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Negotiation Thread at Signal vs Noise
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There is a great thread at Signal vs Noise where they are asking readers for good negotiating stories. The books mentioned thus far include: You Can Negotiate Anything by Herb Cohen NO: The Only Negotiating Strategy You Need for Work and Home by Jim Camp Humanitarian Negotiation: A handbook for securing access, assistance and protection for Civilians in Armed Conflcts by The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (free download) Jack Nicholson's famous negotiation in Five Easy Pieces is also mentioned.
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Ferris' "Then We Came To The End" Wins B&N New Writers Award
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Joshua Ferris was named a winner in Barnes & Noble's 15th Annual "Discover Great New Writers Awards. " His book Then We Came To The End is a novel about a Chicago ad agency and the tumultuous 1990's. Our resident writer Todd Lazarski wrote this short piece about the book for an upcoming 800-CEO-READ project: The next generation of the business novel, Ferris' hilarious critique of modern office life and the world of marketing acts almost as the written word companion to "Office Space" or "The Office.
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Indexed, Farber and Charity
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Three notes, not quite related. 1. Jessica Hagy's book Indexed is out today.
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5 Steps to Optimizing Your Website
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There are countless ways to get the most out of your web site, and even more opinions about the best ways. In Zero to One Million, Ryan Allis offers an evaluation system to determine whether your business idea is viable. Then, he provides strategies and steps for optimizing your online marketing efforts.
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links for 2008-02-26
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Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism >> BusinessWeek | "In Praise of Not-So-Free Trade" Chang argues that the policy recommendations of the "unholy trinity" of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization would have been unacceptable to the U. S.
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Memo to the CEO
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Harvard Business Press has begun publishing a series of 100 page books called Memos to the CEO. The Publisher's Note from the beginning of the book sums them up perfectly. Authored by leading experts and examining issues of special urgency, the books in the Memo to the CEO series are tailored for today's time-starved executives.
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If you're in Milwaukee...do join us where Design Meets Business : Business Meets Design
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If you're in Milwaukee, keep reading. . .
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As a nation, we must embrace innovation.
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One of the runner-ups for our Innovation/Creativity award was Innovation Nation by John Kao, who, among other pursuits, is a professor at Harvard, a jazz musician and was named "Mr. Creativity" by the Economist. This quote from the Economist should tell you something about him: "If Orsen Welles and Peter Drucker were somehow to mate, the resulting progeny might resemble John Kao, a serial innovator.
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links for 2008-02-21
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The New Asian Hemisphere>>The Wall Street Journal | A Rising in the East Even so, there are lessons to be learned from "The New Asian Hemisphere" -- not least that, in a world of truly global free trade, there is no room for the petty self-dealing of protectionism.
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Excerpt from Leadership Brand - 2 of 2
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The following is the second of two excerpts from the book Leadership Brand: Developing Customer-Focused Leaders to Drive Performance and Build Lasting Value by Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood. Leadership Brand details the authors' six-step process to leadership brand--"a shared identity among your organization's leaders that differentiates what they can do from what your rivals' leaders can do. " This second excerpt focuses on the process of training.
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