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Books about Networking
How to Win Friends and Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
A guide to building relationships, leveraging psychology to gain influence and create lasting connections.
You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You can take any situation you're in...and make it work for you! Since its release in 1936, How to Win ... (Goodreads)
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
by Clay Shirky
The internet has given us a surplus of free time and energy, which can be used for creative and generous pursuits.
The author of the breakout hit, Here Comes Everybody, reveals how new technology is changing us from consumers to collaborators, unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our ... (Goodreads)
How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships
by Leil Lowndes
Guide to developing and maintaining successful personal relationships.
"You'll not only break the ice, you'll melt it away with your new skills." – Larry King "The lost art of verbal communication may be revitalized by Leil Lowndes." -- Harvey McKay, author of "How to ... (Goodreads)
The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
by Chris Guillebeau
Guide to starting a small business with minimal capital, turning your passion into a career.
In, The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau shows you how to lead of life of adventure, meaning and purpose – and earn a good living. Still in his early thirties, Chris is on the verge of completing a ... (Goodreads)
Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal
by Oren Klaff
A guide to mastering the art of pitching and persuading in business deals, using neuroscience and psychology to win over clients.
About the Book: When it comes to delivering a pitch, Oren Klaff has unparalleled credentials. Over the past 13 years, he has used his one-of-a- kind method to raise more than $400 million–and now, ... (Goodreads)
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
by Eric Ries
Systematic approach to launching and managing successful businesses in an ever-changing market.
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. ... (Goodreads)
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by Walter Isaacson
A look at the people who changed our world by creating the digital age.
Comment un groupe de hackers, de génies et de geeks a créé la révolution numérique L’auteur de la biographie magistrale de Steve Jobs parue quelques mois après la mort du patron d’Apple et ... (Goodreads)
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
by Guy Kawasaki
A comprehensive guide to successfully launching a business or venture.
A new product, a new service, a new company, a new division, a new organization, a new anything—where there’s a will, here’s the way. It begins with a dream that just won’t quit, the ... (Goodreads)
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
by Don Tapscott
A study of how the internet has revolutionized the way we collaborate and create value, with examples from various industries.
In just the last few years, traditional collaboration—in a meeting room, a conference call, even a convention center— has been superseded by collaborations on an astronomical scale. Today, ... (Goodreads)
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
by Austin Kleon
Practical guide to building an audience and recognizing success in creative endeavors.
In his, New York Times, bestseller, Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock their creativity by “stealing” from the community of other movers and shakers. Now, in an even more ... (Barnes & Noble)
Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds
by Carmine Gallo
An exploration of the habits and techniques of successful public speakers.
Ideas are the currency of the twenty-first century. In order to succeed, you need to be able to sell your ideas persuasively. This ability is the single greatest skill that will help you accomplish ... (Goodreads)
The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea
by Bob Burg
A fable about the power of giving, teaching the principles of successful business.
A new edition with expanded content is available now, “,The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea,” An engaging book that brings new relevance to the old proverb ... (Goodreads)
The Psychology of Selling: Increase Your Sales Faster and Easier Than You Ever Thought Possible
by Brian Tracy
A comprehensive guide to mastering the art of selling, with practical techniques and strategies for success in any industry.
Double and triple your sales—in any market. The purpose of this book is to give you a series of ideas, methods, strategies, and techniques that you can use immediately to make more sales, faster and ... (Barnes & Noble)
Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness
by Jeffrey Gitomer
A practical guide to sales success, with 12.5 principles for mastering the art of selling and building strong customer relationships.
Salespeople hate to read. That's why Little Red Book of Selling is short, sweet, and to the point. It's packed with answers that people are searching for in order to help them make sales for the ... (Barnes & Noble)
Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
by Keith Ferrazzi
Guide to building successful relationships through networking, collaboration, and mentorship.
Do you want to get ahead in life? Climb the ladder to personal success? The secret, master networker Keith Ferrazzi claims, is in reaching out to other people. As Ferrazzi discovered early in life, ... (Goodreads)
Daemon
by Daniel Suarez
A thrilling techno-thriller, exploring the power of artificial intelligence and its potential for revolution.
Upon publication of the obituary for Matthew A. Sobol, a brilliant computer programmer and CTO of Cyberstorm Entertainment, a Daemon is activated. Sobol, dying of brain cancer, was fearful for ... (Wikipedia)
Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World
by Gary Vaynerchuk
A guide to creating effective social media content that resonates with your audience and drives engagement.
New York Times bestselling author and social media expert Gary Vaynerchuk shares hard-won advice on how to connect with customers and beat the competition. A mash-up of the best elements of Crush It! ... (Barnes & Noble)
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
by Martin Kleppmann
Comprehensive guide to designing and building scalable, reliable, and maintainable data-intensive applications.
Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, ... (Goodreads)
What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
by Richard Nelson Bolles
A guide to the art of job-hunting and career-changing, providing insightful advice and strategies.
A favourite of job hunters and career changers for more than three decades, it continues to be a mainstay on best-seller lists, from Amazon.com to BusinessWeek to the New York Times, where it has ... (Goodreads)
Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale
by Zig Ziglar
A guide to mastering the art of sales, with practical tips and techniques for closing deals and building relationships with customers.
Doctors, housewives, ministers, parents, teachers … everyone has to "sell" their ideas and themselves to be successful. This new guide by America's #1 professional in the art of persuasion focuses on ... (Goodreads)
Winning with People: Discover the People Principles That Work for You Every Time
by John C. Maxwell
A guide to building strong relationships and effective communication skills to achieve success in personal and professional life.
Ask the successful CEOs of major corporations, entrepreneurs, top salespeople, and pastors what characteristic is most needed for success in leadership positions, and they'll tell you-it's the ... (Goodreads)
Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
by Adam M. Grant
Exploring the power of relationships and how giving can lead to success.
Give and Take highlights what effective networking, collaboration, influence, negotiation, and leadership skills have in common. For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: ... (Goodreads)
Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
by Nick Bilton
A gripping account of the meteoric rise of Twitter and the interpersonal conflicts that ensued.
Twitter seems like a perfect start-up success story. In barely six years, a small group of young, ambitious programmers in Silicon Valley built an $11.5 billion business out of the ashes of a failed ... (Goodreads)
Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion
by Gary Vaynerchuk
How to turn one's passion into a successful business venture.
Do you have a hobby you wish you could indulge in all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take that passion and make a living doing what you love. In Crush It! ... (Barnes & Noble)
What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20
by Tina Seelig
Practical advice for young adults to navigate their careers and personal lives, emphasizing creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Major life transitions such as leaving the protected environment of school or starting a new career can be daunting. It is scary to face a wall of choices, knowing that no one is going to tell us ... (Goodreads)
The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
by Olivia Fox Cabane
A guide to developing charisma, with practical tips and exercises to improve communication skills and personal presence.
What if charisma, could, be taught? The charisma myth is the idea that charisma is a fundamental, inborn quality—you either have it (Bill Clinton, Steve Jobs, Oprah) or you don’t. But that’s simply ... (Barnes & Noble)
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