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10 GOOD READS EXPAND YOUR SKILLS, GAIN INSIGHT, AND GET INSPIRED WITH THESE TOP PICKS. The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity from Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters and Other Informal Entrepreneurs By Alexa Clay and Kyra Maya Phillips Sometimes lessons in creativity, innovation, salesmanship, and entrepreneurship can come from unlikely sources, such as pirates, bootleggers, counterfeiters, and those working and living on the margins of business and society. While most "greatest innovator" lists are sure to include Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, and/or omas Edison, this book includes people who are just as innovative, entrepreneurial, creative, and visionary as Jobs, Ford, and Edison, but you've never heard of them – they are pirates, computer hackers, pranksters, and former gang leaders who live across the globe. e authors contend that these are not "deviant entrepreneurs" who pose a threat to social and economic stability, but innovators and pioneers that we can learn from and apply to move formal markets. The Jefferson Rule: How the Founding Fathers Became Infallible and Our Politics Inflexible By David Sehat Since the debate between omas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton over the nation's future more than 200 years ago, many groups, including liberals, conservatives, secessionists, unionists, civil rights leaders, radicals, and libertarians, have sought to defend their policies by using principles established by the Founding Fathers. is practice has continued through the Civil War, the New Deal, the Regan Revolution, Obama, and the Tea Party, as both all sides have used the Founders to solidify their stances on issues such was war and peace, voting rights, free speech, gun control, and taxes. Sehat shows readers why they are using an outdated context by looking to the 18th century to solve contemporary problems, especially when the Founding Fathers themselves disagreed on so many issues. The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance By Jim Whitehurst Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat, one of the world's most revolutionary companies, shows readers how open principles of management based on transparency, participation, and community, can help organizations reinvent themselves to stay connected and keep up with today's fast-paced business environment. Whitehurst shows readers a look from the inside on how to build an open and innovative organizational model and how to leverage that model to respond quickly to opportunities and to harness resources and talent both inside and outside the organization, and how to use that model to inspire, motivate, and empower everyone within the organization to act with accountability. e book has been termed a "must read" for organizations that are struggling to adapt their management practices to the fast pace of today's social and digital age. LBJ's Neglected Legacy: How Lyndon Johnson Reshaped Domestic Policy and Government Edited By Robert H. Wilson, Norman J. Glickman, and Laurence E. Lynn Jr. LBJ's Neglected Legacy examines the array of policies Lyndon B. Johnson instituted during his five full years as president (1964-68) which include landmarks such as the Civil Rights Act, Head Start, Food Stamps, Medicare, and Medicaid, the Immigration Reform Act, the Voting Rights Act, Social Security Reform, and Fair Housing. Many of these policies redefined federally protected rights of individuals, reshaped intergovernmental relations, and reformed the federal government. LBJ's policy agenda continues to shape and influence debates on major current issues, although to a largely unnoticed degree. e book scrutinizes how Johnson used overwhelming political support in the early years of his presidency to push through an innovative and ambitious policy agenda and emphasizes the range and extent of the influence of one of America's most effective – and controversial – leaders on American public policy.