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The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead

David Callahan

4.4 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

Beth Macy

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Cancel Culture: The Latest Attack on Free Speech and Due Process

Alan Dershowitz

4.4 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power

Victor Davis Hanson, Bob Souer, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up

Patricia Ryan Madson

4.4 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Negotiation: Theory and Strategy (Aspen Casebook) (Aspen Casebook Series)

Russell Korobkin

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Among the Thugs

Bill Buford

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America

Charles Murray

? on Amazon

2 HN comments

All You Need to Know About the Music Business: 10th Edition

Donald S. Passman

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods

Amelia Pang

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Authoritarians: Their Assault on Individual Liberty, the Constitution, and Free Enterprise from the 19th Century to the Present

Jonathan W. Emord

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Follow the Money: The Shocking Deep State Connections of the Anti-Trump Cabal

Dan Bongino

4.8 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

Melinda Gates and Macmillan Audio

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

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azolotovonNov 4, 2009

I am taking a negotiation class right now and we are using the three books listed below. The professor is really great, and the books are not boring college textbooks - they're really engaging and I'd read them on my own if I wasn't taking the course, too.

"Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive" by Goldstein, Margin, & Cialdini is a great book on influence and persuasion.

Cialdini is a great resource for influence/negotiation in general, so look for other articles/books written by him.

"Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions" by Ariely is a great book on behavioral economics

"Negotiation" by Lewicki, Saunders, and Barry

LordarminiusonDec 16, 2016

Business acumen is a combination of a mindset/attitude + skills relevant to running a successful business. It is best learned by apprenticeship. Failing that, get the best books out there and start reading. Negotiation, organizational behavior, thrift, psychology, forecasting, hiring, execution, sales, etc Read read read. And read some more for the message hidden between the lines. Adjust your behavior to reflect your newfound knowledge. This is my current reading list:

  The E-myth by Michael Gerber
  Felix Dennis: How to get Rich
  Execution; The Discipline of Getting Things Done: RamCharan
  Shoe Dog : Phil Knight

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