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The Longlist for the 2012 FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book Award
By 800-CEO-READ
Andrew Hill's article yesterday in The Financial Times announcing the longlist for the 2012 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award was entitled A reading list to reflect loss of faith in capitalism. That headline is more than a little hyperbolic. The statement in the article itself that the list "includes an array of titles charting the strengths and weaknesses of the American corporate, economic and financial system" is a bit more accurate, especially if you replace the word "American" with "global.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
How Children Succeed
By Porchlight
Paul Tough's new book could be an interesting change of pace from your usual reading list. While none of what Tough is saying will be material for instant application in the lives of every manager, entrepreneur, or salesperson (unless they happen also to be parents of young children), his book provides a unique perspective on how successful people are formed. After all, every notable figure in the world of business was once a child.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Us Plus Them
By 800-CEO-READ
Us Plus Them: Tapping the Positive Power of Difference by Todd L. Pittinsky, Harvard Business Review Press, 272 pages, $27. 00, Hardcover, August 2012, ISBN 9781422177778 This past Sunday morning, eleven miles from our office here in Milwaukee, a prejudiced and hate-filled man walked into the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin and opened fire, murdering six people and wounding four others.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Winning the Story Wars
By 800-CEO-READ
Winning the Story Wars: Why Those Who Tell—and Live—the Best Stories will Rule the Future by Jonah Sachs; Harvard Business Review Press, 264 pages, $27. 00, Hardcover, July 2012, ISBN 9781422143568 A popular pursuit for business and current affairs writers is to produce work that investigates and exposes all the various ways that marketing manipulates consumers. And there is certainly cause for concern.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Book of Business Awesome
By 800-CEO-READ
The Book of Business Awesome/The Book of Business UnAwesome, by Scott Stratten, John Wiley & Sons, 272 pages, $24. 95, Hardcover, August 2012, ISBN 9781118315224 This new book by Scott Stratten is actually two books in one. Open the cover with the title The Book of Business Awesome: How Engaging Your Customers and Employees Can Make Your Business Thrive and you’ll read some great advice about marketing, business technology, customer service, branding, human resources, public relations, and more.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / News & Opinion
Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck
By 800-CEO-READ
This new book by Anthony Tjan, Richard Harrington, and Tsun-yan Hsieh divides the successful entrepreneur into one of four traits they're biased toward. According to the authors, Heart is about passion, indicative of CEOs like Howard Schultz. Smarts is about brain power, as seen in people like Amazon's Jeff Bezos.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
ChangeThis: Issue 97
By 800-CEO-READ
The How Manifesto: Why How Business Gets Done Around the World is the New Competitive Advantage, and New Metrics for a New Reality by Dov Seidman “HOW. We’ll see that word a lot in this manifesto. Simply stated, HOW is the belief that in our more interconnected and interdependent world, we rise and fall together.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Welcome Michael Jantz!
By 800-CEO-READ
We are pleased to announce a new addition to our team! Michael Jantz has been hired to handle Special Projects. What are Special Projects?
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Failure to Engage: Understanding the Mechanism that Determines Employee Engagement and Micro-Innovation
By John Bernard
"Micro-innovation is the Holy Grail of modern management. Micro-innovation (incremental improvement) that is driven by employees is the secret to transforming the customer experience, accelerating revenue growth, and reducing costs. Yet, the level of employee engagement required for micro-innovation remains one of the most elusive outcomes in modern organizational life. Research shows in aggregate that employee engagement continues a 25-year decline. In our real-time economy, the most powerful value proposition is the ability to say "yes" to customer's unique needs, and to say it now. Only the people who work on the frontline of a business can take meaningful action in real time. Because of that, the full engagement of people is simply a competitive necessity."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Art of Not Knowing
By Craig Coggle
"In education the starting point is what you don't know. Before you can begin your research or frame your experiments you'd better make sure that you are asking the right questions about what you don't know. Trying to understand the universe through science can only come from a place of not knowing. Innovation and creativity can only exist with the wonder of not knowing. I wonder what will happen if I mix this thing here with this thing over here. I don't know but would love to find out. Curiosity is born from not knowing. Not knowing therefore can help us change and grow."
Categories: changethis
