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Seth Godin's Insubordinate
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Seth Godin is a revolutionary—in the best sense of that word. Consider his message at the beginning of Insubordinate—his new(ish) addendum to Linchpin. The opportunities to make change are bigger and more attractive than ever before.
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Culture Building
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Vineet Nayar's Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down, and Ed Muzio's Make Work Great: Supercharge Your Team, Reinvent the Culture, and Gain Influence - One Person at a Time, are two recent books for managers about making a difference through culture change. Why is culture change the solution? Both authors stress that creating stronger teams is the best way to adapt to changes in industry, and being prepared for future changes.
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Steak and Fish
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Sitting in the midst of summer, food is generally a hot topic as cooking becomes more of a regular occasion (grilling out, picnics, etc. ). Two books landed on my desk that admittedly made my mouth water, while imagining the business implications likely addressed within.
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Jack Covert Selects - Diary of a Very Bad Year
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Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager by n+1, Keith Gessen & Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager, Harper Perennial, 260 pages, $14. 99, Paperback, June 2010, ISBN 9780061965302 Keith Gessen is the founder of n+1, a mostly literary magazine out of New York City, and the author of All the Sad Young Literary Men, which, as you can probably gather from the title, is also thoroughly literary. So, how is it that he has now penned one of the most fascinating books to date on the recent calamity on Wall Street?
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Jack Covert Selects - Zilch
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Zilch: The Power of Zero in Business by Nancy Lublin, Portfolio, 246 pages, $25. 95 Hardcover, June 2010, ISBN 9781591843146 On the surface, Nancy Lublin’s book seems to be about non-profits, but as you get a few pages in, it becomes apparent that Lublin uses her experience as a non-profit CEO to inspire for-profits to think about business differently. Non-profits have no budgets and small staffs made up primarily of volunteers, yet they often attain high productivity and impact.
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Jack Covert Selects - The Zeroes
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The Zeroes: My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane by Randall Lanes, Portfolio, 353 Pages, $27. 95, Hardcover, July 2010, ISBN 9781591843290 Every decade seems to have a nickname: The Roaring Twenties and The Swinging Sixties, for example. Randall Lane makes a strong case for the past decade to be christened The Zeroes.
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International Best Selling Books: June 2010
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Summer may be the time for hitting the beach, visiting those in-laws or just plain relaxing in the shade, but that doesn't keep our customers from opening up a good book while doing so! Here's what people everywhere were reading this past June from 8CR's International Best Selling Book Listing! FRANCE: Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently by Gregory Berns BELGUIM: Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality by Scott Belsky The NETHERLANDS: Strengths Finder 2.
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Creativity and Education
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There's an interesting article by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman over at Newsweek that talks about the decline of creativity in America. Titled, The Creativity Crisis, it focuses on how the lack of creative exercise in education is resulting in young adults who stop asking, "why? ," eventually turning in to adults who make decisions without pursuing all creative angles to solve problems and create positive change.
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PechaKucha: For GOOD
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Milwaukee will see it's 8th PechaKucha Night on Tuesday, August 17th as we present PechaKucha: For GOOD. This special event, arranged in conjunction with BeGoodGoLocal will feature presentations by people truly making a difference in our community, and the world: Howard Hinterhuer, Gigi Pomerantz, Jennifer Dellegrazio, Teig Whaley-Smith, Mario Hall, Kate Lundeen, Jay Salinas, Ron Doetch, Julie Courtright, and more. More info can be found at the PKN site.
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Fortune's Fool
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A lot of business is not only getting back on it's feet, some companies are even downright starting to thrive. Except, it seems, any involved in the music industry. While there's certainly some interesting things happening in the independent realm, the major labels are struggling hard, and it's very questionable if they'll ever get back to where they were.
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