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Jack Covert Selects - Hannibal and Me
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Hannibal and Me: What History’s Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failure by Andreas Kluth, Riverhead Books, 336 Pages, $26. 95, Hardcover, January 2012, ISBN 9781594488122 The key thing to know about this book is apparent in the title: Hannibal and Me (emphasis mine). Andreas Kluth, a writer for The Economist, presents the biography of the great Roman military leader, Hannibal, then weaves in a parallel line of stories about other types of heroes, artists, writers, inventors and revolutionists, all the while developing insight about human behavior.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Conversations for Creating Star Performers
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I first met Shawn Kent Hayashi when she spoke at our 2010 Author Pow Wow. Much of her talk focused on how to make better connections with people through conversation, but also how to inspire change through these same conversations. Her new book is titled Conversations for Creating Star Performers: Go Beyond the Performance Review to Inspire Excellence Every Day.
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Category Winners of the 2011 Business Book Awards (Video)
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For those of you that like video instead of just reading who the category winners are of the 2011 Business Book Awards, we put together a quick 2 minute video for your viewing and listening pleasure. Who will win the prestigious Book of the Year award? Stay tuned to this blog, and we'll share it next week.
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Category Winners for the 2011 Business Book Awards
By Sally Haldorson
The time has come! Drum roll, please. .
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Blog / News & Opinion
Smart Trust
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It seems that cynicism has become a national pastime. Politicians don’t trust each other. Businesspeople don’t trust the politicians and much of the public doesn’t trust either group.
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Synergist
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Les McKeown's new book The Synergist: How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Success, comes out at a perfect time to integrate into any group for the new year. All groups, teams, and organizations have goals they want to accomplish - things that will make them happy and successful - but the road to get there is often filled with uncertainty, apprehension, meltdowns, and gridlock. In fact, this process has become normal.
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Blog / Staff Picks
From Values to Action
Book Review by 800-CEO-READ
"The National Leadership Index 2010, compiled by the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, showed that American's confidence in their leaders was 'significantly below average' for a third year in a row. " From Values to Action, page 3.
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Blog / News & Opinion
2011 Business Book Awards: The Short List
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What was the Best Business Book written in 2011? Watch this 90 second video and find out more. Ok, so we didn't tell you what the best book was.
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Blog / News & Opinion
5-4-3: The E-Book
By Sally Haldorson
Five years ago, we chose The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. Since then, thousands of business books have been published. Today we are presenting a new ebook, 5-4-3, to celebrate the paperback version of The 100 Best, now available digitally and updated with expanded reviews, new informative sidebars, a fresh introduction, and a closing manifesto (read more about the changes here.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Our (unexpected) End-of-2011 Recommendation List
By Sally Haldorson
We here at 800-CEO-READ produce a lot of lists throughout the year. We offer a monthly and year-end Inc. /800-CEO-READ Best Seller list.
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