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Jack Covert Selects - Now You See It
By 800-CEO-READ
Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn by Cathy N. Davidson, Viking Books, 352 pages, $27. 95, Hardcover, August 2011, ISBN 9780670022823 The Internet did not exist in most offices or schools 15 years ago; today, most of us couldn’t do our work without it.
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Possibility of Language
By Sally Haldorson
Today, Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Levine was named the new poet laureate of the United States. NPR's story on Levine describes his work this way: "Born in Detroit in 1928, Levine has used his poetry to examine blue-collar life, often embroidering everyday events with a sense of myth. " He has been described as the "Whitman of the industrial heartland" and commonly as 'the working man's poet'.
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What do we know?
By 800-CEO-READ
I love the feeling of having my expectations broken. Most of us can point to a time where we received special treatment beyond what we assumed, or knew from previous experience, and that's always a great experience. But what I really enjoy is when I discover something very obvious, so obvious that I never saw it.
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Blog / Staff Picks
Invest Like a Girl
Book Review by 800-CEO-READ
634 points. That is quite a dramatic drop. How should we react?
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Blog / News & Opinion
How Did They Do It?
By Sally Haldorson
In our The 100 Best Business Books of All Time, we included a chapter of recommended biographies. Jack has always championed the form as a valid way to learn valuable business lessons, not just as good entertainment. In the opening of the chapter, we explained: How did they do it?
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Blog / News & Opinion
PRSA Presents Blog Panel in Milwaukee
By 800-CEO-READ
The PRSA Southeastern Wisconsin chapter presents: Blogger Relations for Dummies (And PR Pros) Thursday, August 25 Reception: 11:30 a. m. ; Lunch and program 12-1:30 p.
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Blog / News & Opinion
ChangeThis: Issue 85
By 800-CEO-READ
Sober Entrepreneurship: Why Modern Entrepreneurs Won’t Succeed Under the Influence by Carol Roth "If we are going to hang our hat on entrepreneurship, we need to ensure more successes, avoid the number of true failures and make sure that we have the right people pursuing the right opportunities at the right time with the right preparation. Friends don’t let friends start businesses under the influence. ” Adapt: The Benefits of Safe Mistakes by Tim Harford “We cling on to the idea that successful business people are talented leaders running objectively brilliant corporations.
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Blog / ChangeThis
Right Fights: Making Conflict Productive
By Saj-Nicole Joni
"Your job as a leader isn't to eliminate dissonance–your job is to make conflict productive. Right Fights enable you and your team to stop fighting about everything that doesn't matter and start fighting, in a high-minded manner, about what really matters. I promise you this: Master the competencies of Right Fights and you will achieve sustainable breakthroughs and effect real organizational change. The fuel of human invention is found in dissonance, diversity, competition, and even conflict. That's how you win in the marketplace. Start by asking yourself: Is this the right fight to fight?"
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Lessons from S&P Recession Survivors
By Larry Mallak
"Investors have heard many decry the decade of the 2000s as the 'lost decade.' A dollar invested in the S&P 500 on the first trading day of 1999 saw it worth just 65 cents a decade later (3/31/09 is our cutoff point). This "underperformance" is seen by many as a failure of the U.S. economic engine. If we look at the Top 20 performers of the S&P 500 during that same time period, we see a vastly different story. Instead of a 35% loss during that time, the Top 20 earned an average 426% return in stock price, excluding dividends. What accounted for this differential performance during this "lost decade"? This manifesto offers some insights based on an analysis of the Top 20's business environment and strategies deployed during the 2000s. Then, we recount some lessons that any firm can use to build a solid economic future."
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Blog / ChangeThis
A General's Guide to Deploying an Army of Entrepreneurs
By Jennifer Prosek
"When you build a team, are you focused on joining links in a chain or weaving together a strong rope of intertwined employees? While I may have started out building a chain–mindful that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link—I came to see that interweaving the threads of a rope came much closer to meeting my goal of a cohesive, interactive team. That way, I eliminate the inevitable spaces between chain links, replacing them with a 'rope' team, where every thread is bound together. [...] This is the model I used as I found, trained and deployed my staff—my Army—and I could not be more satisfied and proud of the results we've had and the achievements I see on a daily basis."
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