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Five Books from 2007: Wikinomics, Halo Effect, Firing Back, one on Starbucks and a Fable.
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Carol Hymowitz over at the WSJ shared her list of business books for holiday reading (you may need to log in). On it, were these books: Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams. This is what we've all been talking about in the past few years and even more so since the rise of Wikipedia.
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Yes, Reading is Sexy.
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Last week we gave Jack a Christmas present. You see, long before our beloved Jack founded this crazy entity now known as 800-CEO-READ and became an author, he ran a record store with his wife Ann. [Local Milwaukeeans out there can probably recall his nickname.
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Three Leadership Experts on Dealing With Internal Trouble
By Porchlight
Hidden inside Fortune's 2008 Investor's Guide is a one page article titled "The Three Minute Manager: Lessons In Leadership. " They interview Bill George (True North), Noel Tichy (Judgment) and Jeffrey Sonnenfeld (Firing Back) and each was asked questions around the problem: "What do you do if you discover a huge loss at your company? " There is no link on the Fortune's site to the piece, so I can only give you the choicest words from each authority: Sonnenfeld on your first move: "First you want to figure out the entirety of the problem so you don't lose credibility coming out with more and more bad news.
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Kindle vs. Reader and Beyond
By Aaron Schleicher
I recently spent some time with the Amazon Kindle side-by-side with the Sony Reader. Having never used any type of virtual book device before, it took me a bit to adjust to both (both have slightly awkward hardware characteristics), but once I settled in, some big things became apparent. Kindle is very connected to a large world beyond the text you're reading on the screen.
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The Inside Advantage
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Robert Bloom has marketed the launch of some very great and successful companies--Southwest Airlines, Nestle, T-Mobile and Novartis just to name a few. He has worked with numerous others along the way, including BMW and L'Oreal. In each instance he applied a winning formula for growth based on the assertion that every company has an Inside Advantage.
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links for 2007-12-20
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The Tide of Fortune>>The Wall Street Journal | Commodore Along the way, this uneducated, gutsy and often callous man laid the foundations for what Mr. Renehan describes as "the greatest private fortune the world has ever known.
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Last Minute Book Gift Idea
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If you are looking for a last minute gift idea and you think a book might work, I have two ideas for you. The first is This I Believe. Released last August, the book is a compilation of the NPR project by the same name.
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Forces for Good event
By Aaron Schleicher
As of today, we've got 10 seats remaining for the January 16 Forces for Good event with Leslie Crutchfield. Anyone involved in nonprofit work or simply interested in how to make a better impact in the world needs to attend. Everyone from Barack Obama to Jim Collins is talking about this book, and this event is sure to cause a positive stir in Milwaukee.
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Love the lists
By Porchlight
Gotta love this time of year. Lots of lists. As is true in business book publishing.
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CEO of Me
By Porchlight
Work/Life balance was a big topic in business books, this year. A new book about the topic just came out last week: CEO of Me: Creating a Life that Works in the Flexible Job Age by Ellen Ernst Kossek and Brenda A. Lautsch.
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