Uncategorized Posts
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Amy E. Herman has turned her wildly successful class on the art of perception into a book perfectly suited for observing, surviving, and getting the most out of business and in life today's fast moving and ever-changing world.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / Excerpts
The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence
By 800-CEO-READ
Dacher Keltner has written a "revolutionary and timely reconsideration of everything we know about power."
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Excerpts
The Purpose Effect: Building Meaning in Yourself, Your Role and Your Organization
By Dylan Schleicher
Dan Pontefract explains why he uses the term team member instead of employee.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / New Releases
O Great One!: A Little Story about the Awesome Power of Recognition
By 800-CEO-READ
David Novak has written "a parable about the secret to engaging and motivating people to do great things in all walks of life."
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
In Blockchain Revolution, Don and Alex Tapcott have provided laypeople with a primer on a technology that is on the verge of transforming the world.
Categories: editors-choice, narrative-biography
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Blog / New Releases
The Purpose Effect: Building Meaning in Yourself, Your Role and Your Organization
By 800-CEO-READ
Dan Pontefract provides a blueprint to build a stable, three-legged stool for our business and business lives, balanced on three crucial areas of purpose: individual, workplace role, and organizational.
Categories: new-releases, narrative-biography
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Blog / Excerpts
Making It in America: A 12-Point Plan for Growing Your Business and Keeping Jobs at Home
By 800-CEO-READ
John D. Bassett reveals the "private thinking and our fresh leadership approach" that allowed Vaughan-Bassett Furniture to keep production in America as the rest of the industry moved it overseas, and not only survive, but thrive in that environment.
Categories: excerpts, narrative-biography
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Everydata: The Misinformation Hidden in the Little Data You Consume Every Day
By Porchlight
John Johnson and Mike Gluck have written a fascinating and highly entertaining examination of how we consume data.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Excerpts
Failed It!: How to Turn Mistakes Into Ideas and Other Advice for Successfully Screwing Up
By 800-CEO-READ
In his new book, Erik Kessels celebrates the fine art of making mistakes and moving ideas.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Angela Duckworth has written a book that teaches us all how to maximize our talent and, perhaps, make the world a little happier place to live in the process.
Categories: editors-choice