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Jack Covert Selects: Delivering Happiness
By 800-CEO-READ
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh, Business Plus, 270 Pages, $23. 99 Hardcover, June 2010, ISBN 9780446563048 I have always believed that great customer service is remembered long after the purchased product has been forgotten. My goal at 800-CEO-READ has been to create a company focused on the customer experience, not only connecting customers with the books and knowledge they need, but also offering top-of-the-line customer service as modeled by such outstanding service companies as Nordstrom and Lands’ End.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects: The Upside of Irrationality
By 800-CEO-READ
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Home and at Work by Dan Ariely, Harper, 330 Pages, $27. 99 Hardcover, June 2010, ISBN 9780061995033 One of the hardest things to do is to follow up a great success with another one. The expectations are high; the pressure daunting.
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Jack Covert Selects: Click
By 800-CEO-READ
Click: The Magic of Instant Connections by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman, Broadway Books, $23. 00 Hardcover, 200 Pages, June 2010, ISBN 9780385529051 Ori and Rom Brafman are the authors of one of favorite books, Sway, which discussed the psychological influences that affect decision-making. Their latest book, Click, looks at how we make “an immediate, deep, and meaningful connection with another person or with the world around us.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Why do you work?
By 800-CEO-READ
I'm sad to admit that I've had jobs in the past that were difficult to get out of bed to go to. Once at the job, I would try my best to find something interesting about the things going on to occupy some mental space; imagination playing a big role. I would create stories, I would plan projects, and I would accomplish all sorts of things in my head while my body went around completing totally mundane (and sometimes downright unpleasant) tasks.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Do You TED?
By Sally Haldorson
Cruising Twitter this morning, I read a quick mention of a talk on TED ("TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. On TED. com, we make the best talks and performances from TED and partners available to the world, for free.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Finding True Wealth
By 800-CEO-READ
There are a lot of great books coming out lately, and more to follow throughout the year. It seems the current business climate is an opportunity to present new ideas, a tabula rasa, so to speak, and we're discovering some real gems of thought being introduced to the world. One perfect example of this is the book Plenitude: The Economics of True Wealth by Juliet Schor.
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Blog / Excerpts
An Excerpt from Conquer the Chaos
By 800-CEO-READ
You hear people (especially politicians and television's talking heads) talk about America's "entrepreneurial spirit" all of the time. But, no matter how often we hear it, it never sounds like a cliché; it always rings true. .
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Blog / News & Opinion
Linchpins are everywhere!
By 800-CEO-READ
At least they are certainly in Milwaukee. If you're in the area, join us next Monday, June 14, for the Seth Godin inspired Linchpin Meetup event. 800-CEO-READ's ChangeThis is one of the co-sponsors, and we're offering a Seth Godin boxed set as a prize to be given away at the event.
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8CR's Top 5 International Best Selling Books for May 2010
By 800-CEO-READ
May sure was a busy month! It started out quiet and and then picked up some speed somewhere in the middle. About 2 weeks before the end of the month, central and Northern Wisconsin had a huge blizzard - it was almost a white-out (I know this because I had to travel that weekend to visit my mom for Mothers' Day).
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Blog / Staff Picks
Oil: "A Uniquely Human Story"
Book Review by 800-CEO-READ
Very timely, Tom Bower's eighteenth book, Oil: Money, Politics, and Power in the 21st Century, was released by the Grand Central Publishing house today. It is a riveting story of the last twenty years in oil exploration and speculation. I don't often quote press releases, but this book's is spot on: Oil is a story of intrigue, of greed, of arrogance, and extreme risk.
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