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What are your six words?

By Sally Haldorson

I was driving the other day and turned on the radio to The Ben Merens Show, a call-in program airing on a local NPR station. He and his guest were taking calls for listeners' Six Word Memoirs. I'd never heard of such a thing, and as I listened, I learned there are a number of books and a well-developed website all based on this concept of summing up your life in six words.

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November 03, 2011

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Despite protestations, changes are being made in business

By 800-CEO-READ

Amid the press coverage of Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party, government gridlock and bankrupt foreign countries, there is some evidence that there has begun a process of change with a new thought framework that serves as a backdrop to mistrust of government (89 percent in the latest New York Times-CBS News poll) and a hatred of big business. Worldwide, there are a number of individuals and institutions that are taking things into their own hands and improving the world in their own way, and three books illustrate the changes. Start Something That Matters Blake Mycoskie, who rose to fame as a contestant – along with his sister, Paige – on the CBS reality television series, The Amazing Race, has written Start Something That Matters.

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October 31, 2011

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Visual Marketing

By 800-CEO-READ

It seems appropriate to start a post on visual marketing with something visual, so here's the cover of the new book by marketers David Langton and Anita Campbell. The book, Visual Marketing: 99 Proven Ways for Small Businesses to Market With Images and Design is exactly what it says - 99 different examples of companies and people that have combined visual design with marketing concepts in ways that increased their business. There are many interesting tips and tons of great ideas in here.

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October 28, 2011

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Drinking From the Fire Hose

By 800-CEO-READ

We are all competing for space these days, space to put our message, and mental space to take in more information. There's less space, and more information by the minute, but as problematic as that seems, it's not the issue. Having more information is a good thing, as it provides the possibility that we'll get closer to, and more of, what we're looking for.

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October 20, 2011

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A New inBubbleWrap Giveaway: Plan B

By Sally Haldorson

If you were to open up David Kord Murray's Plan B to the Table of Contents and run your finger down the list of chapter inclusions, you'd scan such colorful teasers as these: iTunes as a Can Opener The Fat Man and Little Boy Ten Thousand Empty Stores Ernest Hemingway Beginner's Sex Intriguing, to say the least. And isn't it exciting to open up a new book, a book on strategy and management no less, and actually be curious not only about the information provided but also about how these teasers will be resolved, how the author's apparently quirky point of view will levitate the material? Murray did this same thing in his first book, Borrowing Brilliance too.

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October 19, 2011

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The Leader in You

By Sally Haldorson

In Tribes, Seth Godin writes, "Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable. In other words, if everyone could do it, they would, and it wouldn’t be worth much.

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October 17, 2011

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Jack Covert Selects - Great by Choice

By 800-CEO-READ

Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen, HarperBusiness, 320 Pages, $29. 99 Hardcover, October 2011, ISBN 9780062120991 Jim Collins, author of Good to Great, which has gone on to sell well over 4 million copies, and we liked it enough to pick it as one of our 100 best business books of all time, has written, with Morten Hansen, another seminal book.

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October 14, 2011

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Iron Butterflies

By 800-CEO-READ

I was raised in a single-parent household. This is not a stark revelation at this point, same as the fact that my mother raised us in poverty – with some tremendous help from my grandparents, to whom I will always be grateful. The reason I bring it up is because of the amazing things my mother was able to accomplish despite limited financial resources but with the unlimited resources of inner strength, caring and tough love.

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October 13, 2011

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The Power of LEO

By 800-CEO-READ

We might be familiar with Six Sigma, Lean Management, Total Quality Management, and other quality management tools, and to some degree, they each can provide great results. So, do we need another? Subir Chowdhury has written a new book called The Power of Leo that shows that we do.

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October 11, 2011

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ChangeThis: Issue 87

By 800-CEO-READ

Starting this month, ChangeThis manifestos will have a slightly different look. We've had repeated requests from readers to make our manifestos easier to read on their mobile devices, and we've done just that. Our designer extraordinaire, Joy Panos Stauber of Stauber Design Studios in Chicago, Illinois is the woman who makes our manifestos sparkle every month, and she has now designed a new template for them that retains most of the visual elements you're all familiar with, while tweaking the dimensions, margins, and aspect ratio to make it more mobile-friendly.

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October 05, 2011

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What are your six words?

Despite protestations, changes are being made in business

Visual Marketing

Drinking From the Fire Hose

A New inBubbleWrap Giveaway: Plan B

The Leader in You

Jack Covert Selects - Great by Choice

Iron Butterflies

The Power of LEO

ChangeThis: Issue 87

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