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Blog / Interviews
Thinker in Residence: G. Richard Shell
By Sally Haldorson
G. Richard Shell is the Thomas Gerrity Professor of Legal Studies, Business Ethics, and Management and the Chair of the Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1986. He also led the School’s most recent innovation process to completely redesign its MBA program.
Categories: interviews
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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch: September 2013
By Porchlight
Is it really almost September? I feel like it was just yesterday that I was holding a flickering sparkler in one hand while sipping from a perspiring brown bottle of New Glarus. Well it's true; summer really is almost over.
Categories: new-releases, publishing-industry
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Blog / Staff Picks
Saatchi & Saatchi: A Love Affair
Book Review by Porchlight
Love. It’s what smart companies want from their customers, followers, and fans. Many companies successfully establish their brands, but don’t take the extra steps to earn love from their audiences.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
A New KnowledgeBlocks Giveaway!
By Sally Haldorson
We are giving away 20 copies of Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success by G. Richard Shell over on KnowledgeBlocks. Just enter for your chance to win.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
In 1990, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi wrote one of the classic books on creativity, Flow. We opened our tallying of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time with Flow because the book is about optimal experiences, "those times when people report feelings of concentration and deep enjoyment," and many people either access that feeling or wish to access that feeling at work. In that book, Csikszentmihalyi provides his theory behind the flow state and argues that such an unconscious contentedness is not as unpreditable or fortuitous as most people think.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / Staff Picks
Amaze Every Customer Every Time
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
Customers don't do business with a company. They do business with the people who work for the company. Everyone seems to have a story about their favorite Ace Hardware store.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
2013 Business Book Awards
By 800-CEO-READ
The 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards are now open for submissions. Thousands of business books are published each year, each with the potential to promote change and enlighten the way people think about business. We began recognizing these efforts in 2007 with the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards, highlighting the best works in a number of categories.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
You Are Now Less Dumb
Book Review by Porchlight
I like to think. At least I like to think that I like to think. This idea I have about myself is exactly what drove me to pick up David McRaney’s new book, You Are Now Less Dumb.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / Staff Picks
Take a Day Off: Read a Book!
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
It is nearing the end of summer, at least in these parts, but there is still time to whittle down that long "to-read-on-vacation" list that you might have created in May, imaging long hot days laying in the sun, book in hand. If you are like me, summer is never quite the vast wasteland of time during which I can read to my heart's content that I always hope it will be. Instead, it is usually a time of rushing around the city from event to event, doing home and yard work, taking my child to a park/pool/playdate, and generally feeling like the summer is going by way too fast.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Chaos Imperative
By 800-CEO-READ
The Chaos Imperative: How Chance and Disruption Increase Innovation, Effectiveness, and Success by Ori Brafman, Crown Business, 230 pages, $24. 00, Hardcover, August 2013, ISBN 9780307886675 An important piece of Ori Brafman’s new book is its starting point. While announcing the purchase of Gillette in 2005, Proctor & Gamble’s A.
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