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Ray Attiyah is an entrepreneur, innovator, and author as well as founder & CIO of Definity Partners (a training, process and leadership improvement firm who works primarily with mid-sized manufacturing companies). As the son of a math teacher Ray was…
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Lewis Schiff is the executive director of Inc. Business Owners Council, a membership organization for Inc. Magazine’s top entrepreneurs and owners of closely-held family businesses and maintains a blog about behavioral entrepreneurship on Inc.com. His new book, Business Brilliant: Surprising…
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After graduating in PPE from Jesus College, Oxford, David Wethey joined AC Nielsen in 1965, where he presented Marketing Research to leading marketing companies. However, the London agency world beckoned and in 1968 David joined Pritchard Wood (the birthplace of…
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The Lean Practitioner’s Handbook Mark Eaton KoganPage (2013) A lean explanation of how to introduce or improve effectiveness of Lean initiatives in almost any organization In a remarkably informative Introduction, Mark Eaton explains why he wrote this book, briefly reviews…
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Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein – Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe Mario Livio Simon & Schuster (2013) How and why the blunders described in this book “have all, some way…
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Fear Your Strengths: What You Are Best at Could Be Your Biggest Problem Robert Kaplan and Robert Kaiser Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2013) Actually, what we should fear are complacency and self-satisfaction as well as the assumption that “just good enough” really…
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Keith Sawyer is one of the world’s leading scientific experts on creativity and innovation. In his first job after graduating from MIT, he designed videogames for Atari. He then worked for six years as a management consultant in Boston and…
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Crisis Management: Planning for the Inevitable Steven Fink Backinprint.com After So Many Years, Still Relevant and Invaluable I read this book when it was first published in 1989 and decided to re-read its paperbound edition (2000), curious to learn to…
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50 Philosophy Classics: THINKING, BEING, ACTING, SEEING – Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey Publishing (2013) The study of philosophy has as its purpose to know…the truth about the ways things are.” Thomas…
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