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Getting to Yes

Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

by Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Bruce Patton
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011

The key text on problem-solving negotiation-updated and revised Getting to Yes has helped millions of people learn a better way to negotiate. One of the primary business texts of the modern era, it is based on the work of the Harvard Negotiation Project, a group that deals with all levels of...

Reclaiming Conversation

The Power of Talk in a Digital Age

by Sherry Turkle
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015

Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity—and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground. We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating....

Ready for Anything

52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

by David Allen
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2004

In his bestselling first book, Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen presented his breakthrough methods to increase efficiency. Now “the personal productivity guru” (Fast Company) shows readers how to increase their ability to work better, not harder—every...

Difficult Conversations

How to Discuss What Matters Most

by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010

The 10th-anniversary edition of the New York Times business bestseller-now updated with "Answers to Ten Questions People Ask" We attempt or avoid difficult conversations every day-whether dealing with an underperforming employee, disagreeing with a spouse, or negotiating with a client....

Cognitive Surplus

How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators

by Clay Shirky
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010

The author of the breakout hit Here Comes Everybody reveals how new technology is changing us for the better. In his bestselling Here Comes Everybody, Internet guru Clay Shirky provided readers with a much-needed primer for the digital age. Now, with Cognitive Surplus, he reveals how new digital...

Good Business

Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2004

Since Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi published the groundbreaking Flow more than a decade ago, world leaders such as Tony Blair and former President Clinton, and influential sports figures like Super Bowl champion coach Jimmy Johnson have all been inspired by the book. In today's corporate upheaval, a new...

The Hour Between Dog and Wolf

How Risk Taking Transforms Us, Body and Mind

by John Coates
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012

A successful Wall Street trader turned neuroscientist reveals how risk taking and stress transform our body chemistry Before he became a world-class scientist, John Coates ran a derivatives trading desk in New York City. He used the expression “the hour between dog and wolf” to refer to...

Getting to Us

How Great Coaches Make Great Teams

by Seth Davis
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018

**What makes a coach great? How do great coaches turn a collection of individuals into a coherent “us”? **   Seth Davis, one of the keenest minds in sports journalism, has been thinking about that question for twenty-five years. It’s one of the things that drove him to write the definitive...

The Filter Bubble

How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think

by Eli Pariser
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011

An eye-opening account of how the hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling-and limiting-the information we consume. In December 2009, Google began customizing its search results for each user. Instead of giving you the most broadly popular result, Google now tries to predict...

Spent

Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior

by Geoffrey Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009

A leading evolutionary psychologist probes the hidden instincts behind our working, shopping, and spending Evolutionary psychology-the compelling science of human nature-has clarified the prehistoric origins of human behavior and influenced many fields ranging from economics to personal relationships....

Drunk Tank Pink

And Other Unexpected Forces That Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave

by Adam Alter
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013

**A New York Times bestseller! A revelatory look at how our environment unconsciously yet dramatically shapes the judgments and decisions we make every day** Most of us go through life believing that we are in control of the choices we make—that we think and behave almost independently...

FutureShop

How to Trade Up to a Luxury Lifestyle Today

by Daniel Nissanoff
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2007

FutureShop is a book about change. In particular, it's about how our consumer culture is rapidly evolving to allow us to live better, richer lives for less. The catalyst to this change is eBay and similar sites that are quickly growing into mainstream shopping venues and creating unprecedented levels...

The Support Economy

Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism

by Shoshana Zuboff, James Maxmin
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2004

Today’s “managerial” capitalism has grown hopelessly out of touch with the people it should be serving. The Support Economy explores the chasm between people and corporations and reveals a new society of individuals who seek relationships of advocacy and trust that provide support for their...

More than Enough

The Ten Keys to Changing Your Financial Destiny

by Dave Ramsey
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999

In his first bestseller, Financial Peace, Dave Ramsey taught us how to eliminate debt from our lives. Now in More Than Enough, he gives us the keys to building wealth while also creating a successful, united family. Drawing from his years of work with thousands of families and corporate employees,...
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