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Blog / News & Opinion
Your Summer Reading
By 800-CEO-READ
We have added Disqus, a new commenting system to the blog and it needs some love. Tell us: What have you been reading this summer? Was it worth your time or should you have left it on the bookstore shelf?
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
My Favorite Business Book by You
By 800-CEO-READ
Earlier this year, we released The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. In making such a bold statement, we received both congratulatory notes and outright condemnation of our selections. As you can imagine, hard decisions had to be made.
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
Another Take on The Wisdom of Peter Drucker
By 800-CEO-READ
Since his death in November 2005, a number of people have written about their experiences with the late Peter Drucker. William Cohen wrote his book A Class with Drucker about his experience as the first graduate of the doctoral program at Claremont under Drucker's watch. Jeffrey Krames wrote his ode Inside Drucker's Brain last year and shared the experience of a day-long interview with the management guru.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
The New Rules of Marketing & P.R. - Book Review
Book Review by 800-CEO-READ
I found this review on www. blogcritics. org - it seems like a very intriguing read.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
Peter Schwartz on 5-Step Scenario Planning
By 800-CEO-READ
Wired Magazine has a great feature in the August 2009 issue they put together with Peter Schwartz, cofounder of the Global Business Network. Schwartz has written some classics on looking ahead like The Art of The Long View, The Long Boom and Inevitable Surprises. The magazine's designers deliver a great set of graphic layouts to help people understanding scenario planning in five simple steps.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 2009 Business Book Awards
By 800-CEO-READ
It's that time of year again. We've just announced the opening of our third annual Business Book Awards, so if you're an author or publisher, feel free to head over to the submission form to register your book. Categories range from management to marketing and many areas in between.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
A Lesson from Exploiting Chaos
By 800-CEO-READ
Reading as many business books as we do, it can become tiring reading tales of the same old companies over and over again. And, If you read his Jack Covert Selects consistently, you'll notice that Jack tries to highlight the stories of lesser known companies—those that aren't so ubiquitous in the books that flood our desks every day. So, I wasn't surprised when he sent me the following passage from Jeremy Gutsche's forthcoming book Exlploiting Chaos, being released by Gotham Books is September.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / Excerpts
An Excerpt from Full of Bull
By 800-CEO-READ
5 Strategies for Investing Properly, Cautiously, and Intelligently in This Bear Market By Stephen T. McClellan This is a perilous period in the stock market; a deceptive bear market that disguises its downward drift. Beware of misleading Wall Street doubletalk, as it tempts investors into this dangerous bear market.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / News & Opinion
Blueprint to a Billion Revised
By Aaron Schleicher
It is rare that a management book is revised. David Thomson's Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth is an exception. Thomson's original work, which achieved top 10 positions on our 2006 and 2007 Best Seller list, presented a case that teams can learn from best practices.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Living the writing life...in Iowa
By Sally Haldorson
A lot of books come and go through our doors, and we spend a lot of time discussing the various merits of these books, but rarely do we talk about what is in between the covers. And I'm not talking about the idea. Because, yes, the idea is king; but an idea will only get you so far if the actual writing is unreadable.
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