 | Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great by Jim Collins
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.83 Kevin Schaub
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 | Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $3.00 Kevin Schaub
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 | Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins
Buy new: $18.34 / Used from: $7.50 Kevin Schaub
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 | Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.98 Stephen, Mackay
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 | Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
Buy new: $4.38 / Used from: $0.01 Jacqui
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 | The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
Buy new: $16.78 / Used from: $0.01 Stephen
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 | Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.56 Stephen
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 | Strategic Bankruptcy: How Corporations and Creditors Use Chapter 11 to Their Advantage by Kevin J. Delaney
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $1.26 Professor Zender: Right off I'd suggest the book "Strategic Bankruptcy" by Delaney. It's about airline bankruptcies and what happened there. Somehow I suspect it will be relevant soon.
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 | The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $2.96 Mr. Kline: As a little economics practice, think through the impacts of Earl Butz's (Nixon's Sec of Ag) overhaul of farm policy. Or not.
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 | Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
Buy new: $10.58 / Used from: $1.99 Mr. Kline: Really a fascinating story. The things we take for granted...
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 | Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $16.08 / Used from: $0.90 Professor Jung Grant: Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell - A NY Times review
(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/books/review/Leonhardt-t.html?scp=3&sq=ou
tliers&st=cse) drew my interest to Gladwell's latest book, which suggests
that deep cultural and family values and legacies have an uncanny role in
extraordinary success (and failure).
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 | Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition by Oliver Sacks
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.50 Professor Jung Grant: This caught my attention after I heard a captivating NPR interview with Sacks, who described an elderly patient's neurological defect that produced the
sensation of hearing the Irish lullabies sung by the mother she lost as a
5-yr-old.
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 | Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines by Richard A. Muller
Buy new: $16.88 / Used from: $1.25 Professor Jennings:
"Physics for Future Presidents" (by Richard Muller)is top on my reading list. Muller is a physicist who gives a layman's version of the science behind nuclear technology, climate change, energy etc.
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 | Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.68 Referred to in OB
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 | Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming by Paul Hawken
Buy used from: $2.10 |
 | The Economist Book of Obituaries by Keith Colquhoun
Buy new: $21.64 / Used from: $13.20 |
 | The Street: A Novel by Ann Petry
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.04 |
 | The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Buy new: $18.17 / Used from: $2.24 |
 | On the Wealth of Nations by P J O'Rourke
Buy used from: $0.01 |
 | The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
Buy new: $22.86 / Used from: $0.66 A must for all those traveling to Omaha in March
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 | The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008
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 | The Numerati by Stephen Baker
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $0.01 Professor Vossen - in reference to the popular literature on analytics
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 | Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning by Thomas H. Davenport
Buy new: $17.97 / Used from: $8.90 Also from Professor Vossen - popular literature for decision modeling
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 | Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $4.78 Recommended by Rachael Williams by way of Dr. Jennings
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 | The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits by C.K. Prahalad
Buy used from: $1.55 From Hunter's B&S presentation - "$6 Billion at the Bottom"
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 | The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.86 Another from Hunter, Chris & Jenny's B&S presentation
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