Theodore Kinni -Senior Editor, Books at strategy + business magazine: In late 1999, while still the 800-lb gorilla in the video rental market, Blockbuster Video called in some outside help to address its biggest customer complaint: late fees. One of the calls was to Michael Schrage, then research associate at MIT Media Lab, whose book,

by Stanford psychologist Dr. Carol Dweck-as reviewed in Brain Pickings: Dr. Dweck synthesizes in her remarkably insightful Mindset: The New Psychology of Success— an inquiry into the power of our beliefs, both conscious and unconscious, and how changing even the simplest of them can have profound impact on nearly every aspect of our lives. One

from Tim Ferris, well-known work/lifestyle blogger and author of The 4-Hour Workweek FREE- the first 50 pages of this Book read more here  

by Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandahl, Laura Whitworth- from the Coaches Training Institute (CTI) : 2 Free Book Chapters When Co-Active Coaching was released in 1998, this pioneering work set the stage for what has become a cultural and business phenomenon and helped launch the profession of coaching. Required reading in many professional development

10 Questions for Jonathan Fields- past interview with Henrik Edberg, from the Positivity Blog: “Over the last week or so I have been reading a brand new book by my blogging friend Jonathan Fields called Career Renegade: How to Make a Great Living Doing What You Love” “I first thought about reviewing it on the

From escapefromcubiclenation.com: Many entrepreneurs dream of starting a business in their garage, scaling it, then selling it to Google for a billion dollars. Such things rarely happen. But scaling happens every day, in our career, our business or our workplace. We are constantly trying to improve ourselves, share our ideas, and put in systems and