The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again by Catherine Price

Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval have moved to the top of the advertising industry by following a simple but powerful philosophy: it pays to be nice. Where so many companies encourage a dog eat dog mentality, the Kaplan Thaler Group has succeeded through chocolate and flowers. In The Power of Nice, through their own experiences and the stories of other people and businesses, they demonstrate why, contrary to conventional wisdom, nice people finish first.

There's a massive freight train bearing down on the average American investor, and it's coming in the form of higher taxes.

Having spent decades negotiating deals worth hundreds of millions of pounds, Hilary Gallo realised that bullying behaviour rarely got him or his clients the outcomes they were looking for. Over the years he began to develop a new way of approaching negotiations – the power of soft – and soon found his work and home life getting richer. The power of soft started as a negotiation tactic and soon became a philosophy for life.