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Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
By Sally Haldorson
This morning I perused the Amazon Top 100 for 2012. A few of our favorite books that made the top 20: Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise; Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit (our JCS review here); and Susan Cain's Quiet (our take here. ) Rounding out the top 40 is a book that's been sitting on my desk for awhile, daring me to crack it open: Nassim Nicolas Taleb's Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder.
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A Conversation with Laurence Weinzimmer, The Wisdom of Failure
By Sally Haldorson
The Wisdom of Failure: How to Learn the Tough Leadership Lessons Without Paying the Price by Laurence G. Weinzimmer and Jim McConoughey is a thorough look at how leaders have often failed to learn from the mistakes they have made, as well as how leaders can begin to explore the fertile soil of their failures for the seeds of success. The book is well-organized and accessible, thought-provoking and instructive.
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The Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year
By Porchlight
Steve Coll, a two time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, president of the New America Foundation, current staff writer for The New Yorker, and managing editor at The Washington Post from 1998 and 2004, has one more accolade to add to his long list of achievements. On Thursday night, after what Andrew Hill at The Financial Times described as "the closest contest in the history of the prize," he took home the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award for his excellent study of ExxonMobil, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power. The chair of the judging panel, Financial Times editor Lionel Barber, said of Mr.
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KnowledgeBlocks: Making It Yours
By Sally Haldorson
The word "make" instantly conjures up images. Maybe it's a birthday cake or a holiday craft you helped your mom make as a child. Maybe it's the notepad or napkin holder you made in shop class in high school.
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Persuasive Presentations
By Porchlight
Most of us have witnessed an amazing presentation. We've attended a conference with an enigmatic speaker, we've seen a leader inspire a team, or maybe we've even listened to someone pitch their idea to us. When these moments are truly good, we remember them long after they occur.
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KnowledgeBlocks: Your Life is Your Business
By Sally Haldorson
Last week, in honor of Evaluate Your Life Day, we published an issue that will help you do just that. There we point you toward some wonderful books--mostly narratives--that offer us wisdom on living life, on facing dying, on making the most of the time we have, and achieving the things we dreamed of doing when we were young. The first book, Howard's Gift, will not only introduce you to Howard Stevensen, the Harvard Business School professor whose wisdom and mentorship is the focus of this biography by one of his former students, but also opens the door to a number of other books that encourage you to live life with intention, and face mortality with grace.
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Biz Book Chat with Jon and Michael
By Porchlight
Today, Michael and I took two books we've been looking at, and shared an interesting point from each. The books are, Practice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better by Doug Lemov, Erica Woolway and Katie Yezzi, and Beating the Global Odds: Successful Decision Making in a Confused and Troubled World. Both of the books offer advice on simplifying and improving one's approach to decision making, innovation, and leadership.
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The Glass Elevator: An Interview With Ora Shtull
By Porchlight
Ora Shtull is an Executive Coach and the author of The Glass Elevator: A Guide to Leadership Presence for Women on the Rise. In both her work as a coach and in her book, Ora encourages a complete approach to success, focusing on both professional and personal elements. Ora has developed a model for identifying and developing behaviors that help her clients influence, engage, and connect with the people around them.
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ChangeThis: Issue 99
By Porchlight
The Connected Company: How Distributed Organism Businesses are Rising Against the Machine to Build a More Connected World by Dave Gray “Companies are not really machines, so much as complex, dynamic, growing systems. After all, companies are really just groups of people who have banded together to achieve some kind of purpose. ” The Laws of Subtraction: How to Innovate in the Age of Excess Everything by Matthew E.
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An Interview With Steven Johnson
By Porchlight
Steven Johnson is the author of eight books, including Where Good Ideas Come From, Everything Bad is Good For You, and The Invention of Air. He is also a contributing editor for Wired magazine. His newest book, Future Perfect is published on Riverhead Books.
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