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The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 367 times as professional)
avg rating 4.49 — 18,656 ratings — published 2009
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as professional)
avg rating 4.11 — 141,005 ratings — published 2002
Reading in the Wild (Hardcover)
by (shelved 220 times as professional)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,586 ratings — published 2013
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as professional)
avg rating 4.10 — 274,982 ratings — published 2009
Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as professional)
avg rating 4.29 — 6,169 ratings — published 2009
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as professional)
avg rating 4.09 — 178,913 ratings — published 2006
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as professional)
avg rating 4.16 — 832,307 ratings — published 1989
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as professional)
avg rating 4.12 — 301,611 ratings — published 2001
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as professional)
avg rating 3.95 — 126,459 ratings — published 2009
Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 184 times as professional)
avg rating 4.05 — 59,005 ratings — published 2017
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as professional)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,170,008 ratings — published 1936
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as professional)
avg rating 4.17 — 601,536 ratings — published 2011
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as professional)
avg rating 3.94 — 270,045 ratings — published
Dare to Lead (ebook)
by (shelved 156 times as professional)
avg rating 4.17 — 129,857 ratings — published 2018
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as professional)
avg rating 4.07 — 83,740 ratings — published 2002
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as professional)
avg rating 4.26 — 50,657 ratings — published 2013
Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading
by (shelved 140 times as professional)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,186 ratings — published 2012
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as professional)
avg rating 4.19 — 878,092 ratings — published 2008
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as professional)
avg rating 4.07 — 480,131 ratings — published 2012
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 128 times as professional)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,359,267 ratings — published 2018
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as professional)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,090 ratings — published 2014
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as professional)
avg rating 4.34 — 219,373 ratings — published 2016
The Daily Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as professional)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,019 ratings — published 2006
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as professional)
avg rating 4.13 — 569,614 ratings — published 2012
The Lean Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as professional)
avg rating 4.11 — 368,411 ratings — published 2011
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as professional)
avg rating 4.01 — 861,340 ratings — published 2000
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as professional)
avg rating 4.16 — 193,971 ratings — published 2016
Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina, and Passion in Adolescent Readers (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as professional)
avg rating 4.57 — 2,918 ratings — published 2012
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as professional)
avg rating 4.00 — 169,179 ratings — published 2001
Who Moved My Cheese? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as professional)
avg rating 3.87 — 516,272 ratings — published 1998
Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as professional)
avg rating 4.28 — 10,069 ratings — published
Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as professional)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,610 ratings — published 2004
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as professional)
avg rating 4.08 — 144,790 ratings — published 2016
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as professional)
avg rating 4.21 — 180,454 ratings — published 1984
Teach Like a PIRATE: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as professional)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,181 ratings — published 2012
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as professional)
avg rating 4.03 — 55,368 ratings — published 2010
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as professional)
avg rating 3.98 — 100,462 ratings — published 2006
Strengths Finder 2.0 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as professional)
avg rating 3.93 — 57,196 ratings — published 2007
The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as professional)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,836 ratings — published 2007
The First Days of School: How to Be An Effective Teacher [with CD] (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as professional)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,821 ratings — published 1991
Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as professional)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,127 ratings — published 2007
Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as professional)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,544 ratings — published 2010
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as professional)
avg rating 3.96 — 626,453 ratings — published 2005
The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as professional)
avg rating 3.85 — 38,447 ratings — published 2003
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 81 times as professional)
avg rating 4.24 — 30,892 ratings — published 2000
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as professional)
avg rating 4.07 — 84,698 ratings — published
Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 80 times as professional)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,450 ratings — published 2017
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as professional)
avg rating 4.20 — 111,923 ratings — published 2014
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as professional)
avg rating 4.29 — 246,200 ratings — published 2012
Measure What Matters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 79 times as professional)
avg rating 3.97 — 38,237 ratings — published 2017
“You know how it is when a tricky job is going well because you're doing things the way they should be done, when you're working in rhythm and feel a reassuring confidence that everything's unraveling naturally and all will be right in the end. That's about it: I know what I was doing -- it's really what being a professional means.”
― A Month in the Country
― A Month in the Country
“Find the courage to climb mountains, whether big or small, personal or professional, physical or mental. Climb those mountains, because conquering them is fundamental.”
― Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
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