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Office Space: Push It!
By 800-CEO-READ
We told you that we'd be updating you on our office renovations. Here is what our office in back looks like after moving everything for the construction in the front office. It's kind of cramped, kind of cluttered, but it's our home for now!
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Too Big To Fail
By 800-CEO-READ
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—And Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking Books, 624 pages, $32. 95, Hardcover, October 2009, ISBN 9780670021253 Even though Too Big to Fail was written during the same year as the recent financial collapse occurred, Andrew Ross Sorkin has written what I predict will be the definitive book on the subject. It not only tells a gripping “perfect storm” story—with all the gory details as our 401k’s disappeared and our financial system became nationalized included—but the author humanizes all the players, resulting in an imminently readable, albeit lengthy, book.
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Friday Links Returns!
By 800-CEO-READ
We're bringing back Friday Links, a blog feature that we haven't posted in some time. Basically, the wonderful folks here at 8cr compile some of their favorite stories throughout the week, and we post the links. Brilliant, eh?
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
More Stuff For You.
By 800-CEO-READ
Earlier today, I talked with a publisher who offers free audio and ebook downloads with purchases of hardcover copies of the book. This mirrors the music industry where vinyl collectors receive free downloads with purchase of the record. Interesting move on that publisher's part.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Superfreakonomics
By 800-CEO-READ
Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, William Morrow & Company, 288 pages, $29.
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Office Metamorphosis: A New Beginning
By 800-CEO-READ
800CEOREAD has been undergoing some big changes this year. . .
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Staying busy
By Porchlight
"It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
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In Celebration of the Book
By 800-CEO-READ
Whatever your theory or opinion is of the future of books and digital content, the fact unarguably is that books have played, and will continue to play, a role in people's lives. As Bryce Milligan points out, there are many things, aesthetic and utilitarian, that can be done with a book that give people an experience (home insulation, anyone? ).
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ChangeThis: Issue 64
By 800-CEO-READ
The 64th issue of ChangeThis has been published for all of you autodidactic business literature enthusiasts out there. Excerpts and links below. ::::: The Upstarts Are Here!
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Upstarts Are Here!: What Can You Possibly Learn from Entrepreneurs in Their Twenties? Plenty.
By Donna Fenn
"We're smack in the middle of 'perfect storm' conditions for young entrepreneurs, which means that if you haven't already noticed that the CEO down the road may look more comfortable at the local skate park than in a board room, you will soon. And if you have noticed the trend, you may be asking yourself who these young people are, why they seem to be starting companies at an accelerated rate, what kinds of companies they're starting, and if they're really so different from the young entrepreneurs of the past couple of decades. As it turns out, the entrepreneurs of Generation Y (those born between 1977 and the mid-nineties) are really quite extraordinary. So if you are tempted to dismiss business owners in their twenties as self-centered, arrogant dilettantes who approach the start-up process like a teen with a new video game, better think again. Humor me for a few minutes, and consider that you may even have a thing or two to learn from them."
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