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There's a new entry up on our Excerpts blog. It's from The Art of War for Women by Chin-Ning Chu, an internationally renowned speaker and the bestselling author of Thick Face, Black Heart. Chu brings the wisdom of philosopher-general Sun Tzu to women looking to gain a better understanding of who they are and who they want to be.
April 03, 2007
Threshold Resistance>>WSJ | Doing Business With Conviction Five years ago this month, at the age of 78, Detroit real-estate tycoon A. Alfred Taubman was sentenced to prison for a year and a day.
April 05, 2007
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 (tags: businessbooks industry biography invention innovation) 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.
April 06, 2007
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It's interesting how many inquiries we receive regarding "CEO" books. Not from customers, but from the media. There seems to be a fascination with the stories of heroic or villainous business gurus.
April 09, 2007
Bill and Dave >> Wizards In The Valley | BusinessWeek "Anecdotes from the founders' childhoods highlight the book's opening pages.
April 10, 2007
You, Inc. : The Art of Selling Yourself by Harry Beckwith and Christine Clifford Beckwith This excerpt is taken from You, Inc. : The Art of Selling Yourself by Harry Beckwith and Christine Clifford Beckwith.
April 19, 2007
There is no shortage of books written to explain the success of companies. In Search of Excellence and Good to Great are the best known for using this technique. There are not many books that do the opposite—look at why companies failed.
Jagdish Sheth says his journey started as he tried to understand why so many companies that were highlighted in books like In Search of Excellence and Good To Great failed to have continued success. Sheth argues that companies acquire habits that lead to their fall. His latest book is called The Self-Destructive Habits of Good Companies.
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 11 of The New Language of Business: SOA and Web 2. 0 by Sandy Carter. In this book, Carter shows how, by levering SOA (service-oriented architecture), Web 2.
April 23, 2007
The new excerpt on our Excerpts blog is from Chapter 11 of The New Language of Business: SOA and Web 2. 0 by Sandy Carter. Carter shows how, by levering SOA (service-oriented architecture), Web 2.
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