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The Green Mile by Stephen King Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh Ninety-two in the Shade by Thomas McGuane The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield Wheelock's Latin by Frederic M. Wheelock Middlemarch by George Eliot The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle
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Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
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The first chapter of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations makes it clear that the way for businesses to win is to break the production of goods into tiny tasks, tasks that can be undertaken by low-paid people following simple instructions.
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