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Jack Covert Selects - Reality Check

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Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition by Guy Kawasaki, Portfolio, 496 pages, $29. 95, Hardcover, November 2008, ISBN 9781591842231 Guy Kawasaki gives entrepreneurs two options when they ask him about their ideas--"the truth or 'feel good' pablum. " Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition offers no such choice.

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October 09, 2008

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Jack Covert Selects - Management Lessons From Mayo Clinic

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Management Lessons From Mayo Clinic: Inside One of the World's Most Admired Service Organizations by Leonard L Berry and Kent D. Seltman, McGraw-Hill, 276 pages, $27. 95, Hardcover, June 2008, ISBN 9780071590730 Over a century ago, a family of doctors in a small Minnesotan town formed an organization that has gone on to touch countless lives.

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July 18, 2008

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Jack Covert Selects - Good Is Not Enough

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Good Is Not Enough: And Other Unwritten Rules for Minority Professionals by Keith R. Wyche with Sonia Alleyne, Portfolio, 242 pages, $24. 95, Hardcover, July 2008, ISBN 9781591842101 It's no secret that the leaders of America's largest corporations do not reflect the makeup of our country's population.

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July 17, 2008

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Jack Covert Selects - Predictably Irrational

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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely, Harper, 280 pages, $25. 95, Hardcover, February 2008, ISBN 9780061353239 We've all been there--the skin-to-strip adhesive is beginning to give, and it's clearly time to give the Band-Aid the ol' yank. That truism from mom--"fast and easy"--rings true, but does it really?

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July 16, 2008

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Jack Covert Selects - The Memo to the CEO Series

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The Memo to the CEO Series, Various Authors, Harvard Business School Press, $18. 00, Hardcover, 2008 We recently attended Book Expo America, the national bookseller's convention, and almost every one of our meetings involved some talk of the future. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was one of the headliners, promoting his company's electronic reading device, the Kindle.

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June 13, 2008

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Jack Covert Selects - Buying In

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Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are by Rob Walker, Random House, 291 pages, $25. 00, Hardcover, June 2008, ISBN 9781400063918 Standing in the condiments aisle of the grocery store, shoppers are confronted by bottle after bottle of similar items. There is any number of considerations we mull over regarding what we ultimately place in our carts.

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June 12, 2008

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Jack Covert Selects - The Necessary Revolution

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The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World by Peter Senge, Bryan Smith, Nina Kruschwitz, Joe Lauer & Sara Schley, Doubleday, $29. 95, 406 pages, Hardcover, June 2008, ISBN 9780385519014 In our annual magazine published earlier this year, we lamented the lack of business books that tackle issues of the environment. Well, this year that has changed, as there have been numerous books on the topic published, such as Stirring It Up by Gary Hirshberg, and Go Green, Live Rich by Richard Bach.

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June 11, 2008

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Jack Covert Selects - The Game-Changer

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The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation by A. G. Lafley and Ram Charan, Crown Business, 336 pages, $27.

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May 13, 2008

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Jack Covert Selects - The Pixar Touch

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The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company by David A. Price, Knopf, 304 pages, $27. 95 Hardcover, May 2008, ISBN 9780307265753 Disney's The Sword in the Stone may have inspired some youngsters with dreams of becoming a knight or magician, leading them to a life of role-playing and dice-throwing.

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May 12, 2008

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Jack Covert Selects - Inside Steve's Brain

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Inside Steve's Brain by Leander Kahney, Portfolio, 304 pages, $23. 95, Hardcover, April 2008, ISBN 9781591841982 For four decades, the word Apple has conjured up more than just keeping the doctor away. Adding the iPod, iTunes and iPhone to that mix only strengthens the long-lasting brand that shares the fruit's name.

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April 10, 2008

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