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Part of the research behind Malcolm Gladwell’s remarkable best-seller, Blink, was done by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. Now, Gerd Gigerenzer provides an engaging explanation of the science behind it in his new book, Gut Feelings.
Gigerenzer illustrates how the key concept centers on rules of thumb and how such rules serve [...]

In The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World With Kindness, Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval take turns narrating chapters about using kindness in business. The success of their advertising agency, Kaplan Thaler Group, attests to their claim that being nice doesn’t mean being a pushover. (Nice follows their book on marketing [...]

Jeffrey Gitomer’s The Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness has been on the Wall Street Journal’s best-seller list for 102 weeks. People like the red cloth cover, the small trim size, the amusing cartoons, and the simple words of wisdom.
Gitomer has an excellent new way of hammering home the basics of [...]