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What to Ask the Person in the Mirror
By 800-CEO-READ
Potential. It's a big word. Especially for leaders.
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International Business Machines, Making the World Work Better
Book Review by 800-CEO-READ
Who knew that corporate history could be so beautiful? Just the name of the place, International Business Machines Corporation, makes it sound like a drab and soulless place, definitely gray. But IBM has a rich and colorful history, as the material they've been producing to celebrate their 100th year in existence makes abundantly clear.
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Anything You Want
By 800-CEO-READ
Anything You Want is Derek Sivers' new book, released by Seth Godin's The Domino Project. Fundamentally, it's about helping people. Through Derek's personal story of starting his company CD Baby, he clearly shows that whatever you do, don't think first about how much doing something will cost and how much you'll make off of it.
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The Bear Basics
By Sally Haldorson
Of all childhood characters, Winnie-the-Pooh has always been a favorite. The best banana bread recipe I make is straight out of one of the many collectible Pooh books I once owned: Winnie-the-Pooh's Teatime Cookbook. The first storybook I bought my son was The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh.
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The Invisible Gorilla
By 800-CEO-READ
Hey everyone, The Invisible Gorilla was released in paperback this month. Did you miss the hardcover last year? If you did, chances are the authors would understand.
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Amazon's Best of 2011 ... So Far
By 800-CEO-READ
Amazon's books editors have announced their "2011 Best Books of the Year So Far" list. I don't recall them putting out a mid-year list in the past, but it's a great idea and they've picked some very worthy titles. Their top ten in the Business & Investing category are: Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul by Howard Schultz, Rodale Press Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions by Guy Kawasaki, Portfolio Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by David Logan, John King & Halee Fischer-Wright, Harper Paperbacks (the paperback release of the authors' 2008 book) In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy, Simon & Schuster Poke the Box by Seth Godin, The Domino Project - Powered by Amazon Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity by Josh Linkner, Jossey-Bass We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World by Simon Mainwaring, Palgrave MacMillan The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk, HarperBusiness Beyond Wealth: The Road Map to a Rich Life by Alexander Green, John Wiley & Sons Endgame: The End of the Debt Supercycle and How It Changes Everything by John Mauldin, John Wiley & Sons On that list, Disciplined Dreaming author Josh Linkner contributed a manifesto to the February issue of ChangeThis, and we have a manifesto from Simon Mainwaring coming on July 6.
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Bursting the The Filter Bubble with Phil Gerbyshak
Book Review by 800-CEO-READ
We exist under a mountain of books here at 800-CEO-READ, so we share them fairly regularly with our friends. And there's one friend in particular that always returns the favor—not by giving us more books (that would be somewhat cruel), but by giving us reviews of the books that we give him. And Phil Gerbyshak has come through again.
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Designing for Growth
By 800-CEO-READ
When we think about design, we might think about talented people making things look and work in an interesting or useful way. But how does design play into situations where our input is needed? What if we manage designers?
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Women in Business(books)
By Sally Haldorson
As I (and many others) have noted, women business book authors make up a very small percentage of the category, and while the number is growing, often books by women are more niche-oriented or geared toward the personal, so don't get the powerful push or word-of-mouth that more general business books get. So I'd like to spend a little time talking about the books written by women that have landed on my desk recently: This spring, Anne Kreamer's book, It's Always Personal, first intrigued me--no, touched me--due to the personalized publisher copy being used to promote the book. Kreamer wrote: I was told when I started work that if I wanted to be professional, I should never let my feelings show at work--that emotion had nothing to do with success.
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Change, whether we like it or not
By 800-CEO-READ
In 1986, a punk band out of Southern California called Uniform Choice released a record called Screaming For Change. Their lyrics dealt with making better personal decisions, treating people fairly, and creating positive social change through uniting different groups of people. The message resonated, and their popularity grew.
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