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While you can absorb a lot of information from reading theories, practical examples will help you understand those theories. Meet some interesting personalities, learn lessons from their lives and adopt some of their characteristics to help you become more successful.

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A Call To Service
 

John Kerry

Viking Press, 2003

(8)

A G-Man's Life
 

Mark Felt and John D. O'Connor

Public Affairs, 2006

(9)

A Higher Standard of Leadership

Keshavan Nair

Berrett-Koehler, 1997

(6)

A Life Decoded
 

J. Craig Venter

Viking Press, 2007

(7)

Adam Smith
 

Nicholas Phillipson

Yale UP, 2010

(8)

Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment

Charles L. Griswold Jr.

Cambridge UP, 1999

(5)

Against the Odds
 

James Dyson

Thomson Texere, 2003

(9)

Alan Shrugged

Jerome Tuccille

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002

(7)

Alexander The Great’s Art of Strategy

Partha Bose

Gotham Books, 2003

(9)

Alexis de Tocqueville
 

Hugh Brogan

Yale UP, 2008

(8)

Andrew Carnegie
 

David Nasaw

Penguin, 2006

(9)

Architects of the Business Revolution

Des Dearlove and Stephen Coomber

Capstone, 2001

(7)

Asia's New Wealth Club

Geoff Hiscook

Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2000

(7)

Backfire
 

Peter Burrows

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003

(7)

Banker to the Poor
 

Muhammad Yunus

Public Affairs, 2003

(9)

Barack Obama

John K. Wilson

Paradigm, 2007

(7)

Benjamin Graham on Value Investing

Janet C. Lowe

Prentice Hall Press, 1994

(7)

Berried in Chocolate

Shari Fitzpatrick

Pelican Publishing, 2011

(7)

Big Shots: Business the Richard Branson Way

Des Dearlove

Capstone, 2002

(6)

Buffett
 

Roger Lowenstein

Random House, 2008

(9)

Carnegie
 

Peter Krass

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002

(8)

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