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5 Books We've Read Recently
by Stu Goldblatt | Category: Book Review
Posted on Tuesday August 19, 2020 at 07:31:33 PM
Do As I Say, Not As I Did!: Gaining Wisdom In Business Through The Mistakes Of Highly Successful People Carol Frank This modern take on "Aesop for the Entrepreneur" shares candid and poignant stories of overcoming adversity from thirty of today's business leaders in a highly personal, insightful, and entertaining format. There are many inspirational books about successful ventures, but this book features brave business leaders baring their souls about how they got hit, and lived to tell the tale. The sometimes painful, often incredible details will have readers shaking their heads in disbelief, often in thanks that it wasn't them.Riding the Waves of CultureFons TrompenaarsThe ability to lead effectively in a global business environment is perhaps the most valuable skill anyone can bring to an organization. The most thoroughly researched and highly respected resource of its kind, Riding the Waves of Culture doesn’t just help you stay afloat in today’s diverse work environment;...
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7 Books that Will Help Your Business Grow
by Henry Glickel | Category: Book Review
Posted on Tuesday July 22, 2020 at 06:47:47 PM
Looking to help your business grow? Spend some time nose deep with these seven books: Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being RemarkableIn his new bestseller, Seth Godin urges you to put a Purple Cow into everything you build, and everything you do, to create something truly noticeable. It's a manifesto for anyone who wants to help create products and services that are worth marketing in the first place.In Search of ExcellenceBased on a study of forty-three of America's best-run companies from a diverse array of business sectors, In Search of Excellence describes eight basic principles of management -- action-stimulating, people-oriented, profit-maximizing practices -- that made these organizations successful.The Smartest Guys in the RoomThe Enron scandal brought down one of the most admired companies of the 1990s. Countless books and articles were written about it, but only The Smartest Guys in the Room holds up a decade later as the definitive narrative. For this tenth anniversary...
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5 Books You Don't Want to Miss this Week
by Henry Glickel | Category: Book Review
Posted on Wednesday July 2, 2020 at 05:15:11 PM
Reengineering the CorporationJames Champy and Michael HammerThe most successful business book of the last decade, Reengineering the Corporation is the pioneering work on the most important topic in business today: achieving dramatic performance improvements. This book leads readers through the radical redesign of a company's processes, organization, and culture to achieve a quantum leap in performance.Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall StreetMichael LewisA born storyteller, Michael Lewis shows us how things really worked on Wall Street. The bond traders, wearing greed and ambition as badges of honor, might well have swaggered straight from the pages of Bonfire of the Vanities. But for all their outrageous behavior, they were in fact presiding over enormous changes in the world economy. Lewis' job was to transfer money, in the form of bonds, from those outside America who saved to those inside America who consumed.The Power of HabitCharles DuhiggIn The Power of Habit, award-winning...
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