First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 3, 2011

After having earned an undergraduate degree at Stanford, Kawasaki embarked on a career in business (counting diamonds for a fine-jewelry manufacturer called Nova Stylings) while at work on an MBA degree at UCLA. (He had already earned an undergraduate degree at Stanford.) Kawasaki later went to work for an educational software company called EduWare Services. [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 2, 2011

Honored and not diminished. That’s how we all want to feel. James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Pozner, Encouraging the Heart: A Leaders Guide to Rewarding and Encouraging Others —– I have probably presented my synopsis of Encouraging the Heart by Kouzes and Posner more than any other book synopsis. (I presented this again at a [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 8, 2011

I have just read and will soon review The New Edge in Knowledge: How Knowledge Management Is Changing the Way We Do Business, co-authored by Carla O’Dell and Cindy Hubert. In Chapter 3, they identify and discuss “Five Basic Tenets of Knowledge Management.” Here they are: “1. The KM strategy is based on balancing people, [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 8, 2011

Here is an excerpt from a profile of Laura Yunger (President, Cheevers & Co.) written by Jessica Titlebaum (Chicago) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. “Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.” To [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 8, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Steve Tobak for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out the article and an abundance of other resources as swell as obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * There are as many management [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 6, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Charlene Li for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s Daily Alerts, please click here. * * * When it comes to business, we are incredibly unaccepting [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 4, 2011

Here is an article written by Jeff Haden for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * Hiring a new employee is a little like starting a new relationship: As [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 8, 2011

While reading Peter Sims’s new book, Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries, I came upon this paragraph: “One of the best ways to identify creative insights and develop ideas is to throw out a theory and experience things first-hand. After all, fresh problems, ideas, needs and desires aren’t obvious; they’re hidden beneath [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 8, 2011

Please click here to read an article written by Damian Joseph that is featured online by Bloomberg Businessweek. There is a slide show of the “Fifty Ugliest Cars of the Past 50 Years.&# Considering how many new cars are rolled out every year, it’s no surprise that a few might be just plain homely. [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 7, 2011

Here is an article written by Laura Vanderkam for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * We all have one: some big, horrible, awful-sounding task that we’d prefer to [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 6, 2011

Here is an article written by Wayne Turmel for BNET (March 28, 2011), The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * One thing you always hear about remote teams is how [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 6, 2011

Here is an article written by Thomas A. Stewart for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * You saw it last night: UConn’s Kemba Walker is the best college [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 5, 2011

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Healthy organizations reward people who take initiative to lead, not just those with the formal authority to do so. [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 5, 2011

Harry Beckwith is a frequent guest lecturer for many national corporations, including ABC, Inc., BellSouth Corporation, Norwest Corporation, and Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., among others. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His published works include Selling the Invisible, What Clients Love, You, Inc., and The Invisible Touch. His most recent book, Unthinking: The Surprising Forces [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 2, 2011

We had a wonderful session for the April First Friday Book Synopsis, with presentations of Practically Radical and Change the Culture, Change the Game. Those synopses, with audio + handout, will soon be available on our companion web site, 15minutebusinessbooks.com. For May, we have chosen two terrific business best-sellers. I will present my synopsis of [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 8, 2011

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Stress at work may be inevitable but it doesn’t have to be detrimental. In fact, many studies show that stress can enhance your performance by [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 7, 2011

Once again I watched American Idol this evening (Thursday, April 7, 2011), curious to know which contestant would be voted off. The contestant eliminated tonight was former frontrunner Pia Toscano. The three judges were shocked. “I have no idea what just happened here,&# Jennifer Lopez said. “I’m shocked. I’m angry. I don’t even know what [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 7, 2011

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Being authentic is not an excuse for being a jerk. Yes, we all have bad habits that feel innate, but don’t [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 6, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Hagel III and John Seely Brown for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s Daily Alerts, please click here. * * * No matter how talented [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 6, 2011

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * When a colleague’s agenda is seemingly opposed to your own, it can be tempting to demonize him. Distorting [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 6, 2011

Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity Josh Linkner Jossey-Bass (2011) Dreaming on “the other side of complexity” The title of this book refers to what its subtitle promises to provide: “a proven system to drive breakthrough creativity,” one that requires highly- developed mental and emotional discipline. Josh Linkner introduces a methodology, a [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 5, 2011

Here are brief excerpts from two articles featured by McKinsey & Company. I suggest you read them in the order in which they appear here, then click where indicated to read each in its entirety. I presume to suggest, further, that you register to receive email updates on other resources that are also available at [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 5, 2011

Expertise (noun): the skill of an expert —— So I’ve been thinking about expertise. Let’s start with this great quote from Scorecasting: Fans are rarely so deluded as to suggest that they could match the throwing arm of Peyton Manning or defend Kobe Bryant or return Roger Federer’s serve, but somehow every fan with a [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 5, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Rosabeth Moss Kanter for the Harvard Business Review‘s “The Conversation&# series. To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s Daily Alerts, please click here. * * * Even for the best companies [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 4, 2011

Here is another post at Laura Vanderkam’s “Just a Minute” online newsletter. She is the author of 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think, published by Portfolio/Penguin Group (2010). To check out all the resources that Vanderkam offers, please click here. To read my interview of her, please click here. * * * [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 3, 2011

Here is the April list of Hardcover Business Best Sellers from the New York Times. As I have written often, this is the list that I most watch – it is a monthly list, which I think better captures what is selling (the Amazon list is updated hourly, and any one hour may be misleading; [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 8, 2011

Here is an article written by Marshall Goldsmith for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * I’ve spent a lot of time studying what makes people happy, successful leaders. [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 5, 2011

Here is a terrific article featured by the Drucker Exchange (DX) based on the latest program in its Drucker Business Forum series sponsored by Claremont Business University. * * * We caught an interesting talk at the Drucker Business Forum this morning [March 31, 2011] by James Quigley, the CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and [.].

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