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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, W. W. Norton, 320 pages, $27.
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Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire that Civilized the Wild West by Stephen Fried, Bantam, 518 pages, $27. 00, Hardcover, March 2010, ISBN 9780553804379
I’m a huge believer that history books make for some of the best business books. History books teach and inform through the re-creation of a lost time.
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The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar, Twelve, 329 pages, $25. 99, Hardcover, March 2010, ISBN 9780446504102
We make choices every day: small choices about what we will eat for breakfast, what clothes we’ll wear, how we react within our jobs; and big choices about relationships, purchases—real life-changing choices. But what is choice?
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Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding The Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty by Pat Lencioni, Jossey-Bass, 220 pages, $24. 95, Hardcover, February 2010, ISBN 9780787976392
For over ten years, Pat Lencioni has helped define the genre of the business fable. He is most famous for The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, which I thought so highly of that I included it in our collection of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time.
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Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson, Crown Business, 288 pages, $22. 00, Hardcover, March 2010, ISBN 9780307463746
I’m usually the first responder to new books that come in the office, but this book created much internal excitement even before I got my hands on it. The galley that is currently on my desk is quite beat up already from use.
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