Most Recent Articles
-
Blog / News & Opinion
An Interview with Peter Kiernan, Author of Becoming China's Bitch
By 800-CEO-READ
It's an election year, a year in which everything will invariably be colored by politics. This is especially true when discussing small business, entrepreneurship, and the economy as the candidates are certain to do—ad nauseam. I recently reached out to Peter Kiernan, a successful businessman, philanthropist, entrepreneur, corporate and government advisor, and the author of the recently released and provocatively titled Becoming China's Bitch, to get a view of the challenges we face and how we can refocus the debate from what he calls "The Radical Center.
Categories: news-opinion
-
Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Art of the Sale
By 800-CEO-READ
The Art of the Sale: Learning from the Masters About the Business of Life by Philip Delves Broughton, The Penguin Press, 304 pages, $27. 95, Hardcover, April 2012, ISBN 9781594203329 Sales is complicated. No one seems to like it, whether they’re doing the selling or being sold to, yet it is one of the most common positions in the world and many sales gurus preach, “everyone is in sales.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
-
Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Advantage
By 800-CEO-READ
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Lencioni, Jossey-Bass, 220 pages, $27. 95, Hardcover, March 2012, ISBN 9780470941522 This is a book many people may have been waiting for. Although Patrick Lencioni has established himself as an elite business book writer, he writes parables, and for some, fictional stories just don’t get to the point quickly enough or clearly detail the important steps, data, and analysis of a situation in order to change and improve it.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
-
Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Coming Prosperity
By 800-CEO-READ
The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy by Philip Auerswald, Oxford University Press, 272 pages, $29. 95, Hardcover, April 2012, ISBN 9780199795178 With so much of the conversation in America today about the decline, decay, and descent of our power, the rise of others’, and the coming competition that that dynamic will create, Philip Auerswald’s new book, The Coming Prosperity, reminds us that life on Earth is not a zero-sum game. The first part of the book tackles the larger picture, the “macro-story line of the coming prosperity.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
-
Blog / News & Opinion
Rippling
By 800-CEO-READ
My last few posts have dealt with books that look around the world for case studies and examples, and this post shares that perspective. Beverly Schwartz's new book, Rippling: How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation Throughout the World reveals how a wide variety of countries, the U. S.
Categories: news-opinion
-
Blog / News & Opinion
ChangeThis: Issue 93
By 800-CEO-READ
Nine Things I Learned from Alan Mulally by Bryce G. Hoffman “I spent many hours sitting across the table from Mulally in his corner office on the twelfth floor of Ford’s world headquarters. I learned a lot about how to change cultures and streamline organizations, and I believe these principles will prove as valuable to your organization as they have to Ford.
Categories: news-opinion
-
Blog / ChangeThis
Five Rules for Pricing Excellence: Getting the Most for Your Services
By Patrick Lefler
"Pricing is critical, and short-changing your pricing strategy is the fastest way to leave cash on the table—money that will be lost forever and never recovered. So after that initial spark of innovation and the completion of the design, development and marketing phases that follow, don't screw up the process by treating price as an afterthought. Have you spent as much time and resources on price as you have on your latest social media campaign? (Probably not.) The most successful organizations know that pricing is strategic and that it can affect top-line growth and bottom-line profitability faster and more directly than anything else."
Categories: changethis
-
Blog / ChangeThis
The Unasked Question: How Do You Run a Company?
By Dick Cross
"Just ask someone today this simple question: 'How do you run a company?' Invariably, you'll be met with a blank stare. Because nobody ever asks that question. Because no one expects that there's an answer. Yet it may be the most important question we need to answer if we want to grow our businesses and fix our economy."
Categories: changethis
-
Blog / ChangeThis
We Say We Want a Revolution: How to Activate the Activist and Surf the Tidal Wave of Radical Change
By Gina Amaro Rudan
"Think about it: in one short year, the power of collective hearts and minds has toppled dictators, turned out corrupt and dysfunctional governments, brought moral accountability to media and corporate abuses, and given the financial institutions a worldwide wedgie in the form of Occupy Wall Street. There's no denying it—we're knee-deep in an era of radical change that may well transform the way our world works. I, for one, am thrilled to see the "public interest" back in the conversation. Yes, it's back in a messy, kind of unwieldy, shape-shifting way, but it is back."
Categories: changethis
-
Blog / ChangeThis
How to Avoid Becoming China's Bitch: A Radical Centrist Manifesto for Fixing What's Broken
By Peter D. Kiernan
"Let's start by gazing in the mirror. The looking glass never lies, and it reflects two things about our beloved country: We have allowed ourselves to become paralyzed. And, worse, we are so used to being poorly led that we refuse to lead ourselves. How did we let this state of affairs happen to us? Well, to begin with, we haven't chosen the right leaders for the right times—and that used to be our talent. Could these times be any more uncertain? Imagine piloting the ship of state through all the global and domestic cross currents we face today. Leadership in uncertain times must be different than when the path is clear."
Categories: changethis
