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Hudson Booksellers Best Books of 2010
By 800-CEO-READ
If you both read and travel regularly, you have most likely purchased a book from Hudson Booksellers. They have 65 bookstores and sell books in over 350 Hudson newsstands in airports and transportation terminals throughout North America. They have been releasing a "best of" list every year since 2007, and announced 2010's list yesterday.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Where Do You Want to Go?
By 800-CEO-READ
Maybe you don't really know. You feel stuck in a rut. Maybe, like I did, you just want to get away.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Excerpts
An Excerpt from Social Innovation, Inc.
By 800-CEO-READ
Today, we have an excerpt from Jason Saul's new book, Social Innovation, Inc. , published by Jossey-Bass last month. Recognizing the influence that global corporations have on almost every aspect of our lives today, Jason asked himself some very tricky questions, like: Could Walmart possibly offer a better solution to health care than Medicaid?
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Buy-In
By 800-CEO-READ
Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down by John P. Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead, Harvard Business Press, 192 pages, $22.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Personality Poker
By 800-CEO-READ
Personality Poker: The Playing Card Tool for Driving High-Performance Teamwork and Innovation by Stephen Shapiro, Portfolio, 272 Pages, $25. 95, Hardcover, October 2010, ISBN 9781591843603 Everyone faces business challenges, and everyone can think up different ways to approach work, but the way we do these things can be categorized into certain styles. For some, results are the focus.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Truth about Leadership
By 800-CEO-READ
The Truth about Leadership: The No-Fads, Heart-of-the-Matter Facts You Need to Know by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, Jossey-Bass, 197 Pages, $24.
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Blog / News & Opinion
A New inBubbleWrap Giveaway: BUY-IN by John Kotter
By Sally Haldorson
John Kotter's work is really the cream of the crop. 800-CEO-READ's business book guru, Jack Covert, chose Kotter's 1996 book, Leading Change, as one of the most essential leadership books for The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. In Jack's review of the book, he wrote: "[C]hange is easy to start, difficult to grow, and really hard to sustain over the long haul.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
800-CEO-READ in Japan????
By Aaron Schleicher
Jon Mueller became the GM at 8CR a little over a year ago, and has done a really great job making sure that 8CR continues to move forward in the business book world while preserving our off the wall, quirky culture. Jon is thousands of miles away from the office this week (playing music in Japan), so we wanted to share a little bit of what he's doing while we're in the office doing what we do best (playing the office Wii and listening to tunes—while reading, promoting, and selling books of course! ).
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Blog / Excerpts
Explaining Goat Economics by Vikram Akula
By 800-CEO-READ
Vikram Akula, founder and chairperson of the SKS Microfinance, was kind enough to provide a post for us this week. In it, he tells the story of how he ended up meeting with some of the richest men Earth to explain to them how the poor make money. His new book, A Fistful of Rice, Is being released tomorrow by Harvard Business Review Press.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / News & Opinion
Get Justice This Weekend with Michael J. Sandel
By 800-CEO-READ
Michael J. Sandel has long had the most popular undergraduate course at Harvard. "Justice" has enrolled over 14,000 students since it began, and been so popular that, in 2007, Harvard began making the course available to alumni around the world through webstreaming and podcasting.
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