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How to Green Your Company

By Gay Browne

"Traditionally, responsibility means looking out for the bottom line, and reporting financial performance to your shareholders if you are a publicly traded company. In today's world, responsibility is taking on a whole new meaning, including looking out for your employees and the natural environment."

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The Resurrection of the American Dream

By Craig Hall, Linden Gross

"Over the course of the last several decades, the number of new startups in the U.S. has been on a steady decline. In fact, from 2008 to 2011, more U.S. businesses died annually than new ones were started for the first time in recorded history. Add to this that according to the Economic Innovation Group, only twenty counties—out of 3,149—generated half of the net new businesses between 2010 and 2014. Additionally, 75 percent of venture capital in the U.S. goes to only three areas—Silicon Valley, New York, and Boston. This has left much of the United States a wasteland in terms of entrepreneurial activity. And the punches keep on coming."

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Future Proof: Reinventing Work in an Age of Acceleration

By Diana Wu David

"The future of work looks bewildering. The perpetual mention of accelerating change gives us motion sickness. … Exponential change means that everyone is perpetually considering how to re-invent themselves to keep up with shifting careers and mores."

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The Future of Sales is Radically Transparent—Are you Ready?

By Todd Caponi

"Buyers are driven by an innate desire to predict the experience they will have in making a purchase. Combine that with the proliferation of feedback and reviews on everything we buy, watch and experience, along with the feelings of trust created by authenticy, honesty and transparency. Sellers must now embrace this evolution."

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How to Turn Complexity Into Advantage

By David Komlos, David Benjamin

"With all the fuss about unprecedented and accelerating complexity, you'll probably be surprised to hear that today's standout leaders are solving their organization's defining challenges—including the seemingly intractable ones—and achieving their biggest goals at least ten-times faster and with a fraction of the effort than their peers."

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From Sabotage to Support: A New Vision for Feminist Solidarity in the Workplace

By 800-CEO-READ

Joy Wiggins and Kami Anderson's new book explores how "patriarchy has created an environment for women to knowingly and unknowingly sabotage each other," and how to build a culture of support instead.

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The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power

By Porchlight

Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer, and David B. Yoffie uncover the source of today's most valuable and powerful businesses, and if there is a way to reign their power in.

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Iterate: Ten Lessons in Design and Failure

Book Review by Dylan Schleicher

John Sharp and Colleen Macklin explore iteration and creativity in both an academic and intensely human manner through ten case studies.

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Tin Man: A Novel

Book Review by Emily Porter

Sarah Winman's Tin Man is a novel "full of love, loss, and the awe of rebuilding your soul after devastating grief."

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A Q&A with Rob Walker, Author of The Art of Noticing

By 800-CEO-READ

Rob Walker's latest book is "an imaginative, thought-provoking gift book to awaken your senses and attune them to the things that matter in your life."