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Jack Covert Selects - Appetite for America

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Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire that Civilized the Wild West by Stephen Fried, Bantam, 518 pages, $27. 00, Hardcover, March 2010, ISBN 9780553804379 I’m a huge believer that history books make for some of the best business books. History books teach and inform through the re-creation of a lost time.

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April 08, 2010

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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, W. W. Norton, 320 pages, $27.

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April 08, 2010

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Jack Covert Selects - Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit

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Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit: The Secrets of Building a Five-Star Customer Service Organization by Leonardo Inghilleri and Micah Solomon, AMACOM, 170 pages, $21. 95, Hardcover, April 2010, ISBN 9780814415382 Customer service. Everyone expects it to be good, yet we don’t say much when it is.

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April 08, 2010

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Jack Covert Selects - Switch

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Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Broadway Business, 320 pages, $26. 00, Hardcover, February 2010, ISBN 9780385528757 Chip and Dan Heath, brothers and scholars, won the inaugural 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year Award with their first book, Made to Stick. That book, despite being a newborn, also made our list of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time.

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February 12, 2010

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Jack Covert Selects - Mojo

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Mojo: How to Get it, How to Keep it, How to Get It Back If You Lose It by Marshall Goldsmith, Hyperion Books, 224 pages, $26. 99, Hardcover, February 2010, ISBN 9781401323271 There are people on this planet who are scary smart, people who look at the world differently and help us see our own lives in a clearer light. Seth Godin is one.

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February 12, 2010

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Jack Covert Selects - Linchpin

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Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? By Seth Godin, Portfolio, 256 pages, $25. 95, Hardcover, January 2010, ISBN 9781591843160 Seth Godin has a high opinion of you.

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January 15, 2010

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Jack Covert Selects - Velocity

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Velocity: Combining Lean, Six Sigma, and the Theory of Constraints to Achieve Breakthrough Performance by Dee Jacob, Suzan Bergland & Jeff Cox, Free Press, 310 Pages, $26. 00 Hardcover, January 2010, ISBN 9781439158920 In physics, velocity is a simple equation: speed + direction = velocity. AGI-Goldratt Institute’s new book, Velocity, takes that simple equation and applies it to business: operational speed + strategic direction = immediate gains.

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January 15, 2010

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Jack Covert Selects - Masters of Management

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Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World—For Better and for Worse by Adrian Wooldridge, HarperBusiness, 464 pages, $29. 99, Hardcover, November 2011, ISBN 9780061771132 Just from the title alone, you can tell that Masters of Management is a bit softer in tone than the book it revised and updated—a classic, The Witch Doctors by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, released in 1996. Micklethwait, now the editor-in-chief at The Economist, bowed out of this updated version, but Wooldridge carries the torch forward to cover the rise of the Internet, globalization, the explosion in entrepreneurship, and the ever-expanding field of management and leadership literature.

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December 09, 2011

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Jack Covert Selects - The Rare Find

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The Rare Find: Spotting Exceptional Talent Before Everyone Else by George Anders, Portfolio, 276 pages, $26. 95, Hardcover, October 2011, ISBN 9781591844259 There are many situations in which you want to make the right choice, a choice that might change your lives in hugely positive ways. Consider standing before a roulette wheel in Las Vegas: you choose “18 Red” for a variety of reasons that have all sorts of associative data you apply to it.

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November 11, 2011

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Jack Covert Selects - Once Upon a Car

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Once Upon a Car: The Fall and Resurrection of America’s Big Three Auto Makers—GM, Ford and Chrysler by Bill Vlasic, William Morrow & Company, 400 Pages, $26. 99, Hardcover, October 2011, ISBN 9780061845628 A couple of years ago, Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote Too Big to Fail, a brilliant and unparalleled “fly on the wall” narrative deep from the heart of the financial meltdown. Now, Bill Vlasic has written the equivalent about the American automotive industry meltdown from 2005 to the present.

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October 14, 2011

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