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I am listening to the keynotes at Tools of Change. Manolis Kelaidis is talking about his bluebook project. He has prototyped a book that will interact with other devices.
June 20, 2007
Nina created The Sorted Book Project. We decided to take a stab at it with business book titles. Read from top to bottom.
June 22, 2007
BusinessWeek | "The Twisted Economics Of Harry Potter" "For booksellers, the source of the pain is mammoth retailers like Amazon. com (AMZN ), Wal-Mart (WMT ), and Britain's ASDA chain, which have slashed prices by 50% to woo fans.
June 27, 2007
The following excerpt is taken from Chapter 4 of The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies. Author Chet Holmes offers this advice: Instead of trying to master four thousand strategies to improve your business, zero in on the few essential skill areas that make the big difference. Chapter 4: Becoming a Brilliant Strategist How to Get Up to Nine Times More Impact from Every Move You Make As we've already established, it's harder than ever to get in front of a potential buyer, so when you finally get your company in front of that buyer, you need to maximize what you can accomplish in that moment.
John Kotter in his book Leading Change defines management and leadership thusly: Management is a set of processes that can keep a complicated system of people and technology running smoothly. The most important aspects of management include planning, budgeting, organizing, staffing, controlling, and problem solving. Leadership is a set of processes that creates organizations in the first place or adapts them to significantly changing circumstances.
July 03, 2007
Smart World >> BusinessWeek | The Science Of "Aha! " "Spinning a wide variety of tales, with characters ranging from Gutenberg, Steve Jobs, and Watson and Crick to the Barbie doll and Pablo Picasso, Ogle arrives at nine laws that 'crack the code of creativity. '" (tags: businessbooks innovation creativity) The BusinessWeek Best-Seller List | May 2006 "BusinessWeek's Best-Seller List is based on a survey of chain and independent booksellers that carry a broad selection of books on economics, management, sales and marketing, small business, investing, personal finance, and careers.
July 04, 2007
Tis the time for lemonade stands -- a business venture I remember all too well. Dixie cups. Kid-sized plastic table.
July 20, 2007
Harriet Rubin wrote a piece for the Saturday New York Times titled C. E. O.
July 23, 2007
We here at 8cr have some pretty simple rules on promoting books and ideas. Promote only the books & ideas we truly believe in, and promote them with the expertise we've developed over the last 20+ years. Inherent in doing that is approaching and introducing ourselves to new communities in an honest and forthright way.
July 24, 2007
The Energy Bus >> Fast Company | Positive Thinking is Good. "The book, and. .
July 27, 2007
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