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Despite protestations, changes are being made in business
By 800-CEO-READ
Amid the press coverage of Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party, government gridlock and bankrupt foreign countries, there is some evidence that there has begun a process of change with a new thought framework that serves as a backdrop to mistrust of government (89 percent in the latest New York Times-CBS News poll) and a hatred of big business. Worldwide, there are a number of individuals and institutions that are taking things into their own hands and improving the world in their own way, and three books illustrate the changes. Start Something That Matters Blake Mycoskie, who rose to fame as a contestant – along with his sister, Paige – on the CBS reality television series, The Amazing Race, has written Start Something That Matters.
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Blog / Staff Picks
Halloween, Zombies and the Devil's Derivatives
Book Review by 800-CEO-READ
This may be a ghost story. It happened on a dark night mistaken for morning in America, a night that would descend over the entire financial world. Nicholas Dunbar sets the scene in his book, The Devil's Derivatives: For most of it's history, our financial system was built by on the stolid, cautious decisions of bankers, the men who hate to lose.
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Visual Marketing
By 800-CEO-READ
It seems appropriate to start a post on visual marketing with something visual, so here's the cover of the new book by marketers David Langton and Anita Campbell. The book, Visual Marketing: 99 Proven Ways for Small Businesses to Market With Images and Design is exactly what it says - 99 different examples of companies and people that have combined visual design with marketing concepts in ways that increased their business. There are many interesting tips and tons of great ideas in here.
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Liespotting
Book Review by 800-CEO-READ
Oftentimes, when someone lies to us, we think, "I knew that wasn't true. " Yet, for a moment, we trusted them, and we believed they were being honest. We then wonder how we could have been more certain up front, and not have been fooled.
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Doing the Right Thing
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
In 2007, we chose a book called Responsibility at Work as the winner of the Personal Development category for that year's Business Book of the Year Awards. It was the first time I'd been exposed to Howard Gardner's work--he is prolific*, so the book we featured was only a small part of his overall catalog--, and I became quite interested in his Theory of Multiple Intelligences. I don't recall if I've ever taken an official IQ test but I can tell you I wouldn't have done well on it.
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Friday Links(ish)
By Sally Haldorson
While Dylan is relaxing on his honeymoon in Costa Rica, I'm going to take a stab at my version of Friday Links. Enjoy! There has been a lot of talk both online and around the water cooler about the New York Times article "Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal" published earlier this week that made the bold statement: Amazon.
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Drinking From the Fire Hose
By 800-CEO-READ
We are all competing for space these days, space to put our message, and mental space to take in more information. There's less space, and more information by the minute, but as problematic as that seems, it's not the issue. Having more information is a good thing, as it provides the possibility that we'll get closer to, and more of, what we're looking for.
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Pow Wow Attendees Get KnowledgeBlocks
By 800-CEO-READ
800-CEO-READ has been developing a new product called KnowledgeBlocks that allows members to create, search, gather, and organize knowledge in order to better use it. As new or continuing authors, this tool will be an invaluable resource for researching an idea, building a concept, and general inspiration - for themselves and others. All registrants for the 2011 Author Pow Wow will receive a Free 3 month membership to this new service when it launches in 2012.
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A New inBubbleWrap Giveaway: Plan B
By Sally Haldorson
If you were to open up David Kord Murray's Plan B to the Table of Contents and run your finger down the list of chapter inclusions, you'd scan such colorful teasers as these: iTunes as a Can Opener The Fat Man and Little Boy Ten Thousand Empty Stores Ernest Hemingway Beginner's Sex Intriguing, to say the least. And isn't it exciting to open up a new book, a book on strategy and management no less, and actually be curious not only about the information provided but also about how these teasers will be resolved, how the author's apparently quirky point of view will levitate the material? Murray did this same thing in his first book, Borrowing Brilliance too.
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Congratulations to Dylan and Kat
By Sally Haldorson
Dylan Schleicher has been working for 800-CEO-READ since 2003. He's done nearly every job, but for the majority of his time here, he's been creating things for us all to learn from and enjoy. Perhaps you've read some of his blog posts here that always include an entertaining and thought-provoking blend of current events and history, pop culture and more esoteric interests, as well as an excellent grasp of the context into which a new business book falls.
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