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links for 2008-01-03
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House Lust>>The Wall Street Journal | Passion Comes with a Mortgage To Mr. McGinn's credit, "House Lust" is not yet another attempt to show how you too can hit the jackpot with no money down. Nor is it a storehouse of revelations about the economics or psychology of real estate.
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Innovation through new eyes.
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Over at the NYTimes, you'll find one of the most viewed articles this week is on innovation. It features Chip and Dan of Made to Stick and Cynthia Barton Rabe of The Innovation Killer. In her 2006 book, "Innovation Killer: How What We Know Limits What We Can Imagine -- and What Smart Companies Are Doing About It," Cynthia Barton Rabe proposes bringing in outsiders whom she calls zero-gravity thinkers to keep creativity and innovation on track.
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Strategy and the Fat Smoker
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David Maister has taken a break from larger publisher Free Press, and has recently self-published his latest book The Strategy and the Fat Smoker. Since June, David has written a series of blog posts documenting the process of completing the book, and we've posted an excerpt from the book on our excerpts blog. Suzanne Lowe has also written a great article about David over at MarketingProfs We wish David the best with this gutsy venture.
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Thoughts of Friends
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Seeing old friends during the holiday season always seems to encourage some reflecting. One thing that I personally thought about were the friends that no longer live close to me anymore. This past year, I made my usual pilgrimage to Hoboken, New Jersey where they moved to.
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More Kudos For Michael Gates Gill
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In the Wall Street Journal's Best Books of 2007, deputy books editor Mark Lasswell calls out Michael Gates Gill's How Starbucks Saved My Life saying: At 63, Michael Gates Gill, father of five, found himself out of work, divorced, and nearly broke--not quite what he expected when he was growing up on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the son of New Yorker writer Brendan Gill. But then Mr. Gill found a life raft in the form of an unlikely job, as he relates in the memoir How Starbucks Saved My Life.
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Book Excerpt - Bull in China
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From: A Bull in China by Jim Rogers This is from Rogers' current book in which he examines the growth and future of the Chinese economy. He just didn't stumble upon this, he first came upon China's importance in the world back in 1984 on his motorcycle tour around the world. Rogers has been following this certain country's growth and development for some time.
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Dip into Seth's Meatball Sundae: it's available.
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With all the hype and Meatball Mondae blog posts, we've been waiting for this book. Seth's latest is now available! Check out Squidoo to find excerpts and riffs from the book.
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MIT Author's New Job
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Author, artist, and technologist John Maeda has been named president of Rhode Island School of Design. His video announcement is worth a look. His latest book The Laws of Simplicity provides 10 Laws and 3 Keys described in his self-imposed limit of 100 pages.
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Jack speaks with The Cranky Middle Manager Show on notable books in 2007.
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For the second year in a row, Wayne Turmel over at the Cranky Middle Manager Show spoke with Jack on some of the books nominated for our awards. A number of our award nominees were interviewed by Wayne at various points throughout the year. You can find the interviews here.
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strategy + business Best Books of 2007
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The folks over at strategy + business have chosen what they consider the best business books of the year. There were eight categories, and each one was assigned to an expert in that field for review. Each reviewer also delivered an essay on the books chosen, and they are all good reads.
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