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Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face—and What to do About It by Richard S. Tedlow. Portfolio, 272 Pages, $26.
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Mojo: How to Get it, How to Keep it, How to Get It Back If You Lose It by Marshall Goldsmith, Hyperion Books, 224 pages, $26. 99, Hardcover, February 2010, ISBN 9781401323271
There are people on this planet who are scary smart, people who look at the world differently and help us see our own lives in a clearer light. Seth Godin is one.
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Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Broadway Business, 320 pages, $26. 00, Hardcover, February 2010, ISBN 9780385528757
Chip and Dan Heath, brothers and scholars, won the inaugural 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year Award with their first book, Made to Stick. That book, despite being a newborn, also made our list of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time.
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Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz, W. W.
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Velocity: Combining Lean, Six Sigma, and the Theory of Constraints to Achieve Breakthrough Performance by Dee Jacob, Suzan Bergland & Jeff Cox, Free Press, 310 Pages, $26. 00 Hardcover, January 2010, ISBN 9781439158920
In physics, velocity is a simple equation: speed + direction = velocity. AGI-Goldratt Institute’s new book, Velocity, takes that simple equation and applies it to business: operational speed + strategic direction = immediate gains.
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