
Jack Covert Selects > Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Broadway Business, 320 pages, $26.00, Hardcover, February 2010, ISBN 9780385528757
Chip and Dan Heath, brothers and scholars, won the inaugural 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year Award with their first book, Made to Stick. That book, despite being a newborn, also made our list of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. When the publisher sent me the advance copy of Switch, I was concerned about the “sophomore slump” that happens in sports and music, whe... Read more
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Awakening the Entrepreneur Within The internationally bestselling author of "The E-Myth Revisited" offers this handbook on how to go from dreaming about owning a business to actually doing it. ...
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The Linchpin Voltron
Books can do a lot for us: inspire, teach, jolt, enlighten. They can be a call to action, but they can't actually make us act. You have to find the gumption to do that on your own. Or do you?
Seth Godin's Linchpin is certainly a call to action. His last book, Tribes: Why We Need You to Lead Us, s ... Read more
The Right Fight
Tensions are going to exist in any organization of human beings, from the marriage of two individuals all the way up to the social contract of a nation. The most successful leaders use that inherent tension and struggle to creatively further the organization—whether it's a spouse gently challen ... Read more
Do More Great Work
I met author Michael Bungay Stanier at last year's ASTD conference in Washington, DC. My plane had just landed, I had a mere hour or two of sleep, and was on cold medicine. The bustle of the training conference quickly woke me up, and meeting Michael was a great dose of reality. We talked about hi ... Read more
ChangeThis: Issue 68
It's a momentous week here at 800-CEO-READ. We've redesigned and rebuilt ChangeThis, and just posted our first issue on the new site. Head on over and let us know what you think. You can also now let the authors know what you think in the comment sections of each manifesto. Excerpts and links, as alw ... Read more
Reset
Check this out - our friends at HarperStudio are co-hosting a killer event in NYC on April 20th, featuring Gary Vaynerchuk, Anna Bernaseck, Tom Peters (!), Michael Eisner, and moderated by the one and only Seth Godin. The event is called Re-set and with a lineup like this, which will literally re-se ... Read more
Winter 2010: International Best Sellers
The time has come to talk of many things....
O.K.. How about just one thing... Like the New Year's resolution you might have had that involved perhaps, reading more in 2010 (To look at the list, I think being more literate in 2010 was on Spain's resolutions list!).
Hmmmm... I wonder how ma ... Read more
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