First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 6, 2011

The world did not end on May 21, as Christian radio broadcaster Harold Camping had predicted. Oops. Time to start rebuilding your life. Interesting Facts: • In 1989, there were 1.8 million email accounts. Today, there are more than 3 billion. Over 100 trillion emails were sent in 2010. • One in 10 cars on [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 4, 2011

The Entertainment Economy: How Mega-Media Forces Are Transforming Our Lives Michael J. Wolf Crown Business (1999) Note: I read this book when it was first published and recently re-read it, curious to know how well its core concepts have held up since then. My conclusion is that they have held up very well. If anything, [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 10, 2011

Here is an article written by Wayne Turmel 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. * * * Is your team made up of Drivers, Extroverts, or even Red-Greens? These are [.].

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JUNE 10, 2011

WordPress Plugin Development Essentials Brian Bondari and Everett Griffiths Packt Publishing (2011) A Practical, hands-on tutorial for creating your own plugins for a WordPress website As is also true of other Packt publications, this book has prepared me well to work with technical and graphics specialists whom I have retained to develop for me a [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 9, 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. In response to less than stellar results, many managers overhaul the team, unit, or organization. While reorgs give the appearance of action, they often create unnecessary complexity and [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 8, 2011

The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Second Edition Lawrence A. Cunningham The Cunningham Group (2008) Note: Cunningham is a contributor as well as editor of the essays that Buffet wrote over the years, many of them included in Berkshire Hathaway’s annual reports as “Berkshire Hathaway Chairman’s Letter.” For those who really are [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 8, 2011

Here’s a click through set of key quotes from Commencement speeches at Business Schools: Slept Through Commencement? Here Are The Best Business School Graduation Speeches Of 2011. They are all good; here are two that are especially timely, and worth a careful look. Twitter’s Biz Stone spoke to Babson College at the University of St. [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 7, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Lance Bettencourt and Anthony Ulwick for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * This post is part of HBR‘s Creating [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 7, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Andrea Ovans for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Making [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 7, 2011

Here is another excellent article from the staff of Talent Management magazine. To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and Chief Learning Officer magazines published by MedfiaTec, please click here. * * * According to new research from the New York Times bestselling authors of Change [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 6, 2011

We have selected two best selling, helpful business books for the July First Friday Book Synopsis. My colleague Karl Krayer will present his synopsis of Onward, the book by Starbucks’ Howard Schultz. I will present the creativity stretching book, Disciplined Dreaming by Josh Linkner. Bob Morris has reviewed both of these books, and believes they [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 5, 2011

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Bing Gordon, a partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He says that “I’m kind of teacher-consultant [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 4, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * If your boss provides these benefits, [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 4, 2011

Every so often, I watch a video of exceptional interest and value. That certainky describes what Melba J. Duncan shares in a video I urge you to check out. Please click here. She is CEO of the Duncan Group, founder of the Duncan Leadership Institute that offers training for administrative support staff, and author of [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 9, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Andrew Wylie for WSJ Magazine (June 2011). To read the complete article, please click here. In an introduction to the article, Daniel Gross explains that literary agent Andrew Wylie “is of the old school. His office suite in New York’s Fisk Building feels more like a [.].

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JUNE 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. Most managers complain of not having enough time. They rush through tasks so they can move on to the next thing. But this kind of haste creates more [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 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. Few performance assessment systems measure what really matters: current and future performance. Here are three of the biggest sins when it comes to measuring your organization, and [.].

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