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Cut to the Chase and 99 Other Rules to Liberate Yourself and Gain Back the Gift of Time by Stuart R. Levine, Currency/Doubleday, 180 Pages, $19. 95 Hardcover, ISBN 9780385516204 Business books range from fables to advanced project management titles.
February 07, 2007
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Our first LeaveSmarter event was a sticky success! On Tuesday about 60 people braved sub-zero temperatures and gathered at the Eisner to hear Dan and Chip talk about Made to Stick.
February 08, 2007
In this interview I talk with Dan Heath, co-author with his brother Chip of Made To Stick: Why Some Ideas Thrive and Others Die . Dan and I talked for over an hour. We covered each of their six points from their book.
In this passage from Boeing Versus Airbus, John Newhouse is elegant and efficient in his description of aircraft industry's product tiers, important equipment specifications, and overall history of the industry. I have been fascinated by the duel between these two companies and Newhouse tells me more in 700 words than I have read in countless articles. Airliners, like T-shirts, com in different sizes—small, medium, large, and extra-large.
February 12, 2007
Taken by Kate at our event with Dan and Chip last week. Visit our Flickr site to see the rest of the photos! www.
February 14, 2007
I like periodically pointing you to other spots in the 800ceoread family of sites where you might find some things of interest. If you were subscribed to our New Releases Blog, you would have seen that Private Label Strategy, You Inc. , Miracles Medicines, and Punk Marketing were all released yesterday.
March 02, 2007
I decided to bring back Charles Fishman, author of The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy. In the paperback version of the book, Charles has added an afterword. In it, he writes about his visit to Wal-Mart headquarters.
March 06, 2007
Forbes. com has video of our friend Erika Andersen (Growing Great Employees) and her ten year client Danny Meyer (Setting The Table).
March 07, 2007
In The Halo Effect, author Phil Rosenzweig challenges the neat conclusions and timeless principles that business experts create to explain high performance. And he focuses his sharpest critique on Jim Collins, who is arguably the most influential management thinker today (gee—not so dumb a target to pick if he wants exposure….
March 08, 2007
I did a interview with Tom Rath of Gallup on Monday. We will be posting that in a couple of weeks, but I wanted to share something that he said during the interview. A little background first.
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