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Marshall Goldsmith's MOJO

By 800-CEO-READ

Marshall Goldsmith brought his MOJO to Milwaukee today for our LeaveSmarter series, and I think he really woke the audience up in a way most business speakers just don't. Our sponsors for these events always send us a list of attendees with seating arrangements ahead of time. The first thing Marshall did was rearrange that preordained seating, having everybody get up and sit next to somebody they didn't know.

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March 30, 2010

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Books as Intellectual Assets in an Economic Discourse

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Michael Lewis's latest book, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, was released this week to a lot of media attention and bestseller lists. We'll review the book more in depth on this site and elsewhere over the coming weeks, but its very release is what's giving me hope this week. You see, for all the doom-and-gloom surrounding publishing these days, publishers themselves have done a quietly masterful job of finding books that put the Great Recession, and what caused it, in focus over the last year and a half—Michael Lewis being but the latest (albeit one of the finest) voices in the choir that publishers have been directing.

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March 18, 2010

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The Future of Publishing

By 800-CEO-READ

Everyone either has the answer, or is trying to find it. For myself, I'm pretty interested in the presence of publishing - what's happening right now. There's a lot of cool stuff happening; great books, great online stuff, great creativity and ideas exploding all around us.

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March 16, 2010

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The Linchpin Voltron

By 800-CEO-READ

Books can do a lot for us: inspire, teach, jolt, enlighten. They can be a call to action, but they can't actually make us act. You have to find the gumption to do that on your own.

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March 10, 2010

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Reset

By 800-CEO-READ

Check this out - our friends at HarperStudio are co-hosting a killer event in NYC on April 20th, featuring Gary Vaynerchuk, Anna Bernaseck, Tom Peters (! ), Michael Eisner, and moderated by the one and only Seth Godin. The event is called Re-set and with a lineup like this, which will literally re-set how you think about your business, you'd likely expect to pay waaaay more than what they're asking.

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March 03, 2010

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2009 - In the Books

By 800-CEO-READ

Due to a few minor—yet incredibly frustrating—errors at the printer, our annual review of business books, In the Books, had to be reprinted. (For those of you who received a copy at our awards event in New York City, please avert your eyes from page 48. We will be mailing out new copies to you soon.

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February 24, 2010

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Want to go on a Shelfari?

By Sally Haldorson

This morning we received an email from Noah Fleming (self-described as a "linchpin in training"--which we love), letting us know that he had started a Shelfari for the books in The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. Noah's goal is to read all 100 books by December 31, 2010, and by creating a group on Shelfari, he is encourages others to take up the same challenge. Shelfari is "the premier social network for people who love books" where you can create a virtual bookshelf to feature the books you are reading and create reading groups to discuss those books.

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February 22, 2010

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Social Media 101

By 800-CEO-READ

We are big fans of Chris Brogan and Julien Smith, as evidenced by us naming their book Trust Agents the best Advertising & Marketing book of 2009 in the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards. We're also huge fans of all things analogue here at 8cr—we love us some books and records. Sure, everybody has mp3 files on their computers, and we all read our blogs and follow the Twitter, but how many of us really bookmark our favorite posts and go back to them for inspiration, affirmation, or to remind ourselves of a valuable lesson?

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February 18, 2010

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Treat Who Like a Customer?

By 800-CEO-READ

Jack asked me to take a look at a book recently that, I must admit, I was a bit skeptical about at first. For a number of different reasons, a book of marriage advice (geared mostly toward successful men) entitled Treat Me Like a Customer seems like a dicey proposition, especially so if it's being released by a Christian publisher. Zondervan seems to have pulled it off, though, with Louis Upkins' book of sage advice on building and, when need be, repairing the relationships with those closest to us.

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February 17, 2010

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The Keen Thinker Vol.2

By Sally Haldorson

Volume 2 of The Keen Thinker is now available for your reading pleasure. Find out the answers to the following persistent questions: What exactly is a Pecha Kucha? What is this "freemium" thing everyone is talking about?

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February 17, 2010

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