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Blog / News & Opinion
Thinker in Residence: Bruce Nussbaum, author of Creative Intelligence
By Sally Haldorson
Today we are introducing a new author-focused blog series called Thinker in Residence. For this series, we'll be asking some of the brightest and boldest business authors writing today to give us insight into their work. Over the course of a week, we’ll give you, our readers, a review of the book, an interview with the author, and the author's perspective on a current business challenge.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
In the Books, 2012 - The Digital Edition
By 800-CEO-READ
Jon and Sally have both spread the good word about In the Books, our annual review of business books, offering copies to anyone that asked and provided an address. Jon offered them here on the blog while I was out on paternity leave, and Sally offered them up in our latest Keen Thinker (the monthly newsletter she releases that, if you're reading this, you really should be following). I'm the one responsible for the project here, and now that I'm pretty sure everyone that cares enough to ask for a paper copy has received one, I am making the digital copy available to any and all takers.
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Blog / Staff Picks
Visual Leaders
Book Review by Porchlight
Leadership on its own is hard work. Leaders require many skills, but one particularly important ability successful leaders must have is vision. Despite being clichés of success, companies like Amazon and Apple are time and again exemplary largely because their leaders have been able to visualize the future and steer their followers—employees and customers—toward this vision of the future.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
Sidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed...
By Sally Haldorson
Over on KnowledgeBlocks I posted this passage** from Sidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed, and How We Can Stick to the Plan: You need to acknowledge that forces from within ourselves, forces from our relationships with others, and forces from the outside have powerful and predictable effects on our decisions. Consider that most of us have no trouble acknowledging that we do not know how our kidneys or other body parts work, and we are open to learning more about them, especially when we are sick. Too often, however, we assume that we know exactly what's going on in our minds when we face and make decisions, despite the fact that many of our past decisions have led to disappointing outcomes.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
What's the Future of Business?
By 800-CEO-READ
Predicting the future can be difficult. Some would say it's impossible. Yet in many predictions, there are things that resonate, things that seem close enough in proximity to the logical flow of events that we see their likelihood.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Playing to Win
By Sally Haldorson
Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works by A. G. Lafley & Roger L.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Top Dog
By Sally Haldorson
Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing by Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman, Twelve, 352 pages, $27. 99, Hardcover, February 2013, ISBN 9781455515158 No one wants to be a loser, no matter how unimportant the game. Winning is fun, it makes you feel good, and winning validates the effort invested.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Creating Room to Read
By Sally Haldorson
Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy by John Wood, Viking Books, 320 pages, $27. 95, Hardcover, February 2013, ISBN 9780670025985 Some of us have a hard time turning our desire to “do good” into real action, which is why the option to donate to foundations active in doing good is so beneficial. This same desire to do good is what makes reading John Wood’s new book, Creating Room to Read, energizing.
Categories: jack-covert-selects, narrative-biography
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Blog / News & Opinion
ChangeThis: Issue 102
By 800-CEO-READ
The Self-Publishing Revolution by Guy Kawasaki & Shawn Welch “Shelf space for ebooks is infinite, and anyone who can use a word processor can write and publish a book. These changes don’t mean that books are better—no more than a democratic political system guarantees better leaders—but at least the system is more accessible. ” Pause to Lead Forward: The Paradoxical Leadership Breakthrough by Kevin Cashman “Could it be that going faster and driving harder are not the answers?
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / ChangeThis
Can Business Save The World?
By Joey Reiman
"Business people are the new superheroes. And they are here to save the world. Their super power is purpose. And with it they intend to improve and save billions of lives while putting millions more dollars back into the economy. No force on the planet is greater than purpose, because purpose gives us our reason for being and doing. When you discover your purpose, you become unstoppable. It works the same for business."
Categories: changethis
