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  • Business Bestsellers
  • Nonfiction Bestsellers

December 2014 Business Bestsellers

1

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

Steven Johnson

Products / Viking Books for Young Readers

2

You Only Have to Be Right Once: The Unprecedented Rise of the Instant Tech Billionaires

Randall Lane

Products / Portfolio

3

The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

Adam Braun

Products / Scribner Book Company.

4

A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity

Nicholas D Kristof, Sheryl Wudunn

Products / Knopf Publishing Group

5

Code Halos

Malcolm Frank, Paul Roehrig, Ben Pring

Products / Wiley

6

Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea Into a Global Business

Mikkel Svane

Products / Jossey-Bass

7

Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

Adam Grant

Products / Viking

8

Lessons of Hope: How to Fix Our Schools

Joel Klein

Products / Harper

9

Smartcuts

Shane Snow

Products / Harper Business

10

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

Jon Gordon, Ken Blanchard

Products / Wiley..

11

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

12

The Liar's Ball

Vicky Ward

Products / Wiley

13

On My Own Two Feet

Amy Purdy

Products / William Morrow & Company

14

The Passion Conversation: Understanding, Sparking, and Sustaining Word of Mouth Marketing

Robbin Phillips, Greg Cordell, Geno Church, John Moore

Products / Wiley

15

On the Edge: Leadership Lessons from Mount Everest and Other Extreme Environments

Alison Levine

Products / Grand Central Publishing

16

Shift Your Brilliance: Harness the Power of You, Inc.

Simon T Bailey

Products / Sound Wisdom.

17

The Lenovo Way: Managing a Diverse Global Company for Optimal Performance

Gina Qiao, Yolanda Conyers

Products / McGraw-Hill Companies

18

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

Harry M Jansen Kraemer

Products / Jossey-Bass

19

Never Fly Solo: Lead with Courage, Build Trusting Partnerships, and Reach New Heights in Business

Robert Waldo Waldman

Products / McGraw-Hill Companies

20

The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business

Patrick M Lencioni

Products / Jossey-Bass

21

How the Poor Can Save Capitalism: Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class

John Hope Bryant

Products / Berrett-Koehler Publishers

22

Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life

Glennon Doyle

Products / Scribner Book Company.

23

The Wisdom of Oz: Using Personal Accountability to Succeed in Everything You Do

Roger Connors, Tom Smith

Products / Portfolio

24

Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology

Vivek Wadhwa, Farai Chideya

Products / Diversion Books.

25

Mind Gym: Achieve More by Thinking Differently

Sebastian Bailey, Octavius Black

Products / HarperOne

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