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Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc.: The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki. Used by permission of Anchor Books.

Bantam, a division of Random House, Inc.: Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman and Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton and John Huey.

Bard Press: Little Red Book of Selling by Jeffrey Gitomer.

Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group: On Becoming a Leader by Warren G. Bennis; Out of Control by Kevin Kelly; Partnership Charter by David Gage; The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida; and The Story Factor by Annette Simmons. Used by arrangement with Basic Books. All rights reserved.

Clerisy Press: Jump Start Your Business Brain by Doug Hall. Courtesy of Clerisy Press Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio.

Collins Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers: Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will by Noel M. Tichy and Stratford Sherman; Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore; The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker; The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber; The Essential Drucker by Peter F. Drucker; Good to Great by Jim Collins; The HP Way by David Packard; In Search of Excellence by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman; Influence by Robert B. Cialdini; The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen; Moments of Truth by Jan Carlzon; Reengineering the Corporation by Michael Hammer and James Champy; Swim with the Sharks without Being Eaten Alive by Harvey B. Mackay; and Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? by Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Columbia University Press: More Than You Know by Michael J. Mauboussin. Used with permission of Columbia University Press.

Crown Business, a division of Random House, Inc.: Execution by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan; The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All by Michael Useem; The Lean Startup by Eric Ries; Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson; and What the CEO Wants You to Know by Ram Charan. Used by permission of Crown Business.

Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.: The Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman; The Great Game of Business by Jack Stack with Bo Burlingham; Leadership is An Art by Max Depree; My Years with General Motors by Alfred Sloan; Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S. Grove; The Power of Intuition by Gary Klein; and The Republic of Tea by Mel Ziegler, Bill Rosenzweig, and Patricia Ziegler. Used by permission of Doubleday.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux: Jacket design by Susan Mitchell from The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman. Jacket design copyright © 1999 by Susan Mitchell; Jacket design by Rodrigo Corral from Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Jacket design copyright © 2011 by Rodrigo Corral. Cover photograph: Mark Weiss/Getty Images. Reprinted by permisssion of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

The Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group: Discovering the Soul of Service by Leonard L. Berry, copyright © 1999 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.; and Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton, copyright © 2001 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. Used with the permission of The Free Press. All rights reserved.

Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group USA, Inc.: Selling the Invisible by Harry Beckwith and A Whack on the Side of the Head by Roger von Oech.

Harper Perennial, a division of HarperCollins Publishers: Flow by David Packard.

Harvard Business School Publishing: The Age of Unreason by Charles Handy, 1990; Balanced Scorecard by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, 1996; Beyond the Core by Chris Zook, 2004; Competing for the Future by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, 1996; The Experience Economy by B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore, 1999; Financial Intelligence by Karen Berman and Joe Knight, with John Case, 2006; First 90 Days by Michael Watkins, 2003; The Knowing-Doing Gap by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton, 2000; Leading Change by John P. Kotter, 1996; The Monk and the Riddle by Randy Komisar with Kent Lineback, 2001; and Questions of Character by Joseph L Badaracco, Jr., 2006. © Copyright Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved.

Hazelden: The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown.

Houghton Mifflin Company: Guerilla Marketing, 4th Edition by Jay Conrad Levinson.

Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Imprint: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni; Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner; and Up the Organization by Robert Townsend.

Kaplan Publishing, a division of Kaplan, Inc.: The Radical Leap by Steve Farber. Published with permission from Kaplan Publishing, a division of Kaplan, Inc.

Knopf, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC: Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg.

Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group USA, Inc.: Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono and The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell.

McGraw-Hill, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies: A Business and Its Beliefs by Thomas J. Watson, 2003; Chasing Daylight by Eugene O’Kelly, 2007; and Positioning by Al Ries and Jack Trout, 2000. Reproduced with permission of The McGraw-Hill Companies.

The MIT Press: Out of the Crisis by W. Edwards Deming.

Nigel Parry/Creative Photographers inc.: The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp, Simon & Schuster. Cover image reprinted with the permission of © Nigel Parry/CPi.

North River Press: The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox.

Penguin Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.: The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander; Getting Things Done by David Allen; A New Brand World by Scott Bedbury and Stephen Fenichell; and Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin.

Pocket Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Copyright © 1998 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. Used with the permission of Pocket Books. All rights reserved.

Portfolio, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.: The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki; Purple Cow by Seth Godin; and The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind.

Random House, Inc.: The Force by David Dorsey; Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath; Titan by Ron Chernow; What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Bronson; and When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.

Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc.: Oh, The Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss. Used by permission of Random House Children’s Books.

Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group: Secrets of Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar.

Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, copyright © 2004 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.; American Steel by Richard Preston, copyright © 1991 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.; First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, copyright © 1999 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.; Growing a Business by Paul Hawken, copyright © 1988 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.; and Why We Buy by Paco Underhill, copyright © 2000 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. Used with the permission of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group. All rights reserved.

Taylor and Francis Group, LLC, a division of Informa plc.: Toyota Production System by Taiichi Ohno. Reproduced by permission of Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.

Ten Speed Press: Thinkertoys by Michael Michalko. Used with permission of Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA. www.tenspeed.com.

Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.: Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon MacKenzie.

Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc.: Personal History by Katharine Graham and To Engineer is Human by Henry Petroski. Used by permission of Vintage Books.

W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.: Moneyball by Michael Lewis and Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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