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POW! Right Between the Eyes: Profiting from the Power of Surprise by Andy Nulman, John Wiley & Sons, 240 pages, $24. 95, Hardcover, February 2009, ISBN 9780470405505
It is very rare to read the foreword of a business book and laugh so hard that you just had to tell as many friends as you could about it.
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Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie, Gallup Press, 266 pages, $24. 95, Hardcover, January 2009, ISBN 9781595620255
Gallup has been producing great strength-centric books for the past decade. It all started with Now, Discover Your Strengths, released by Simon & Schuster in 2001, and the series continued with last year's bestselling Strengths Finder 2.
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In July of 2000, I wrote my first Jack Covert Selects on the book How to Become a Rainmaker. This is a book that has stayed with me over the years and is included in The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. In the book Jeffrey Fox lists the Rainmaker's Credo.
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Free Market Madness: Why Human Nature Is at Odds with Economics and Why It Matters by Peter A. Ubel, Harvard Business School Press, 272 pages, $26. 95, Hardcover, January 2009, ISBN 9781422126097
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The Way of Ping: Journey to the Great Ocean by Stuart Avery Gold, Newmarket Press, 96 pages, $15. 00, Hardcover, January 2009, ISBN 9781557048202
Ping, the courageous frog, is back from his quest from the first book Gold wrote about him and he's ready to take his kindred creatures back to the Great Ocean with him. He is met with much opposition and doubt from the pond, especially from Toad, the Elder who doesn't want to move anywhere, because life as he knows it is good.
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