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JUNE 13, 2011

Josh Linkner is the New York Times bestselling author of Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity, named one of the top 30 business books of 2011. He is the CEO and Managing Partner of Detroit Venture Partners, a venture capital firm rebuilding urban areas through technology and entrepreneurship.

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MARCH 24, 2011

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business Gino Wickman Virtual CEO (2011) Without traction, no individual or organization accomplishes anything. As I began to read this book, I was reminded of a book co-authored by Chip and Dan Heath in which they explain why a few ideas “stick&# but most don’t. It can also be [.].

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AUGUST 16, 2011

Reinventing the Wheel: The Science of Creating Lifetime Customers Chris Zane Ben Bella Books (2011) How to establish and then sustain long-term (if not lifetime) customer relationships What we have in this book is a personal account by the founder and CEO of Zane’s Cycles.

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MAY 7, 2011

Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul Howard Schultz with Joanne Gordon Rodale (2011) “Starbucks’ touchstones, the source of our pride” Howard Schultz In January 2008, chairman Howard Schultz resumed his roles as President and CEO of Starbucks eight years after he relinquished them, replacing Jim Donald, who took the posts (..)

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MARCH 17, 2011

magazine (March 1, 2011). To read the complete article, please click here. * * * In his new book, Tell to Win: Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story, the Hollywood producer and CEO of Mandalay [.]. Here is an excerpt from an interview of Peter Guber written by Mike Hofman for Inc.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2011

During the conversation that follows, conducted in January 2011 and featured by The McKinsey Quarterly online, former Merck CEO Raymond Gilmartin and three other leaders share their approaches to testing strategy. Note: Given the length of the conversation, I have included only a portion of the responses.

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MARCH 16, 2011

Here is a contribution by Mark Murphy to the “Performance Management&# series featured by Talent Management magazine (January 2011).

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Here is an excerpt of an article co-authored by Ram Charan and Michael Sisk for strategy+business magazine (February 7, 2011), published by Booz & Company.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Management Tips from Harvard Business Review Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) 150 “tips”…almost unlimited “icebergs” Here are 150 “Management Tips of the Day” that have been featured by the Harvard Business Review blog ([link] On average, each has a total word count of about 50 and is best viewed as a reminder rather [.].

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JANUARY 3, 2012

A Better Way to Evaluate Leadership Poitential Jeffrey Cohn and Jay Moran Jossey-Bass (2011) How and why to cope with a leadership evaluation and development crisis to produce more effective leaders As Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis suggest in Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls, leaders [.]. Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders?

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JANUARY 15, 2012

The Optimization Edge: Reinventing Decision Making to Maximize All Your Company’s Assets Steve Sashihara McGraw-Hill (2011) How to make complex decisions and recommendations about the best way to deploy assets In a book I very much admire, Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls, Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis assert that what really matters “is (..)

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

On October 4, 2011, Demand: Creating What People Love Before They Know They Want It, will be published by Crown Business. Written by Adrian Slywotzky with Karl Weber. In my opinion, it is one of the most valuable and will, over time, become one of the most I influential business books ever written. It takes [.].

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

How NET PROMOTER Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World Fred Reichheld with Rob Markey Harvard Business Review Press (2011) Here is an open-source system whose “engine” can drive profitable growth This is a revised and expanded second edition of a book published in 2006. The Ultimate Question 2.0:

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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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APRIL 19, 2011

In a global study by consulting firm BlessingWhite, the top reason employees give for staying with their employer is “My work. I like the work that I do.” Employees were asked “What is the most important factor influencing your plans to stay?&# Thirty percent cited their work and liking their job. Seventeen percent said their [.].

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