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The Soul of a Start-Up

By Ranjay Gulati — 2019

There’s an essential, intangible something in start-ups—an energy, a soul. It inspires enthusiasm and fosters a sense of deep connection and mutual purpose. While this spirit persists, engagement is high and businesses keep their edge. But all too often, companies lose their souls as they mature.

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Launch Your Inner Entrepreneur: 10 Mindset Shifts for Women to Take Action, Unleash Creativity, and Achieve Financial Success

Entrepreneurship has always skewed male―from availability of funding to how-to books that assume a primarily male audience. And yet, 36% of all small business or franchise owners are women, and there are 13 million female-owned businesses contributing to more than $1.8 trillion in revenue.

Charlene Walters

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The Creative Thinking Handbook: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Problem Solving in Business

The Creative Thinking Handbook argues that we need to identify and remove the 'box' around our thinking, so we canunlock unlimited streams of creativity for professional and business success.

Chris Griffiths

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Your Next Big Idea: Improve Your Creativity and Problem-Solving

Featured by Yahoo!, Booklist Magazine, Publishers Weekly, ABC's Good Morning Washington, Advertising Week, Thrive Global, multiple affiliates of CBS, Fox and NBC and awarded BlueInk Review Notable Book Seal and IndieReader Approved Designation, this non-fiction business and self-help creativity...

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Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers (Columbia Business School Publishing)

Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie educate readers in one of the hottest trends in business: "design thinking," or the ability to turn abstract ideas into practical applications for maximal business growth.

Jeanne Liedtka, Tim Ogilvie

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Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works (Columbia Business School Publishing)

Design-oriented firms such as Apple and IDEO have demonstrated how design thinking can affect business results. However, most managers lack a sense of how to use this new approach for issues other than product development and sales growth.

Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, Kevin Bennett

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The Big Ordeal

Coping with cancer is hard. It is an emotional ordeal as well as a physical one, with known and somewhat predictable psychological responses. And yet, patients often feel isolated and alone when dealing with the stress, anxiety, depression, and existential crises so typical with a cancer diagnosis.

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Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills to Manage Your Emotions—and Balance Uncertainty with Hope

This compassionate book presents dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a proven psychological intervention that Marsha M. Linehan developed specifically for the impossible situations of life--and which she and Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz now apply to the unique challenges of cancer for the first time.

Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz, Marsha M. Linehan

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Debbie Ford: Divorce as Change

An Introduction to the Laws of Spiritual Divorce.

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#28 Michael Mauboussin: A Decision Making Jedi

Michael Mauboussin returns for a fascinating encore interview on the Knowledge Project. We geek out on decision making, luck vs. skill, work life balance, and so much more.

The Knowledge Project Podcast

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How To Make Decisions From Your Divinity

In this video, Neale Donald Walsch discusses the nature of who we are, why we're here, and how we can use that to more consciously guide our everyday decisions.

Neale Donald Walsch

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