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This excerpt is taken from the Preface of Be the Elephant: Build a Bigger, Better Business by Steve Kaplan. Kalplan combines dynamic advice, real-life experience, and a friendly, no-nonsense writing style to take the mystery and fear out of achieving significant business growth. He gets readers to understand the exact nature of their business by showing how to define objectives, identify risks, and get the operation on solid footing.
May 22, 2007
The Upside >> BusinessWeek | Don't Worry, Be Ready "'Unmanaged risk is the greatest source of waste in your business and in our economy as a whole,' he writes. At times, Slywotzky treads familiar ground—many of his subjects, including Apple, Toyota, and IBM, are hardly unknown. Yet The Upside's big poin (tags: businessbooks management strategy) Deals on the Green >> BusinessWeek | An 18-Hole Character Test "Adapted from Deals on the Green: Lessons on Business and Golf from America's Top Executives, by David Rynecki.
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May 21, 2007
U. S. News and World Report has a huge special report on the Best Business Books.
May 18, 2007
From powerpoints to pie charts or bar graphs, depicting data doesn't always come easy. It often has to be boiled down to the main points. Take the NYC subway map, for example; Eddie Jabbour is attempting to redesin it to be more user friendly.
May 17, 2007
How do you peel a banana? If you're like me, you peel it the "wrong" way. That's the way we're taught.
May 14, 2007
The following is an excerpt from The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. ON THE PLUMAGE OF BIRDS Before the discovery of Australia, people in the old world were convinced that all swans were white, an unassailable belief as it seemed completely confirmed by empirical evidence. The sighting of the first black swan might have been an interesting surprise for a few ornithologists (and others extremely concerned with the coloring of birds), but that is not where the significance of the story lies.
Last Harvest >> BusinessWeek | "The Soul Of A New Suburb" "In Last Harvest, acclaimed architecture writer Witold Rybczynski paints a nuanced portrait of these men and others who built America, neighborhood by neighborhood. . .
May 13, 2007
Prophet of Innovation >> Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism | HBS Working Knowledge “I think Schumpeter is the most penetrating analyst of capitalism who ever lived. He saw things other people didn't see.
May 09, 2007
I intend on writing my own review of Halo Effect. I think it is very good. If you read business books, you are going want to read this.
May 08, 2007
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