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Book cover of «I Never Thought Of It That Way» by Monica Guzman Book cover of «Smart Brevity» by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, Roy Schwartz Book cover of «Evidence Guided» by Itamar Gilad Book cover of «Never Split the Difference» by Chris Voss Book cover of «Thinking in Bets» by Annie Duke Book cover of «How Big Things Get Done» by Bent Flybjerg & Dan Gardner Book cover of «Demand-Side Sales 101» by Bob Moesta & Greg Engle Book cover of «The Art of Explanation» by Ros Atkins Book cover of «The Cold Start Problem» by Andrew Chen Book cover of «Why We Make Things & Why It Matters» by Peter Korn Book cover of «Radical Focus» by Christina Wodtke Book cover of «Continuous Discovery Habits» by Teresa Torres Book cover of «The Half-life of Facts» by Samuel Arbesman Book cover of «Build» by Tody Fadell Book cover of «The Innovator's Dilemma» by Clayton M. Christensen Book cover of «Get Together» by Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh & Kai Elmer Book cover of «The Great Mental Models Vol. 1» by Shane Parrish Book cover of «The Great Mental Models Vol. 2» by Shane Parrish & Rhiannon Beaubien Book cover of «Good Strategy Bad Strategy» by Richard Rumelt Book cover of «Shape Up» by Ryan Singer Book cover of «The Art of Leadership» by Michael Lopp Book cover of «Empowered» by Marty Cagan & Chris Jones Book cover of «The Scout Mindset» by Julia Galef Book cover of «Think Again» by Adam Grant Book cover of «How to Own the Room» by Viv Groskop Book cover of «The Passion Economy» by Adam Davidson Book cover of «The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People» by Stephen R. Corvey Book cover of «Several Short Sentences About Writing» by Verlyn Klinkenborg Book cover of «How to Measure Anything» by Douglas W. Hubbard Book cover of «Radical Candor» by Kim Scott Book cover of «The Laws of Simplicity» by John Maeda Book cover of «Inspired» by Marty Cagan Book cover of «Competing Against Luck» by Clayton M. Christensen Book cover of «What You Do Is Who You Are» by Ben Horowitz Book cover of «Punished By Rewards» by Alfie Kohn Book cover of «Rework» by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson Book cover of «Scale» by Geoffrey West Book cover of «Fooled By Randomness» by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Book cover of «Range» by David Epstein Book cover of «The Hard Thing About Hard Things» by Ben Horowitz Book cover of «On Writing» by Stephen King Book cover of «Nudge» by Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein Book cover of «The Checklist Manifesto» by Atul Gawande Book cover of «The Art of Gathering» by Priya Parker Book cover of «It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work» by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson Book cover of «The Art of Game Design» by Jesse Schell Book cover of «Free» by Chris Anderson Book cover of «Thinking, Fast and Slow» by Daniel Kahneman

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