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The 2010 Business Book Awards
By 800-CEO-READ
2010 was a fine year for business books. In fact, it was almost difficult to keep track of all the great books coming across our desks. Come late summer though, the entries for our Business Book Awards started to pour in, and before long, piled up around us.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
ChangeThis: Issue 78
By 800-CEO-READ
Practically Radical: Four Simple Truths about Leading Change and Making a Difference by William C. Taylor “We are living through the age of disruption. You can’t do big things if you’re content with doing things a little better than everyone else or a little differently than how you did them before.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Zen of Business: 7 Habits of the Highly Creative
By Matthew E. May
"Frank Zappa once said: 'The most important thing in art is the frame. For paint, literally. For other arts, figuratively—because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where the art stops and the real world begins.' What he's saying is that how we frame something, like an idea or a problem, for example, has everything to do with how well it turns out. He's saying that there is an art to framing. That framing is an art. Frank Zappa had it right. And the reason I believe that is because how I view the world changed completely a few years ago, during an eight year long engagement with a very large and very successful Japanese company, the focus of which was essentially to help unite two distinctly different cultures, Eastern and Western, together in a common approach. This meant I had to straddle two different ways of looking at the world. Two completely different ways of looking at the same thing."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Strength Is the Group: A Business Case about Ants, Chips and Your Team's Breakthrough Results
By Adrian Gostick, Chester Elton
"In the mid-cretaceous period—sometime around 120 million years ago—a concept emerged that changed the world as we know it. And although the science to prove the significance of this concept has rested under our noses, under our feet, and even sometimes crawling onto our toes, as humans most of us are dumb-founded by it. 'It' is the concept of teamwork. It has been perfected by possibly one of the smallest insects seen by the human eye—the ant—and yet it is an elusive concept to master in business."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The RARE Manifesto: How Building Better Relationships with Your People and Your Customers Can Deliver Sustainable Growth
By Adrian Swinscoe
"What if we lived in a world where all companies took care of their existing customers with as much effort as they pursued new customers, where companies were trusted and liked, where doing business with a company was a good experience, where companies and their employees cared about their customers and each other? What kind of world would that be? I believe that it is a world that is worth striving for."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Happiness Work Ethic
By Shawn Achor
"The single greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy is a positive and engaged workforce. That is not conjecture. That is now a confirmed scientific fact. [...] In my research and consulting in 42 different countries during the worst economic downturn in recent history, I have discovered that most companies and schools around the world follow the same implicit formula: If you work hard, you will become successful, and once you become successful, then you'll be happy. This pattern of belief explains what most often motivates us in life. We think: If I just get that raise, or hit that next sales target, I'll be happy. If I can just get that next good grade, I'll be happy. If I lose that five pounds, I'll be happy. And so on. Success first, happiness second. The only problem is that this formula is scientifically backwards."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Past Is Prologue: 4 Cases For An Old Approach to New Media
By Jonathan Salem Baskin
"Perhaps what we're experiencing isn't an exception to the experiences of past generations, but rather another opportunity to do things we human beings have always done... only faster, more broadly, etc. Certainly our technology is also contributing novel changes to how we live, but I wonder if those instances are circumstantial to the more fundamental behaviors that prompt them. Applying these lessons of history to today's social media planning might yield better (or at least different) insights, and ignoring this knowledge leaves business leaders bereft of an extensive track record of what works, what doesn't work, and why. In fact, history provides antecedents for every behavioral, cultural, and commercial quality we ascribe to our latest social media technologies ... "
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Practically Radical: Four Simple Truths about Leading Change and Making a Difference
By William C. Taylor
"We are living through the age of disruption. You can't do big things if you're content with doing things a little better than everyone else or a little differently than how you did them before. In an era of hyper-competition and non-stop dislocation, the only way to stand out from the crowd is to stand for something special. Today, the most successful organizations don't just out-compete their rivals. They redefine the terms of competition by embracing one-of-a-kind ideas in a world filled with me-too thinking."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / News & Opinion
inBubbleWrap: My Orange Duffel Bag giveaway!
By Sally Haldorson
As Sam Bracken, author of My Orange Duffel Bag, says below, "Everyone has their own story. " By all accounts, Sam Bracken's story is one of success. He graduated with a 3.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects – Practically Radical
By 800-CEO-READ
Practically Radical: Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself by William C. Taylor, William Morrow & Co. , 320 pages, $27.
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