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Todd Sattersten Leaving 800-CEO-READ
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Today is my last day at 800-CEO-READ. The last six years have been incredible and I want to thank all of you for coming along on the ride. I have decided to continue on the course of writing and speaking, following the wonderful experience we had with The 100 Best Business Books of All Time.
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Lords of Finance Wins FT Goldman Sachs Book Award
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Last night, it was announced at the Goldman Sachs Business Book Award ceremony in London that Liaquat Ahamed's Lords of Finance won business book of the year. Lloyd Blankfein said of the book, “Lords of Finance is a timely reminder that turmoil and instability in financial markets are not an invention of the 21st Century. ” A refreshing statement as the economy makes a slow turnaround from the past year.
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Season of the Lists
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It must be the season of the lists, yeah, because Publishers Weekly has announced their top 10 books of 2009. One business title made their list—Matthew B. Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work, released by penguin Press.
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Who Turned Out the Lights? - A Guest Post
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As many of you know, the Senate is holding climate change hearings this week. In conjunction with that, we have an article from the authors of Who Turned Out the Lights? : Your Guided Tour to the Energy Crisis.
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Three Questions to Start Your Morning
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What is our core business? How is this recession changing our customers and their behaviors? Will this recession hasten—or even cause—a large-scale restructuring of our industry, and if so how will it affect us?
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The Book Gary Hamel Is Not Going To Write
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Gary Hamel, author of The 100 Best Select Competing For The Future, has a blog on the Wall Street Journal site called Management 2. 0. In his latest entry, Hamel writes about the small fraction of people who actually read books, producing back of the napkin calculations to support the infinitesimal percentages.
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Seth Godin Thinks Some People are Better Than Others
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The incomparable Seth Godin has a way of instantly finding clarity on issues that others wrestle with endlessly. This morning he pondered trends in the book industry: Here are two interesting lessons from the book industry: Kindle readers buy two or three times as many books as book readers. Why?
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - I Love You More Than My Dog
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I Love You More Than My Dog: Five Decisions That Drive Extreme Customer Loyalty in Good Times and Bad by Jeanne Bliss, Portfolio, 224 Pages, $22. 95, Hardcover, October 2009, ISBN 9781591842958 When Todd and I decided to write our book, I knew the title of the book would be critical. I was right, but the title I wanted for our book was totally wrong and I’m glad we didn’t use it.
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Baked In
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Alex Bogusky and John Winsor have written an interesting book called Baked In: Creating Products and Businesses That Market Themselves. After checking out the book, I asked co-author John Winsor a few questions about some of their ideas. Here's what followed: What's the best evidence that traditional advertising is no longer necessary for a new company?
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Match King
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The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, the Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals by Frank Partnoy, PublicAffairs, 272 Pages, $26. 95, Hardcover, April 2009, ISBN 9781586487430 When reading The Smartest Guys in the Room, the outstanding book by Bethany McLean that looks into the Enron debacle, you will learn about an accounting term called “mark to market. ” Not being an accountant, my simplified understanding of the concept is that when you purchase a product for $100 and you believe you can sell the product for $200 in five years, you put the sale price on your books at the expected selling price instead of the actual purchase price.
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