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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to McChrystal’s Team of Teams and NOT the original book. Preview: Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal is an examination of the process he began of restructuring the Joint Special Operations Command management style, from a rigid command structure...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Nir Eyal's & et al Hooked and NOT the original book. Preview: Hooked is a textbook for developers and designers who wish to build a product or app that will repeatedly engage its users. Today, more than ever, a product needs to be self-sustaining...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Clayton M. Christensen’s & et al Competing Against Luck and NOT the original book. Preview: Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice is an instruction manual for how to create products and services that consumers...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Susan Cain’s Quiet and NOT the original book. Preview: Quiet by Susan Cain illustrates the latest research findings about the opposing characteristics of introverts and extroverts… Inside this companion: Overview of the book Important...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Brian Christian’s & et al Algorithms to Live By and NOT the original book. Preview: Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths is an immersive look at the history and development of several algorithms used to solve computer...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational and NOT the original book. Preview: Predictably Irrational provides a data-driven window into the ways in which the human mind fails to make rational choices time and time again. While some of these irrational...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Grant Cardone's Be Obsessed or Be Average and NOT the original book. Preview: Be Obsessed or Be Average by Grant Cardone explains how to harness an obsessive or addictive personality for success in the business world. Cardone experienced loss in...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to James Kouzes's & et al The Leadership Challenge and NOT the original book. Preview: The Leadership Challenge by James Kouzes and Barry Posner takes a close look at the factors that contribute to strong leadership in a variety of fields. In their...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Tim Harford’s Messy and NOT the original book. Preview: Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives by Tim Harford is a researched consideration of the virtues of unorganized, diversified, and otherwise untidy systems in different aspects...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Melissa and Dallas Hartwig’s It Starts With Food and NOT the original book. Preview: Co-authors Melissa Hartwig and her husband, Dallas Hartwig, have backgrounds in nutrition and physical therapy. They have used information gleaned from their own...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to David Ludwig's Always Hungry? and NOT the original book. Preview: Always Hungry? explores the role foods and certain nutrients play in the standard American diet and why weight loss attempts often don’t work. It then introduces a new approach to...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Don Miguel Ruiz’s The Four Agreements and NOT the original book. Preview: The Four Agreements is an introduction to Toltec spiritual philosophy as interpreted by New Age shaman Don Miguel Ruiz. Ruiz's Toltec philosophy describes the cultures, laws,...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to David Brooks’s The Road to Character and NOT the original book. Preview: David Brooks’ The Road to Character examines how cultural and personal morals have altered over the last century, creating a world where virtues that were once considered...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan and NOT the original book. Preview: The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a philosophical treatment of Taleb's research on highly improbable, high-impact events. These events, which Taleb calls “Black...