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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap, and Others Don't - Jim Collins

This book addresses a single question: can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? Based on a five-year research project comparing companies that made the leap to those that did not, Good to Great shows that greatness is not primarily a function of circumstance but largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline. This book discusses concepts like Level 5 Leadership; First Who, Then What (first get the right people on the bus, then figure out where to drive it); the Hedgehog Concept, and the Flywheel.

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Creating Great Choices: A Leader's Guide to Integrative Thinking - Jennifer Riel & Roger Martin

Conventional wisdom―and business school curricula―teaches us that making trade-offs is inevitable when it comes to hard choices. But sometimes, accepting the obvious trade-off just isn’t good enough: the choices in front of us don’t get us what we need. In those cases, rather than choosing the least worst option, we can use the models in front of us to create a new and better answer. This is integrative thinking. Stimulating and practical, Creating Great Choices blends storytelling, theory, and hands-on advice to help any leader or manager facing a tough choice.

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Creating Healthy Organizations - Graham Lowe

Creating Healthy Organizations will help you to strengthen the links between people and performance in humanly sustainable ways. Author Graham Lowe provides a new perspective on the drivers of employee wellbeing and organizational performance. The book’s action-oriented model of a healthy organization blends the author’s consulting experience with insights from workplace health promotion, human resources, organizational change and leadership, employee engagement, and corporate social responsibility.

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Personality Isn't Permanent: Break Free From Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story - Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Personality Isn’t Permanent provides science-based strategies for reframing past memories, becoming the scribe of your identity narrative, upgrading your subconscious, and redesigning your environment. When you know the truth of personality, desired personal change can be dramatic and directed. When you don’t, personality is something you seek to discover rather than create.

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4 C's Formula: Your Building Blocks of Growth: Commitment, Courage, Capability, Confidence - Dan Sullivan

In The 4 C’s Formula, Dan Sullivan shares his simple and universal process for achieving bigger and better goals and always making your future bigger than your past. Through the 4 C’s—Commitment, Courage, Capability, and Confidence—you can create 10x breakthroughs and avoid the traps of complacency and courage-avoidance that many successful entrepreneurs fall into. Take your business and life to the next level with this model for consistent entrepreneurial growth.

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Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It - Chris Voss

Everything we’ve previously been taught about negotiation is wrong: you are not rational; there is no such thing as ‘fair’; compromise is the worst thing you can do; the real art of negotiation lies in mastering the intricacies of No, not Yes. These surprising tactics—which radically diverge from conventional negotiating strategy—weren’t cooked up in a classroom, but are the field-tested tools FBI agents used to talk criminals and hostage-takers around the world into (or out of) just about any scenario you can imagine. In NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It, former FBI lead international kidnapping negotiator Chris Voss and co-author Tahl Raz break down these strategies so that anyone can use them in the workplace, in business, or at home.

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The Go-Giver Leader: A Little Story About What Matters Most in Business - Bob Burg, John David Mann

With their acclaimed bestseller The Go-Giver, Bob Burg and John David Mann proved that a heartfelt parable could also express a powerful idea. In The Go-Giver Leader (originally pub­lished as It’s Not About You), they offer an equally compelling tale about a struggling small business and the ambitious young executive trying to lead them to a crucial decision.

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Tiny Habits - BJ Fogg, Ph.D

In the widely-anticipated book Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything, readers will discover the landmark Tiny Habits method that has helped thousands of people build their ideal lives. Tiny Habits—created by Dr. BJ Fogg, a world-renowned Behavior Scientist at Stanford University—is based on 20 years of research and Dr. Fogg’s experience personally coaching over 60,000 people. Unlike anything that’s come before, this system—what Dr. Fogg has coined “Behavior Design”—cracks the code of habit formation.

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