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Recommended Biz Books

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Traction

Inside Traction®, you’ll learn the secrets of strengthening the Six Key Components™ of your business. You’ll discover simple yet powerful ways to run your company that will give you and your leadership team more focus, more growth, and more enjoyment. Based on years of real-world implementation in thousands of companies, the Entrepreneurial Operating System is a practical method for achieving the business success you have always envisioned.

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Rocket Fuel

Rocket Fuel details the integral roles of the Visionary and Integrator and explains how an effective relationship between the two can thrive. You’ll also get advice to help Visionary-minded and Integrator-minded individuals find one another. When these two people come together to share their natural talents and innate skill sets, they have the power to reach new heights for virtually any company or organization.

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Get a Grip

Filled with familiar situations, real-world characters and detailed, fully-applied tools, Get A Grip vividly illustrates the right way to implement EOS® in an enjoyable fable format, making it easy for you to translate this story into results for your own business.

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How To Be A Great Boss

Studies have repeatedly shown that the majority of employees are disengaged at work—but it doesn’t have to be this way. Often, the difference between a group of indifferent employees and a fully engaged team comes down to one simple thing—a great boss. How to Be a Great Boss presents a straightforward, practical approach to help bosses at all levels of an organization get the most from their people.

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What The Heck is EOS?

Designed to engage employees in the EOS process and tools, What the Heck is EOS? uses simple, straightforward language and provides questions about each tool that managers and employees can use in creating more ownership and buy-in at the staff level. After reading this book, employees will not only have a better understanding of EOS, but they will be more engaged, taking an active role in helping achieve your company’s vision.

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The EOS Life

EOS Founder Gino Wickman describes the concept of the EOS Life®, which is doing what you love, with people you love, making a huge difference, being compensated appropriately, and with time for other passions. The EOS Life will show you everything you need to live your ideal life, a life that is absolutely achievable and 100% customizable uniquely for you. The companion EOS Life Journal + Planner provides daily exercises, prompts, and planning pages to get you on the road to your EOS Life.

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Process

Process! unravels the misconceptions surrounding the Process Component™ and reveals its ability to increase capacity for big-picture thinking, innovation, and growth. Mastering the Process Component and applying the tools outlined in this book will help get you unstuck from re-answering basic questions and fixing problems caused by reinventing ways to do routine work. Conquer processes and be free to live your ideal life.

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People

Creating an intentional culture isn’t optional – it’s crucial to ensuring the future of your business and improving the quality of your life. People teaches entrepreneurs the EOS® heart-centered leadership approach to getting their employees on board and on the same page for a culture overhaul, eventually building a self-perpetuating and healthy team culture.

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The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team

The author of The Five Temptations of a CEO presents a workplace fable on dysfunctional teamwork, citing the fictional example of CEO Kathryn Petersen, who identifies five "corruptions" that get in the way of her company's teamwork and how she implements action steps to overcome them.

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Good To Great

Can a good company become a great one? If so, how? After a five-year research project, Jim Collins concludes that good to great can and does happen. In this book, he uncovers the underlying variables that enable any type of organisation to make the leap from good to great while other organisations remain only good. Rigorously supported by evidence, his findings are surprising - at times even shocking - to the modern mind.

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Entrepreneurial Leap

You've thought about starting your own business . . . but how can you decide if you should really take the leap? There's a lot on the line, and you have to ask yourself difficult questions: Do I have what it takes? Is it worth it? And how the hell do I do it? You need answers, not bullshit. This book has them. Entrepreneurial Leap, Updated and Expanded Edition is an easy-to-use guide that will help you decide, once and for all, if entrepreneurship is right for you.

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The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People

Considered one of the most inspiring books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has guided generations of readers for the past three decades. Presidents and CEOs have kept it by their bedsides, students have underlined and studied passages from it, teachers and parents have drawn from it, and individuals of all ages and occupations have used its step-by-step pathway to adapt to change and take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

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Who Moved My Cheese?

It is the amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a maze and look for cheese to nourish them and make them happy. Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in life, for example a good job, a loving relationship, money or possessions, health or spiritual peace of mind. The maze is where you look for what you want, perhaps the organisation you work in, or the family or community you live in. The problem is that the cheese keeps moving.

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The Chimp Paradox

The Chimp Paradox is an incredibly powerful mind management model that can help you become a happy, confident, healthier and more successful person. Prof Steve Peters explains the struggle that takes place within your mind and then shows how to apply this understanding to every area of your life.

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