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Don’t Quit Your Day Job: The Myth of the Entrepreneurial Risk-Taker

By Jeff Haden — 2021

Research shows most successful entrepreneurs do everything they can to avoid risk.

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Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms

Shellye Archambeau recounts how she overcame the challenges she faced as a young black woman, wife, and mother, managing her personal and professional responsibilities while climbing the ranks at IBM and subsequently in her roles as CEO.

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Shellye Archambeau
2025
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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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Samuel Sanders
2021
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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.

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Jeanne Liedtka, Tim Ogilvie
2025
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Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) – Octane – Targeting a New Culture

In this edition of Project Octane, Paul Chu, founder of RedWolf Airsoft, discusses the merits of adopting a “West meets East” approach to company culture, and how internal growth is just as important as external growth.

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2014
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The Entrepreneurial Mindset: From Kid to Entrepreneur | Kim Cope | TEDxGastownWomen

In this talk, Kim discusses the incredible capacity that children have for creativity, risk-taking and brushing aside limitations. She explains that the qualities found in successful entrepreneurs are also prevalent in children, and argues that we need to foster these qualities—not squander them.

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2015
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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

An instant classic, this revised and updated edition of the phenomenal bestseller dispels the myths about starting your own business. Small business consultant and author Michael E.

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Michael E. Gerber
2004
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Creative, Inc.: The Ultimate Guide to Running a Successful Freelance Business

As the hipster classic Craft, Inc. did for crafters, this book will teach all types of creatives illustrators, photographers, graphic designers, animators, and more how to build a successful business doing what they love.

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Joy Deangdeelert Cho, Meg Mateo Ilasco
2025
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Don’t Read this Book: Time Management for Creative People

As creative people, we have ideas. Bad, good, weird, clever, and even brilliant ideas. But most of them (even the great ideas) never see the light of day. Why? If you ask a creative person, the answer will always revolve around time.

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Donald Roos
2016
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The 7 Keys to Creative Collaboration

In this sketch note video, we explore what makes creative collaboration work.

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2017
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Zen Athlete: The Secrets to Achieving Your Highest Potential

Zen Athlete demystifies the art of mental training, flow and peak performance. At its core Zen Athlete is a practical guide to self mastery.

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Matthew Belair
2025
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