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Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business, + Website

By Matt Blumberg Wiley; 2013 While big companies CEO’s are usually groomed for the job for years, startup CEOs aren’t—and they’re often young and relatively inexperienced in business in general….

The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business

By Duff McDonald Simon & Schuster, 2013 FOUNDED IN 1926, McKINSEY can lay claim to the following partial list of accomplishments: its consultants have ushered in waves of structural, financial,…

The Year without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work

By Scott Berkun Jossey-Bass, 2013 50 million websites, or twenty percent of the entire web, use WordPress software. The force behind WordPress.com is a convention-defying company called Automattic, Inc., whose…

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is changing Our Minds for the Better

By Clive Thompson  Penguin Press HC, 2013  It’s undeniable—technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a…

Professional Ethics and Human Values

By M. Govindarajan, V. S. Senthilkumar, S. Natarajan Publisher: PHI Learning Press, 2013 Today, more and more organizations are realizing the importance of practicing ethics in their business dealings. And…

Who Owns The Future?

By Jaron Lanier Allen Lane, 2013 Jaron Lanier is the bestselling author of You Are Not a Gadget, the father of virtual reality, and one of the most influential thinkers…

Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change

By Ron Macmillan, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler, David Maxfield, Kerry Patterson McGraw Hill Education, 2013 From the bestselling authors who taught the world how to have Crucial Conversations comes the…

The Essentials of Business Etiquette: How to Greet, Eat and Tweet Your Way to Success

By Barbara Pachter, Denise Cowie Tata McGraw-Hill Education, 2013 Whether you’re eating lunch with a client, Skyping with your boss, or meeting a business partner for the first time–it’s all…