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Blog / News & Opinion
The Dragonfly Effect
By 800-CEO-READ
What do we post on social media sites? Should we only announce marketing related info, or get more personal? Should we have individual accounts, or ones with our company names?
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
A new edition of "The Keen Thinker" newsletter
By Sally Haldorson
In case you haven't signed up yet to receive The Keen Thinker newsletter via email every month, you can read it here. In this month's edition, you can learn more about: the 2010 Author Pow Wow an excuse to play poker at work how to make your company more profitable how to live your life by your own rules what to do to keep from choking when the stakes are high what the Milwaukee "The Rework Event" is which new books you should add to the pile on your bedside table why there is a business book for everyone (even people who hate business books) the newest issue of ChangeThis and Jack Covert Selects how to win a free book every week and. .
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / New Releases
LeaveSmarter with Jonathan Byrnes
By 800-CEO-READ
We were thrilled to have Jonathan L. S. Byrnes, author of Islands of Profit in a Sea of Red Ink, in Milwaukee yesterday to speak at our latest LeaveSmarter* event, held on the third floor of the breathtaking Grohmann Museum.
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / News & Opinion
Announcing! The 2010 800-CEO-READ Author Pow Wow
By Sally Haldorson
The 800-CEO-READ Author Pow Wow is back! The theme of this year’s event is Making Connections. Now, we don’t mean making connections in strictly networking terms—that’s just a bonus.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Art of Non-Conformity
By 800-CEO-READ
I first read Chris Guillebeau's blog after Seth Godin mentioned him a couple years ago, and have been fascinated ever since. Not only have I followed his blog, I bought one of his Art and Money guides, and was recently excited to see he had a book out, called, The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World. Yes, that's a pretty bold title, but Chris is the kind of person who can post it in confidence.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book Award: The Shortlist
By 800-CEO-READ
The shortlist for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year has been announced. As with the longlist for the award, it is dominated by books covering the recent financial turmoil. The only two covering other topics are: The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar, Twelve The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick, Simon & Schuster The books on the shortlist that cover the crisis are: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, W.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / Staff Picks
Two Google, or Not Two Google
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
Most of our employees have hidden talents. We're a creative bunch and while we love business books, we also love to dabble in various other art forms. We have musicians, collectors, writers, performers.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
Personality Poker
By 800-CEO-READ
Has this happened to you? You interview at a great company for a great job, and you get it! Then, you start the job and realize that there's much more at play than just the great position you landed.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Tomato. Tomahto.
By Sally Haldorson
A short while ago, I wrote a defense of business books here on the 800-CEO-READ blog, contending that the business book genre includes such a wide range of subgenres that it doesn't deserve the disdain or dismissal it often receives as being pedantic or unappealing to a wider audience. Today, Todd Sattersten contributes a precise retort against the criticism the genre receives by quoting some of the most recent critics and showing the shortcomings of their arguments against the value of business books. There is no right or wrong answer in the argument of whether most business books offer value to readers.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects – The Mesh
By 800-CEO-READ
The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing by Lisa Gansky, Portfolio, 256 pages, $25. 95, Hardcover, September 2010, ISBN 9781591843719 You want to see a movie, but don’t want to spend $25. 00 on a DVD that you will watch once, and then let sit uselessly around your home gathering dust.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
