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| Outliers: The Story of Success |
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In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of outliers--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successf....more info
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| The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference |
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This celebrated New York Times bestsellernow poised to reach an even wider audience in paperbackis a book that is changing the way North Americans think about selling products and disseminating ideas. Gladwells new afterword to this edition describes how readers can constructively apply the tipping ....more info
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| A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge: (Pmbok Guide) |
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The PMBOK9(r) Guide - Fourth Edition continues the tradition of excellence in project management with a standard that is even easier to understand and implement, with improved consistency and greater clarification. Standard language has been incorporated throughout the document to aid reader un....more info
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| Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die |
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Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas–business people, teachers....more info
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| Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle |
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START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations lik....more info
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| The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable |
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A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so....more info
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| How We Decide |
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Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we blink and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest tools of neuroscience, they’re discovering that this is not how the min....more info
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