Book recommendations on leadership, career development, etc?

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The best one I’ve ever read is a bit arcane and sometimes hard to hear: “The Last Word on Power” by T. Goss. It’s the foundation of how I got to MD without a college degree. “This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making me happy.”
- G.B.Shaw

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