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BusinessWeek's Summer Reading '09
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We know summer is already starting to wane, but we haven't linked to Business Week's recommending reading for the season. Having recommended quite of few of these, we think this is a great list. Rubies in the Orchard by Lynda Resnick with Francis Wilkinson Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging and Outmarketing Your Competition by Guy Kawasaki Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: Managing in a Downturn by Ram Charan The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.
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100 Best Bonus Industry Chapter on Scribd.com
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Today, I posted the Industry Books Bonus Chapter on Scribd. com. This is long overdue, but combination of Chris Anderson's Free promotions and a BEA podcast I listened to on the way into work convinced me it was time to stop dragging me feet.
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Business Book Reviews From Indonesia
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I love running across other passionate business book readers. Riri Satria has some great reviews on his site rirsatria. com (here is the Google-translated link from Riri's native Indonesian to English).
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Being Strategic on CBS Early Morning
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This morning, our good friend Erika Andersen on was CBS Early Morning talking about her new book Being Strategic. Watch CBS Videos Online CBS also has a transcript-ish article based on the interview with Erika.
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Monday Dots Describes Christensen's Disruptive Innovation
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Jeff Monday at Monday Dots has focused his latest video on the process of disruptive innovation. Jeff's source material is Harvard Business School Professor Clay Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma (a 100 Best selection) and The Innovator's Solution. Using his unique dots approach, the video below quickly summarizes Christensen's theories: At the end of the video, Jeff goes even further and suggests an improvement: While I think this is good solution, I see it as highly reactive.
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Bob's Slice of The 100 Best
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Bob Adams at 27 gen has written a series of posts on books he liked from The 100 Best Business Books of All Time and how they apply to church leadership. His first post is about our book and Drucker's Effective Executive. His other books include: Purple Cow - blog post / book link Six Thinking Hats - blog post / book link Leading Change - blog post / book link Why We Buy - blog post (with additional here , here, and here) / book link Little Red Book of Selling - blog post / book link He ends his last post by saying: That's my quick look at "The 100 Best Business Books of All Time.
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An Excerpt from AdaptAbility
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Build Your Brand M. J. Ryan "Discover your brand by pinpointing your unique service and identity.
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Kevin Kelly weighs in on Free
Book Review by 800-CEO-READ
The brilliant Kevin Kelly, author of Out of Control: The New Biolgy of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic World and founder of Cool Tools, offered his take on Chris Anderson's Free: The Future of a Radical Price earlier this week. Somewhat coincidentally, Kevin Kelly is the author of a recent and popular ChangeThis manifesto entitled Better Than Free. And, though that title might suggest a momentous throwing down with Chris Anderson, Gladwell style, maybe even resorting to fisticuffs, it it no such thing.
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SalesHQ Recommends Their Twenty Favorites
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SalesHQ has posted a list of their 20 Must-Read Sales Books. Like any good list, there is tried and true as well as some less-knowns. Little Red Book of Selling by Jeffrey Gitomer [1] The Game by Neil Strauss Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Cold Calling by Keith Rosen Sales 2.
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A Facebook Tale: Founder Unfriends Pals On Way Up (NPR)
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I found this on NPR. org this morning and thought I'd share this on here: A Facebook Tale: Founder Un-friends Pals On Way Up by All Things Considered, July 19th 2009 Facebook reached another milestone Tuesday: the social-networking site said it signed up its 250 millionth user. Just five and a half years ago, Mark Zuckerberg invented the site in his Harvard University dorm room.
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