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Flex: The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences by Jane Hyun and Audrey S. Lee, HarperBusiness, 336 pages, $27. 99, Hardcover, March 2014, ISBN 9780062248527
The differences in our office are likely not as obvious as those in a more diverse company, but if you look closely the differences are there.
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Smart People Should Build Things: How to Restore Our Culture of Achievement, Build a Path for Entrepreneurs, and Create New Jobs in America by Andrew Yang, HarperBusiness, 272 pages, $26. 99, Hardcover, February 2014, ISBN 9780062292049
Andrew Yang has a very simple, yet profound idea for the American economy: smart people should build things. By “smart people,” Yang is referring to the academically gifted—the top students from the top universities in America.
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Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want by Nicholas Epley, Alfred A. Knopf, 242 pages, $26. 95, Hardcover, February 2014, ISBN 9780307595911
For most of us, social creatures that we are, our lives are nonstop sequences of human interactions.
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The Moment of Clarity: Using the Human Sciences to Solve Your Toughest Business Problems by Christian Madsbjerg and Mikkel B. Rasmussen, Harvard Business Review Press, 214 pages, $28. 00, Hardcover, February 2014, ISBN 9781422191903
Consider a time you were buying a gift for someone, and had to decide between two items.
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Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less by Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao, Crown Business, 346 pages, $26. 00, Hardcover, February 2014, ISBN 9780385347020
Sometimes a book lands on my desk like a meteorite falling from the sky, as though it is announcing its presence with fire and debris.
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