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Jack Covert Selects - Getting Naked
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Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding The Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty by Pat Lencioni, Jossey-Bass, 220 pages, $24. 95, Hardcover, February 2010, ISBN 9780787976392 For over ten years, Pat Lencioni has helped define the genre of the business fable. He is most famous for The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, which I thought so highly of that I included it in our collection of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Art of Choosing
By 800-CEO-READ
The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar, Twelve, 329 pages, $25. 99, Hardcover, March 2010, ISBN 9780446504102 We make choices every day: small choices about what we will eat for breakfast, what clothes we’ll wear, how we react within our jobs; and big choices about relationships, purchases—real life-changing choices. But what is choice?
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The Linchpin Voltron
By 800-CEO-READ
Books can do a lot for us: inspire, teach, jolt, enlighten. They can be a call to action, but they can't actually make us act. You have to find the gumption to do that on your own.
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Right Fight
Book Review by 800-CEO-READ
Tensions are going to exist in any organization of human beings, from the marriage of two individuals all the way up to the social contract of a nation. The most successful leaders use that inherent tension and struggle to creatively further the organization—whether it's a spouse gently challenging the other to become the person they aspire to be, a corporate leader fomenting healthy disagreement on strategy to find a better approach, or a civil rights leader confronting an unjust, societal status quo to improve living conditions. It is when we try to suppress those struggles and ignore the tension that we ultimately fail to move forward.
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Do More Great Work
By 800-CEO-READ
I met author Michael Bungay Stanier at last year's ASTD conference in Washington, DC. My plane had just landed, I had a mere hour or two of sleep, and was on cold medicine. The bustle of the training conference quickly woke me up, and meeting Michael was a great dose of reality.
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ChangeThis: Issue 68
By 800-CEO-READ
It's a momentous week here at 800-CEO-READ. We've redesigned and rebuilt ChangeThis, and just posted our first issue on the new site. Head on over and let us know what you think.
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Reset
By 800-CEO-READ
Check this out - our friends at HarperStudio are co-hosting a killer event in NYC on April 20th, featuring Gary Vaynerchuk, Anna Bernaseck, Tom Peters (! ), Michael Eisner, and moderated by the one and only Seth Godin. The event is called Re-set and with a lineup like this, which will literally re-set how you think about your business, you'd likely expect to pay waaaay more than what they're asking.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Winter 2010: International Best Sellers
By 800-CEO-READ
The time has come to talk of many things. . .
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Blog / ChangeThis
Stop the Busywork!: Seven Ways You Can Do More Great Work
By Michael Bungay Stanier
"Imagine everything you do could fall into one of three buckets: Bad Work. Good Work. Great Work. I'm not talking about the quality of the work you deliver - I've no doubt that's fine. I'm talking about the meaning the work has for you and the impact it makes."
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Blog / ChangeThis
5 Secrets of Sales Superstars
By Lisa Earle McLeod
"What's differentiates the great ones? What makes some people superstars, while most of their peers hover near the mediocre middle? It's not too hard to pinpoint the difference between average performers and poor ones. Easy to spot skills like work habits, product knowledge, communication style and use of sales tools, are all indicators of general competence. The challenge for most organizations is not determining the difference between good and bad; it's discerning the difference between good and great. Why are some sales people superstars, while other people in the same situation, selling the same stuff to the same customers experience a much lower rate of success?"
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