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In this midsummer's month we decided to run a few of the classic Jack Covert Selects. The books discussed in these reviews have emerged as staples in contemporary business thought literature. Each has been a consistent bestseller for our company, and all regularly appear on bestseller lists throughout the country.
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"Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done" by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan, CrownBusiness, 260 Pages, $27. 50 Hardcover, July 2002, ISBN 9780609610572
Note: This review was first published in 2002. In a recent conversation with an editor at a major publishing house, I shared my belief that Execution is still one of the best books on strategy and execution.
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The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy by Sasha Issenberg, Gotham Books, 352 pages $26. 00 Hardcover, May 2007, ISBN 9781592402946
I admit that I'm not the most adventurous foodie, but I realized that I would have to try sushi a try for the first time when my 9-year-old granddaughter began eating sushi for lunch at school. I still haven't taken that first nibble of a spicy tuna roll, so you may wonder why I decided to take a bite out of Sasha Issenberg's The Sushi Economy.
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Weird Ideas That Work: How To Build a Creative Company by Robert I. Sutton, Free Press, 240 pages, $14. 00 Paperback, May 2007, ISBN 9780743227889.
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Coolhunting: Chasing Down the Next Big Thing by Peter Gloor and Scott Cooper, AMACOM, 220 Pages, $24. 95 Hardcover, June 2007, ISBN 9780814473863
In Coolhunting, Peter Gloor and Scott Cooper claim that you can develop the ability to predict the next big thing. Let's start out with the authors' definition of that ability: "Coolhunting is about finding trends and trendsetters, and the trends we associate with cool make the world a better place.
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