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Blog / News & Opinion
The 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Shortlist: Entrepreneurship & Small Business
By Sally Haldorson
Over the course of this week, we will be posting the shortlist selections for our 8 business book categories: General Business, Leadership, Management, Innovation/Creativity, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Marketing/Sales, Personal Development, Finance. On Monday, December 16th, we'll announce the 8 category winners! In early January, the overall winner of the 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards will be awarded, so stay tuned to The Daily Blog for all the good news.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Shortlist: Marketing & Sales
By Sally Haldorson
Over the course of this week, we will be posting the shortlist selections for our 8 business book categories: General Business, Leadership, Management, Innovation/Creativity, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Marketing/Sales, Personal Development, Finance. On Monday, December 16th, we'll announce the 8 category winners! In early January, the overall winner of the 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards will be awarded, so stay tuned to The Daily Blog for all the good news.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Shortlist: Management
By Sally Haldorson
Over the course of this week, we will be posting the shortlist selections for our 8 business book categories: General Business, Leadership, Management, Innovation/Creativity, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Marketing/Sales, Personal Development, Finance. Then on Monday, December 16th, we'll announce the 8 category winners! In early January, the overall winner of the 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards will be awarded, so stay tuned to The Daily Blog for all the good news.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Shortlist: General Business
By Sally Haldorson
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Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Shortlist: Leadership
By Sally Haldorson
Over the course of this week, we will be posting the shortlist selections for our 8 business book categories: General Business, Leadership, Management, Innovation/Creativity, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Marketing/Sales, Personal Development, Finance. Then on Monday, December 16th, we'll announce the 8 category winners! In early January, the overall winner of the 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards will be awarded, so stay tuned to The Daily Blog for all the good news.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Everything Store by Brad Stone
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
So, how does a specialty bookseller like 800-CEO-READ tackle reviewing Brad Stone's new book on the biggest bookstore in the world? We could ignore the book. We could deride the book.
Categories: staff-picks, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
ChangeThis: Issue 111
By 800-CEO-READ
How To Future-Proof Your Career by Jocelyn K. Glei “The way we interact with people, the tools we use, and the way we work are all changing. This has huge implications for the way we run our careers.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / ChangeThis
Perfecting Your Pitch
By Ron Shapiro
"Have you ever been faced with settling family financial squabbles, asking for a raise, offering tough but constructive criticism, rejecting a friend or relative's request for a loan, selling and holding to a price, making budget denials and requests, dealing with customer objections, or negotiating a contract where you feared the other side had all the leverage. And, like me on occasions, you then spoke words to solve the problem and in an instant thought to yourself: 'WOW, why did I say that. ' How often do we come out of an important discussion or a negotiation and ponder what we could've done differently to achieve a better result. Having been involved in all of these situations and an array of other business and personal communications challenges throughout my career, I systematized how I managed them. More recently I decided to articulate for others that system and how it allows us to find and speak the 'words that work' so that we're not left thinking 'Oh I wish I had done/said that differently.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
What is Customer Service?
By Steve Curtin
"Too often, customer service is viewed as a department, a designated employee's job role, or someone else's responsibility. Because of this limited view of customer service, many employees are content to simply execute a series of mandatory job functions until the end of their shifts—blissfully unaware of the myriad opportunities forfeited to make lasting positive impressions on their customers. To expand on this narrow definition of customer service, I'd like to submit my own definition for consideration: Customer service is a voluntary act that demonstrates a genuine desire to satisfy, if not delight, a customer."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
What Ethical Leaders Believe: The Leading in Context Manifesto
By Linda Fisher Thornton
"Aristotle said 'We are what we repeatedly do.' He was right. Our daily choices define us. They show just how far beyond ourselves we're thinking, how broadly we imagine our constituents, and how we see ourselves in the world. As we navigate the turbulence of today's workplace, there is power in asking ourselves, 'What is it that I repeatedly do?' [...] We would like to think that we are making the most responsible choices that we can under the circumstances. But then, in a typical challenging, chaotic day, what really determines what we do?"
Categories: changethis
