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Dennis Bakke
Pear Press, 2013
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AMACOM, 2013
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Dan Pontefract
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013
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Sarah Lewis et al.
Kogan Page, 2012
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Shirzad Chamine
Greenleaf Book Group, 2012
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BJ Gallagher and Franz Metcalf
Berrett-Koehler, 2012
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Beverly Schwartz
Jossey-Bass, 2012
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Patrick Lencioni
Jossey-Bass, 2012
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Ronald Heifetz et al.
Harvard Business Review Press, 2009
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Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer
Harvard Business Review Press, 2011
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Gary Hamel
Jossey-Bass, 2012
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Terry R. Bacon
AMACOM, 2011
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Richard Koch
Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2005
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John Maeda and Becky Bermont
MIT Press, 2011
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Don Edward Beck and Christopher C. Cowan
Wiley-Blackwell, 2005
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Jeff Jarvis
HarperCollins, 2009
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Laura Goodrich
Berrett-Koehler, 2011
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John C. Maxwell
Nelson Publishers, 2006
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Peter Cappelli et al.
Harvard Business Review Press, 2010
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Ian Wilson and William K. Ralston, Jr.
Thomson South-Western, 2006
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