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Blog / Interviews
Thinker in Residence: Richard Sheridan
By Sally Haldorson
Richard Sheridan, author of Joy, Inc. is the CEO, Chief Storyteller and co-founder of Menlo Innovations. Here's his story: Rich knew at 13 years old what he was going to do the rest of his career when he typed in a two-line program into a Teletype and the computer came back and typed back “HI RICH”.
Categories: interviews
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 800-CEO-READ Best Business Book of 2013 goes to....
By Sally Haldorson
Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success by G. Richard Shell! Congratulations to Portfolio for their excellent work on this terrific book.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Undercover Economist Strikes Back
By 800-CEO-READ
Tim Harford has a knack for making the complicated, weird, and arcane aspects of economics accessible to the layperson—and a lot of fun to read, to boot. His usual realm is the behavioral, everyday economics of individuals and organizations (his books The Undercover Economist and The Logic of Life are both brilliant on that score), but in his new book, The Undercover Economist Strikes Back, he goes big and tackles the wider world of macroeconomics.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - On the Edge
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On the Edge: The Art of High-Impact Leadership by Alison Levine, Business Plus, 272 pages, $27. 00, Hardcover, January 2014, ISBN 9781455544875 Alison Levine’s requirements for accepting team members to join her on an expedition up Mount Everest are notably different from those of us who hire employees to join us on our business adventures. In addition to skill and enthusiasm, she explains, “there was the question, Would I trust this person with my life?
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Body of Work
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Body of Work: Finding the Thread That Ties Your Story Together by Pamela Slim, Portfolio, 240 pages, $16. 00, Paperback, January 2014, ISBN 9781591846192 I recall an old employer of mine discussing candidates for a position, complaining “They jump around too much, one year here, another there,” inferring that these nuggets of experience wouldn’t add up to what we needed. I wondered how many other hiring managers felt the same way, and felt sorry for the candidates who had the challenge of telling their story.
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Blog / News & Opinion
A New KnowledgeBlocks Giveaway! Get Rich Carefully by Jim Cramer
By Sally Haldorson
In Get Rich Carefully, Wall Street veteran Jim Cramer of CNBC fame, aims to turn you "from amateur investor to someone who can go toe-to-toe with professionals. . .
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook
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Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World by Gary Vaynerchuk, HarperBusiness, 195 pages, $29. 99, Hardcover, December 2013, ISBN 9780062273062 Reading a recent New York Times article about Gary Vaynerchuk, I found a great story that epitomizes who Gary is, and why he’s written Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook. About once a week, Gary Vaynerchuk posts a twitter message that reads, “Is there anything I can do for you?
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Joy, Inc.
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Joy, Inc. : How We Built a Workplace People Love by Richard Sheridan, Portfolio, 288 pages, $27. 95, Hardcover, December 2013, ISBN 9781591845874 Depending on whom you ask, joy in the workplace may or may not be considered crucial to an organization’s bottom line.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Ninety Percent of Everything
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Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate by Rose George, Metropolitan Books, 304 pages, $28. 00, Hardcover, August 2013, ISBN 9780805092639 There is always one book that arrives with the submissions for our annual book awards that I’m surprised I missed when it came out. This year that book is Ninety Percent of Everything by Rose George, and it is probably my personal favorite of the year.
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Elite Eight: Our Picks for the Top Business Books of 2013
By Sally Haldorson
Click on the links below to read more about our choices for the top books of 2013, as well as the books that made our category shortlists. We will be announcing the Best Business Book of 2013 at our (mostly) annual We Believe in Books party in NYC the second week of January. Stay tuned!
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography, publishing-industry
