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Are Your Customers Worth Tchotchkes?
By 800-CEO-READ
Some companies send out coffee cups with their name on it. Or pens, or calendars. Other companies give away polo shirts.
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Some Perspective from What Technology Wants
By 800-CEO-READ
"The hydrogen atoms in a human body completely refresh every seven years. As we age we are really a river of cosmically old atoms. The carbons in our bodies were produced in the dust of a star.
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What Brings You to 800-CEO-READ?
By 800-CEO-READ
Some people like to read about the new books that are out, some have to order 50 copies for an event, some want to see the best-selling titles on the Inc. /8cr Bestseller list, and others just want to learn more. So, what brings you here?
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Summer 2010: International Best Sellers
By 800-CEO-READ
I know, I know - I promised there would not be a long gap for best selling books around the country - but it has been a pretty busy summer! So, I will not prolong the wait. .
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New inBubbleWrap giveaway: UnMarketing
By Sally Haldorson
In everything we do, as business people, as employees, as leaders, we are marketing ourselves. We are presenting our ideas, hoping for buy-in. We are presenting ourselves, hoping for acceptance.
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ChangeThis: Issue 75
By 800-CEO-READ
Personality Poker: How to Create High-Performing Innovation Teams by Stephen M. Shapiro "'Opposites attract,' or at least that’s the line we’ve all been fed. However, in reality, nothing could be further from the truth.
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An Embarrassment of Riches
By Porchlight
In 1997, Sebastian Junger wrote a great book called The Perfect Storm. The phrase, “a perfect storm” is used when multiple things come together to create an extraordinary experience. That thought fleeted through my mind last night as I sat reading Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, because, including Freedom, I’m actually reading three brilliant books in three rather different genres.
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Blog / ChangeThis
Business Intelligence vs. Human Intuition & Why You Should Welcome The Robot Overlords
By Garth Sundem
"In the weird, wild world outside the Petri dish, the correct decision is not always the right decision. There's disconnect between the robot logic of business intelligence and human intuition of right and wrong. Does this disconnect imply that humans use free will to promote the koombayah ideas of fairness, morality, and goodwill toward men and most charismatic megafauna? Or is the human brain simply a cold, rational, pre-programmed computer that happens to take into account more factors than a Game Theory model?"
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Looking Around the Corner
By Robert H. Bloom
"From the perspective of my corner office and experience in boardrooms, I observed that we business leaders planned our future by using previous years' financial results as our base line. Today, this relevant but regressive methodology is more-often-than-not still in use, for want of a progressive process coupled with robust software. This fixation on an obsolete planning process guarantees that firms that use it will not keep pace with the rapid, substantive changes in our business world."
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Blog / ChangeThis
How to Be Effective: Structuring Change, Managing Change, Leading Change
By Jonathan L. S. Byrnes
"When I talk to former students, clients, and executives, I've found that their biggest concern is being effective—going beyond conceiving great new things and actually driving them into practice. I've also seen that most people make two big mistakes when they think about change: They fail to realize that managing change requires a really different process from day-to-day management, not harder but very different. They approach change in a one-size-fits-all way. Successful change, being effective, involves three things: structuring change, managing change and leading change. I call this The Golden Triangle of Change."
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