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It seems just a bit ironic that the last page in April's Fast Company is a grueling review and warning of the business section of your local bookstore. Especially considering more than a handful of business book authors--including the Heath brothers, Dan Roam, Amy Sutherland*, Tim Ferriss, Robert Scoble, Fred Krupp--contributed to or were mentioned in the issue. The last page is Elizabeth Spiers' (founding editor of Gawker and Dealbreaker) article "Library of the Living Dead.
March 19, 2008
The excerpt below is the introduction to Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School. The book was authored by John Medina, a developmental molecular biologist and research consultant, and director of the Brain Center for Applied Learning Research at Seattle Pacific University. Brain Rules By John Medina Go ahead and multiply the number 8,388,628 x 2 in your head.
March 18, 2008
Ask 8cr! is a section of our blog used as a forum to address the kinds of issues and challenges people are having in the workplace. We take these issues and apply a business book we feel offers a viable solution.
March 17, 2008
Yesterday Charles Fishman, The Wal-Mart Effect joined us for the first of our spring events. He's an incredible storyteller; if you ever have a chance, go see him live. I'm guessing he'll be on tour with his next book on the subject of bottled water.
March 14, 2008
The excerpt below is from the introduction to The excerpt below is from The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures, by Dan Roam. The story begins when a coworker asked Dan to cover for him as a presenter at a conference in England. After an overnight flight, Dan was asked en route to the conference to run his PowerPoint by the British team leader.
March 13, 2008
Predictably Irrational >> BusinessWeek | "Why You Do the Crazy Things You Do" "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, by Dan Ariely, is an entertaining tour of the many ways people act against their best interests, drawing on Ariely's own ingeniously designed experiments.
March 12, 2008
March 10, 2008
Friday was opening day at SXSW, the famous Austin music/film/media/interactive festival that's been running for the past two decades. If you're not familiar with it, here's an introduction. Most of us here are missing the fun.
"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations? " - from Alice in Wonderland Well, the following books from February's top 25 may or may not contain pictures, or even conversations in them. .
There's a new excerpt up on the Excerpts blog. It's the summary of the book Pricing with Confidence: 10 Ways to Stop Leaving Money on the Table by Reed Holden and Mark Burton. Holden and Burton show you how you can get everyone in your firm to feel 100% confident in your pricing--no matter what customers are saying or how fierce the competition.
March 06, 2008
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