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It Is about You Jon R. Katzenbach, coauthor of Leading Outside the Lines: How to Mobilize the (in)Formal Organization, Energize Your Team, and Get Better Results , introduces a passage on the importance of self-awareness from Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best…and Learn from the Worst , by Robert I. Sutton.

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Prosperity Lost and Regained A review of The Road from Ruin , by Matthew Bishop and Michael Green.

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What Experience Would You Like with That? How a new view of consumers changed the way we think about products, companies, and economies.

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Bill Gore's Formula for Failure Rich Teerlink, author, with Lee Ozley, of More Than a Motorcycle , introduces a passage on how managers can empower their workforce, from Freedom, Inc. , by Brian M. Carney and Isaac Getz.

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Prosperity without Growth A review of Smart Growth , by Edward D. Hess.

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Prosperity Redistributed A review of The Spirit Level, by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.

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Continual Prosperity A review of The Rational Optimist , by Matt Ridley.

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Where Were the Women? Harriet Rubin, author of The Princessa: Machiavelli for Women , introduces a passage on the urgent need for a more inclusive approach to leadership from The Female Vision: Women's Real Power at Work , by Sally Helgesen and Julie Johnson.

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Putting the WOW in Service Ken Blanchard, coauthor of Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service , introduces a passage about how great customer service builds brands and loyalty from Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose , by Tony Hsieh.

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Akbank Goes Mobile Edward Landry, coauthor of The Four Pillars of Profit-Driven Marketing: How to Maximize Creativity, Accountability, and ROI , introduces a passage on how analytics create competitive advantage from The Deciding Factor: The Power of Analytics to Make Every Decision a Winner , by Larry Rosenberger and John Nash, with Ann Graham.

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Three Degrees of Influence Keith Ferrazzi introduces a passage on the influential power of smaller social networks.

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Seeing Your Company as a System Much-needed guidance on making companies more employee-centered, adaptive, and capable.

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Quants Invade Wall Street A review of The Quants, by Scott Patterson.

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Deal-making Booms and Busts A review of Gods at War, by Steven M. Davidoff.

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Media Moguls Get Taken to Task A review of The Curse of the Mogul, by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, and Ava Seave.

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Getting Back on Track Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com and author of Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose , introduces a lesson on how to rally employees around a unified plan from Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard , by Chip Heath and Dan Heath.

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Coping with Commoditization A review of Beating the Commodity Trap , by Richard A. D'Aveni.

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The Uncommon Practice of Common Purpose James H. Gilmore, coauthor of Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want , introduces a tale of learning from unusual places found in Common Purpose: How Great Leaders Get Organizations to Achieve the Extraordinary , by Joel Kurtzman.

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Don't Ignore the Transparency Imperative Nell Minow, coauthor of Corporate Governance , introduces a lesson in corporate transparency from The Responsibility Revolution: How the Next Generation of Businesses Will Win , by Jeffrey Hollender and Bill Breen.

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Goldman's "We"-Conscious Culture Greg Farrell, author of Corporate Crooks: How Rogue Executives Ripped Off Americans...and Congress Helped Them Do It! , highlights the cohesive corporate culture at Goldman Sachs that is on view in The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs, by Charles D. Ellis.

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Seven Chapters of Strategic Wisdom A shortcut to the big themes in the conversation about corporate strategy.

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A Path to Better Decisions A review of Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition, by Michael J. Mauboussin.

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Why "Built to Last" Companies Didn't A review of How the Mighty Fall and Why Some Companies Never Give In, by Jim Collins.

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A New Way to Look at Human Behavior A review of Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique, by Michael S. Gazzaniga.

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The Clay Feet of Management Science A review of The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting It Wrong, by Matthew Stewart.

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Charles Darwin, Management Guru Seth Godin, author of Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? , introduces a lesson on the role of diversity in business success from Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business without Losing Your Self , by Alan M. Webber.

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Performance Reviews on Steroids Art Kleiner, author of The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management , uncovers an effective and ongoing way to create employee alignment and accountability in Just Ask Leadership: Why Great Managers Always Ask the Right Questions , by Gary B. Cohen.

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Managing Naturally Walter Kiechel III, author of The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (forthcoming, March 2010), introduces an excerpt from Managing by Henry Mintzberg that proposes a more organic view of managers and their work.

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Best Business Books 2009: Strategy The Capable and the Failed

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Best Business Books 2009: Leadership Means to a Greater End

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