Donald J. Wheeler

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Key to Managing Chaos

Understanding Variation, Second Edition

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Leonard Mlodinow

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

How Randomness Rules Our Lives

The Drunkard's Walk

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Chip Heath

Dan Heath

Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Made to Stick

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Jack Welch

Suzy Welch

One of the best management books ever written. 

A champion manager of people, Jack Welch shares the hard-earned wisdom of a storied career in what will become the ultimate business bible

With Winning, Jack Welch delivers a wide-ranging, in-depth, no-holds-barred management guidebook about the tough strategic, organizational, and personal challenges that face people at every stage of their careers. Loaded with candid personal anecdotes, hard-hitting advice, and invaluable dos and don'ts, Jack explains his theory of business, by laying out the four most important principles that form the foundation of his success.

Chapters include: How to Get Promoted, How to Think about Strategy, How to Write a Budget that Works, How to Work for a Jerk, How Find Work-Life Balance and How Start Something New. Enlivened by quotes from business leaders that Welch interviewed especially for the book, it's a tour de force that reflects Welch's mastery of execution, excellence and leadership.

Winning

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Verne Harnish

Great advice for fast growing companies. 

What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Fast-Growth Firm

What are the underlying handful of fundamentals that haven't changed for over a hundred years? From Harnish's famous One-Page Strategic Plan to his concise outline of eight practical actions you can take to strengthen your culture, this book is a compilation of best practices adapted from some of the best-run firms on the planet. Included is an instructive chapter co-authored by Rich Russakoff, revealing winning tactics to get banks to finance your business. Lastly, there are case studies demonstrating the validity of Harnish's practical approaches.

If you are looking for an expanded and updated version of this 2002 best-seller, look for Verne Harnish's latest title Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0).  In Scaling Up, Harnish and his team share practical tools and techniques for building an industry-dominating business. These approaches have been honed from over three decades of advising tens of thousands of CEOs and executives and helping them navigate the increasing complexities (and weight) that come with scaling up a venture. This book is written so everyone - from frontline employees to senior executives - can get aligned in contributing to the growth of a firm. There's no reason to do it alone, yet many top leaders feel like they are the ones dragging the rest of the organization up the S-curve of growth. This book can help you turn what feels like an anchor into wind at your back -- creating a company where the team is engaged; the customers are doing your marketing; and everyone is making money.  To accomplish this, Scaling Up focuses on the four major decision areas every company must get right: People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash. The book includes a series of new one-page tools including the updated One-Page Strategic Plan and the Rockefeller Habits Checklist(tm), which more than 40,000 firms around the globe have used to scale their companies successfully -- many to $1 billion and beyond. Running a business is ultimately about freedom. Scaling Up shows business leaders how to get their organizations moving in sync to create something significant and enjoy the ride. 

Mastering the Rockefeller Habits

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Adam. Grant

Sheryl Sandberg

Anything by Adam Grant is going to be a game changer in business. 

How Non-Conformists Move the World

The #1 New York Times bestseller that examines how people can champion new ideas-and how leaders can fight groupthink, from the author of Give and Take and co-author of Option B"Reading Originals made me feel like I was seated across from Adam Grant at a dinner party, as one of my favorite thinkers thrilled me with his insights and his wonderfully new take on the world."--Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers and The Tipping Point"Originals is one of the most important and captivating books I have ever read, full of surprising and powerful ideas. It will not only change the way you see the worl.

Originals

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Jakob Nielsen

Timeless information on web usability in this classic title. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Computer Science

The practice of simplicity. 

A guide to creating user-friendly web sites that provides information on how companies can ensure their web sites are easy to locate and navigate.

Designing Web Usability

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Hoa Loranger

Amazing book on web usability. Timeless information. 

Describes Web site usability through critiques of real-world sites, covering such factors as legibility, navigability, searchability, and design.

Prioritizing Web Usability

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Bradford D. Smart

Been using the concepts in this book to hire star talent for many years. Content is more relevant than ever. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Business & Economics

How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching and Keeping the Best People

Great companies don’t just depend on strategies—they depend on people. The more great people on your team, the more successful your organization will be. But that’s easier said than done. Statistically, half of all employment decisions result in a mishire: The wrong person winds up in the wrong job. But companies that have followed Bradford Smart’s advice in Topgrading have boosted their successful hiring rate to 90 percent or better, giving them an unbeatable competitive advantage. Now Smart has fully revised his 1999 management classic to reintroduce the topgrading concept, which works for companies large and small in any industry. The author spells out his practical approach to finding and managing A-level talent—as well as coaching B players to turn them into A players. He provides intriguing case studies drawn from more than four thousand in-depth interviews. As Smart writes in his introduction, “All organizations, all businesses live or die mostly on their talent, and any manager who fails to topgrade is nuts, or a C player. . . . Those who, way deep down, would sooner see an organization die than nudge an incompetent person out of a job should not read this book... Topgrading is for A players and all those aspiring to be A players.” On the web: http://www.topgrading.com/

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Donald J. Wheeler

Understanding Variation, Second Edition

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The Drunkard's Walk

Chip Heath; Dan Heath

Made to Stick

Jack Welch; Suzy Welch

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Verne Harnish

Mastering the Rockefeller Habits

Adam. Grant; Sheryl Sandberg

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Designing Web Usability

Jakob Nielsen; Hoa Loranger

Prioritizing Web Usability

Bradford D. Smart

Topgrading (revised PHP Edition)

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