Apparently some of the best leadership ideas can be wrung from stand-up comedians--that is if you believe Roger Edward Jones, a management coach who has dabbled in stand-up and subsequently become inspired to add to the ever-growing mountain of books on management self-help.

FORBES: Leadership

He produced a mountain of work published in some 40 books.

ECONOMIST: Allen Ginsberg

Not so in Mountain View, California, where Doug Stocks has been replacing stolen books on the shelves of Printers Inc for 18 years.

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