Book Excerpts
Especially when buying books in bulk, it can help to read the first few pages—or chapters—before making a final decision. We share excerpts from upcoming and newly released business books and other nonfiction genres to help guide your next purchasing decision.
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Right Kind of Wrong | An Excerpt from the Management & Workplace Culture Category
By Amy C Edmondson
A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering researcher of psychological safety and award-winning Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson.
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How Work Works | An Excerpt from the Management & Workplace Culture Category
By Porchlight
A unique and revelatory guide to understanding and navigating the unwritten rules of the workplace—the key to achieving success, finding meaning, and staying true to your authentic self in today’s business world.
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Work Here Now | An Excerpt from the Management & Workplace Culture Category
By Melissa Swift
Make work suck less and improve the performance of your people with this practical, hands-on guide.
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The Case for Good Jobs | An Excerpt from the Management & Workplace Culture Category
By Zeynep Ton
From MIT professor and pre-eminent voice on Good Jobs comes a leadership guide for choosing excellence and providing good jobs that offer a living wage, dignity, and opportunities for growth.
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The Right Call | An Excerpt from the Leadership & Strategy Category
By Sally Jenkins
Bestselling author Sally Jenkins presents a love letter to the extraordinary coaches and athletes she has covered over the years and the actionable principles of excellence they embody.
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Lead Together | An Excerpt from the Leadership & Strategy Category
By Tania Luna
A new approach to leading teams and distributing power that creates a fairer, more fulfilling workplace and world, as told in the narrative tradition of Lencioni, Kotter, and Quinn.
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Head & Heart | An Excerpt from the Leadership & Strategy Category
By Kirstin Ferguson
Leadership is simply a series of moments, and this book gives you the tools to turn each moment into an opportunity to leave a positive legacy for those you lead.
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How Big Things Get Done | An Excerpt from the Leadership & Strategy Category
By Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
The secrets to successfully planning and delivering ambitious, complex projects on any scale—from home renovation to space exploration—by the world's leading expert on megaprojects.
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Move Fast and Fix Things | An Excerpt from the Leadership & Strategy Category
By Frances Frei, Anne Morriss
Bestselling authors and cohosts of the TED podcast Fixable , Frances Frei and Anne Morriss reinvent the playbook for how to lead change—with a radical approach that moves fast, builds trust, and accelerates excellence.
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An Excerpt from Evolutionary Intelligence
By W Russell Neuman
A media technology scholar argues in favor of exploring the expanding boundaries of computationally augmented human intelligence.
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