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Jack Covert Selects - Panic
By Porchlight
Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity edited by Michael Lewis, W. W. Norton & Company, 391 Pages, $27.
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The 2008 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards - Leadership
By Porchlight
The books on our 2008 shortlist for the Leadership Category are: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin (Portfolio, October 2008) This may be Seth Godin's most important book yet. It's human nature to want to be part of a group that shares a connection, passion and a common leader: a tribe. Technologies today have changed the make-up and creation of tribes, enabling them to communicate and grow in ways not possible in the past.
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The 2008 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards - Finance & Economics
By Porchlight
The books on our 2008 shortlist for the Finance & Economics Category are: The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives by Michael Heller (Basic Books, July 2008) Michael Heller didn't have language to describe the tragedy he saw occurring due to too much ownership, so he coined the term "the tragedy of the anticommons"--a term that describes the overreaction to the "tragedy of the commons,"--when public resources are overused and degraded. In The Gridlock Economy, Heller cites time and again examples of stifled innovation and lost economic growth due to outdated patent law, underuse of resources and, in general, too much ownership. The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R.
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The 2008 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards - Advertising & Marketing
By Porchlight
The books on our 2008 shortlist for the Advertising & Marketing Category are: The Brand Bubble: The Looming Crisis in Brand Value and How to Avoid It by John Gerzema and Ed Lebar (Jossey-Bass, October 2008) Companies put a lot of effort and money into their brands, which can sometimes be higher than the value they place on their customers. As this occurs, the number of quality performing brands decreases. According to Gerzema and Lebar, this is the brand bubble, and the result could have a serious blow to the economy.
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Jack Covert Selects - The Knack
By Porchlight
The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up by Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham, Portfolio, 274 pages, $25. 95, Hardcover, October 2008, ISBN 9781591842217 Most entrepreneurship books just don't deliver. The wide variability in fledging businesses makes it nearly impossible to write a universal prescription for success.
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The 2008 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards - Innovation & Creativity
By Porchlight
The books on our 2008 shortlist for the Innovation & Creativity Category are: Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently by Gregory Berns (Harvard Business Press, October 2008) What is an iconoclast? "A person who does something that others say can't be done. " Gregory Berns researched iconclasts and found that their brains function differently from the average person in three respects: perception, fear response and social intelligence.
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Jack Covert Selects - The Watercooler Effect
By Porchlight
The Watercooler Effect: A Psychologist Explores the Extraordinary Power of Rumors by Nicholas DiFonzo, Avery Publishing Group, 291 pages, $24. 95, Hardcover, September 2008, ISBN 9781583333259 We have an open-plan office; the majority of the staff is situated in one main room, without cubical walls or even much distance to separate employees. This concept has worked well for us.
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The 2008 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards - Globalization
By Porchlight
The books on our 2008 shortlist for the Globalization Category are: A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World by William J. Bernstein (Atlantic Monthly Press, April 2008) In this astonishingly erudite book, William J. Bernstein chronicles the history of world trade, clearly expelling any myths one might have that globalization is a recent phenomenon.
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The Best Business Books 0f 2008 - BusinessWeek Edition
Book Review by Porchlight
While we're in the midst of announcing the shortlists for our annual awards, I think it behooves us to look at what others found worthy of the "best" title. Last week, BusinessWeek gave their blessing to what they see as The Best Business Books of 2008 in an article by Hardy Green. The following books made the article: The Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles R.
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The Oxford Project
Book Review by Porchlight
Every holiday season there's at least one big, beautiful book that has everyone buzzing. Two years ago it was the Annie Leibovitz book. Last year it was 100 Young Americans and the illustrated Life of Pi.
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