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10 GOOD READS EXPAND YOUR SKILLS, GAIN INSIGHT, AND GET INSPIRED WITH THESE TOP PICKS. Engage the Fox: A Business Fable About Thinking Critically and Motivating Your Team By: Jen Lawrence and Larry Chester An allegory designed to teach you to embrace change, think critically, and solve problems using teamwork, Engage the Fox is a fable surrounding a team of woodland creatures that run a newspaper, the Toad Hollow Gazette. e publisher, Hedgehog, is faced with some difficult decisions, and he engages consultant addeus P. Fox to help the newspaper team see the big picture and tap everyone's imagination and energy by using critical thinking skills and utilizing the different personalities of team members (all of which represent personality types in the Myers- Briggs Indicator). e fox becomes a hero as the team recognizes the need to call on someone with an outside perspective to help them navigate change. Company Man: 30 Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA By: John Rizzo As a lawyer who served under 11 CIA directors and seven presidents from 1976 to 2009, John Rizzo had what e Washington Post called a "front row seat on the hidden world of intelligence." In the pages of Company Man, Rizzo discusses every significant activity and event covered by the CIA throughout a controversial, tumultuous 30-year period, including such actions in the years following 9/11 such as rules governing waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation techniques." A book deemed a "must read" by former CIA director George J. Tenet, Company Man is the most authoritative inside account of the CIA ever written. How Google Works By: Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg Eric Schmidt, Google executive chairman and ex-CEO, and Jonathan Rosenberg, former Google SVP of products, give readers an inside look at how they helped build Google into a global icon that pushes the boundaries of innovation. Schmidt and Rosenberg realized that since the balance of power shifted from companies to consumers, they would have to create superior products and hire employees known as "smart creative" in order to succeed in an ever- changing technology landscape. e authors cover such topics as strategy, talent, corporate culture, innovation, communication, and decision-making, and include many anecdotes from Google's history that are published for the first time. We Are Better Than This: How Government Should Spend Our Money By: Edward D. Kleinbard In this fundamental reframing of budget debates in the U.S., the author presents a compelling argument that strategic government spending can make citizens happier, healthier, and even wealthier. Kleinbard contends that the public's preoccupation with tax policy is obscuring understanding of how the government can use our money toward enhancing the private sector, thus helping our society at large prosper. Kleinbard also compares actual beliefs about moral philosopher and political economy pioneer Adam Smith with a cartoon version of Smith presented by "private market triumphalism" proponents.