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ChangeThis has a number of great pieces this month. Dan Coughlin was one of the authors featured there and he has a new book called Accelerate: 20 Practical Lessons to Boost Business Momentum.
Coughlin starts his manifesto with this:
Great businesses are defined by their ability to accelerate.
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I want to add one more point to Rebecca's post on the Carol Hymowitz column. Hymowitz ends her piece with:
What's missing from bookstores, it seems, are more titles that show how executives have reshaped businesses so they don't become obsolete in the digital landscape, and one that explain the new rules of the corner office, where CEOs must cater to an array of constituents.
To the first question of fighting technological irrelevance, Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma plays directly to that point.
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The Wizard of Menlo Park >> BusinessWeek >> "Invention Deficit Disorder"
"The lack of monetary success was strongly linked to two Edison habits: First, he repeatedly refocused on new projects before older ones reached commercial fruition. Then, relentlessly pursued by admirers, the Dean of Inventors proved easily distracted by
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Prophet of Innovation>>WSJ | The Colorful Life of Capital's Champion
Joseph Schumpeter, an Austrian-German-American economist who died in 1950 but whose reputation is also ever rising, spent his professional life studying the capitalist dynamic.
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Every year, Publisher Weekly runs lists of the bestsellers from various genre (fiction, non-fiction, paperback). What is different about this list is you can see the number of copies sold.
I ran down through the non-fiction list to pull out all the business titles that sold more than 100,000 copies.
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Each month Random House's Bantam Dell imprint podcasts with two of their authors. One you may be interested in is a podcast with William Ury, author of The Power of a Positive No.
Negotiation expert William Ury describes the "Positive No" detailed in his new book The Power of a Positive No: How to Say NO and Still Get to YES, bringing the technique to life with stories of Stephen Spielberg and Hugo Chavez.
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