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Global Dexterity
Book Review by Porchlight
While reading Andy Molinsky's new book Global Dexterity, I was reminded of an experience I had shortly after starting my first job as a working professional. I had been on the job for about a month. A colleague in my department was turning 30, so we were celebrating in a vacant office with some grocery store cake.
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Stop Complainers and Energy Drainers
By 800-CEO-READ
I sat in a meeting once where an enthusiastic new employee shared ideas and input within a discussion on how to increase sales. While he talked, another sales rep rolled her eyes, and when he finished, she loudly declared, "None of that is going to work. I'm so tired of new people coming in here and acting like they have it all figured out.
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Business Brilliant
By 800-CEO-READ
In general, we assume that the great business leaders came from well-to-do-families, were sent to the best schools, continued their education and started practicing business at a young age. Yet in fact, many of the CEOs of familiar brands did not follow that route. For some of them, high school was their highest academic standing, some can't read a financial statement, and some of them failed miserably before they became the people we know.
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A New KnowledgeBOX offer!
By Sally Haldorson
If you aren't already aware, 800-CEO-READ powers the business knowledge-building site, KnowledgeBlocks. One of the services KnowledgeBlocks offers is a quarterly book club. For $80, you'll receive 4 quarterly shipments for a total of 9 books per year (see more details and sign up here.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Lean In
By 800-CEO-READ
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg; Alfred A. Knopf, 240 pages, $24. 95, Hardcover; March 2013, ISBN 9780385349949 The COO of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg is one of the most powerful women in business, and as such is a leader not only at the top of her organization, but also to other women in business.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
By 800-CEO-READ
Each day, all day, we make decisions. Often, these many decisions are simple: what to wear, where to eat, and how best to churn through the tasks on our to-do list.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - How Stella Saved the Farm
By 800-CEO-READ
How Stella Saved the Farm: A Wild and Wooly Yarn About Making Innovation Happen by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble, St. Martins Press, 160 pages, $19. 98, Hardcover, March 2013, ISBN 9781250002129 I was surprised to see that two of the most respected and knowledgeable business book authors writing today, Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble, wrote a parable.
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Jack Covert Selects - Can't Buy Me Like
By 800-CEO-READ
Can’t Buy Me Like: How Authentic Customer Connections Drive Superior Results by Bob Garfield & Doug Levy, Portfolio, 229 pages, $25. 95, Hardcover, March 2013, ISBN 9781591845775 It’s a lousy cliché, but the instruction to “be yourself” is becoming an essential modus operandi for today’s successful marketers. When social media arrived on the radars of advertisers and marketers, many said, “Oh goody, new media to purchase,” and quickly filled up the cheap new real estate with the same old message: “We are great!
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Blog / News & Opinion
ChangeThis: Issue 103
By 800-CEO-READ
We Are All Creators Now—And We Are Creating a New Indie Capitalism by Bruce Nussbaum “Look to the edges of our economy, look to the new models and practices being developed by our young, look to energy of our entrepreneurs and look to the subtle shifts of our most progressive corporations and you can see something emerging. You can see the rise of Indie Capitalism. ” Innovation Begins Here: How to Become the Hero in the Hero’s Journey by Brian Solis “Each of you has his or her own path to follow, and what you do next is yours and only yours to define.
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The Happiness Choice
By 800-CEO-READ
Everybody's busy. We're all juggling multiple demands from people and forces around us. But as we know (and may have forgotten), sometimes we need to focus on ourselves.
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