Tuesday, November 26, 2013

A few big names jump aboard the Maker Movement

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My weekly book post on s+b's blogs is about a new book by Mark Hatch, the CEO of TechShop, who is betting that the new wave of high-tec...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

A kinder, gentler Machiavelli?

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This week, my book post on s+b's blogs is about scholar Maurizio Viroli's new interpretation of Machiavelli and The Prince : A C...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

The Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year is...

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And the envelope, please. Cue drumroll. The winner of  The Financial Times /Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award for 2013 is  The ...
Monday, November 18, 2013

Ayn Rand revisited

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I found an interesting reference to Ayn Rand in a new book, Make an Ethical Difference: Tools for Better Action (Berrett-Koehler), by Mark ...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

Killer quotes #4

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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”    ― Upton Sinclair
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Friday, November 15, 2013

Three books that Jeff Bezos had Amazon's senior execs read

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Jon Fortt of CNBC interviewed Jeff Bezos a while back, doing the whole PR thing about the new Kindle Fire models, which wasn't all that ...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

We are all creatives

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My weekly post on s+b's blogs is about a new book that shows readers how to channel the creativity they never knew they had: Tapping ...
Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Ship to Shelf

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My weekly book post on s+b's blogs is about journalist and author Rose George's recounting of her voyage on a container ship, trans...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Self-help for leaders

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My weekly book post on s+b's blogs is about Edgar Schein's latest and best work: Two Books That Will Make You a Better Leader ...

Business lessons from U.S. foreign policy failures

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Stephen Walt , the noted international affairs professor from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, spent a day at William & Mary ...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Game playing pays off

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My weekly book post on the s+b blog is about Adam Penenberg’s new book examining how video games are being used to enhance organizations an...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

Scott Adams on ghostwriting

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Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, has a new book out-- How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life (Portf...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Corporate cow-tipping for fun and profit

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My weekly book post on s+b's blogs is about a new book recounting the modern era of hostile takeovers: Corporate Raiders and Their Min...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Everything in your business speaks

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Good friends are cruising around Greece and sent this photo of a restaurant sign with a note to check out the snail's tentacles. It rem...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Bruce Poon Tip's excellent adventure

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My weekly book post on s+b's blogs is about G Adventures’s founder Bruce Poon Tip, who built a successful business by following his bl...
Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Culture building with vocal silence

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My weekly book post on s+b's blog is about an insider's view of teaching at HBS: The Management Stylings of Harvard Business Sch...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Marty Sklar's reflections on Disney

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My book post on the s+b blog this week is about an insider's view of Disney-style leadership and language: Leadership Lessons from th...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Bob Dylan's signature watch

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I was watching Ed Bradley's 60 Minutes interview with the coolest guy on the planet, Bob Dylan , of course, on YouTube the other day. B...
Friday, September 20, 2013

Killer quotes #3

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"Everybody has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth ."  -- Mike Tyson

Shortlist for the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs 2013 bizbook of the year

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Yesterday, FT/Goldman Sachs announced the shortlist for best business book of the year. Here they are, with the publishers' descriptions...