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Howdy. Time for another round of Friday links. Here's what we enjoyed this week: *We found that Carnegie Mellon University surpassed a lofty goal: the digitization of over 1,500,000 books.
November 30, 2007
By Aaron Schleicher
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.
December 10, 2007
John over at Brandy Autopsy has announced his favorite marketing books of the year. Among them are What Were They Thinking? , Wal-Smart, and Made To Stick.
December 11, 2007
All opinions on Kindle aside, have you seen its packaging? Pretty spiffy. * Image from Bad Banana Blog.
Blog / Jack Covert Selects
The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking by Roger Martin, Harvard Business School Press, 224 pages, $26. 95, Hardcover, December 2007, ISBN 9781422118924 Most leadership books teach readers how to become a better strategist or a successful manager or how to get things done. "In recent years, the dominant question addressed for the would-be leader is 'What should I do?
December 14, 2007
Starbucked >> New York Times Book Review | Venti Capitalists There’s a great story to be told about the success of Starbucks. But we’ll have to wait to hear it from somebody other than Taylor Clark.
December 15, 2007
The Tide of Fortune>>The Wall Street Journal | Commodore Along the way, this uneducated, gutsy and often callous man laid the foundations for what Mr. Renehan describes as "the greatest private fortune the world has ever known.
December 20, 2007
For the second year in a row, Wayne Turmel over at the Cranky Middle Manager Show spoke with Jack on some of the books nominated for our awards. A number of our award nominees were interviewed by Wayne at various points throughout the year. You can find the interviews here.
December 27, 2007
Blog / Excerpts
By Adam Grant
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights.
January 04, 2024
By Rainesford Stauffer
From journalist and author of An Ordinary Age , an examination, dismantling, and reconstruction of ambition, where burnout is the symptom of our holiest sin: the lonely way we strive.
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