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The Touchstones of Leadership: Essential Principles for Business Leaders
Joseph Carleone (Forbes Books)
What if everything you needed to know about leadership fit on forty-five index cards? Joseph Carleone's The Touchstones of Leadership delivers exactly that. With a career that ran from rocket motors to pharmaceutical plants, Carleone brings decades of hard lessons into punchy one-liners that are as revelatory as they are thought-provoking, such as “Never mistake activity for achievement” or “Once you get into a hole, stop digging.”He sorts them i...
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Center Stage Confidence: How to Own your Story and Command Any Room
Justin Guarini (Entrepreneur Press)
The spotlight doesn't give you confidence; showing up scared does. That is the key idea behind Justin Guarini’s Center Stage Confidence, a compelling book that's part memoir, part playbook. The book brings you wisdom and insights from experiences that include seven Broadway shows, American Idol, and seven years as Dr Pepper’s Lil’ Sweet. The book quickly shows you the indisputable truth: everything you want waits on the other side of your willing...
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ActualizationOS: A System of Inner Architecture
Sanjay Sabnani (Causal Wisdom)
What if change fails not because you lack willpower, but because your inner system is working against itself? That is the bracing premise of Sanjay Sabnani's ActualizationOS, a field manual for deliberate transformation inspired by the author’s own breakdown. After losing his marriage and business in 2015, Sabnani rebuilt his mind through a simple chanting practice, then spent a decade putting together what actually worked. Stillness is the platf...
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White Coat Leadership: Empowering the Next Generation of Healthcare Leaders from Bedside to Boardroom
Timothy N. Liesching (Advantage Books)
In White Coat Leadership: Empowering the Next Generation of Healthcare Leaders from Bedside to Boardroom, Dr. Timothy N. Liesching, a former banker, an ICU physician, and past chief medical officer, argues that American healthcare's compounding crises (workforce burnout, soaring costs, technological disruption, and fragmented care) demand a new kind of leader: the clinician who can “heal, lead, and inspire.” The book is part manual, part manifest...
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Pitch Black: The Best Black Ads of the Past 50+ Years
Mark S. Robinson (BookBaby)
Mark S. Robinson’s Pitch Black: The Best Black Ads of the Past 50+ Years is part curated gallery, part history lesson, a book that traces the evolution of advertising created for, and by, Black Americans from the civil rights era to the present day. The author brings 45 years of industry experience to the book and examines how brands moved from ignoring Black consumers to recognizing them as indispensable clients, and how “community relations” ad...
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Semi-Pro
Clay M. Grayson (Advantage Books)
College athletics is stuck in the in-between, no longer amateur, not yet fully professional, and Clay M. Grayson's Semi-Pro is the definitive, timely guide to address that uneasy middle ground. If you love college sports—the fight songs, the tailgates, the Saturdays that feel like family reunions—this book will speak straight to your heart. Clay M. Grayson has spent over twenty years helping universities manage change, and in Semi-Pro he tackles...
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The Path of Least Regret: Decide with Clarity. Move Forward with Confidence.
Parul Somani (Forbes Books)
Parul Somani's The Path of Least Regret asks a question that will change your life: What if the secret to the hardest choices life throws at you isn’t finding the right answer, but finding the answer you can live with? That question is at the heart of this book and discussed in the author’s decision-making framework created in the most unforgiving of classrooms: days after giving birth to her second daughter, Somani, an MIT- and Harvard-trained B...
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MSP to MVP: Building Unbreakable Partnerships in the Customer Success Era
Chris Day (Forbes Books)
In MSP to MVP, Chris Day convinces his readers that uptime is no longer a value proposition, but the price of admission. He confronts the uncomfortable truth that continuously haunts managed service providers, where clients renew year after year, yet relationships suffer, expansion stalls, and growth refuses to compound. Backed by two decades spent building Fully Managed into Canada’s largest MSP, founding IT Glue, and scaling ScalePad, Day shows...
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Emergence: How Our Twenty-Watt Brains Unlocked Intelligence Beyond Biology
Bob Burgin (Forbes Books)
We did not so much build artificial intelligence as teach it to learn, and then stand back in astonishment at what we have achieved. This startling premise introduces Bob Burgin’s Emergence: How Our Twenty-Watt Brains Unlocked Intelligence Beyond Biology. The book takes readers on an odyssey from Eric Kandel’s sea slugs and Henry Molaison’s memoryless brain to Geoffrey Hinton’s neural networks. It then explores AlphaGo’s unimagined brilliance and...
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Fit for Uncertainty: Lead with Purpose, Adapt to Change
Marianne Bachynski (Entrepreneur Books)
Seventy percent of transformation programs fail, and Marianne Bachynski has spent thirty years learning why. In Fit for Uncertainty, the veteran technology executive (Morgan Stanley, Citi, AIG) argues that in an era of AI-driven, warp-speed change, the old command-and-control leadership model is not just outdated but also a recipe for burnout and collapse. This book shows readers one compelling truth: uncertainty should not be viewed as an enemy...
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