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Jack Covert Selects - Strengths Based Leadership
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Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie, Gallup Press, 266 pages, $24. 95, Hardcover, January 2009, ISBN 9781595620255 Gallup has been producing great strength-centric books for the past decade. It all started with Now, Discover Your Strengths, released by Simon & Schuster in 2001, and the series continued with last year's bestselling Strengths Finder 2.
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Jack Covert Selects - POW! Right Between the Eyes
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POW! Right Between the Eyes: Profiting from the Power of Surprise by Andy Nulman, John Wiley & Sons, 240 pages, $24. 95, Hardcover, February 2009, ISBN 9780470405505 It is very rare to read the foreword of a business book and laugh so hard that you just had to tell as many friends as you could about it.
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Jack Covert Selects - The Way of Ping
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The Way of Ping: Journey to the Great Ocean by Stuart Avery Gold, Newmarket Press, 96 pages, $15. 00, Hardcover, January 2009, ISBN 9781557048202 Ping, the courageous frog, is back from his quest from the first book Gold wrote about him and he's ready to take his kindred creatures back to the Great Ocean with him. He is met with much opposition and doubt from the pond, especially from Toad, the Elder who doesn't want to move anywhere, because life as he knows it is good.
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Jack Covert Selects - Free Market Madness
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Free Market Madness: Why Human Nature Is at Odds with Economics and Why It Matters by Peter A. Ubel, Harvard Business School Press, 272 pages, $26. 95, Hardcover, January 2009, ISBN 9781422126097 Peter A.
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Guy Kawasaki Interview at mediaistro.com
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Guy Kawasaki's Art of the Start is one of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time (did we mention there's a book coming out), and his most recent book, Reality Check, was one of the best Entrepreneurship and Small Business books of last year. Basically, when Guy Kawasaki has something to say about business, you want to listen. And yesterday, Guy Kawasaki had something to say--about his Alltop.
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Friedman v. Bhid - refereed by Heskett
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Jim Heskett, Harvard Professor and coauthor of the recently released (and heftily titled) Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage , posted a brief review of Amar Bhidé's Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World at Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge site yesterday. Bhidé takes a contrarian view to Thomas Friedman's World is Flat pronouncement. Summing up the book and its argument, Heskett asks: If one agrees with these hypotheses, what does this mean for investments in basic science on the part of any government?
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Fine Tune Your Company
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Inc. Magazine has a great feature in their Jan/Feb 09 issue in which they asked their "favorite entrepreneurs for the tips and tricks they have used to pilot their business through difficult times. " One of the twenty three respondents just happens to be one of our favorite authors.
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The Rainmaker's Credo from How to Become a Rainmaker
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In July of 2000, I wrote my first Jack Covert Selects on the book How to Become a Rainmaker. This is a book that has stayed with me over the years and is included in The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. In the book Jeffrey Fox lists the Rainmaker's Credo.
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Two "How" career/life books that deserve a shout out
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There are two career/life-related books on my desk this morning: How to Be Useful: A Beginner's Guide to Not Hating Work by Megan Hustad and The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want (now out in paperback) by Sonja Lyubomirsky. How to Be Useful is an antidote to the cynicism and naivete that Hustad believes have seeped into the veins of younger generations of workers, who have developed an attitude of fundamental resistance to all things "corporate" and "ambitious. " She explains that the book "aims to be a corrective to this strange, counterproductive loop of naivete and cynicism.
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The Core Trilogy
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I am a big fan of Chris Zook's work. He is a partner at Bain & Company and he has spent alot of time researching what companies should do from a strategic point of view to be successful. Zook offers sobering statistics for the success of new ventures and equally inspiring numbers for the power that market leaders have in their industries.
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