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Blog / News & Opinion
Business Beach Reads?
By Sally Haldorson
We try to keep most of our recommendations oriented around business reading, but we do get an eclectic selection of books sent to us. Since I'm about to take a few days of stay-cation, it seemed just the right time to suggest this multifarious collection of reads appropriate for hot summer days. These books may not spark a change revolution in your company or inspire the perfect new product to rush into development, but, they will entertain you and make you think--just a little, but not too much, because after all, it is vacation.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Excerpts
The Innovator's DNA - An Excerpt
By 800-CEO-READ
You may know Clayton Christensen for his classic works on innovation, The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution. In fact, The Innovator's Dilemma was included as one of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. Todd wrote something that struck me as I revisited the review he wrote for the book today.
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Progress Principle
By 800-CEO-READ
Summer is the perfect time for a book like this. Many of us are less busy than other times of year, taking vacations, looking forward to weekend events, etc. There are a lot of distractions in summer!
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Digital Diet
Book Review by 800-CEO-READ
Daniel Sieberg is the host of Tech This Out! On ABC news, where he reports on the latest technology and recommends the best gadgets. But in The Digital Diet: The 4-Step Plan to Break Your Tech Addiction and Regain Balance in Your Life, he does something somewhat antithetical to that purpose—reporting on the growing menace of digital addiction affecting so many of our lives, he lays out a 28 day diet to break it.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Obvious Choices
By 800-CEO-READ
Lately, I've been thinking a lot about the case studies used in business thought. There are some massively powerful examples to learn from. For instance, we all recognize the genius of Apple.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Accidental Creative
By 800-CEO-READ
The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment’s Notice by Todd Henry, Portfolio, $25. 95, 240 pages, Hardcover, July 2011, ISBN 9781591844013 Todd Henry is a self-described “arms dealer for the creative revolution. ” Continuing that metaphor, you can think of him as a freedom fighter of sorts, but he wisely understands that every struggle (even the creative struggle) needs to be organized.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Great Again
By 800-CEO-READ
Great Again: Revitalizing America's Entrepreneurial Leadership by Henry R. Nothhaft with David Kline, Harvard Business Review Press, $26. 95, 193 pages, Hardcover, May 2011, ISBN 9781422158579 When I read the essay we received from Henry R.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Art of Uncertainty
By 800-CEO-READ
The Art of Uncertainty: How to Live in the Mystery of Life and Love It by Dennis Merritt Jones, Tarcher, 304 pages, $14. 95, Paperback, June 2011, ISBN 9781585428724 “I don’t know. ” That’s a phrase most of us try to avoid.
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Blog / Staff Picks
I'm There For You, Baby!
Book Review by 800-CEO-READ
Neal Senturia is not for everyone. After all, the cover of his book is a barbed wire fence flipping the bird, which I didn't even know was possible until this book came out. I'm There For You, Baby: An Entrepreneur's Guide to the Galaxy is not as abrasive as its cover may lead you to believe, but it definitely has a devil-may-care attitude, and an irreverent, unapologetic tone.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
The New Guy at 800-CEO-READ
By 800-CEO-READ
While many people take summers off, we at 800-CEO-READ have been brewing up some new things to help people work better. But it's going to take a lot to execute these ideas, so we've added Bob Warde to our team to make sure they're handled the best they can be. Who's Bob?
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