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April 2015 Business Bestsellers

1

The Real-Life MBA: Your No-Bs Guide to Winning the Game, Building a Team, and Growing Your Career

Jack Welch, Suzy Welch

Products / Harper Business

2

Widgets: The 12 New Rules for Managing Your Employees as If They're Real People

Rodd Wagner

Products / McGraw-Hill Companies

3

The Road to Character

David Brooks

Products / Random House

4

A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

Brian Grazer, Charles Fishman

Products / Simon & Schuster

5

Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence

Erica Dhawan, Saj-Nicole Joni

Products / St. Martin's Press

6

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

7

Becoming the Best: Build a World-Class Organization Through Values-Based Leadership

Harry M Jansen Kraemer

Products / Jossey-Bass

8

Roadmap The Get-It-Together Guide for Figuring Out What to Do with Your Life (Book for Figuring Shit

9

Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

Adam Grant

Products / Viking

10

Stand Out How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It

11

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

D Michael Abrashoff

Products / Grand Central Publishing

12

Miss Jessie's: Creating a Successful Business from Scratch---Naturally

Miko Branch

Products / Amistad Press

13

The Soft Edge

Rich Karlgaard

Products / Jossey-Bass

14

The Career Playbook: Essential Advice for Today's Aspiring Young Professional

James M Citrin

Products / Currency

15

Six Simple Rules: How to Manage Complexity Without Getting Complicated

Yves Morieux, Peter Tollman

Products / Harvard Business Review Press

16

Crafting the Customer Experience for People Not Like You: How to Delight and Engage the Customers Your Competitors Don't Understand

Kelly McDonald

Products / Wiley

17

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

John Hope Bryant

Products / Berrett-Koehler Publishers

18

The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything (Revised)

Guy Kawasaki

Products / Portfolio

19

Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World

Peter H Diamandis, Steven Kotler

Products / Simon & Schuster

20

The Her Campus Guide to College Life: How to Manage Relationships, Stay Safe and Healthy, Handle Stress, and Have the Best Years of Your Life

Stephanie Kaplan Lewis, Annie Chandler Wang, Windsor Hanger Western

Products / Adams Media Corporation

21

Thinking in New Boxes: A New Paradigm for Business Creativity

Luc de Brabandere, Alan Iny

Products / Random House

22

Connection Culture: The Competitive Advantage of Shared Identity, Empathy, and Understanding at Work

Michael Lee Stallard

Products / ASTD

23

Getting There: A Book of Mentors

Gillian Zoe Segal

Products / Abrams Image

24

Design to Grow: How Coca-Cola Learned to Combine Scale and Agility (and How You Can Too)

David Butler, Linda Tischler

Products / Simon & Schuster

25

Power Forward: My Presidential Education

Reggie Love

Products / Simon & Schuster

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