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Jack Covert Selects - The Soft Edge
By Porchlight
The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success by Rich Karlgaard, Jossey-Bass, $28. 00, Hardcover, April 2014, ISBN 9781118829424 When you see a book has a foreword written by Tom Peters, and an afterword penned by Clayton Christensen, you pay attention. When the author of that same book is the publisher of Forbes, you get your wallet out.
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Jack Covert Selects - A Bigger Prize
By Porchlight
A Bigger Prize: How We Can Do Better Than the Competition by Margaret Heffernan, Public Affairs, $27. 99, Hardcover, 391 pages, 9781610392914 In everything from sports to business, from educational achievement to ideas, our society encourages vigorous competition. In her new book, A Bigger Prize, Margaret Heffernen warns that there are some significant detriments that come with “our outsize veneration of competition.
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Jack Covert Selects - Things a Little Bird Told Me
By Porchlight
Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind by Biz Stone, Grand Central Publishing, 240 pages, $26. 00, Hardcover, April 2014, ISBN 9781455528714 Twitter is an interesting company. For years I’ve wondered, “how does it make money?
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Subscribe to our kBOX & get Pitch Perfect and Think Like a Freak!
By Sally Haldorson
From the practical to the radical, we've got two outstanding books for your quarterly KnowledgeBOX shipment. These books will ship the week of the 21st, so if you haven't signed up for our kBOX deliveries, sign up today! Your kBOX feature book is: The media coach and Emmy Award-winning correspondent Bill McGowan shares his secrets of pitch-perfect communications, showing readers how to communicate with confidence.
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A New KB Giveaway! Thanks for the Feedback
By Sally Haldorson
Here is the first thing that popped into my head when I first glimpsed a copy of this book: I need to give this to my husband! Because his reaction to feedback is usually defensive. And that's what we always think, right?
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Jack Covert Selects - The Hard Thing About Hard Things
By Porchlight
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz, HarperBusiness, 304 pages, $29. 99, Hardcover, March 2014, ISBN 9780062273208 Imagine you were going to bake something. You had never baked it before but from what you heard of the dish, it sounded delicious.
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Jack Covert Selects - Flex
By Porchlight
Flex: The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences by Jane Hyun and Audrey S. Lee, HarperBusiness, 336 pages, $27. 99, Hardcover, March 2014, ISBN 9780062248527 The differences in our office are likely not as obvious as those in a more diverse company, but if you look closely the differences are there.
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Jack Covert Selects - Money
By Porchlight
Money: The Unauthorized Biography by Felix Martin, Alfred A. Knopf, 320 pages, $27. 95, Hardcover, March 2014, ISBN 9780307962430 Money, as we are told in classical economics, evolved from a system of barter known in the simpler societies of our ancestors.
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ChangeThis: Issue 115
By Porchlight
The Smart People Manifesto: How to Get Our Nation’s Top Graduates to Build Things by Andrew Yang “Our smart people are doing the wrong things. If we can get them to do the right things it will transform the country. We need more jobs, new enterprises and a resurgent culture of innovation in the U.
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The Brevity Mandate
By Joseph McCormack
"The business world today is full of information overload and there is not enough time to sift through it. If you cannot capture people's attention and deliver your message with brevity, you'll lose them. For starters, the discipline to capture and manage elusive mindshare now shapes and defines professional success. Shorter e-mails, better organized updates, and tighter and more engaging presentations are immediate indicators that you've got what it takes to succeed in an attention economy. Getting to the point is a non-negotiable standard. The reasons why are plentiful. Ten years ago, brevity was a nicety and meant primarily for long-winded types that couldn't shut up. Today, being clear and concise is an absolute necessity; it's what successful people expect to see—and get quickly frustrated when it's missing."
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