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Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets: Why Women Are the Solution by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid, Harvard Business School Press, 288 pages, $35. 00, Hardcover, August 2011, ISBN 9781422160602
We were big fans of Sylvia Ann Hewlett’s 2007 book, Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success. Hewlett is a prominent gender and workplace issues expert and, in that book, she took a much-needed look into a critical problem in our business world: the current career model and its lack of flexibility for talented women.
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Breaking the Fear Barrier: How Fear Destroys Companies From the Inside Out and What to Do About It by Tom Rieger, Gallup Press, $24. 95, 220 pages, Hardcover, August 2011, ISBN 9781595620545
How people feel is not determined by the actual amount of the gain or the loss. That’s not what determines its value.
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Great Again: Revitalizing America's Entrepreneurial Leadership by Henry R. Nothhaft with David Kline, Harvard Business Review Press, $26. 95, 193 pages, Hardcover, May 2011, ISBN 9781422158579
When I read the essay we received from Henry R.
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The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment’s Notice by Todd Henry, Portfolio, $25. 95, 240 pages, Hardcover, July 2011, ISBN 9781591844013
Todd Henry is a self-described “arms dealer for the creative revolution. ” Continuing that metaphor, you can think of him as a freedom fighter of sorts, but he wisely understands that every struggle (even the creative struggle) needs to be organized.
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The Art of Uncertainty: How to Live in the Mystery of Life and Love It by Dennis Merritt Jones, Tarcher, 304 pages, $14. 95, Paperback, June 2011, ISBN 9781585428724
“I don’t know. ” That’s a phrase most of us try to avoid.
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