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Ask 8cr! on Twitter
By Porchlight
Years ago, I started an email list with some of our InBubbleWrap audience called "Ask 8cr! " Each month, I'd collect emails from the group about what business challenges they faced, then I would pick a book and review it in light of that situation, and send a copy of the book to the submitter. Later, we incorporated some of these interactions at our blog.
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Introducing the Candidates: Entrepreneurship & Finance
By Sally Haldorson
Over the course of this week, we will be introducing, by category, the candidates for the 2011 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards. Even though only one of the candidates can win the big prize, good business books deserve an audience, and perhaps one on this list will be the winning book. .
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Introducing the Candidates: Personal Development
By Sally Haldorson
Over the course of this week, we will be introducing, by category, the candidates for the 2011 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards. Even though only one of the candidates can win the big prize, good business books deserve an audience, and perhaps one on this list will be the winning book. .
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Revisiting Malcolm Gladwell
By Sally Haldorson
One of the most fascinating trends to follow in business literature is the continual expansion of what a business book actually is. The parameters have widened significantly from the influential management and theory books of the 1980s. While there are still books made available each year on such practical matters as team building, developing a social media strategy, making a new hire, and sensible budgeting, there are also a great number of books that study decision-making from a neuroscience angle or theorize about how social and environmental influences affect human behavior.
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Situations Matter
By Porchlight
Sam Sommers', Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World is one of those great books that make you look at completely normal situations in a whole new way. From assumptions to knee-jerk reactions to decision making, Sommers tells us some interesting stories and evidence that the outcomes of situations could be much more positive if we understood that each one matters. How does this translate to work and business?
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Pow Wow 2011
By Porchlight
A few of us just returned from this year's Author Pow Wow in Austin, TX at The Driskill. As for me, I'm exhausted, but also refreshed with a sense of perspective. In support of my previous post, I do feel empowered, and I know others that attended do as well.
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Find Your Next
By Porchlight
Andrea Kates has just released a new book, Find Your Next: Using the Business Genome Process to Find Your Company’s Next Competitive Edge, that reveals the keys to a revolutionary model of business innovation which has the capacity to change business as we know it. If you’re a manager, executive, or entrepreneur, you understand that your business is unique, with its own challenges and rewards. By using the new science of the Business Genome® process, you’ll discover what works and what doesn’t for your business’s genomic type.
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ChangeThis: Issue 89
By Porchlight
The Promise of Entrepreneurship by Adelaide Lancaster “We are made to believe that when it comes to business success, bigger is always better. In our super-sized, consumption-oriented culture, not even small business is exempt from the pressure to grow for growth’s sake. .
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The 100 Best Business Books of All Time (updated & in paperback!)
By Sally Haldorson
The 100 Best Business Books of All Time: What They Say, Why They Matter, and How They Can Help You (updated) by Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten, Portfolio, 348 pages, $16. 00, Paperback, November 2011, ISBN 9781591844464 Five years ago, Jack Covert, founder of 800-CEO-READ, and Todd Sattersten, then president of the company, chose and reviewed the 100 best business titles of all time--the ones that deliver the biggest payoff for today's busy readers. The resulting book, aptly named The 100 Best Business Books of All Time, puts each book in context so that readers can quickly find solutions to the business problems they face.
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Empowered
By Porchlight
(Edited to add: The Author Pow Wow has begun! Follow along on Twitter using hashtag #powwow11) In a couple of days, some of the 8cr staff will be heading to Austin, TX for our Author Pow Wow. There, we'll be spending a solid day and a half talking with authors and publishing industry professionals about Doing What Works.
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