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Ogilvy on Advertising

By Ogilvy, David

What Happened To Advertising? What Would Gossage Do?

By Moruzzi, Massimo

The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams

By Godin, Seth

The Alter Ego Effect: Defeat the Enemy, Unlock Your Heroic Self, and Start Kicking Ass

By Todd Herman

Fire Your Boss: Discover Work You Love Without Quitting Your Job

By McHugh, Aaron

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

By Saad, Layla

If I Could Tell You Just One Thing: Encounters with Remarkable People and Their Most Valuable Advice

By Richard Reed

Show Your Work!

By Kleon, Austin

Wisdom at Work: The Making of a Modern Elder

By Chip Conley

This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See

By Seth Godin

Running Down a Dream: Your Road Map To Winning Creative Battles

By Tim Grahl

Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma

By Charles A. O'Reilly III, Michael L. Tushman

Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

By Tim Ferriss

Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

By Jenny Blake

Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

By Timothy Ferriss

Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

By Jeff Goins

Reinvent Yourself

By James Altucher

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

By Mark Manson

enough

By Patrick Rhone

Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less -and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined

By Scott Sonenshein

Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

By Joi Ito, Jeff Howe

We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama

By E. J. Dionne Jr., Joy-Ann Reid

Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul

By Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

By Tony Hsieh

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

By Greg McKeown

The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?

By Seth Godin

Persuadable: How Great Leaders Change Their Minds to Change the World

By Al Pittampalli

So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

By Cal Newport

Impossible to Ignore: Creating Memorable Content to Influence Decisions

By Carmen Simon

Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is And What You Can Do About It

By Steven Pressfield

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

By Elizabeth Gilbert

When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man

By Jerry Weintraub

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

By Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

By William Zinsser

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

By Ashlee Vance

What to Do When it's Your Turn (and it's Always Your Turn)

By Seth Godin

Damn Good Advice (For People with Talent!): How To Unleash Your Creative Potential by America's Master Communicator, George Lois

By George Lois

The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know

By Shawn Coyne

I'm Not for Everyone. Neither Are You.

By David Leddick

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

By Scott Adams

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything

By Chris Hadfield

Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do

Plume

Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

By John Heilemann, Mark Halperin

Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies

By Marilyn McEntyre

Do the Work

By Steven Pressfield

The Flinch

By Julien Smith

We Are All Weird

By Seth Godin

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

By Austin Kleon

The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)

By Seth Godin

Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions

By Guy Kawasaki

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

By Simon Sinek

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

By Hugh MacLeod

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

By Seth Godin

End Malaria

The Domino Project

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

By Steven Pressfield