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Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It

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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

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Talking to Humans

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Book cover for Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs by John Doerr

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Peter Drucker—professor, journalist, historian—took a wrecking ball to the Taylor-Ford model. He conceived a new management ideal, results-driven yet humanistic. A corporation, he wrote, should be a community “built on trust and respect for ...more

The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

by Bill Walsh

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“Confidence is a feeling, which reflects the coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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