Smart Books
Leadership & Management
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
- The Leadership Pill: The Missing Ingredient in Motivating People Today
- The Handbook of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: Inspiring Others to Achieve Results
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
- 45 EFFECTIVE WAYS FOR HIRING SMART: How to Predict Winners and Losers in the Incredibly Expensive People-Reading Game
- The Dream Manager
- Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach
- First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently
- Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense, Low-Cost Approach to Management
- The One Minute Manager
- Kaizen: The Key To Japan’s Competitive Success
- Hollywood Secrets of Project Management Success
- The Magic of Thinking Big
- The 48 Laws of Power
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t
- Influencer: The Power to Change Anything
- The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life (J-B Warren Bennis Series)
- Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers.
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
- Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success
Marketing
- The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding
- Married to the Brand: Why Consumers Bond with Some Brands for Life
- Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants: Breakthrough Tactics for Winning Profitable Clients
Sales
- The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
- Persuasive Business Proposals: Writing to Win More Customers, Clients, and Contracts
Effectiveness
- Getting Results the Agile Way: A Personal Results System for Work and Life
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
- Overachievement: The New Model for Exceptional Performance
- Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, and Outnegotiate Your Competition
- The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
- First Things First
- Talent Is Overrated
- 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
Consulting
- Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach To Customer Service
- The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking
- Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method
- Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully
- Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion
- Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used
- Reaching The Goal: How Managers Improve a Services Business Using Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints
- TRUE PROFESSIONALISM : The Courage to Care About Your People, Your Clients, and Your Career
- The Consultant’s Calling: Bringing Who You Are to What You Do, New and Revised
- The IT Consultant : A Commonsense Framework for Managing the Client Relationship
Personal develeopment
- The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
- The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
- Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain
- The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
- The 80/20 Individual: How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best
- What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
- Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
- The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
- The Bates Method for Better Eyesight Without Glasses
- Dig Your Well Before You’re Thirsty: The Only Networking Book You’ll Ever Need
- Talent Is Overrated
Technical
- Ultra-Fast ASP.NET: Build Ultra-Fast and Ultra-Scalable web sites using ASP.NET and SQL Server
- Programming Windows Identity Foundation (Dev – Pro)
- A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control (Patterns & Practices) – free online version
- Developing More-Secure Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Applications (Pro Developer)
- Ultra-Fast ASP.NET: Build Ultra-Fast and Ultra-Scalable web sites using ASP.NET and SQL Server
- Advanced .NET Debugging
- Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications
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