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Business in Fiction - The Unincorporated Man
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
Incorporated? 300 years in the future, companies and businesses run everything on a ‘more personal level. ’ Every single person alive is their own 'corporation'.
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Business in Fiction: Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
Union Atlantic shows that the subject of business is not exclusive of a good story. A review by Shawn Quinn Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett, Nan A. Talese, 320 pages, $26.
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The Illustration of Rework
Book Review by 800-CEO-READ
Rework is a beautifully conceived and designed book, certainly among this year's best. Springing from the big brains of the people at 37signals, the ideas and insights provided are well-written, short and actionable, and they're smartly split up with illustrations by Milwaukeean Mike Rohde. The text alone is probably worthy of an award, but enlisting Rohde to add what he calls skecthnotes puts it in an artistic class business books rarely enter.
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How Content is Changing Culture
By 800-CEO-READ
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Business in Fiction: The Privileges by Jonathan Dee
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
If biographies or non-fiction management guides litter your day-to-day life, this is what you take to the beach. A review by Todd Lazarski The Privileges by Jonathan Dee, Random House, 272 pages, $25. 00, Hardcover, January 2010, ISBN 9781400068678 30-plus rapid-fire pages, opening with the line, "A WEDDING!
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The Keen Thinker 3
By Sally Haldorson
Our newest edition of The Keen Thinker is available today! You can view it here, but remember to sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. And don't forget to drop us a line with your thoughts or suggestions about The Keen Thinker: email us at newsletter@800ceoread.
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Books as Intellectual Assets in an Economic Discourse
By 800-CEO-READ
Michael Lewis's latest book, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, was released this week to a lot of media attention and bestseller lists. We'll review the book more in depth on this site and elsewhere over the coming weeks, but its very release is what's giving me hope this week. You see, for all the doom-and-gloom surrounding publishing these days, publishers themselves have done a quietly masterful job of finding books that put the Great Recession, and what caused it, in focus over the last year and a half—Michael Lewis being but the latest (albeit one of the finest) voices in the choir that publishers have been directing.
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The Future of Publishing
By 800-CEO-READ
Everyone either has the answer, or is trying to find it. For myself, I'm pretty interested in the presence of publishing - what's happening right now. There's a lot of cool stuff happening; great books, great online stuff, great creativity and ideas exploding all around us.
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Giving
By 800-CEO-READ
Bob Burg and John David Mann's The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea quickly became a national bestseller. It's parable format told readers a great story that showed how giving could actually increase profits, rather than diminish them. More than that, it showed that those who don't give, actually struggled more, and were likely in a position to fail as opposed to those experiencing utmost success.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Rework
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Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson, Crown Business, 288 pages, $22. 00, Hardcover, March 2010, ISBN 9780307463746 I’m usually the first responder to new books that come in the office, but this book created much internal excitement even before I got my hands on it. The galley that is currently on my desk is quite beat up already from use.
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