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A new edition of "The Keen Thinker" newsletter
By Sally Haldorson
In case you haven't signed up yet to receive The Keen Thinker newsletter via email every month, you can read it here. In this month's edition, you can learn more about: the 2010 Author Pow Wow an excuse to play poker at work how to make your company more profitable how to live your life by your own rules what to do to keep from choking when the stakes are high what the Milwaukee "The Rework Event" is which new books you should add to the pile on your bedside table why there is a business book for everyone (even people who hate business books) the newest issue of ChangeThis and Jack Covert Selects how to win a free book every week and. .
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Announcing! The 2010 800-CEO-READ Author Pow Wow
By Sally Haldorson
The 800-CEO-READ Author Pow Wow is back! The theme of this year’s event is Making Connections. Now, we don’t mean making connections in strictly networking terms—that’s just a bonus.
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The Art of Non-Conformity
By Porchlight
I first read Chris Guillebeau's blog after Seth Godin mentioned him a couple years ago, and have been fascinated ever since. Not only have I followed his blog, I bought one of his Art and Money guides, and was recently excited to see he had a book out, called, The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World. Yes, that's a pretty bold title, but Chris is the kind of person who can post it in confidence.
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The Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book Award: The Shortlist
By Porchlight
The shortlist for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year has been announced. As with the longlist for the award, it is dominated by books covering the recent financial turmoil. The only two covering other topics are: The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar, Twelve The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick, Simon & Schuster The books on the shortlist that cover the crisis are: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, W.
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Personality Poker
By Porchlight
Has this happened to you? You interview at a great company for a great job, and you get it! Then, you start the job and realize that there's much more at play than just the great position you landed.
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Tomato. Tomahto.
By Sally Haldorson
A short while ago, I wrote a defense of business books here on the 800-CEO-READ blog, contending that the business book genre includes such a wide range of subgenres that it doesn't deserve the disdain or dismissal it often receives as being pedantic or unappealing to a wider audience. Today, Todd Sattersten contributes a precise retort against the criticism the genre receives by quoting some of the most recent critics and showing the shortcomings of their arguments against the value of business books. There is no right or wrong answer in the argument of whether most business books offer value to readers.
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ChangeThis: Issue 74
By Porchlight
If you'd like to be an ethically upstanding, emotionally engaged, clutch performer who invests your money wisely, gives great presentations and empowers your employees, you will want to read the 74th issue of ChangeThis. If not, then might I suggest You're a Horrible Person, But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice (actually, you should read that anyway. .
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Conference Room B
By Porchlight
“The irreducible essence of leadership is that leaders are people who live their deepest personal values without compromise, and they use those values to make life better for others—that is why people become leaders and why people follow leaders. ” —Stan Slap, Bury My Heart at Conference Room B (Portfolio, August 2010) If you follow Jack Covert Selects, you may recognize the quote above from Jack's most recent review. It's a quote that Jack and Carol appreciated so much that they asked me to put it on our conference room wall.
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How Made to Stick was Made to Stick: What Ideas Survived and What Died
By Porchlight
We really loved the Heath Brother's first book, What Sticks: Why Some Ideas Work in the World and Others Don't, when it first arrived in our office in 2007. So much, in fact, that we saved the manuscript—something we rarely do due to the staggering amount of books we receive every year. The subtitle was a little unruly, but the ideas spiral-bound up in that plastic cover were concise, well-written, and right on.
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A Defense of Business Books
By Sally Haldorson
It's a common reaction. When I explain to people that I work for a bookstore that specializes in business books, most people either furrow their brows or wrinkle their noses. Sometimes this reaction is caused by confusion as bookstores, to most people, are brick and mortar locations that display New York Times best selling fiction, spin racks of greeting cards, and children's pictures books.
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