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Addressing The Behavior Gap in the New Year
By 800-CEO-READ
We don't recommend too many personal finance titles around here. The last one I can remember us being really excited about was Lee Eisenberg's The Number, which came out in 2006 and didn't do as well with the general readership as we thought and hoped it would. Financial literacy is a immensely important topic, but most personal finance books are rather dense—as well-written, easy-to-understand and exciting to read as the assembly instructions to the bar stool you just got for Christmas.
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The Little Black Book of Innovation
By 800-CEO-READ
What a better time to think about innovation than the start of a new year? As we attempt to make this year more successful and fulfilled than the previous, we think about new ways to do what we do, ways to refine our efforts, and ultimately, grow as individuals. Innovation might be the way to achieve those things, but the problem is that we're often not sure exactly what innovation even means, let alone how to practice it.
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Introducing the Candidates: General Business
By Sally Haldorson
Over the course of this week, we will be introducing, by category, the candidates for the 2011 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards. Even though only one of the candidates can win the big prize, good business books deserve an audience, and perhaps one on this list will be the winning book. .
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The 8cr Method
By 800-CEO-READ
Eric Ryan, co-founder of the home care and personal products company Method, and also co-author of the book The Method Method, stopped by our office today to do some work with Bob for our upcoming KnowledgeBlocks product. It was great to hear his insight into starting, and running, such an innovative company. For years, my wife and I have been not only customers, but huge fans, as we both long wondered why the stuff that was supposed to make our homes, and us, clean, seemed coincidentally harmful in so many ways.
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Introducing the Candidates: Creativity/Innovation, Marketing/Sales
By Sally Haldorson
Over the course of this week, we will be introducing, by category, the candidates for the 2011 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards. Even though only one of the candidates can win the big prize, good business books deserve an audience, and perhaps one on this list will be the winning book. .
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Introducing the Candidates: Leadership, Management
By Sally Haldorson
Over the course of this week, we will be introducing, by category, the candidates for the 2011 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards. Even though only one of the candidates can win the big prize, good business books deserve an audience, and perhaps one on this list will be the winning book. .
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Ask 8cr! on Twitter
By 800-CEO-READ
Years ago, I started an email list with some of our InBubbleWrap audience called "Ask 8cr! " Each month, I'd collect emails from the group about what business challenges they faced, then I would pick a book and review it in light of that situation, and send a copy of the book to the submitter. Later, we incorporated some of these interactions at our blog.
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Introducing the Candidates: Entrepreneurship & Finance
By Sally Haldorson
Over the course of this week, we will be introducing, by category, the candidates for the 2011 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards. Even though only one of the candidates can win the big prize, good business books deserve an audience, and perhaps one on this list will be the winning book. .
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Introducing the Candidates: Personal Development
By Sally Haldorson
Over the course of this week, we will be introducing, by category, the candidates for the 2011 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards. Even though only one of the candidates can win the big prize, good business books deserve an audience, and perhaps one on this list will be the winning book. .
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Revisiting Malcolm Gladwell
By Sally Haldorson
One of the most fascinating trends to follow in business literature is the continual expansion of what a business book actually is. The parameters have widened significantly from the influential management and theory books of the 1980s. While there are still books made available each year on such practical matters as team building, developing a social media strategy, making a new hire, and sensible budgeting, there are also a great number of books that study decision-making from a neuroscience angle or theorize about how social and environmental influences affect human behavior.
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