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December 2012 Business Bestsellers

1

Extreme Productivity Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours

2

Selling with Noble Purpose: How to Drive Revenue and Do Work That Makes You Proud

3

The Story of Purpose

Joey Reiman

Products / Wiley

4

The $10 Trillion Prize: Captivating the Newly Affluent in China and India

Michael J Silverstein, Abheek Singhi, Carol Liao

Products / Harvard Business Review Press

5

Start at the End

David Lavinsky

Products / Wiley

6

The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals (Library)

Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling

Products / Franklin Covey on Brilliance Audio

7

The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

Jon Gordon, Ken Blanchard

Products / Wiley..

8

Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

Jim Collins, Morten T Hansen

Products / Harper Business

9

The Positive Dog: A Story about the Power of Positivity

Jon Gordon

Products / Wiley

10

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Simon Sinek

Products / Portfolio

11

Blah Blah Blah: What to Do When Words Don't Work

Dan Roam

Products / Portfolio

12

The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills

Daniel Coyle

Products / Bantam

13

Train Your Brain For Success

Roger Seip

Products / Wiley

14

The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life

Robin Sharma

Products / Free Press.

15

Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People

G Richard Shell

Products / Penguin Books

16

The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business

Patrick M Lencioni

Products / Jossey-Bass

17

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

18

Beating the Global Odds

Paul A Laudicina

Products / Wiley

19

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

Harry M Jansen Kraemer

Products / Jossey-Bass

20

The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

Daniel Yergin

Products / Penguin Books

21

The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas

G Richard Shell, Mario Moussa

Products / Penguin Books

22

The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?

Seth Godin

Products / Portfolio

23

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Products / Random House

24

Inbound Marketing, Revised and Updated: Attract, Engage, and Delight Customers Online

Brian Halligan, Dharmesh Shah

Products / Wiley

25

It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership

Colin Powell

Products / Harper

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