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Blog / ChangeThis
Leapfrogging to Breakthroughs
By Soren Kaplan
"Surprise is the enemy. Or, is it? Could we be overlooking—even resisting—one of the most essential catalysts of personal and business breakthroughs? Could we be ignoring the most fundamental tool that anyone can use to create disruptive innovation and change? Here's the fundamental problem. Game changers—whether products, services, or new business models—don't necessarily result from big visions, carefully crafted strategies, and meticulous plans. Creating disruptive, game changing innovation requires leaders to live with uncertainty, embrace ambiguity, and respond to both good and bad surprises along the way. We've been trained to resist the very thing that's needed to leapfrog to the next level. We need to learn to live with—even embrace—what most of us view as the enemy."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Slow Fix
By 800-CEO-READ
The Slow Fix: Solve Problems, Work Smarter, and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed by Carl Honoré, HarperOne, 224 pages, $25. 99, Hardcover, January 2013, ISBN 9780061128820 After reading the first six pages of The Slow Fix at my desk, I turned to a coworker and exclaimed, “This is so good! ” And that’s truly the best way to react to a book, isn’t it?
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Org
By 800-CEO-READ
The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office by Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan, Twelve, $26. 99, 320 pages, Hardcover, January 2013, ISBN 9780446571593 Just as market theory sits on the foundation of Adam Smith’s ideas, made famous in The Wealth of Nations, the study of organizational economics began with the work of Ronald Coase in a famous article entitled “The Nature of the Firm. ” Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan explain in their new book, The Org: Coase’s conception of the market involved a lot more friction and discord than Adam Smith’s original vision.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Midnight Lunch
By 800-CEO-READ
Midnight Lunch: The 4 Phases of Team Collaboration Success from Thomas Edison’s Lab by Sarah Miller Caldicott, John Wiley & Sons, 284 pages, $21. 95, Hardcover, December 2012, ISBN 9781118407868 Midnight Lunch is a book about collaboration, and about contemporizing the prolific Thoman Edison’s belief that collaboration is key to innovation. The title itself refers to the late night gatherings of team members at Edison’s famous laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey—collaborative sessions that spawned inventions and innovations that every schoolchild in America grows up learning about.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / News & Opinion
New Year, New KnowledgeBlocks
By Sally Haldorson
For the past few months, we've been remodeling KnowledgeBlocks, and we are thrilled to announce that the new site is now live! What you'll see when you visit the new version of KnowledgeBlocks is a trimmer, more focused, and most importantly, free site. As always, our mission is to help you build your business knowledge.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Excerpts
Megaupload: Crooks or Corsairs?
By 800-CEO-READ
Rodolphe Durand Jean-Philippe Vergne by Rodolphe Durand & Jean-Philippe Vergne Kim Dotcom and his company Megaupload have just crossed over to the dark side. What can we learn from this contemporary pirate’s tale? Once a hard-working employee for well-established companies, Kim Dotcom became a crook, stealing for his own good whilst the State desperately tried to make new legislations to prevent file sharing from proliferating.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / News & Opinion
Our 'Favorite' Business Books of 2012
By Sally Haldorson
Last week, we released our picks for the Best Business Book of 2012 as well as the eight category winners. Following in the footsteps of the New York Times, if we may, who asked a few of their esteemed book reviewers to reveal a list of their favorite books of 2012 ("Favorite is not synonymous with best, so this process can be painful. Brutal honesty is required.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
We are booksellers. We are community builders.
By 800-CEO-READ
Bookselling, as a cultural and community-building practice, has been around a long time. Even hubs where people gathered around books, absorbed in their presence and engaged with other readers, is nothing new. The Alexandrian Library, founded in 300 BC in Egypt, encouraged the procurement of books, both from sellers and consumers alike.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
LeaveSmarter: Martha Rogers
By Porchlight
Last month, Martha Rogers was in town for our private LeaveSmarter event, sponsored by BMO Harris and Whyte Hirschboek Dudek. Martha delivered a powerful hour-long talk focusing on the benefits of putting the customer at the center of your business. As Martha puts it, ".
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 2012 Business Book of the Year!
By 800-CEO-READ
The Advantage is a smart, quiet book. The valedictorian of the business book class of 2012 whose extracurricular is the chess club rather than debate or pep. The title and cover are straightforward.
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