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Il Conte Di Montecristo
Alexandre Dumas and Gaia Panfili
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Managing the Professional Service Firm
David H. Maister
The New Strategic Brand Management
Jean-Noël Kapferer
Alchemy
Rory Sutherland
Everybody’s Normal Till You Get to Know Them
John Ortberg
Get Together
Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, and Kai Elmer Sotto
The Art of Gathering
Priya Parker
Love All the People
Bill Hicks
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens
The Trusted Advisor
David H. Maister, Charles H. Green, Robert M. Galford
Building a Second Brain
Tiago Forte
Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler
Ma Chi Me Lo Fa Fare? Come Il Lavoro Ci Ha Illuso
Maura Gancitano and Andrea Colamedici
People, Power, and Profits
Joseph Stiglitz
The Charisma Myth
Olivia Fox Cabane
Ave Mary
Michela Murgia
Dare La Vita
Michela Murgia
Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come
Jessica Pan
Improve Your Social Skills
Daniel Wendler
How to Talk to Anyone
Leil Lowndes
Creative Dysregulation
Kelly Wilde Miller
How to Work a Room
Susan RoAne
Marketers Are From Mars, Consumers Are From New Jersey
Bob Hoffman
Obsessed
Emily Heyward
How Brands Grow
Byron Sharp
Il Regno
Emmanuel Carrère and F. Bergamasco
eCommerce Engine - Roadmap on How to Transform Your DTC Brand Into an 8-Figure Powerhouse
Justin Gecevicius and Darius Kunca
The Crux
Richard Rumelt
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
Io Sono Vivo Voi Siete Morti
Emmanuel Carrère
The Business of Aspiration
Ana Andjelic
Thinking in Systems
Donella H. Meadows
Clear Thinking
Shane Parrish
12 Rules for Life
Jordan B. Peterson
Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday
$100M Leads
Alex Hormozi
Rainmaking Conversations
Mike Schultz and John E. Doerr
Professional Services Marketing
Mike Schultz, John E. Doerr, Lee Frederiksen
L’insostenibile Leggerezza Dell’essere
Milan Kundera
The Boutique
Greg Alexander
Flawless Consulting
Peter Block
The McKinsey Way
Ethan M. Rasiel
The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Klemp
Tranquility by Tuesday
Laura Vanderkam
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
Finite and Infinite Games
James Carse
Noi, Bambine Ad Auschwitz
Andra Bucci and Tatiana Bucci
Continuous Discovery Habits
Teresa Torres
Il Bambino Scomparso
Frediano Sessi
To Sell Is Human
Daniel H Pink
The Challenger Sale
Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
From Impossible to Inevitable
Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin
L’Avvocato Dell’Atomo
Luca Romano
Predictable Prospecting
Marylou Tyler, Jeremey Donovan
Empowered
Marty Cagan and Chris Jones
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
Measure What Matters
John Doerr
Inspired
Marty Cagan
Escaping the Build Trap
Melissa Perri
Switch
Chip Heath und Dan Heath
From Start-Up to Grown-Up
Alisa Cohn
Trillion Dollar Coach
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Samin Nosrat, Wendy MacNaughton, and Michael Pollan
Scaling Up Excellence
Hayagreeva Rao and Robert I. Sutton
The Coaching Habit
Michael Bungay Stanier
100 Truths You Will Learn Too Late
Luca Dellanna
The Fifth Discipline
Peter M. Senge
Gravitas
Caroline Goyder
The Fearless Organization
Amy C. Edmondson
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