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Blog / ChangeThis
Six Reasons Why the Sharing Society (aka the Mesh) Will Trump the Ownership Society
By Lisa Gansky
"Get out of your chairs and into the streets, kids—the Internet has come to town. Literally. The IT revolution started by moving data around. Now mobile devices have spread the revolution to physical things—to the street. Making a reservation for a car, bike, a home or a meal from your phone connects you to the company's data, which may include information on your preferences, how they compare to other people's preferences like you (to make juicier, more personalized offers), and data collected from sensors in the car, bike, home or at the cafe. Your social networks allow you to make better informed choices of goods and services, as well as recommend the things you like. Mobile plus GPS changes everything. It means you can get more of what you want exactly when you want it. It means convenient access to fresh goods and services. Convenient access means you don't have to own something in order to have a pulse on its exact location and availability; you can use it—share it—save money while sparing hassles.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / Excerpts
How the West Was Lost - An Excerpt
By 800-CEO-READ
Farrar, Straus and Giroux has some really great books on economics out right now, with more in the works and on the way. I will talk about Shraga F. Biran's Opportunism on this blog soon, but I'd like to turn now to a book that's being released today—New York Times bestselling author Dambisa Moyo's How the West Was Lost.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects – Enchantment
By 800-CEO-READ
Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions by Guy Kawasaki, Portfolio, 224 Pages, $26. 95, Hardcover, March 2011, ISBN 9781591843795 Full disclosure: I have known Guy Kawasaki for over twenty years and have enjoyed each and every one of his books—my favorite being The Art of the Start. But, however biased I may be from past experience, it is safe to say that his new book, Enchantment, continues his mission of spreading fresh, new ideas that are relevant and accessible to all business people.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The New Capitalist Manifesto
By 800-CEO-READ
The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business by Umair Haque, Harvard Business Review Press, 221 pages, $26. 95, Hardcover, January 2011, ISBN 9781422158586 There have been many books released over the last two years about the financial crisis that shook the foundations of our economic system a short time ago, but none have addressed how weak those foundations really are—that maybe, after over 200 years, the very cornerstones of industrial-age capitalism as unstable and badly in need of repair. In The New Capitalist Manifesto, Umair Haque lays out how they can be, and are already beginning to be, rebuilt.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Everything Is Obvious
By 800-CEO-READ
Everything Is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer by Duncan Watts, Crown Business, 352 pages, $26. 00, Hardcover, March 2011, ISBN 9780385531689 We’ve all been told to use common sense, usually after we’ve made a common mistake. And it is pretty easy to criticize someone else’s decision making by saying, “Why, it’s just common sense!
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / News & Opinion
Split Second Persuasion
By 800-CEO-READ
How do you change people's minds? In psychologist Dr. Kevin Dutton's new book Split-Second Persuasion: The Ancient Art & New Science of Changing Minds, he explores that very question.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Conversations for Change
By 800-CEO-READ
I first met Shawn Kent Hayashi at our Author Pow Wow early this year. Her talk at the Pow Wow, as well as her book, Conversations for Change: 12 Ways to Say it Right When it Matters Most, are about understanding communication styles, and developing your own in order to achieve objectives and strengthen relationships. Recently, Shawn asked me a few questions about good books for leaders, and my opinions of communication that works, and doesn't.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Snowbound
By Sally Haldorson
Jack has always said that we would never close unless the city buses stopped running, and as far as I can remember, this is the first time 800-CEO-READ has been forced to close due to weather. The blizzard last night was everything the weather experts advertised (for once) and there is a Civil Danger Alert for the City of Milwaukee. The schools are closed.
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
inBubbleWrap Giveaway!
By Sally Haldorson
Last week on inBubbleWrap we offered Content Rules by Ann Handley & C. C. Chapman.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Wii are 800-CEO-READ
By 800-CEO-READ
Behold, the staff here at 800-CEO-READ. To learn more about us, visit our new about us page. *Wii portraits by 800-CEO-READ staff.
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
