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The Leader in You
By Sally Haldorson
In Tribes, Seth Godin writes, "Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable. In other words, if everyone could do it, they would, and it wouldn’t be worth much.
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Jack Covert Selects - Great by Choice
By 800-CEO-READ
Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen, HarperBusiness, 320 Pages, $29. 99 Hardcover, October 2011, ISBN 9780062120991 Jim Collins, author of Good to Great, which has gone on to sell well over 4 million copies, and we liked it enough to pick it as one of our 100 best business books of all time, has written, with Morten Hansen, another seminal book.
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Jack Covert Selects - Once Upon a Car
By 800-CEO-READ
Once Upon a Car: The Fall and Resurrection of America’s Big Three Auto Makers—GM, Ford and Chrysler by Bill Vlasic, William Morrow & Company, 400 Pages, $26. 99, Hardcover, October 2011, ISBN 9780061845628 A couple of years ago, Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote Too Big to Fail, a brilliant and unparalleled “fly on the wall” narrative deep from the heart of the financial meltdown. Now, Bill Vlasic has written the equivalent about the American automotive industry meltdown from 2005 to the present.
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Jack Covert Selects - Best Practices Are Stupid
By 800-CEO-READ
Best Practices Are Stupid: 40 Ways to Out-Innovate the Competition by Stephen M. Shapiro, Portfolio, 224 pages, $22. 95, Hardcover, September 2011, ISBN 9781591843856 Imagine a company that has zeroed in on an opportunity to solve a problem or fulfill a need.
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Iron Butterflies
By 800-CEO-READ
I was raised in a single-parent household. This is not a stark revelation at this point, same as the fact that my mother raised us in poverty – with some tremendous help from my grandparents, to whom I will always be grateful. The reason I bring it up is because of the amazing things my mother was able to accomplish despite limited financial resources but with the unlimited resources of inner strength, caring and tough love.
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Innovate
By 800-CEO-READ
Readers of this blog might be familiar with books on innovation by authors like Steven Johnson, Stephen Shapiro, Clay Christensen, and others. How do the ideas we read in these books get put to use? Are they just words on pages or screens, or do they translate to our activities?
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The Power of LEO
By 800-CEO-READ
We might be familiar with Six Sigma, Lean Management, Total Quality Management, and other quality management tools, and to some degree, they each can provide great results. So, do we need another? Subir Chowdhury has written a new book called The Power of Leo that shows that we do.
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Friday Link
By 800-CEO-READ
The world could really use more men like Amit Gupta. Amit is a starter. He helped build and launch ChangeThis, served as its first Managing Editor, and is the brains and gumption behind both Photojojo and Jelly.
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Practical Genius
Book Review by 800-CEO-READ
Geniuses are people on a higher level. We imagine them as gurus and experts whose every word seems like the perfect articulation of whatever it is they speak of. And certainly, those people do exist.
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ChangeThis: Issue 87
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Starting this month, ChangeThis manifestos will have a slightly different look. We've had repeated requests from readers to make our manifestos easier to read on their mobile devices, and we've done just that. Our designer extraordinaire, Joy Panos Stauber of Stauber Design Studios in Chicago, Illinois is the woman who makes our manifestos sparkle every month, and she has now designed a new template for them that retains most of the visual elements you're all familiar with, while tweaking the dimensions, margins, and aspect ratio to make it more mobile-friendly.
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