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BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP

Always Eat Left Handed ...and Other Secrets for Killing It at Work and in Real Life An entertainingly irreverent self-help book filled with brutally honest secrets of success no one has ever dared to tell you. Start smoking? Be a cross-dresser? Procrastinate more? Make

Orig. Language: English Orig. Publisher: Ideapress 194 pp. | May 2017 Territory: World excl. NA

R IGH TS SOL D China, Korea, Taiwan, Russia, Arabic, World Spanish, Ukraine # OF COPIES SO LD 25,000+ AWAR DS 2017 Foreword Indie & 2017 International Book Awards (Best Career Advice Book) 2019 International Book Awards (Best Career Advice Book)

people cry? Learn to yodel? For anyone sick of hearing you should do what you love, take more risks and make mistakes, this empowering book is like a desperately needed pair of noise-canceling headphones for uselessly obvious advice. Instead, Always Eat Left Handed offers a real world, no-nonsense playbook for getting ahead in school, work and life by doing exactly the opposite of what most people tell you.

Rohit Bhargava Rohit Bhargava is a trend curator and entrepreneur. He is widely considered one of the most entertaining and original thinkers and speakers on marketing and innovation in the world and has been invited to keynote events in 32 countries as well as multiple TEDx talks.

BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP

DataStory Explain Data and Inspire Action Through Story Almost every role today uses data for decision making. This book is not about visualizing data, there are plenty of books covering that. Instead, you’ll learn how to transform numbers into inspirational

Orig. Language: English Orig. Publisher: Ideapress 240 pp. | September 2019 Territory: World excl. NA R IGH TS SOL D China, Korea, Taiwan, Poland, Brazil AWAR DS Gold Medal in the 2020 Axiom Awards

narratives to drive action. Nancy Duarte’s firm, Duarte, Inc., as one of the preeminent storytellers of the Silicon Valley, her firm has served almost 200 of the Fortune 500 companies in shaping communication strategies, presentation narratives, memorable visuals and impactful delivery. For DataStory, Duarte culled through thousands of data slides from her clients in consumer, technology, finance, and healthcare industries. This book covers the findings in the language, structure and visual hierarchy helping data to be understood and acted on.

Nancy Duarte Nancy Duarte is a communication expert who has been featured in Fortune, Time Magazine, Forbes, Fast Company, Wired, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, LA Times, and on CNN. Her firm, Duarte, Inc., is the global leader behind some of the most influential visual messages in business and culture. As a persuasion expert, she cracked the code for effectively incorporating story patterns into business communications. She’s written five bestselling books, four of which have won awards.

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BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP

Limitless How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life Limitless will help you get “unstuck” – and achieve extraordinary results. This book is like a high energy masterclass and brainstorming session all in one – with actionable tips to transform your vision for your career and do work with

Orig. Language: English Orig. Publisher: Ideapress 152 pp. | April 2019 Territory: World excl. NA

R IGH TS SOL D Arabic, World Portuguese, World Spanish, Germany, Turkey, Korea AWAR DS 2019 International Book Awards in the category Self-Help: General Washington Post Bestseller

purpose. In this book, Laura Gassner Otting teaches you how to ignore

Laura Gassner Otting

the rules that created your limits, align your energies and

Laura Gassner Otting’s 25-year resume is defined by her entrepreneurial edge. She served as a Presidential Appointee in Bill Clinton’s White House, helping shape AmeriCorps; left a leadership role at respected nonprofit search firm, Isaacson Miller, to expand the startup ExecSearches.com; and founded and ran the NPAG, which partnered with the full gamut of mission driven executives, from start-up dreamers to scaling social entrepreneurs to global philanthropists.

your actions, and do work that really matters so that you can live your best life. Laura brings both tough love and wisdom and offers a no-holds-barred look at what it really takes to get out of your own way and earn your success today. If you ever dreamed about discovering and crushing that personal goal that is so big and so scary that you’ve only dared whisper it to yourself, this book is the permission you didn’t even know you needed to live into it as only you can. BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP

When Millennials Take Over Preparing for the Ridiculously Optimistic Future of Business

Orig. Language: English Orig. Publisher: Ideapress 180 pp. | March 2015 Territory: World excl. NA R IGH TS SOL D Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam

Is your organization ready for what is coming? Between the decline of modern management, the social media shift of power toward individuals, and the ascent of the Millennial generation into leadership roles, companies of all shapes and sizes are facing a future that they are ill-equipped to handle. As a result of this perfect storm of changes, many organizations are struggling to stay relevant to customers, capitalize on opportunities in the marketplace, and attract top talent. Successful companies, on the other hand, are shifting to embrace

Jamie Notter & Maddie Grant Jamie Notter and Maddie Grant are the founding partners of Culture That Works and strategists known for helping organizations create remarkable cultures, attract the best employees and most loyal customers, and thrive in the digital age.

four key capacities that will drive the future of business: digital, clear, fluid, and fast. The only constant is change. These four capacities are the key to being able to keep up with the complexity, uncertainty and rapid shifts in our industries and our world.

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BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP

Expensive Sentences Debunking the Common Myths that Derail Decisions and Sabotage Success Practical

steps

avoid

wasting

time,

money,

Orig. Language: English Orig. Publisher: Ideapress 310 pp. | Feb 2017 Territory: World excl. NA

R IGH TS SOL D China, Korea, Taiwan

and

opportunities and improve decision-making. In our own lives we know the pain of following a promising path only to

AWAR DS Independant Press Award (Best Leadership Book)

realize it leads to a negative outcome. What seem like great decisions based on solid reasons end up costing us time,

Jack Quarles

money, opportunity, or more. Expensive Sentences reveal that

Jack Quarles is the founder of Buying Excellence®. Over the last 15 years, Jack implemented software and BPO solutions with Fortune 500, federal, and state government clients.

we believe that something is scarce, that someone is special, or that we are stuck.

BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP

Good Authority How to Become the Leader Your Team Is Waiting For How to create a work environment where personal and professional growth are one and the same. As Jonathan argues, we’re in the personal economy now, and leaders that rely on

Orig. Language: English Orig. Publisher: Ideapress 220 pp. | March 2018 Territory: World excl. NA R IGH TS SOL D China, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam AWAR DS Axion Silver Medal (Best Leadership Book)

strategies and tactics to manipulate people are an endangered species. And we all know that, to grow, we need someone outside

Jonathan Raymond

of ourselves to help us see and change what we don’t yet.

Jonathan Raymond is a principal at Refound, a mentoring company that helps leaders embody the ideas in this book. Over a twenty-year career, he’s worked in tech, clean tech and the non-profit world.

Good Authority is full of practical examples, dialogue and tools you can use to change the way you lead. HEALTH | PERS. DEVELOPMENT

Why It Hurts? A Physician’s Insights on The Purpose of Pain

Orig. Language: English Orig. Publisher: Ideapress 240 pp. | Feb 2017 Territory: World excl. NA R IGH TS SOL D Spain, Mexico, Taiwan

Why must we feel pain? In this timely book, author and Harvardtrained pain specialist Dr. Aneesh Singla offers a physician’s point of view as he takes a journey through medicine, history, and the world around us to provide some insights into our experience of pain, what we can do about it, and why it hurts in the first place. This book offers a lens from which to see pain as more than just an inconvenience. It offers a new vision of why it hurts and what we should do about it.

Dr. Aneesh Singla Dr. Aneesh Singla currently focuses his practice on minimally invasive options for the treatment of chronic pain. He is a lecturer at Harvard Medical School.

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Individual Authors James Altucher

BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP

Choose Yourself

Orig. Language: English 274 pp. | June 2013 Territory: World excl. English

Be Happy, Make Millions, Live the Dream

R IGH TS SOL D Brazil, Romania, Turkey, Vietnam, Russia, Portugal, Serbia

The world is changing. No longer is someone coming to hire you, to invest in your company, to sign you, to pick you. It’s on you to make the most important decision of your life: Choose

# COPIES SOL D 500,000+ WSJ Bestseller

Yourself. This book will teach you to do just that. With dozens of case studies, interviews and examples – including the author, investor and entrepreneur James Altucher’s own heartbreaking and inspiring story – Choose Yourself illuminates your personal path to building a bright, new world out of the wreckage of the old.

James Altucher James Altucher is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, chess master and bestselling author. Since launching his blog in 2010, more than 20 million readers have turned to James for advice on how to create their own success.

BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP

The Rich Employee

Orig. Language: English 235 pp. | Sept 2015 Territory: World excl. English

Not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur. Many of us are

R IGH TS SOL D Korea, Vietnam, Poland

happy to have a job; we just want a better job, one that fulfills us, makes us wealthy, and brings us satisfaction. Still, income is now permanently going down versus inflation for the average employee. This is the first book ever to detail how one can become a rich employee in our times. And there is more: companies in this new century will only succeed if they encourage their employees to develop The Rich Employee mindset.

BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP

Reinvent Yourself

Orig. Language: English 203 pp. | Jan 2017 Territory: World excl. English

Reinvention was the key to ensuring that the outcomes

R IGH TS SOL D Korea

in life were positive ones. The entire world: technology, governments, the shifting landscapes of opportunity and

# COPIES SOL D 40,000+

success, are all turning upside down, forcing us to reinvent as individuals and as a culture. Here, I describe specific techniques, share stories, tell the stories of others, and give the ultimate guide to not only how but why it is critical for people to master the skills of reinvention.

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Index IDEAPRESS PUBLISHING 4

Rohit Bhargava | Always Eat Left Handed

Nancy Duarte | DataStory

Laura Gassner Otting | Limitless

Jamie Notter & Maddie Grant | When Millennials Take Over

Jack Quarles | Expensive Sentences

Jonathan Raymond | Good Authority

Dr. Aneesh Singla | Why It Hurts?

INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS 8

James Altucher | Choose Yourself, The Rich Employee & Reinvent Yourself

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