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Blog / News & Opinion
Think Differently
By 800-CEO-READ
When we think of creativity, we often forget the broad scope of what that means. We look to alter details, not scrap entire systems and start from scratch. In some ways, we attempt to make the process of doing what we're supposed to do more interesting, and that's it.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch: August 2013
By Porchlight
If you're like me, your summer reading list is infinite—wonderful-looking books in a towering protean stack which both promises blissful enrichment and threatens utter annihilation by way of procrastination and its associated guilt. And summer isn't even over yet. Don't get discouraged.
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / News & Opinion
A New KnowledgeBlocks Giveaway: Grab Bag!
By Sally Haldorson
Everyone loves a grab bag. It's exciting to get a package delivered to your door, and while you know it is from 800-CEO-READ, and so you know it contains business books, it's still so exciting to rip open the flaps and discover what's inside. Due to some traveling and other inconveniences, rather than offer a specific book for a new giveaway--we've got two great books lined up for August, so stay tuned!
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
Become the Real Deal
Book Review by Porchlight
I’ve recently caught myself using the phrase, “(s)he’s the real deal,” when talking to friends and colleagues about people who have distinct reputations for success or innovation. It’s somewhat aphorismic, but what does this phrase even mean? Off the bat, there’s one word that comes to mind: authenticity.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / Staff Picks
Time for Design
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
I've had a copy of Lee Devin and Robert D. Austin's book, The Soul of Design: Harnessing the Power of Plot to Create Extraordinary Products, on my desk since September. On it was a little sticky note that read, "blog," as a reminder to myself that I wanted to take a longer look when time allowed.
Categories: staff-picks, narrative-biography
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Blog / Staff Picks
True Story: How to Combine Story and Action to Transform Your Business
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
"Metastory is a story that is told through action. It is not a story that you say, it's a story that you do. Every individual has one.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / Staff Picks
Brick by Brick, or How LEGO Was Awesome, Failed, and Then Became Awesome Again
Book Review by Porchlight
We have reached a point in time when those of us who missed out on playing with LEGOs as kids have by now had the opportunity to buy the iconic toys for our own children. I am fortunate enough to have experienced the joy of LEGO both as a child and an adult, so my interest in David C. Robertson’s Brick by Brick is all but automatic.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks
By 800-CEO-READ
Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO’s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity by August Turak, Columbia University Press, 200 pages, $29. 95, Hardcover, July 2013, ISBN 9780231160629 At first glance, Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks might seem antithetical. In fact, consider this from the book’s first chapter, “The Economic Miracle of Mepkin Abbey:” The reason for Mepkin’s success is that the monks are not actually in business at all.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid
By 800-CEO-READ
Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value by Daniel Isenberg, Harvard Business Review Press, 304 pages, $27. 00, Hardcover, July 2013, ISBN 9781422186985 It is always refreshing to be told that the things you are feeling are the very right things you should be feeling. And that's the underlying value of the message that author Daniel Isenberg shares in Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Ethical Economy
By 800-CEO-READ
The Ethical Economy: Rebuilding Value After the Crisis by Adam Arvidsson & Nicolai Peitersen, Columbia University Press, 208 pages, $32. 50, Hardcover, July 2013, ISBN 9780231152648 We chose Robert Schiller’s Finance and the Good Society as the best Finance & Economics book in 2012. That book explained the role of individuals within finance, the role of finance within society, and how we can democratize financial capitalism to create and best serve a “good society.
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