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10 best books like City of Angels or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud (Christa Wolf): Succeeding When You're Supposed to Fail: The 6 Enduring Principles of High Achievement, The Likeability Factor: How to Boost Your L-Factor and Achieve Your Life's Dreams, Die kleine Hexe, Find Your Why: A Practical Guide to Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team, Speaking of Faith, Compelling People: The Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential, The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God, Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To, Together is Better: A Little Book of Inspiration, Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail - and Why We Believe Them Anyway

Succeeding When You're Supposed to Fail: The 6 Enduring Principles of High Achievement
AuthorRom Brafman
ISBN0307887685
IN COUNTLESS STUDIES, PSYCHOLOGISTS HAVE DISCOVERED A SURPRISING FACT:
 
For decades they assumed that people who face adversity—a difficult childhood, career turbulence, sudden bouts of bad luck—will succumb to their circumstances. Yet over and over again they found a significant...
The Likeability Factor: How to Boost Your L-Factor and Achieve Your Life's Dreams
AuthorTim Sanders
ISBN1400080509
From the bestselling author of Love Is the Killer App

You can win life’s popularity contests

The choices other people make about you determine your health, wealth, and happiness. And decades of research prove that people choose who they like. They vote for them, buy from them, marry...
Die kleine Hexe
AuthorOtfried Preußler
- Hello Manny, do you recognize me?

- No, who are you?

- Come on.

- No idea.

- I'm your subconscious.

- Oh... right. It's true, you did look familiar. Well, what've you been doing?

- Thinking about sex, mostly. Let me tell you my latest fantasy. There's--

-...
Find Your Why: A Practical Guide to Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team
AuthorSimon Sinek
ISBN0143111728
The next step for applying the life-changing lessons of the bestseller Start With Why.
 
With Start With Why, Simon Sinek inspired a movement to build a world in which the vast majority of us can feel safe while we are at work and fulfilled when we go home at night. However, many people have had...
Speaking of Faith
AuthorKrista Tippett
ISBN0670038350
The host of public radio’s Speaking of Faith explores the role of faith in the world and in human life today Krista Tippett is the creator and host of public radio’s phenomenally popular program Speaking of Faith, a weekly conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas. As a journalist...
Compelling People: The Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential
AuthorJohn Neffinger
ISBN1594631018
How People Judge You—And How To Come Out Looking Good

Required Reading at Harvard Business School

Everyone wants to know how to be more influential. But most of us don’t really think we can have the kind of magnetism or charisma that we associate with someone like Bill Clinton or...
The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God
AuthorDavid J. Linden
ISBN0674024788
You've probably seen it before: a human brain dramatically lit from the side, the camera circling it like a helicopter shot of Stonehenge, and a modulated baritone voice exalting the brain's elegant design in reverent tones. To which this book says: Pure nonsense. In a work at once deeply learned and...
Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To
AuthorSian Beilock
ISBN1439109621

Why do the smartest students often do poorly on standardized tests?

Why did you tank that interview or miss that golf swing when you should have had it in the bag?

Why do you mess up when it matters the most—and how can you perform your best instead?

It happens to all of...
Together is Better: A Little Book of Inspiration
AuthorSimon Sinek
Simon Sinek's recent video on 'The Millennial Question' went viral with over 150 million views and his TED Talk on the global bestseller Start with Why is the third most watched of all time.

Sinek's latest work, Together is Better, is a little book of inspiration for the modern world.

Most...
Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail - and Why We Believe Them Anyway
AuthorDan Gardner
ISBN0771035195
In 2008, as the price of oil surged above $140 a barrel, experts said it would soon hit $200; a few months later it plunged to $30. In 1967, they said the USSR would have one of the fastest-growing economies in the year 2000; in 2000, the USSR did not exist. In 1911, it was pronounced that there would...
Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
AuthorRichard Rohr
Although this is a book for men - about how we need to be helped from boy to man through initiation - it has a lot to offer women too. After all nobody tells anybody how to be a grown up, we just copy what the grown-ups do: get a job, pay our taxes and hey presto we must be an adult. I was captivated by the five essential...
Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire
AuthorPaul Smith
ISBN0814420303
Storytelling has come of age in the business world. Today, many of the most successful companies use storytelling as a leadership tool. At Nike, all senior executives are designated "corporate storytellers." 3M banned bullet points years ago and replaced them with a process of writing "strategic...
The Thinking Life: How to Thrive in the Age of Distraction
AuthorP.M. Forni
ISBN1429988096
Professor Forni, founder of The Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins, is America's civility expert. In his first two books, Choosing Civility and The Civility Solution, he taught readers the rules of civil behavior and ways of responding to rudeness. Now, in The Thinking Life, he looks at the importance...
Click: The Magic of Instant Connections
AuthorOri Brafman
ISBN0385529058
You know the feeling. You meet someone new—at a party or at work—and you just hit it off. There is an instant sense of camaraderie.
 
In a word, you “click.”
 
From the bestselling authors of Sway, Click is a fascinating psychological investigation of the forces behind what...
On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind's Hard-Wired Habits
AuthorWray Herbert
Our lives are composed of millions of choices, ranging from trivial to life-changing and momentous. Luckily, our brains have evolved a number of mental shortcuts, biases, and tricks that allow us to quickly negotiate this endless array of decisions. We don’t want to rationally deliberate every...
Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
AuthorMargaret Heffernan
ISBN0802719988
Margaret Heffernan argues that the biggest threats and dangers we face are the ones we don't see--not because they're secret or invisible,but because we're willfully blind. A distinguished businesswoman and writer, she examines the phenomenon and traces its imprint in our private and working lives,...
The Slow Fix: Solve Problems, Work Smarter and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed
AuthorCarl Honoré
ISBN0307401308
In the tradition of his internationally bestselling In Praise of Slow, and drawing on examples from the most progressive and successful leaders in business, politics, science and society, Carl Honoré brilliantly illuminates why the best way to face our problems might just be to take our time.
 
If...
The Infinite Game
AuthorSimon Sinek
Do you know how to play the game you're in?

In finite games, like football or chess, the players are known, the rules are fixed, and the endpoint is clear. The winners and losers are easily identified.

In infinite games, like business or politics or life itself, the players come and go,...
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