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Ask 8cr! is a section of our blog used as a forum to address the kinds of issues and challenges people are having in the workplace. We take these issues and apply a business book we feel offers a viable solution.
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Senior Leadership Teams: What it Takes to Make Them Great by Ruth Wageman, Debra A. Nunes, James A Burruss, J. Richard Hackman, Harvard Business School Press, 256 pages, $29.
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The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World by Tim Harford, Random House, 272 pages, $25. 00, Hardcover, January 2008, ISBN 9781400066421
A number of economists have crossed over from academic publishing into popular literature recently. The most successful was Steven Levitt's Freakonomics--a book co-authored by New York Times columnist Steven J.
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Myself and Other More Important Matters by Charles Handy, AMACOM, 213 pages, Hardcover, February 2008, ISBN 9780814401736
Charles Handy, one of today's greatest managerial thinkers, has written a memoir about his life, his loves and his ideologies. It is not a business book per se, yet it's packed from page to page with his theories about the way business and organizations are run. Reading the book feels like Handy is carrying on a personal conversation with a young protege to whom he reminisces about how he first started out, all the mistakes he made along the way, some philosophies that helped him, his own personal gurus, and even love and mortality.
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"More than anything, I associate mastery with optimism. It's the feeling at the start of a project when I believe that my whole career has been preparation for this moment and I am saying "Okay, let's begin. Now I am ready.
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