Reveals how today's managers can avoid the million-dollar mistakes that many top executives continue to make despite their highly paid consultants and business-school wisdom
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Michael A. Cook, Princeton professor of Islamic history, provides an overview of human history from the Neolithic to the fall of the Twin Towers in 2001 in this witty and intelligent synthesis, asking the key question: why did everything happen exactly th