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The 2010 Author Pow Wow
By 800-CEO-READ
It's been a whirlwind couple of days so far this week, but the 2010 Author Pow Wow wrapped up yesterday. My one sentence review? It's amazing how much people can help each other when they come together.
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ChangeThis - Issue 77
By 800-CEO-READ
The Era of Jack Welch is Over: Create Real Value Now, or Perish by Douglas Rushkoff "Yes, the net has changed business as profoundly as anything since central banking. But instead of seizing the opportunity, most businesses are still so addicted to the old way of doing things that they do the very opposite: they use the net to entrench themselves even further into the Industrial Age landscape that is fast disappearing. " Radical Management: Mastering the Art of Continuous Innovation by Stephen Denning "Radical management focuses the entire organization on the goal of constantly increasing the value of what the organization offers to its clients.
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Inc's Best Books for Business Owners 2010
By Sally Haldorson
Inc. com offers a wealth of information for business people, particularly small business owners. While many media outlets make end of year lists, Inc's list is particularly geared toward this group of readers.
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Radical Management: Mastering the Art of Continuous Innovation
By Stephen Denning
"Radical management focuses the entire organization on the goal of constantly increasing the value of what the organization offers to its clients. Once a firm commits to this goal, traditional command-and-control bureaucracy ceases to be a viable organizational option. Instead the firm will, like Southwest Airlines or Starbucks, naturally gravitate towards some variation of self-organizing teams as the default management model for organizing work. That's because it is only through mobilizing the full energy and ingenuity of the workforce that the firm can generate the continuous value innovation needed to delight clients. Not surprisingly, those doing the work find more satisfaction as members of such productive teams."
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O Brave New World: Driving Profitable Growth in the New Demand Economy
By Rick Kash
"The business world will never again be the same. For more than twenty years, the growth formula for American business has been simple: increase revenues by expanding product offerings while reducing supply chain costs. In other words, fill up the store shelves and keep the consumer's attention by constantly offering new variations on existing products, packaging and prices. Meanwhile, use the powerful new palette of Supply Chain Management tools to manage and drive down the cost of production to maintain constant productivity improvement. As a strategy, this growth formula worked brilliantly for a generation . . .long enough for both business executives and academics to forget that this strategy was merely the appropriate response to a distinct economic era, not a fundamental law of business. Now, we are being punished for that forgetfulness."
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Don't You Want to Do Real Marketing?
By Ernan Roman
"I define real marketing as follows: treating customers and prospects the way we want to be treated, and earning the sale and the long term relationship through the value we provide. Traditional marketing based on 'Spray and Pray' blasts of mail, email, phone calls, and so on, not only doesn't work, but is also obscenely wasteful."
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The Era of Jack Welch is Over: Create Real Value Now, or Perish
By Douglas Rushkoff
"Yes, the net has changed business as profoundly as anything since central banking. But instead of seizing the opportunity, most businesses are still so addicted to the old way of doing things that they do the very opposite: they use the net to entrench themselves even further into the Industrial Age landscape that is fast disappearing."
Categories: changethis
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Principles Under Pressure: Working in Adversarial Relationships
By Aryanne Oade
"This manifesto is about how to work with such an adversarial character, whether they are your boss, peer or team member. It is about how to use the specific behavior you need to use to help you manage the unclear boundaries, ambivalent motives and occasional duplicitous conduct that characterizes adversarial working relationships. By the end of the manifesto I hope you will have the insight and interpersonal know-how you need to handle these tricky co-workers more effectively and retain the degree of influence in your work with them that you would like to have."
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The Economist's Books of the Year
By 800-CEO-READ
The Economist is surely one of the best, if not the best, weekly publications running. Oddly, though, considering its title, it put only three books in the economics & business category of this year's "page turners"—while there are ten in politics & current affairs and eight in history. I guess that's not too odd, considering this is coming from a magazine that calls itself a newspaper, a newspaper that almost never carries a byline on its articles and essays.
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The New How
By 800-CEO-READ
Is, actually, not so new. The book, beautifully penned by Ms. Nilofer Merchant, published last January, and got all sorts of attention.
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