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Working For You Isn't Working For Me Q&A
By 800-CEO-READ
Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster have spent years analyzing the effects of poor management, or to put it bluntly, working with a nutcase boss. Some people react by quitting, others give in and live miserably for years, but as the authors point out, there are much better ways to handle the situation. This insight is detailed in their new book, Working For You Isn't Working For Me: The Ultimate Guide to Managing Your Boss.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Crush It!
By 800-CEO-READ
Gary Vaynerchuk, who many people know as the WineLibrary TV guy, has written a book called, Crush It! Why Now Is The Time To Cash In On Your Passion, that describes how he transformed a $4 million family business into a $60 million empire with the help of social media. Sounds simple on the surface, but of course it takes a lot of work, and Gary doesn't gloss over what it took him to make it happen: personal branding, hustle, and tireless hours of work are some of the elements he addresses in the book, with the clear and simple promise that the same result is possible for anyone willing to invest the work in their own passion.
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800-CEO-READ Interview with Lisa Haneberg
By 800-CEO-READ
I have known Lisa Haneberg for a long time. She contributed an essay to my More Space project in 2005. She was in Milwaukee recently and we sat down and talked about all of her books (and there are eight of them).
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Publishing Chat With Ellen Lupton
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Another prime cut from the Author Blog, here's an email interview I conducted with design and publishing thinker Ellen Lupton, who talks about her experience with self-publishing books, and the role design plays in the process. It's an interesting read for anyone who might be looking for ways to present their ideas to the world. --- Technology has enabled people to publish their own books easier, more frequently, and with more control than ever before, but what is really involved?
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Blog / News & Opinion
What's Your Next Move?
By 800-CEO-READ
Whether you're going for that promotion, looking to jump ship, or change careers entirely, Michael Watkins' Your Next Move is a book you'll want to read. Any career change is a major event, and this is the kind of book that will prepare you for any kind of move, from dealing with exiting techniques, to international moves, to turnarounds, to working with new groups of people (who may, in fact, be ex-peers you are now supervising). This is a well-written, personal, and to-the-point guide that covers a lot of ground in a short time.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Show Chaos Who's Boss
By 800-CEO-READ
Last month, Jeremy Gutsche's exciting book, Exploiting Chaos launched. I had a chance to pick it up after reading the Jack Covert Selects post on it, and was pretty blown away. And today it makes a stop at our blog as it travels on the Virtual Book Tour.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Dive In
By 800-CEO-READ
It's National Disability Awareness Month, and we wanted to post an excerpt from a book that supports that awareness - Nadine Vogel's Dive In. In it, Vogel talks about the untapped special needs workforce that exists, and how working with them (as well as preparing your company to work with current employees who may become disabled) can bring great potential for profits to your organization. Here's the excerpt: Increasing Productivity, Embracing Potential Why your company needs the Special Needs Workforce Partially excerpted from Dive In, Springboard into the Profitability, Productivity, and Potential of the Special Needs Workforce By Nadine O.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Publishing Chat With Michael Bungay Stanier
By 800-CEO-READ
For the past couple of years, I've done something here called the Author Blog. Some of you might be familiar with it, but others not so much. The solution to that is that I'm now going to bring some of the best of these posts to our main blog, starting with this new post.
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100 Best Makes ALA Top 10 List
By 800-CEO-READ
Each year, the American Library Association compiles a list of business books that libraries around the country use for guidance on quality books to include in their stock. This year, they've included 8cr's Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten's The 100 Best Business Books of All Time in their list of ten recommended business books for libraries to carry. Also included in the list are Michael Lewis', Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity, Julia Angwin's, Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America, and others, including something I'm personally interested in seeking out, Greg Grandin's, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
David Kord Murray: Borrowing Brilliance
By 800-CEO-READ
David Kord Murray was in town yesterday for our LeaveSmarter series, sponsored by M&I Bank and Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S. C. A clip from his talk can be seen below, where he describes the process of looking for creative solutions outside the realm of where your problem(s) exist.
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