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Links from Across The Business Book Web
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There are a number of cool, quick items to point you to: Dan Schawbel's Me 2. 0 came out yesterday. You can preview the book at Scribd for the next week or so.
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Inc. Magazine's 30th Anniversary Book Recommendations
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Inc. Magazine is celebrating 30 years of publication this month and as a part of their coverage have put together "The Business Owner's Bookshelf" - 30 books people running small businesses should read. Here is the list in its entirety: Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, by Peter Bernstein (1996) The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything, by Guy Kawasaki (2004) The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, by Marc Levinson (2006) Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell, by Nancy F.
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March's International Best Sellers
By 800-CEO-READ
Globally, people are relying on each other in every aspect of their lives and business is no exception. With talk of a 'world currency', we must face fact that we need 'the other guy' just as much as they need us. At 800CEOREAD we recognize this every day when we see more and more international customers ordering from us.
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100 Best: Todd interviews Charles Wheelan, author of Naked Economics
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Wheelan believes that the discourse on economics needs to change. It's important information, that affects companies and individuals on a daily and long-term basis, so the way people understand it needs to be updated and approached differently. His book, and this podcast, give insight to those proposed changes, and why they will have a major impact on business at large.
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"Beam Me Up" is Better Than Business Books
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TechCrunch's Mike Arrington penned a post yesterday titled "Grok This: Forget The Business Books, Go Sci-Fi To Stoke Your Imagination. " The piece caught alot of people's attention with over 150 retweets on Twitter. As the lead states, Arrington proposes that entrepreneurs should skip all of these silly business books which are filled with "a whole lot of additional junk," and read science-fiction.
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Taming The Search and Switch Customer Interview with Jill Griffin
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In this interview, I talk with Jill Griffin, author of Taming The Search and Switch Customer: Earning Loyalty in a Compulsion-to-Compare World. Jill spends her time advising clients on ways to improve customer loyalty. In the interview, Jill describes customer loyalty as being made up of a combination of attitude and behavior.
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Impossible to Grasp
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I have been recommending The Innovator's Dilemma by Clay Christensen to a lot of people lately. There are so many industries being ravaging by disruptive innovations. Publishing of all flavors is being forever changed by print-on-demand, the internet, and the amateur.
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100 Best: Todd interviews Bo Peabody, author of Lucky or Smart?
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According to Peabody, entrepreneurship is something one is either born with, or never has; it can't be taught in school. Yet, those that have it might need some guidance, which he provides in an enlightening way, by someone who's actually done what he describes. Bo Peabody's book, Lucky or Smart?
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We Are Fans Too...
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Hugh MacLeod's tribute to Seth Godin's Purple Cow.
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Why Read A Book, When An Article Might Do
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We got a note last week from a reader who was a little upset by a new product that Harvard Business Publishing recently put out. Titled "10 Must-Read Articles from HBR", the electronic-only download highlights many of the same authors (and seminal ideas) as we did in The 100 Best. You'll find Drucker, Christensen, Goleman, Kotter among others with the Harvard Business Review article (ie condensed versions) of The Effective Executive, Innovator's Dilemma, Emotional Intelligence, Leading Change and so on.
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