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The Category Winners for the 2011 Business Book Awards
By Sally Haldorson
The time has come! Drum roll, please. .
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Smart Trust
By Porchlight
It seems that cynicism has become a national pastime. Politicians don’t trust each other. Businesspeople don’t trust the politicians and much of the public doesn’t trust either group.
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The Synergist
By Porchlight
Les McKeown's new book The Synergist: How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Success, comes out at a perfect time to integrate into any group for the new year. All groups, teams, and organizations have goals they want to accomplish - things that will make them happy and successful - but the road to get there is often filled with uncertainty, apprehension, meltdowns, and gridlock. In fact, this process has become normal.
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2011 Business Book Awards: The Short List
By Porchlight
What was the Best Business Book written in 2011? Watch this 90 second video and find out more. Ok, so we didn't tell you what the best book was.
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5-4-3: The E-Book
By Sally Haldorson
Five years ago, we chose The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. Since then, thousands of business books have been published. Today we are presenting a new ebook, 5-4-3, to celebrate the paperback version of The 100 Best, now available digitally and updated with expanded reviews, new informative sidebars, a fresh introduction, and a closing manifesto (read more about the changes here.
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Our (unexpected) End-of-2011 Recommendation List
By Sally Haldorson
We here at 800-CEO-READ produce a lot of lists throughout the year. We offer a monthly and year-end Inc. /800-CEO-READ Best Seller list.
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Addressing The Behavior Gap in the New Year
By Porchlight
We don't recommend too many personal finance titles around here. The last one I can remember us being really excited about was Lee Eisenberg's The Number, which came out in 2006 and didn't do as well with the general readership as we thought and hoped it would. Financial literacy is a immensely important topic, but most personal finance books are rather dense—as well-written, easy-to-understand and exciting to read as the assembly instructions to the bar stool you just got for Christmas.
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The Little Black Book of Innovation
By Porchlight
What a better time to think about innovation than the start of a new year? As we attempt to make this year more successful and fulfilled than the previous, we think about new ways to do what we do, ways to refine our efforts, and ultimately, grow as individuals. Innovation might be the way to achieve those things, but the problem is that we're often not sure exactly what innovation even means, let alone how to practice it.
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Introducing the Candidates: General Business
By Sally Haldorson
Over the course of this week, we will be introducing, by category, the candidates for the 2011 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards. Even though only one of the candidates can win the big prize, good business books deserve an audience, and perhaps one on this list will be the winning book. .
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The 8cr Method
By Porchlight
Eric Ryan, co-founder of the home care and personal products company Method, and also co-author of the book The Method Method, stopped by our office today to do some work with Bob for our upcoming KnowledgeBlocks product. It was great to hear his insight into starting, and running, such an innovative company. For years, my wife and I have been not only customers, but huge fans, as we both long wondered why the stuff that was supposed to make our homes, and us, clean, seemed coincidentally harmful in so many ways.
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