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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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    This Is How You Do It
    The Leadership Code
    The Leadership Codeby Dave Ulrich, Norm Smallwood and Kate Sweetman This Is How You Do It

    Three noted business authors combine their career-long insights to offer clear, basic, comprehensive rules great leaders should follow.

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    Keep Moving
    Sink, Float or Swim
    Sink, Float or Swimby Scott Peltin and Jogi Rippel Keep Moving

    Scott Peltin and Jogi Rippel provide up-to-date life guidance on sleep, nutrition, exercise, mind-set and positive attitude.

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    We’re All In Sales
    To Sell Is Human
    To Sell Is Humanby Daniel H. Pink We’re All In Sales

    Daniel Pink sets out to construct “a broad rethinking of sales as we know it.”

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    The Medium Is the Messenger
    Messengers
    Messengersby Stephen Martin and Joseph Marks The Medium Is the Messenger

    Behavioral scientist Stephen Martin and researcher Joseph Marks draw insightful conclusions from in-depth research into how messengers influence your responses and the attention you pay…

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    When You Speak
    Talk
    Talkby Elizabeth Stokoe When You Speak

    Social psychologist Elizabeth Stokoe provides a fascinating – and yet practical – exploration of the systems underlying conversational patterns and how you can apply them…

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    Thiel’s Law
    Zero to One
    Zero to Oneby Peter Thiel and Blake Masters Thiel’s Law

    Peter Thiel offers his eccentric, yet commonsense perspective on business, monopolies, start-ups and collaboration.

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    Own Your Brand
    Platform
    Platformby Cynthia Johnson Own Your Brand

    Digital branding expert Cynthia Johnson offers a basic primer for beginners who want to burnish their online personal brand.

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    Mortal Air
    Choked
    Chokedby Beth Gardiner Mortal Air

    Journalist Beth Gardiner provides a sobering, detailed, carefully researched overview of air pollution worldwide and its devastating health and economic consequences.

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    Recruit, Retain and Develop
    Retooling HR
    Retooling HRby John W. Boudreau Recruit, Retain and Develop

    Professor John W. Boudreau details a remarkable method for recruiting, retaining and developing talent.

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    Healing Truths
    The Path Made Clear
    The Path Made Clearby Oprah Winfrey Healing Truths

    Oprah Winfrey offers advice to help you become your best self, achieve your dreams and live your truth.