Month: October 2013
Unlimited Sales Success: 12 Simple Steps for Selling More Than You Ever Thought Possible Brian Tracy and Michael Tracy AMACOM (2013) Ignore the title and subtitle and focus instead on how this book could perhaps help you achieve your goals…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Steve Lappin on LinkedIn. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * * * Since the sad passing of the visionary Steve Jobs, Apple seems…
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I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Lessons from the Sandbox: Rediscovering the Keys to Business Success Alan Gregerman Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer:…
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Lessons from the Sandbox: Rediscovering the Keys to Business Success Alan Gregerman Contemporary Books (2000) “I have spent my adult life trying to see the world again as I once did as a child.” Pablo Picasso Alan Gregerman’s core thesis…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Brad Stone for Bloomberg Businessweek. He spoke to hundreds of current and former employees, as well as friends and family of founder Jeff Bezos, to discover the poignant story of…
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Here is the introduction to an article written by Adam Bryant for The New York Times. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * When I started the Corner Office column more than four years and about…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Michael C. Mankins and Richard Steele for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. They explain how and why a strategy-to-performance gap fosters a culture of underperformance. To read the…
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Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus Michael A. Roberto FT Press/Pearson (2013) One of the most important attributes of a great leader This is the second edition of a book first published…
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Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All Tom Kelley and David Kelley Crown Business/Random House (2013) How almost anyone can develop a creative, human-centered mindset and help achieve breakthrough innovations I have read Tom Kelley’s books and am…
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on Flow, “the secret to happiness”
I cannot recall a prior time when there was greater interest in the subject of happiness. Hundreds of books and articles have already been published this year and presumably there will be many more by year’s end. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi [pronounced “Mee-hy…
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