Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert is the founder and former president of 800-CEO-READ. His Jack Covert Selects column grew out of a “new releases” column he ran in the local paper’s business pages, and blossomed into a monthly review series that ran in business journals and newspapers across the country. As the company grew, other members of the management and marketing team began writing reviews for the series, but Jack continued to contribute his own voice until his retirement in 2014. We kept the series—now weekly—alive under his name for another year, and transformed it into our current Editor’s Choice series at the beginning of 2016.
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Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind
By Sally Haldorson
Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire's new book coincided serendipitously with the death of David Bowie.
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It's Not What You Say: How You Sell Your Message When It Matters Most
By Dylan Schleicher
Pitch coach Michael Parker teaches how to sell our message, and ourselves, most effectively.
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Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
By Dylan Schleicher
Amy Cuddy tells us how to use the power of presence to overcome our daily struggles and show up authentically ourselves.
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Driven to Delight: Delivering World-Class Customer Experience the Mercedes-Benz Way
By Dylan Schleicher
Joseph Michelli explores how Mercedes-Benz went from being a company that delivered great cars to people to one that delivers great customer experiences, as well.
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We-Commerce : How to Create, Collaborate, and Succeed in the Sharing Economy
By Dylan Schleicher
Billee Howard dispels some of the doom and gloom of recent books on technology and its effects we've covered here lately.
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The Giving Way to Happiness: Stories and Science Behind the Life-Changing Power of Giving
By Dylan Schleicher
Jennifer Santi has a book on the power of giving and finding happiness in it that is perfect for the season.
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Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes—But Some Do
By Dylan Schleicher
In his new book, Matthew Syed explains how mistakes and failures can be used to drive progress and innovation.
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The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World
By Dylan Schleicher
Steven Radelet gives us a history of the the modern world that will lift the doom and gloom set upon us by the popular narrative in the news media.
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Why Should Anyone Work Here: What It Takes to Create an Authentic Organization
By Dylan Schleicher
Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones talk about how the "old paradigm has flipped" with regards to organizations and employment, and authenticity is an organizational advantage all should tap into.
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Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works
By Dylan Schleicher
Roger L. Martin & Sally R. Osberg define and document the growing field of social entrepreneurship.
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