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September 2011 Business Bestsellers

1

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Eric Ries

Products / Crown Currency

2

What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential

Robert S Kaplan

Products / Harvard Business Review Press

3

From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership

Harry M Jansen Kraemer

Products / Jossey-Bass

4

Strengthsfinder 2.0

Gallup

Products / Gallup Press.

5

Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

Steven D Levitt, Stephen J Dubner

Products / William Morrow & Company

6

The Thank You Economy

Gary Vaynerchuk

Products / Harper Business

7

Practically Radical: Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself

William C Taylor

Products / William Morrow & Company

8

Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us

Daniel H Pink

Products / Riverhead Books

9

Delivering Happiness

Tony Hsieh

Products / Grand Central Publishing

10

The Innovator's Dna, Updated, with a New Preface: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators (Revised)

Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, Clayton M Christensen

Products / Harvard Business Review Press

11

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

Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter

Products / Hachette Books

12

Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions

Guy Kawasaki

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 Innovator's Manifesto: Deliberate Disruption for Transformational Growth

Michael E Raynor

Products / Crown Business

15

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

16

How We Lead Matters: Reflections on a Life of Leadership

Marilyn Carlson Nelson

Products / McGraw-Hill Companies

17

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

18

Brains on Fire: Igniting Powerful, Sustainable, Word of Mouth Movements

Robbin Phillips, Greg Cordell, Geno Church

Products / Wiley

19

The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels

Michael Watkins

Products / Harvard Business Review Press

20

Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (Revised, Updated)

Liz Wiseman

Products / Harper Business

21

Clutch: Why Some People Excel Under Pressure and Others Don't

Paul Sullivan

Products / Portfolio

22

"I Love You More Than My Dog": Five Decisions That Drive Extreme Customer Loyalty in Good Times and Bad

Jeanne Bliss

Products / Penguin Publishing Group

23

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

John Hope Bryant

Products / Jossey-Bass

24

Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant (Revised)

W Chan Kim, Renée a Mauborgne

Products / Harvard Business Review Press

25

How to Market to People Not Like You

Kelly McDonald

Products / Wiley

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