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Play Bigger
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The Rise of the Instant Tech Billionaires. Portfolio Hardcover, 2014.
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Pour Your Heart Into It
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How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time. Hachette Books, 1999
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The Professional’s Guide to Growing a Practice. McGraw-Hill, 2016.
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Getting Real
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The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application. 37signals, 2006.
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Lean Analytics
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Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth – and How to Fix It. Basic Books, 2018.
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Crucial Conversations
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The One Hour Content Plan
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Franklin Covey, 1998.
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Dying for a Paycheck
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How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance―and What We Can Do About It. Harper Business, 2018.
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Chaos Monkeys
Antonio Garcia Martinez
Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley. Harper, 2016.
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The Messy Middle
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Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture. Portfolio, 2018.
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Factory Man
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How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local—and Helped Save an American Town. Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
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Freakonomics
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A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. HarperCollins, 2005.
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F.I.R.E.
Dan Ward
How Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained, and Elegant Methods Ignite Innovation. Harper Business, 2014.
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Feminist Fight Club
Jessica Bennett
An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace. Harper Wave, 2016.
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Profit First
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Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited
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A Common Sense Approach to Web and Mobile Usability. New Riders, 2014.
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Rashmi Bansal
The Inspiring Stories of 10 Young Entrepreneurs Who Graduated from College into a Business of Their Own. Westland Ltd., 2015.
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Charles Duhigg, Shoshana Berger
The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business. Random House, 2016.
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Meetings Suck
Cameron Herold
Turning One of the Most Loathed Elements of Business into One of the Most Valuable. Lioncrest Publishing, 2016.
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Value Proposition Design
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Everybody Lies
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are. Dey Street Books, 2017.
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Dogfight
Fred Vogelstein
How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution. Sarah Crichton Books, 2013.
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Do The KIND Thing
Daniel Lubetzky
Think Boundlessly, Work Purposefully, Live Passionately. Ballantine Books, 2015.
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Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
Overseeing the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration. Random House, 2014.
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The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies. Currency, 2018.
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The Most Powerful Way to Turn Clicks into Customers. Wiley, 2013.
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A Wealth of Common Sense
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Without Their Permission
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How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed. Business Plus, 2013.
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The Creator’s Code
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The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs. Simon and Schuster, 2015.
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Only the Paranoid Survive
Andrew S. Grove
How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company. Doubleday, 1996.
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Necessary Endings
Henry Cloud
The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward. Harper Business, 2011.
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Mindful Work
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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
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Invisibles
David Zweig
The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion. Portfolio, 2014.
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Humble Inquiry
Edgar H. Schein
The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2013.
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Small Actions, Big Impact. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2014.
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Jason Schreier
The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made. Harper, 2017.
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How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy. Coal Cracker Press, 2018.
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What Is a Superhero?
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The World History of Animation
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The World History of Animation. Quarto Publishing, 2011.
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor
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A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines, Revised Edition. Harper Perennial, 2014.
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Tropic of Football
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The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL. The New Press, 2018.
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Change by Design
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How Watching Sports Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Understanding. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021.
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Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back
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Dilemmas of the Modern Fan. University of Texas Press, 2020.
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Why Soccer Matters
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A Look at More Than Sixty Years of International Soccer. Celebra, 2014.
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A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated. Abrams Image, 2017.
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The Aesthetic Brain
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How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art. Oxford University Press, 2015.
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The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won. Crown Archetype, 2011.
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The Half-Life of Facts
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Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date. Current, 2012.
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The Art of Rivalry
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Four Friendships, Betrayals and Breakthroughs in Modern Art. Random House, 2017.
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Shakespeare in a Divided America
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Shakespeare in a Divided America. Penguin Books, 2021.
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To Pixar and Beyond
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My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
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Songs of America
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Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation. Random House, 2019.
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The Science of Storytelling
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Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better. Collins, 2019.
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Everybody Writes
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Real Artists Don't Starve
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Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age. Nelson Books, 2017.
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Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
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The One Hour Content Plan
Meera Kothand
The Solopreneur’s Guide to a Year’s Worth of Blog Post Ideas in 60 Minutes and Creating Content That Hooks and Sells. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017.
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Fooling Houdini
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Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind. HarperCollins, 2012.
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Creativity, Inc.
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Overseeing the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration. Random House, 2014.
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