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Books To Make Your Go Faster
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ChangeThis has a number of great pieces this month. Dan Coughlin was one of the authors featured there and he has a new book called Accelerate: 20 Practical Lessons to Boost Business Momentum. Coughlin starts his manifesto with this: Great businesses are defined by their ability to accelerate.
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links for 2007-04-10
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Bill and Dave >> Wizards In The Valley | BusinessWeek "Anecdotes from the founders' childhoods highlight the book's opening pages.
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What Is Missing From Shelves
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I want to add one more point to Rebecca's post on the Carol Hymowitz column. Hymowitz ends her piece with: What's missing from bookstores, it seems, are more titles that show how executives have reshaped businesses so they don't become obsolete in the digital landscape, and one that explain the new rules of the corner office, where CEOs must cater to an array of constituents. To the first question of fighting technological irrelevance, Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma plays directly to that point.
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Power of a Positive No
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Each month Random House's Bantam Dell imprint podcasts with two of their authors. One you may be interested in is a podcast with William Ury, author of The Power of a Positive No. Negotiation expert William Ury describes the "Positive No" detailed in his new book The Power of a Positive No: How to Say NO and Still Get to YES, bringing the technique to life with stories of Stephen Spielberg and Hugo Chavez.
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Publisher's Weekly 2006 Bestsellers - The Business Slice
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Every year, Publisher Weekly runs lists of the bestsellers from various genre (fiction, non-fiction, paperback). What is different about this list is you can see the number of copies sold. I ran down through the non-fiction list to pull out all the business titles that sold more than 100,000 copies.
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links for 2007-04-06
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The Wizard of Menlo Park >> BusinessWeek >> "Invention Deficit Disorder" "The lack of monetary success was strongly linked to two Edison habits: First, he repeatedly refocused on new projects before older ones reached commercial fruition. Then, relentlessly pursued by admirers, the Dean of Inventors proved easily distracted by (tags: businessbooks industry biography invention innovation) Prophet of Innovation>>WSJ | The Colorful Life of Capital's Champion Joseph Schumpeter, an Austrian-German-American economist who died in 1950 but whose reputation is also ever rising, spent his professional life studying the capitalist dynamic.
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Go read already.
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The new ChangeThis manifestos are up. You'll find: -->John Moore's response to the dilution of Starbucks' brand. --> 15 truths to acceleration.
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DHL using books for promotion again
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Last April, DHL was giving customers One Minute Manager when they tried the company's international service. DHL has a similar offer running now with Travels of a T-Shirt In A Global Economy. The offer is good until next Friday (4/13/07).
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links for 2007-04-05
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Threshold Resistance>>WSJ | Doing Business With Conviction Five years ago this month, at the age of 78, Detroit real-estate tycoon A. Alfred Taubman was sentenced to prison for a year and a day.
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New Excerpt Up!
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There's a new entry up on our Excerpts blog. It's from The Art of War for Women by Chin-Ning Chu, an internationally renowned speaker and the bestselling author of Thick Face, Black Heart. Chu brings the wisdom of philosopher-general Sun Tzu to women looking to gain a better understanding of who they are and who they want to be.
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