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Blog / News & Opinion
When to take a hike
By Sally Haldorson
Last night I had come to the conclusion that I was quitting Facebook and maybe I would delete all of my bookmarked blogs too. Not because anything drastic happened. .
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Service Meltdown
By 800-CEO-READ
In a recent conversation with author Raul Pupo, I described my surprise that there were no local customer service classes, workshops, events, or otherwise to take part in. "That's no surprise," said Raul. He believes the disconnect begins with education, and permeates business.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Predictable Magic
By 800-CEO-READ
What thoughts come to mind when you hear 'Design Strategy? ' On the surface, it implies the shape, color, dimension, and placement of objects, but actually, it defines how emotional connections are managed through business. Sound like a big jump?
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Bury My Heart at Conference Room B
By 800-CEO-READ
Bury My Heart at Conference Room B: The Unbeatable Impact of Truly Committed Managers by Stan Slap, 272 pages, $25. 95, Hardcover, August 2010, ISBN 9781591843245 In 2010, 800-CEO-READ moved to our newly remodeled “world headquarters” and with all this new space, we had walls that needed filling. Lots of pictures of me, of course, but I’ve got to keep my ego in check.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Man Who Sold America
By 800-CEO-READ
The Man Who Sold America: The Amazing (But True! ) Story of Albert D. Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century by Jeffrey L.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Brains on Fire
By 800-CEO-READ
Brains on Fire: Igniting Powerful, Sustainable, Word of Mouth Movements by Robbin Phillips, Greg Cordell, Geno Church & Spike Jones, Wiley, 224 pages, $24. 95, Hardcover, August 2010, ISBN 9780470614181 “Brains on Fire is not really a business book. It’s a love story …” Those are the opening lines to an incredible collection of stories and insights that is, in fact, both business book and love story.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Keeping the 800-CEO-READ Meeting Minutes
By 800-CEO-READ
In summary: two rainbows, pay attention, talk and listen, always connect, find their pizza, play catch in the dark, and gin.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
High Financier
Book Review by 800-CEO-READ
Niall Ferguson writes big books about really big topics—The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World and The Cash Nexus: Economics and Politics from the Age of Warfare Through the Age of Welfare, 1700-2000, just to name a few. At first blush, his latest book, High Financier, seems different. It focuses on "The Lives and Time" of just one man, Siegmund Warburg.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book Award: The Longlist
By 800-CEO-READ
The longlist for The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year was announced this morning. And just as interesting as the list itself, which includes a novel this year, is the fact that Lloyd Blankfein is recusing himself as a judge. He is doing so because "a number of books on this year’s longlist address various aspects of the financial crisis," a crisis Blankfein was intimately involved in as CEO of Goldman Sachs.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
Refining the Niche
By 800-CEO-READ
With all the recent talk about Barnes & Noble considering selling, and theories on the internet about Amazon buying them, interlaced with ongoing discussions about digital vs. physical, it all can make followers of the story a bit dizzy. Both companies have gigantic inventories (of ALL sorts of stuff), and that in itself is something for both of them to deal with.
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