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David Meyer

David N Meyer is a content editor at getAbstract and author of The 100 Best Films To Rent You've Never Heard Of, Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music, The Bee Gees: The Biography, and other books. You can find his essays on film and music at davidnmeyer.com

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    The Power of Networks
    The Human Network
    The Human Networkby Matthew O. Jackson The Power of Networks

    Stanford University economics professor Matthew O. Jackson breaks down the types, the reach and the force of human networks.

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    A Different Perspective
    21 Lessons for the 21st Century
    21 Lessons for the 21st Centuryby Yuval Noah Harari A Different Perspective

    Historian, philosopher and social critic Yuval Noah Harari provides an articulate, hard-bitten realpolitik of solid philosophical and practical advice.

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    Democracy Threatened
    Peril
    Perilby Bob Woodward and Robert Costa Democracy Threatened

    Woodward and Costa present a deadpan, nonpartisan chronicle of the events leading up to and following Trump’s election defeat.

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    Purposeful Leadership
    The Heart of Business
    The Heart of Businessby Hubert Joly and Caroline Lambert Purposeful Leadership

    Former Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly details how to transform your company and yourself by pursuing purposeful leadership.

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    Change – Step by Step
    Step Up, Step Back
    Step Up, Step Backby Elsbeth Johnson Change – Step by Step

    Elsbeth Johnson of the MIT Sloan School of Management offers a detailed, actionable manual for leaders driving change and for students studying change implementation.

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    Introducing Agile
    Doing Agile Right
    Doing Agile Rightby Darrell Rigby, Sarah Elk and Steve Berez Introducing Agile

    A trio of IT consultants explains agile in detail in this worthwhile guidebook for beginners.

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    Discipline and Humility
    Extreme Ownership
    Extreme Ownershipby Jocko Willink and Leif Babin Discipline and Humility

    Best-selling authors and former US Navy SEALs Jocko Willink and Leif Babin relate illustrative war stories and link them to crucial business issues: Own ’em, prioritize…

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    Collaborate for Positivity
    Big Potential
    Big Potentialby Shawn Achor Collaborate for Positivity

    Bestselling happiness expert Shawn Achor urges you to find the joy in collaboration, dispel negativity and take the lead, whatever your formal position.

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    Classic Guidance
    Great by Choice
    Great by Choiceby Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen Classic Guidance

    Bestselling author Jim Collins and management professor Morten T. Hansen offer a business classic filled with instantly applicable advice for companies of any size.

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    How Language Changes
    Because Internet
    Because Internetby Gretchen McCulloch How Language Changes

    Linguist Gretchen McCulloch explores the origins of internet language and symbolic usage. She finds a place for today’s new forms of typed online language on the…