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The 800-CEO-READ Blog posted this list of Toronto’s Globe and Mail top ten business books:

1. Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton
2. Managing the Dynamics of Change: The Fastest Path to Creating an Engaged and Productive Workplace by Jerald Jellison
3. The Ultimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth by Fred Reichheld
4. Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership Through Literature by Joesph Badaracco
5. Leading Leaders: How to Manage Smart, Talented, Rich, And Powerful People by Jeswald Salacuse
6. Get Them On Your Side by Samuel Bacharach
7. Working With You is Killing Me: Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work by Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster
8. Questions That Sell: The Powerful Process for Discovering What Your Customer Really Wants by Paul Sherry
9. A Leader’s Legacy by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner
10. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson

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