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The Starfish and the Spider

The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

What's the hidden power behind the success of Wikipedia, craigslist, and Skype? What do Ebay and General Electric have in common with the abolitionist and women's rights movements? What fundamental choice put General Motors and Toyota on vastly different paths? How could winning a Supreme Court case be the biggest mistake MGM could have made?
Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom have discovered some unexpected answers, gripping stories, and a tepstry of unlikely connections. The Starfish and the Spider explores what happens when starfish take on spders and reveals how established companies and institutions, from IBM to Intuit to the U.S. government, are also learning how to incorporate starfish principles to achieve success.

The True Believer

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940's. Eric Hoeffer wrote philisophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believer-the first and most famous of his books-was made into a bestseller when President Eisenhower cited it during one of the earliest television press conferences.

The World Is Flat 3.0

The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

"One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal." the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The New York Times reviewing The World is Flat in 2005. In this new edition, Thomas L Friedman includes stories and insights to help us understand the flattening of the world. Weaving new information into his overall thesis, and answering the questions he has been most frequently asked by parents across the country, this third edition also includes two new chapters-on how to be a political activist and social entrepreneur in a flat world; and on the more troubling question of how to manage our reputations and privacy in a world where we are all becoming publishers and public figures.

Tribes

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

USA Today ReviewAuthor Seth Godin is all about change. In Tribes, as he has in his previous books such as Purple Cow and The Dip, he challenges the status quo with a straight-on, get-with-it kind of attitude, and you got to love him for it. His books are sweetly short, and they manage to be breezy and thought-provoking at the same time.