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September 2009 Business Bestsellers

1

Seven Lessons for Leading in Crisis

Bill George

Products / Jossey-Bass

2

What Happy Working Mothers Know: How New Findings in Positive Psychology Can Lead to a Healthy and Happy Work/Life Balance

Cathy L Greenberg, Barrett S Avigdor

Products / Wiley

3

Bounce Back: Overcoming Setbacks to Succeed in Business and in Life

John Calipari

Products / Free Press

4

Rich Dad's Increase Your Financial IQ: Get Smarter with Your Money

Robert T Kiyosaki

Products / Business Plus

5

Profits Aren't Everything, They're the Only Thing: No-Nonsense Rules from the Ultimate Contrarian and Small Business Guru

George Cloutier

Products / Harper Business

6

How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything (Expanded)

Dov Seidman

Products / Wiley

7

What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful (Revised)

Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter

Products / Hachette Books

8

Six Pixels of Separation: Everyone Is Connected. Connect Your Business to Everyone.

Mitch Joel

Products / Business Plus

9

Reading Minds and Markets: Minimizing Risk and Maximizing Returns in a Volatile Global Marketplace

Jack Ablin, Suzanne McGee

Products / FT Press

10

Love Leadership: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World

John Hope Bryant

Products / Jossey-Bass

11

The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a New Section: On Robustness and Fragility

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Products / Random House Trade.

12

The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story about a Powerful Business Idea (Go-Giver, Book 1 (Expanded)

Bob Burg, John David Mann

Products / Portfolio

13

It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy (Revised, Updated)

D Michael Abrashoff

Products / Grand Central Publishing

14

The New Gold Standard: 5 Leadership Principles for Creating a Legendary Customer Experience Courtesy of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company

Joseph A Michelli

Products / McGraw-Hill Companies.

15

True North Discover Your Authentic Leadership

16

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Products / Random House

17

The Next Evolution of Marketing: Connect with Your Customers by Marketing with Meaning

Bob Gilbreath

Products / McGraw-Hill Companies

18

Are You a Stock or a Bond?: Create Your Own Pension Plan for a Secure Financial Future

Moshe Arye Milevsky

Products / FT Press

19

Dare to Be a Man: The Truth Every Man Must Know... and Every Woman Needs to Know about Him

David G Evans

Products / Putnam Adult

20

How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give in

Jim Collins

Products / Jimcollins.

21

It's Not What You Sell, It's What You Stand For: Why Every Extraordinary Business Is Driven by Purpose

Roy M Spence

Products / Portfolio

22

Green Recovery: Get Lean, Get Smart, and Emerge from the Downturn on Top

Andrew S Winston

Products / Harvard Business Review Press

23

Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust

Chris Brogan, Julien Smith

Products / John Wiley & Sons

24

The Adversity Paradox: An Unconventional Guide to Achieving Uncommon Business Success

J Barry Griswell, Bob Jennings

Products / St. Martin's Press

25

Strengthsfinder 2.0

Gallup

Products / Gallup Press.

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