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links for 2007-04-24
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Send >> Wall Street Journal | To: Emailers Subject: Etiquette In "Send," David Shipley and Will Schwalbe offer us help in separating the useful from the impositional and in making the useful more so.
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This Week: National Small Business Week
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This week is National Small Business Week. We are going to highlight some books for those out there is the small business world and those who want to be. I figured we should start with the definition of a small business.
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The New Language of Business: SOA and Web 2.0
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The following is an excerpt from Chapter 11 of The New Language of Business: SOA and Web 2. 0 by Sandy Carter. In this book, Carter shows how, by levering SOA (service-oriented architecture), Web 2.
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links for 2007-04-23
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The Black Swan >> New York Times | Possibly Maybe It concerns the occurrence of the improbable, the power of rare events and the author’s lament that “in spite of the empirical record we continue to project into the future as if we were good at it.
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links for 2007-04-21
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Damage Control >> Time Magazine | The Crisis Doctors These tough critics are the "trauma surgeons of public relations," as Dezenhall puts it--the people whom companies call in when lawsuits, recalls, boycotts, federal investigations or just plain bad luck hits. (tags: businessbooks public_relations) How To Read A Business Book by Adrian Madansky -- The University of Chicago Magazine: February 2001 All these books assert "truths" about different aspects of business. .
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Strength(s) Training
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There are three books right now on the Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller list dealing with strengths development. Gallup hold a spot with their new StrengthsFinder 2. 0.
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This should be obvious.
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Yesterday the WSJ ran a snippet on an article in The MIT Sloan School of Management's business journal. The article explains that often times businesses focus on price and demographics rather than how the customer actually uses the product. To drive their point home, they quoted Peter Drucker who once said, "the customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.
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Boom Goes Your Business (Failure - Part 2 in a series)
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Jagdish Sheth says his journey started as he tried to understand why so many companies that were highlighted in books like In Search of Excellence and Good To Great failed to have continued success. Sheth argues that companies acquire habits that lead to their fall. His latest book is called The Self-Destructive Habits of Good Companies.
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Bad to Worse (Failure - Part One In A Series)
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There is no shortage of books written to explain the success of companies. In Search of Excellence and Good to Great are the best known for using this technique. There are not many books that do the opposite—look at why companies failed.
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New Excerpt - from You, Inc.
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There's a new excerpt up on the Excerpts blog. It's from Chapter 1 of You, Inc. : The Art of Selling Yourself by Harry Beckwith and Christine Clifford Beckwith.
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