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Blog / News & Opinion
More of this, less of that.
By 800-CEO-READ
I have been away from things here for a couple of weeks. This is normally a slow part of the year for us, and it makes for a good time to take some vacation. This year I also took at writing class at the University of Iowa.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
International Best Sellers for June
Book Review by 800-CEO-READ
Yes, Spring has come and gone and now the lazy days of summer lie ahead. For some anyway. While many go on vacation (perhaps to a Six Flags for a new coaster ride or two) others are still reading away during the hot months of the year.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Accidental Billionaires - Released Today
By 800-CEO-READ
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal was released today by Doubleday, and its author has written briefly about it at Gloria McDonough-Taub's Bullish on Books blog. From Ben's post: The revolution is here, and it didn't begin with gunfire or bomb blasts - it began with a Status Update. The world as we know it has changed, forever (and in my opinion for the better) and nobody could have foreseen how this revolution was going to go down - not even the group of brilliant, socially awkward kids who made it happen.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Excerpts
An Excerpt from Womenomics
By 800-CEO-READ
Guilt Bashers by Claire Shipman & Katty Kay, Guilt is a sneaky emotion. Unlike anger, love, or sorrow, it has an ability to work behind the scenes without your really noticing. This means that you first need to identify that it's actually there—that the undercurrent of emotion behind this flurry of negative, self-blaming thought is guilt.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Author Week at Mixergy
By 800-CEO-READ
Five FT Press and Wharton School Publishing authors are being hosted at a week-long author event, starting today, over at Mixergy. You can watch the interview series live via Mixergy. com, iTunes or U-Stream.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Free
By 800-CEO-READ
Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson, Hyperion, 288 pages, $26. 99, Hardcover, July 2009, ISBN 9781401322908 In 1954, Lewis Strauss, the head of the Atomic Energy Commission, declared the dawn of a new era. Diseases would cease to exist.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Duck and Recover
By 800-CEO-READ
Duck and Recover, The Embattled Business Owner's Guide to Survival and Growth by Steven S. Little, John Wiley & Sons, 224 Pages, $22. 95, Hardcover, June 2009, ISBN 9780470504901 When Todd and I are out talking about our book, The 100 Best Business Books of All Time (yes, I know, a shameless plug) one of the questions we are almost always confronted with is "What books can give us some advice tailored to the current economic crisis?
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - How to Live
By 800-CEO-READ
How to Live: A Search tor Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth) by Henry Alford, Twelve, 262 pages, $23. 99, Hardcover, January 2009, ISBN 9780446196031 Readers might know Henry Alford's satirical columns from Vanity Fair, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. In his latest book, How to Live, Alford audaciously tackles the world of wisdom.
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Blog / ChangeThis
A Good Food Manifesto for America
By Will Allen
"It is time and past time for this nation, this government, to react to the dangers inherent in its flawed farm and food policies and to reverse course from subsidizing wealth to subsidizing health. We have to stop paying the largest farm subsidies to large growers of unsustainable and inedible crops like cotton. We have to stop paying huge subsidies to Big Corn, Big Soy and Big Chem to use prime farmland to grow fuel, plastics and fructose. We have to stop using federal and state agencies and institutions as taxpayer-funded research arms for the very practices that got us into this mess. We have to start subsidizing health and well-being by rewarding sustainable practices in agriculture and assuring a safe, adequate and wholesome food supply to all our citizens. And we need to start this reform process now, as part of the national stimulus toward economic recovery."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Hub Mentality: Shifting From Business Transactions To Community Interaction
By Stephen Palmer, Carl Woolston
"It's becoming increasingly difficult to catch the eyes of the consumer. Once you have them you have to keep them. Technology has transformed relationships between businesses and customers. Now, your job isn't just to transact sales. Your job is to cultivate trust, build community, and interact with your customers on an ongoing basis. Your job is to become a hub, a center of influence that creates value for your customers on their terms. Sales and profit are the result of fulfilling customer desires through educational, valuable content and remarkable products and services. Do this and your loyal community members become your advocates and evangelists."
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