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How to Create Products and Services Customers Want. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.

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Ellen Ruppel Shell

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The High Cost of Discount Culture. Penguin Press, 2009.

A Wealth of Common Sense
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Ben Carlson

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Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity in Any Investment Plan. Bloomberg Press, 2015.

Grit
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Angela Duckworth

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The Power of Passion and Perseverance. Scribner, 2016.

Edge of Chaos
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Dambisa Moyo

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Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth – and How to Fix It. Basic Books, 2018.

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Zero To One
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Blake Masters

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Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. Currency, 2014.

Make Your Bed
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Admiral William H. McRaven

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Little Things that Can Change Your Life… and Maybe the World. Grand Central Publishing, 2017.

Start with Why
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Simon Sinek

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How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. Portfolio/Penguin, 2009.

The Pyramid Principle
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Barbara Minto

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Logic in Writing and Thinking. 3rd ed., Pearson, 2020.

The One-Page Financial Plan
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Carl Richards

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A Simple Way to be Smart About Your Money. Portfolio / Penguin, 2015.

The Ride of a Lifetime
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Robert Iger

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Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company. Random House, 2019.

Range
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David Epstein

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Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. Riverhead Books, 2019.

The Defiant Optimist
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Durreen Shahnaz

21 min read

Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women. Broadleaf Books, 2023.

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Rick Ross

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The Perfect Day to Boss Up: A Hustler’s Guide to Building Your Empire. Hanover Square Press, 2022.

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
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Jason Schreier

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The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made. Harper, 2017.

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Rejection Proof
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Jia Jiang

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How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible. Harmony, 2015.

How to Have a Good Day
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Caroline Webb

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Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life. Crown Business, 2016.

How to Win Friends and Influence People
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Dale Carnegie

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Simon & Schuster, 1981 (revised by Dorothy Carnegie, originally published in 1936).

Adaptive Markets
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Andrew W. Lo

17 min read

Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought. Princeton, 2019.

Pour Your Heart Into It
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Howard Schultz

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How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time. Hachette Books, 1999

After the Music Stopped
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Alan S. Blinder

15 min read

The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead. Penguin, 2013.

Crisis in the Eurozone
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Costas Lapavitsas

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Crisis in the Eurozone. Verso, 2012.

Fault Lines
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Raghuram Rajan

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How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy. Princeton University Press, 2010.

The Effective Executive
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Peter F. Drucker

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The Effective Executive. HarperCollins, 2002.

Boom and Bust
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John David Turner

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A Global History of Economic Bubbles. Cambridge University Press, 2020.

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Play Bigger
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Al Ramadan, et al.

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How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets. Harper, 2016.

Adults in the Room
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Yanis Varoufakis

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My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment. Vintage, 2018

60 Seconds and You’re Hired!
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Robin Ryan

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2nd ed., Penguin, 2016.

Edge of Chaos
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Dambisa Moyo

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Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth – and How to Fix It. Basic Books, 2018.

Fault Lines
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Raghuram Rajan

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How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy. Princeton University Press, 2010.

Value Proposition Design
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Karl Pillemer

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How to Create Products and Services Customers Want. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.

Cheap
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Ellen Ruppel Shell

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The High Cost of Discount Culture. Penguin Press, 2009.

A Wealth of Common Sense
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Ben Carlson

11 min read·
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Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity in Any Investment Plan. Bloomberg Press, 2015.

Dogfight
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Fred Vogelstein

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How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution. Sarah Crichton Books, 2013.

Feminist Fight Club
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Jessica Bennett

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An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace. Harper Wave, 2016.

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Rejection Proof

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