🧠 Sales Psychology 📰 Headline Writing

Flipping a Switch

by Barbara O'Neill • 2020

Break the saving habit, build a retirement paycheck, and start living the life you saved for.

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🏖️ Retirement Planning 💰 Retirement Spending 🧠 Behavioral Finance 🎯 Purpose In Retirement 📦 Downsizing

Flipping a Switch

Break the saving habit, build a retirement paycheck, and start living the life you saved for.

by Barbara O'Neill 2020 292 pages

3.96

23 ratings

🏖️ Retirement Planning 💰 Retirement Spending 🧠 Behavioral Finance 🎯 Purpose In Retirement 📦 Downsizing

The Creative Thinking Handbook

by Chris Griffiths • 2022

Your brain has three blind spots that kill creativity. A four-step system for working around them.

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🧩 Creative Problem Solving 🧠 Metacognition 🔍 Cognitive Biases 🌊 Divergent Thinking 💡 Ideation Techniques

The Creative Thinking Handbook

Your brain has three blind spots that kill creativity. A four-step system for working around them.

by Chris Griffiths 2022 264 pages

3.79

163 ratings

🧩 Creative Problem Solving 🧠 Metacognition 🔍 Cognitive Biases 🌊 Divergent Thinking 💡 Ideation Techniques

Workshops

by Jeff E. Brooks-Harris • 1999

Match every activity to a phase of learning, so participants leave changed, not merely informed.

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🛠️ Workshop Design 🧑‍🏫 Adult Learning 💼 Professional Training 🌱 Experiential Education 🎨 Learning Styles

Workshops

Match every activity to a phase of learning, so participants leave changed, not merely informed.

by Jeff E. Brooks-Harris 1999 208 pages

3.94

16 ratings

🛠️ Workshop Design 🧑‍🏫 Adult Learning 💼 Professional Training 🌱 Experiential Education 🎨 Learning Styles

Authentic Gravitas

by Rebecca Newton • 2019

Gravitas is learnable: how to earn respect and influence without sacrificing who you are.

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131

🎯 Executive Presence 🌱 Leadership Development 🧗 Overcoming Self-Doubt 🗣️ Nonverbal Communication ♟️ Strategic Thinking

Authentic Gravitas

Gravitas is learnable: how to earn respect and influence without sacrificing who you are.

by Rebecca Newton 2019 272 pages

3.85

131 ratings

🎯 Executive Presence 🌱 Leadership Development 🧗 Overcoming Self-Doubt 🗣️ Nonverbal Communication ♟️ Strategic Thinking

Supermaker

by Jaime Schmidt • 2020

Natural deodorant at farmers markets: the scrappy playbook behind the brand Unilever bought.

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255

📦 Cpg Startups 📖 Founder Memoirs 🏷️ Brand Building 🥾 Bootstrapping 💬 Customer Feedback

Supermaker

Natural deodorant at farmers markets: the scrappy playbook behind the brand Unilever bought.

by Jaime Schmidt 2020 309 pages

4.21

255 ratings

📦 Cpg Startups 📖 Founder Memoirs 🏷️ Brand Building 🥾 Bootstrapping 💬 Customer Feedback

Everybody Wins

by James Wallis • 2022

One award. Half a million sales per winner. How German critics made board games art.

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🎲 Board Game History 🏆 Award History 🔄 Game Design Evolution 🇪🇺 Eurogame Design 🎭 Cultural History Of Play

Everybody Wins

One award. Half a million sales per winner. How German critics made board games art.

by James Wallis 2022 443 pages

4.15

219 ratings

🎲 Board Game History 🏆 Award History 🔄 Game Design Evolution 🇪🇺 Eurogame Design 🎭 Cultural History Of Play

Ordinary Magic

by Gregory M. Walton • 2025

Our most painful doubts are predictable. A single hour of reframing can change a life.

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115

🧠 Social Psychology 🌱 Growth Mindset ⚠️ Stereotype Threat 🤝 Social Belonging 🏫 Equity In Education

Ordinary Magic

Our most painful doubts are predictable. A single hour of reframing can change a life.

by Gregory M. Walton 2025 464 pages

3.52

115 ratings

🧠 Social Psychology 🌱 Growth Mindset ⚠️ Stereotype Threat 🤝 Social Belonging 🏫 Equity In Education

Give Smart

by Thomas J. Tierney • 2011

Philanthropy has no market feedback. Here is the accountability framework that replaces it.

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249

🎯 Strategic Philanthropy 🏛️ Foundation Management 🔗 Theory Of Change 📏 Impact Measurement 💰 Grantmaking

Give Smart

Philanthropy has no market feedback. Here is the accountability framework that replaces it.

by Thomas J. Tierney 2011 272 pages

3.59

249 ratings

🎯 Strategic Philanthropy 🏛️ Foundation Management 🔗 Theory Of Change 📏 Impact Measurement 💰 Grantmaking

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