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The Best Business Books Ever: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Best Business Books Ever: The Most Influential Management Books You’ll Never Have Time to Read Basic Books (2011) Note: This review is of a book published earlier this year. It is a sequel to one published in 2003.

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David Whyte Speaking in Minneapolis October 13th 2011

CO2

The author of six books of poetry and three books of prose, he holds a degree in Marine Zoology and has traveled extensively, including living and working as a naturalist guide in the Galapagos Islands and leading anthropological and natural history expeditions in the Andes, the Amazon and the Himalaya. Thursday, October 13, 2011.

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Leadership Development "Moneyball"

Great Leadership By Dan

This post was originally published in SmartBrief on Leadership 7/25/2013: “Moneyball” was a book and movie based on Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane and his use of statistics (sabermetrics, to be precise) to get the most production out of his team by spending the least amount of money. Source: Great Leadership.

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IT Overinvesting – Is it Better to be Safe than Sorry?

Women on Business

While I haven’t read the book, an article on Reuters suggests that the book Aligning Technology with Strategy by Harvard Business Review advises companies evaluate their IT costs to prevent overinvesting. An article written in 2003 regarding security and technology is not going to be relevant in 2011.

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The Open Innovation Marketplace: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Open Innovation Marketplace: Creating Value in the Challenge Driven Enterprise Alpheus Bingham and Dwayne Spradlin FT Press/Pearson (2011) How and why global networks of highly specialized expertise create value in the challenge driven enterprise In Open Business Models (2003), Henry Chesbrough observes, “An open business model uses a new (..)

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Free Job Search Apps for Specific Careers

HR Digest

Nowadays, there are apps for everything – be it looking for love, ordering something to eat, or booking a hotel. Founded – 2003. Founded – 2011. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that job search apps are also among the slurry of apps to improve our lives. Indeed Job Search. Glassdoor. ZipRecruiter Job Search.

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Seasoned Leaders Have Balance

Great Leadership By Dan

In his book, Better Under Pressure , Justin Menkes, interviewed Ralph Larsen, retired CEO of Johnson and Johnson. MIT Sloan Management Review (Summer 2003). Harvard Business Review Press, 2011. Thornton is the author of numerous articles and 13 books on management and leadership. Bibliography Kaplan, R.E. and Kaiser, R.B.

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