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Amazon's Best Books of the Year... So Far
By 800-CEO-READ
Amazon has been putting out a mid-year list of the best books for the past few years now, and released this (mid) year's list yesterday. The books in the Business & Leadership category are: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg, Random House The Tools: Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity by Phil Stutz & Barry Michels, Spiegel & Grau How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Big News from Seth Godin and Portfolio
By 800-CEO-READ
Seth Godin is returning to Portfolio! That is the big news. But the news is delightfully nuanced if you've been following Seth's progression since he left Portfolio in 2010 to start the Domino Project, which was as its name implied a project, and by almost all measures a successful one.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
New KnowledgeBlocks Explorations
By Sally Haldorson
Every month over on KnowledgeBlocks, we publish three business book explorations that examine a narrow subject within a broader business topic. Each begins with a featured book and then branches out, introducing you to author insights via podcast or interview, other related books, curated links, and brief analyses that will help you build your business knowledge. In June, members can access these Explorations: On the Being a Leader channel, you'll find an exploration titled "Beyond Pros and Cons" which features the book Judgment Calls: 12 Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams that got Them Right by Thomas Davenport and Brook Manville as a jumping off point for a deep dive into decision making.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Honest Truth about Dishonesty
By 800-CEO-READ
The Honest Truth about Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone—Especially Ourselves by Dan Ariely, Harper, 304 pages, $26. 99, Hardcover, June 2012, ISBN 9780062183590 If Dan Ariely’s new book is anything like his last two, it will sell like gangbusters and enlighten a lot of people on a matter of the mind we take for granted, or don’t even stop to consider. And the book, The Honest Truth about Dishonesty, comes at a time when we can use some pause and reflection.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Hour Between Dog and Wolf
By 800-CEO-READ
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust by John Coates, The Penguin Press, 352 pages, $27. 95, Hardcover, June 2012, ISBN 9781594203381 Many of today’s top graduates, the best engineers and scientists, mathematicians and physicists of the day, have been lured to Wall Street by the overwhelming amounts of money the big firms there are offering. One would assume that with all that talent and brain power, all the sophisticated risk analysis they’ve done and all the money that flows to Wall Street every day, that the world economy would be humming along.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Wait
By 800-CEO-READ
Wait: The Art and Science of Delay by Frank Partnoy, PublicAffairs, 304 pages, $26. 99, Hardcover, June 2012, ISBN 9781610390040 Frank Partnoy won the Biographies & Narratives section of our 2009 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards for his outstanding history of Ivar Krueger in The Match King. I am a big fan of Biographies, so I was partial to it, but his was one of the best I’ve read in recent years.
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Blog / News & Opinion
ChangeThis: Issue 95
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How to Make Change Stick: Kill the Company How to Make Change Stick: Kill the Company by Lisa Bodell “Innovation is not just about data analysis, plans and processes, and thinking outside the box. More than anything else, innovation is about change. And the truth is that as much as we’d all like to think otherwise, we are all hardwired to resist it.
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Struggle
By Nate St. Pierre
"Just about everyone you come across today is going through some kind of struggle in their lives. Most people bear such a heavy burden, quietly and alone, so focused on making sure it looks like they have everything under control that they forget they don't have to have it all under control, and they certainly don't have to walk their road alone. That there is hope and help, if they would only look for it. You're probably going through a struggle right now, even as you read this."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The ROE Manifesto: How to Maximize Your Return On Energy
By R. Michael Rose
"Return on investment is the investment of time, money and energy. There is only so much time and money and just like time and money, energy can be exhausted too. It's easy to measure how much time we have and how much money we have left, but energy is something that is hard to explain, much less tie to business results. Until now."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
A Three Trillion Dollar Reason to Work Together: Public-Private Partnerships Are Here to Stay
By Mary Scott Nabers
"All across the land trouble is brewing, as tax revenues continue to shrink and The Great Recession slogs on. ... Almost every state has reduced educational funds and numerous school districts are being forced to lay off teachers, reduce bus services and eliminate curriculum. Colleges and universities, public hospitals, law enforcement organizations and public transportation agencies are struggling to find additional revenues. Roads and bridges can no longer be maintained with public funds. Relief won't come quickly or easily, but one thing is crystal clear: government must reach out to private sector partners for innovative solutions."
Categories: changethis
