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Blog / Excerpts
Wise Guy: Lessons from a Life
By 800-CEO-READ
Guy Kawasaki's new book "covers everything from moral values to business skills to parenting." In this excerpt, he discusses why the toughest teachers are the best teachers.
Categories: excerpts, narrative-biography
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Blog / New Releases
Business Books to Watch in March
By 800-CEO-READ
20 books we're looking forward to getting to know a little better in the month of March.
Categories: new-releases, narrative-biography, publishing-industry
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Blog / Book Giveaways
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
By Porchlight
Prominent futurist and bestselling author Amy Webb delivers a timely wake-up call to the most urgent but under-explored question of our times: how can we steer the evolution of artificial intelligence in the right direction?
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Burn: Using Fire to Cool the Earth
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Albert Bates and Kathleen Draper's new book explains how we can rebuild our economy and reverse climate change by reversing the flow of our carbon economy.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / Blog
800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for February 2019
By 800-CEO-READ
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for February 2019 features Howard Schultz in the top slot.
Categories: the-company
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Blog / Book Giveaways
The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed
By Porchlight
Stanford lecturer and Google’s first director of engineering Alberto Savoia shares his proven plan to help readers beat market failure.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Editor's Choice
No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy have written a book that can help us build a more emotionally mature workplace, and maybe even a kinder world.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / ChangeThis
Scaling Leadership: A Manifesto
By Robert J. Anderson, William A. Adams
"Ineffective leadership caps the ability of an organization to grow. Leadership that works at one level of scale is likely to run into serious limitations at the next level. The men and women who may be well-suited to lead a 100-person business unit with $30 million in annual revenues may be unable to lead a 250-person business unit with $100 million in annual revenues. To scale the organization, you must scale ever more effective leadership."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Enough of MORE: Better is Better
By Henry Mintzberg
"Economists insist that MORE is the way forward. No, it is the way backward, economically as well as socially. We don't have to destroy our progeny and our planet for the sake of a senseless dogma. Sure we need development and employment, but responsible development with robust employment. A healthy society is sustained by a decent and diverse economy, not one driven by the mercenary force of one-dimensional growth. Stock markets have done enough damage."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Why CEOs and Boards Need to Be Fearless
By Jean Case
"The role of board member compels one to be diligent as a fiduciary. What is often not well understood is that while the role of fiduciary is necessary, it is not entirely sufficient. Board members also need to be champions of, and networkers for, the organizations they serve. And, particularly in a world where change is accelerating and disruption is becoming the norm, board members also need to step up and challenge the organizations they care so much about—and the same goes for CEOs."
Categories: changethis