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Jun 09, 2011

Jack Covert Selects – Car Guys vs. Bean Counters

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Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business by Bob Lutz, Portfolio, 256 Pages, $26. 95, Hardcover, June 2011, ISBN 9781591844006 The American auto industry has had some stellar books written about it.

Jun 09, 2011

Jack Covert Selects – The Professional

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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.

Jun 09, 2011

Jack Covert Selects – Wired and Dangerous

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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.

Jun 09, 2011

Jack Covert Selects – Branch Rickey

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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?

May 12, 2011

Jack Covert Selects – Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar

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Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories of Work, edited by Richard Ford, Harper Perennial, 607 pages, $16. 99, Paperback, May 2011, ISBN 9780062020413 John Cheever, Andre Dubus, Donald Barthelme, Jhumpa Lahiri, Joyce Carol Oates, Eudora Welty, Tobias Wolff. These are names you expect to see on college literature course syllabi and New York Times Best Seller Lists.