Robert A Saul MD & Michael Cogdill (Koehler Books)
In an age of noise, weaponized misinformation, and frenzy for viral hype, Dr. Robert Saul and Emmy-winning journalist Michael Cogdill deliver a timely, most-needed compass for the soul. Inspired by the shooting at Columbine and refined through decades of civic engagement, professional courage, and frontline storytelling, What Really Matters: Find Meaning Amid Upheaval successfully conveys the message that a meaningful life is built not on viral influence or political victory, but on six interconnected pillars: truth, trust, science, civility, d...
Mark Roberts (Advantage Books)
Mark Roberts’s Off Wall Street is far more than a memoir of an exceptional investor; it is a brilliantly written manifesto for the independent mind venturing into the investment business. The book follows the author’s unique path, from a master’s in French literature and a family steel business to becoming the owner of Off Wall Street Consulting Group, which, in 2001, made history on Wall Street with its Enron call. The book develops a powerful argument: that short selling is not cynical betting against success, but a discipline that uncovers t...
Michele Herlein (Forbes Books)
Michele Herlein’s Cultural Excellence is the definitive playbook for leaders who want to ditch hollow mission statements and build a culture that actually moves the needle. Herlein dismisses the idea that culture is soft “fluff” and illustrates that it is the hard wiring of any organization—the behavior of its leaders and what they tolerate. For her, excellence is not accidental; it must be intentionally architected, and she lays out a battle-tested, practical framework for diagnosing your current culture and then redesigning it through a colla...
J. Michael Coffey (Entrepreneur Books)
Executive and strategist J. Michael Coffey (former CEO, Manitex and H-E Parts International) delivers a clever examination of the factors behind the success or failure of acquisitions and mergers in an era marked by local fragmentation and global ambition. Drawing from decades of industrial turnarounds, multinational deal-making, and a fourteen-company buildup across seven countries, Coffrey organizes the book around the G.A.L.E. Force framework—Global Aim, Local Execution—and the four market forces now reshaping the lower-middle market. Each s...
John Berra (Forbes Books)
Automation industry veteran and former president of Fisher-Rosemount Systems and executive vice president of Emerson, John Berra, delivers a spirited manual for facing adversity in professional life. He draws on his personal experience turning corporate obstacles into opportunities and his four-decade ascent from Monsanto control engineer to the leader of a $6.7 billion automation division to contend that the giants professionals face—self-doubt, competition, innovation, corporate bureaucracy, skepticism, and success—are not enemies to be slain...
DeAngela Burns-Wallace (Advantage Books)
In a leadership landscape often dominated by detached, formulaic frameworks, DeAngela Burns-Wallace’s Made for This becomes an important statement that blends her personal story with leadership principles to assert that the most durable leadership is built at the intersection of service, identity, and community. Burns-Wallace’s argument that leaders should be the catalysts for systemic change, and not merely individual heroes, forms the main thesis of her book. She cleverly shows readers that true influence can only be measured by the access we...
Julie A. Fragoules (Xaos Publishing)
Julie A. Fragoules’s Tyranny of the Mind: Self-Rule & The Common American Uprising is a sweeping, heavily documented treatise arguing that the United States is surrendering its founding ethos of individual liberty to a new, secular authoritarianism. Interweaving her immigrant family’s story with millennia of Western history, Fragoules traces how religious and state tyrannies—from the Roman Inquisition to feudal Europe—were rejected by the Enlightenment and America’s founders, who built a constitutional republic on liberty of conscience and...
Brian V. Anderson (Entrepreneur Books)
In Winning with AI Personalization, Nacelle CEO Brian V. Anderson delivers a ruthless diagnosis of why e-commerce personalization has failed for two decades: brands are trying to apply one-to-one retention strategies to anonymous acquisition traffic. The “personalization paradox” is real—software utilization remains abysmal because marketers cannot identify the vast majority of visitors, and Apple’s privacy earthquake has shrunk tracking windows to seven days. Anderson’s contrarian thesis offers salvation through a Three-Stage Personalization F...
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Ksenia Yudina (Entrepreneur Books)
Ksenia Yudina’s One Venture, Ten MBAs chronicles her breathtaking journey from a Russian immigrant with $200,000 in student debt to the founder of UNest, a family-fintech platform she bootstrapped and scaled to a $120 million valuation, only to lose it in a devastating hostile takeover during the 2023 banking crisis. Structured as ten “mini-MBAs,” each chapter distills a brutal truth about startup survival (from execution, fundraising, hiring, pivoting, M&A, to venture debt) into tactical wisdom that elite business schools fail to teach. Yu...
Douglas Y. Park (Advantage Books)
In Starting Startups, Douglas Y. Park delivers a masterclass in entrepreneurial execution, dismantling the myth that brilliant ideas alone guarantee success. Backed by decades as a Stanford advisor, PhD sociologist, and securities lawyer, Park pioneers the idea that sustainable ventures require three load-bearing pillars: People, Product, and Position, which he calls the “3Ps.” He presents a framework that posits that startup failure often originates not from bad luck but from systemic misalignment among these elements. Park contends that execu...
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