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The Invisible Gorilla
By Porchlight
Hey everyone, The Invisible Gorilla was released in paperback this month. Did you miss the hardcover last year? If you did, chances are the authors would understand.
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Amazon's Best of 2011 ... So Far
By Porchlight
Amazon's books editors have announced their "2011 Best Books of the Year So Far" list. I don't recall them putting out a mid-year list in the past, but it's a great idea and they've picked some very worthy titles. Their top ten in the Business & Investing category are: Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul by Howard Schultz, Rodale Press Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions by Guy Kawasaki, Portfolio Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by David Logan, John King & Halee Fischer-Wright, Harper Paperbacks (the paperback release of the authors' 2008 book) In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy, Simon & Schuster Poke the Box by Seth Godin, The Domino Project - Powered by Amazon Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity by Josh Linkner, Jossey-Bass We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World by Simon Mainwaring, Palgrave MacMillan The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk, HarperBusiness Beyond Wealth: The Road Map to a Rich Life by Alexander Green, John Wiley & Sons Endgame: The End of the Debt Supercycle and How It Changes Everything by John Mauldin, John Wiley & Sons On that list, Disciplined Dreaming author Josh Linkner contributed a manifesto to the February issue of ChangeThis, and we have a manifesto from Simon Mainwaring coming on July 6.
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Blog / Staff Picks
Bursting the The Filter Bubble with Phil Gerbyshak
Book Review by Porchlight
We exist under a mountain of books here at 800-CEO-READ, so we share them fairly regularly with our friends. And there's one friend in particular that always returns the favor—not by giving us more books (that would be somewhat cruel), but by giving us reviews of the books that we give him. And Phil Gerbyshak has come through again.
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Designing for Growth
By Porchlight
When we think about design, we might think about talented people making things look and work in an interesting or useful way. But how does design play into situations where our input is needed? What if we manage designers?
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Women in Business(books)
By Sally Haldorson
As I (and many others) have noted, women business book authors make up a very small percentage of the category, and while the number is growing, often books by women are more niche-oriented or geared toward the personal, so don't get the powerful push or word-of-mouth that more general business books get. So I'd like to spend a little time talking about the books written by women that have landed on my desk recently: This spring, Anne Kreamer's book, It's Always Personal, first intrigued me--no, touched me--due to the personalized publisher copy being used to promote the book. Kreamer wrote: I was told when I started work that if I wanted to be professional, I should never let my feelings show at work--that emotion had nothing to do with success.
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Change, whether we like it or not
By Porchlight
In 1986, a punk band out of Southern California called Uniform Choice released a record called Screaming For Change. Their lyrics dealt with making better personal decisions, treating people fairly, and creating positive social change through uniting different groups of people. The message resonated, and their popularity grew.
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Pychopaths, Tangled Webs, and the Possibility of a Moral Economy
Book Review by Porchlight
How we have come to define the debate on free and fair trade in this country and around the world fascinates, and often frustrates me. I think trade needs to remain just that—free and fair—but I don't believe that "free" necessarily means "unfettered," or that "fair" means "protected. " Those that point to the fact that more open markets in China, India and elsewhere have pulled more people out of poverty more quickly than any other force in the history of the world have the past 30 years of evidence on their side, and those that argue that labor and environmental concerns need to have a seat at the table so that they're not being exploited have history on their side.
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Jack Covert Selects – Branch Rickey
By Porchlight
Branch Rickey by Jimmy Breslin, Viking Books, 147 Pages, $19. 95, Hardcover, March 2011, ISBN 9780670022496 Ask yourself: in business, how important is change? How hard is change?
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Jack Covert Selects – Wired and Dangerous
By Porchlight
Wired and Dangerous: How Your Customers Have Changed and What to Do About It by Chip Bell and John R. Patterson, Berrett-Koehler, 248 pages, Paperback, $19. 95, June 2011, ISBN 9781605099750 My company, 800-CEO-READ was founded and thrived on the simple fact that you can actually call and talk to a friendly somebody, if you are so inclined, when you want to buy books.
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Jack Covert Selects – The Professional
By Porchlight
The Professional: Defining the New Standard of Excellence at Work by Subroto Bagchi, Portfolio, 256 Pages, $25. 95 Hardcover, June 2011, ISBN 9781591844020 What is a professional? Subroto Bagchi, one of India’s foremost business leaders and authors, believes the traditional definition has changed.
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