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A recent post by author Bob Sutton suggests that Jack and Todd may have a title to include in an updated edition of their 100 Best Book: Morten Hansen's Collaboration. Whether or not Jack and Todd agree, Sutton points out some great facets to the book - cost and benefits of collaboration, cultivating T-shaped management, and unifying people. Hansen's book avoids ideology and theory and provides concrete evidence and data that support his ideas.
September 28, 2009
Our company founder, Jack Covert, talked with Penguin's The Business Beat about the book The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind. Jack had questioned whether or not to include the book in his 100 Best Business Books of All Time, co-authored with Todd Sattersten. However, after spending more time with the book, he realized how well the book was written, portraying the importance of vision and looking at the big picture.
September 30, 2009
Each year, the American Library Association compiles a list of business books that libraries around the country use for guidance on quality books to include in their stock. This year, they've included 8cr's Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten's The 100 Best Business Books of All Time in their list of ten recommended business books for libraries to carry. Also included in the list are Michael Lewis', Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity, Julia Angwin's, Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America, and others, including something I'm personally interested in seeking out, Greg Grandin's, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City.
October 01, 2009
Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Power of 2: How to Make the Most of Your Partnerships at Work and in Life by Rodd Wagner and Gale Muller, PH. D. , Gallup Press, 204 Pages, $24.
October 23, 2009
The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, the Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals by Frank Partnoy, PublicAffairs, 272 Pages, $26. 95, Hardcover, April 2009, ISBN 9781586487430 When reading The Smartest Guys in the Room, the outstanding book by Bethany McLean that looks into the Enron debacle, you will learn about an accounting term called “mark to market. ” Not being an accountant, my simplified understanding of the concept is that when you purchase a product for $100 and you believe you can sell the product for $200 in five years, you put the sale price on your books at the expected selling price instead of the actual purchase price.
October 26, 2009
Last night, it was announced at the Goldman Sachs Business Book Award ceremony in London that Liaquat Ahamed's Lords of Finance won business book of the year. Lloyd Blankfein said of the book, “Lords of Finance is a timely reminder that turmoil and instability in financial markets are not an invention of the 21st Century. ” A refreshing statement as the economy makes a slow turnaround from the past year.
October 30, 2009
We have been selling Susan RoAne's How to Work a Room for a long time now, nearly all the way back to its first edition—published 21 years ago this month. RoAne's book has obviously not had the historical reach or significance of another anniversary being celebrated today—the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall—but it has quietly torn down many smaller, more personal walls of its own over the past two decades, giving people the tools to improve their lives through better communication and social skills at work and beyond. Ms.
November 09, 2009
Below is a recent article from Carmine Gallo, author of The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience. His article details seven points about what makes Mr. Jobs such an incredible marketer; words we can certainly all learn from.
We told you that we'd be updating you on our office renovations. Here is what our office in back looks like after moving everything for the construction in the front office. It's kind of cramped, kind of cluttered, but it's our home for now!
November 16, 2009
Need some help with your holiday shopping? Penguin Group can help, as they've asked their authors "which books they are giving, and which books they'd most like to receive this holiday season. " It's far too extensive a list for me to even begin to parse for you all, so I'll send you over to the brilliant folks at Penguin.
November 17, 2009
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