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The 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Shortlist: Marketing & Sales
By Sally Haldorson
Over the course of this week, we will be posting the shortlist selections for our 8 business book categories: General Business, Leadership, Management, Innovation/Creativity, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Marketing/Sales, Personal Development, Finance. On Monday, December 16th, we'll announce the 8 category winners! In early January, the overall winner of the 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards will be awarded, so stay tuned to The Daily Blog for all the good news.
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The 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Shortlist: Management
By Sally Haldorson
Over the course of this week, we will be posting the shortlist selections for our 8 business book categories: General Business, Leadership, Management, Innovation/Creativity, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Marketing/Sales, Personal Development, Finance. Then on Monday, December 16th, we'll announce the 8 category winners! In early January, the overall winner of the 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards will be awarded, so stay tuned to The Daily Blog for all the good news.
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The 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Shortlist: General Business
By Sally Haldorson
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The 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Shortlist: Leadership
By Sally Haldorson
Over the course of this week, we will be posting the shortlist selections for our 8 business book categories: General Business, Leadership, Management, Innovation/Creativity, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Marketing/Sales, Personal Development, Finance. Then on Monday, December 16th, we'll announce the 8 category winners! In early January, the overall winner of the 2013 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards will be awarded, so stay tuned to The Daily Blog for all the good news.
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ChangeThis: Issue 111
By Porchlight
How To Future-Proof Your Career by Jocelyn K. Glei “The way we interact with people, the tools we use, and the way we work are all changing. This has huge implications for the way we run our careers.
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Amazon's Best, and the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
By Porchlight
The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award was announced last night. Unsurprisingly, I suppose, it did not go to Steven Mandis's excellent book on Goldman Sachs—What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider's Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences released by Harvard Business Review Press last month. That would be like Amazon announcing their best book of the year was Brad Stone's The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon.
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New KB Giveaway! Adversaries into Allies by Bob Burg
By Sally Haldorson
Most business books are social science books. Sometimes they are given the "self help" label, and while business books are often about growing or evolving the self, they are more often about relationships, and how to work with other people to benefit both parties, whether it is manager-to-employee, marketer-to-client, or peer-to-peer. While social science is technically concerned with individual relationships in a society, it isn't too far of a reach to say that organizations are their own small society.
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Two Birds in a Tree: Timeless Indian Wisdom for Business Leaders
By Sally Haldorson
Author Ram Nidumolu tells us upfront that Two Birds in a Tree: Timeless Indian Wisdom for Business Leaders is "only a road map" and that "you will have to create the guidebook yourself because this is your own unique journey. " Journey toward what? Toward Being.
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ChangeThis: Issue 110
By Porchlight
Making Decisions like Tomorrow Depends on It by Tom Rath “No matter how healthy you are today, you can take specific actions to have more energy and live longer. Regardless of your age, you can make better choices in the moment. Small decisions—about how you eat, move, and sleep each day—count more than you think.
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Thinker(s) in Residence: Business & Books with Brains On Fire
By Sally Haldorson
"Why can’t we lose the term NOT FOR PROFIT? Shouldn’t the people doing the most good in the world be wildly profitable? " Q: What is the one unanswered question about business you are most interested in answering?
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