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Blog / Interviews
Thinker in Residence: A Q&A with Jay Baer
By Sally Haldorson
If you go out of your way to be useful, to give, to help and to assist, you position yourself as a trusted resource in the lives of many who know you. ~Jay Baer
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Blog / Interviews
Thinker in Residence: Jay Baer
By Sally Haldorson
Jay Baer is a hype-free digital marketing strategist, speaker, and author. He founded Convince & Convert in 2008 where he oversees big picture ideas for corporate clients, helps agency customers understand and profit from social and digital services, and spreads the gospel of social and content acceleration with dozens of speaking engagements annually.
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Blog / News & Opinion
July's KnowledgeBOX Book Club
By Sally Haldorson
This quarter's KnowledgeBOX shipment contains a signed and customized copy of Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value. Plus, you'll get an early Advanced Reading Copy of a great new Harvard Business Review Press book as a surprise gift! This KnowledgeBOX will ship July 10th, and there is a limited quantity, so don't wait!
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Blog / News & Opinion
A New KnowledgeBlocks Giveaway: Red Thread Thinking
By Sally Haldorson
Author Debra Kaye wants to help you become an innovative thinker, to "make innovation a regular part of life, and it's a skill she believes is available to anyone. And her book, Red Thread Thinking, will help you "uncover new connections between phenomena that you didn't realize were linked, giving you a fresh understanding and an innovator's edge. " To do this, you'll need to "pull the right threads and connect them properly" in order to create something that solves problems for people.
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Blog / News & Opinion
John Jantsch interview and creativeLIVE workshop
By 800-CEO-READ
With books like, Duct Tape Marketing and The Commitment Engine, John Jantsch has established himself as a marketing expert with great insight into growing a business. Maybe you’ve planted your great business idea, and now it’s time to water it and watch it grow. But how?
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Unthink
By 800-CEO-READ
Unthink: Rediscover Your Creative Genius by Erik Wahl, Crown Business, 256 pages, $23. 00, Hardcover, June 2013, ISBN 9780770434007 Remember when you were a child, and could spend each day creating a whole new adventure for you and your friends? There were no boundaries to the stories you could dream up.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Inside the Box
By 800-CEO-READ
Inside the Box: A Proven System of Creativity for Breakthrough Results by Drew Boyd and Jacob Goldenberg; Simon and Schuster, 257 pages, $28. 50, Hardcover, June 2013, ISBN 9781451659252 Inside the Box is counter-directive to the many business books published every year that strive to illuminate and teach creative thinking. Because there is a constant demand for new ideas in our fast-moving business climate, most books tend toward systematizing creativity in order to insure continued innovation within organizations.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The End of Competitive Advantage
By 800-CEO-READ
The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast As Your Business, Harvard Business Review Press, 204 pages, $30. 00, Hardcover, June 2013, ISBN 9781422172810 Many books hail the end of major institutions or mainstream conventions. Rita Gunther McGrath’s The End of Competitive Advantage is one of these books, but it is unique among its peers.
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Clarity Principle
By Sally Haldorson
The Clarity Principle couldn't have landed on my desk at a better time. We've been discussing a new "mission statement" for 800-CEO-READ, one that reflects our purpose as well as the product. This book gives us plenty of guidance as The Clarity Principle aims to "illuminate how difficult it is to define your business, the costs you incur when you fail to clarify your purpose, and the tremendous gains to be won by succeeding in that effort.
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Blog / News & Opinion
ChangeThis: Issue 106
By 800-CEO-READ
How to Get Employees to Manage Themselves by Cali Ressler & Jody Thompson “Employees don’t leave companies. They leave managers. [.
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