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AUGUST 1, 2014

Here is the New York Times Business Books Best Sellers List for August, 2014. This list is updated monthly. Notice the “long-timers” on this month’s list: Outliers; The Power of Habit; Thinking, Fast and Slow. These books continue to provide helpful insight and suggestions for readers. Of the 10 books on his month’s list, we […].

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JULY 4, 2014

The New York Times has published its July, 2014 Best Sellers List for Business Books. At the First Friday Book Synopsis in Dallas, we have presented synopses of Business Books every month since April, 1998. As I have observed often, this New York Times best sellers list is the list that I pay the most […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Here’s the November, 2014 New York Times Business Books Best Sellers List. Walter Isaacson’s The Innovators sits at the Top Spot. The challenge of innovation seems to dominate the top of this month’s list. The Innovators, How We Got to Now, How Google Works, and to a great extent Zero to One are all about […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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MARCH 9, 2014

Karl Krayer presented his synopsis of The Demographic Cliff: How to Survive and Prosper During the Great Deflation of 2014-2019 by Harry S. We had a wonderful gathering last Friday for the March First Friday Book Synopsis. One observation he made is that many books like this provide “snapshots” of the current situation, but […].

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JANUARY 14, 2014

Here is the January, 2014 list of Business Books Best Sellers from the New […]. I presented my synopsis of Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg last April (2013) at the First Friday Book Synopsis, and many times since then. It is, again, and still, #1 on the New York Times Business Best Sellers List. Just amazing! Randy''s blog entries'

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DECEMBER 15, 2014

Program Note: On Think with Krys Boyd, I will be one of the guests discussing good books from 2014 — on Tuesday, Noon, on 90.1 Krys Boyd is our local high-quality interviewer on Public Radio. I catch her program, Think, as often as I can. Her program is on daily, Monday-Thursday, from noon to 2:00 […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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DECEMBER 6, 2014

The New York Times Business Books Best Sellers List has just been published for December, 2014. Tony Robbins new book, Money: Master the Game, is at the number one spot. His first book in quite a few years, it shot straight to the top. Sitting at numbers 2 & 3 are The Innovators by Walter […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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MARCH 27, 2014

Here is the March, 2014 New York Times Business Books Best Sellers List. A couple of observations: Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In is back at number one. This really is a remarkable run for this important book. And Outliers is back on, at number three. Malcolm Gladwell really is an author that strikes a chord with […].

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JUNE 9, 2014

Here is the June, 2014 New York Times Business Books Best Sellers list. Its current version is a monthly list of the top 10 business books best sellers.

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MAY 14, 2014

Here’s the New York Times Business Books Best Sellers List for May, 2014. They only publish a list of business best sellers once a month). It looks like it has finally happened. After a very long run at #1, Lean In has fallen to the #5 slot. Lean In stayed at #1 longer than any […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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APRIL 13, 2014

Here is the April, 2014 New York Times Business Books Best Sellers list. A couple of observations. Yes, Lean In is still at number one. I have written pretty much this exact sentence every month for a lot of months now! And, if you will keep your radar attuned, you will see and hear the […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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DECEMBER 14, 2013

I would like to invite you to attend the January 3, 2014 First Friday Book Synopsis. There is nothing quite like the beginning of a year. We have this sense of new beginnings. We think: I’m going to make the most of this year. You almost “bury” the mistakes of the year gone by, build […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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NOVEMBER 29, 2014

Bob''s blog entries 2014 Global Drucker Forum Gallup’s latest 142-country survey on the State of the Global Workplace Gary Hamel on "The Core Incompetencies of the Corporation" Harvard Business Review HBR Blog Network HBR email alerts Management Lab Strategos The Future of Management'

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FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Strategic Government Resources (SGR) just completed its January, 2014 Conference. The theme: Creating a Learning Organization:? Leading-Edge Strategies for Employee Development And here’s the description of the conference: What is the most important asset to your organization?

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MARCH 24, 2014

Here’s your heavy lifting reading for the day/week… As most of us do these days, I get multiple daily e-mails, with reading suggestions for the day. This morning, my LinkedIn Pulse e-mail started off with a link to this Forbes article, Successful Organizations Need Leaders At All Levels by Roger Trapp. It was prompted by the […].

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JULY 27, 2016

Near the end of 2014, I was a guest on the Krys Boyd Think program (90.1, The topic – the best books of 2014. I was the “business book” voice. But she asked me what I like to read for fun. Tough question.

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APRIL 5, 2014

Harvard Business Review Press, 2014). I presented my synopsis of Accelerate yesterday at the First Friday Book Synopsis. Accelerate (XLR8): Building Strategic Ability for a Faster-Moving World by John Kotter?. Here is a brief summary of what John Kotter says in his new book, Accelerate: Whatever is working well now is threatened now.

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

Randy1116 in studio at noon to talk about the best reads of 2014. ?[link] Big day, book lovers! ?@JoyTipping JoyTipping ?@mmerschel mmerschel & ?@Randy1116 link] Tweet from Krys Boyd ————— Yes, it was a big and fun day for book lovers. Randy''s blog entries'

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JULY 11, 2014

{This morning, at the July First Friday Book Synopsis, Karl Krayer presented his synopsis of #GIRLBOSS, and I presented my synopsis of Think Like A Freak. We will have those synopses up soon on our companion web site, 15minutebusinessbooks.com. Each synopsis comes with our multipage handouts, and the audio recordings of our presentations}.

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JULY 15, 2014

McRaven, University of Texas Commencement Address, 2014 ——————– We’ve pretty much heard enough on this by now. If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right. Admiral William H. But, in […].

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JUNE 29, 2014

1922-2014 ——————– Fourteen days after his 92nd birthday, Robert Lee Johnston, jr. after studying family genealogy, he became a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. From the obituary of Robert Lee Johnston Jr., died last week. I’ve known him since 1969.

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MARCH 29, 2014

This Friday, April 4, 2014, we will begin our 17th year of the First Friday Book Synopsis. Here’s a short journey down memory lane. Every month (with only a couple of weather related exceptions), Karl Krayer and I have hosted this monthly learning/networking/eating event. Each month, Karl and I each present a 15 minute (or […].

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OCTOBER 4, 2014

Here’s a change from recent lists – a new book is at the #1 spot on this month’s New York Times Business Books Best Sellers list. Peter Thiel’s Zero to One hits the top spot. (I I will present my synopsis of this new book at the November First Friday Book Synopsis). Peter Thiel, co-founder of […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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JULY 27, 2014

” Pope Francis, Saint Peter’s Square, July 27, 2014 ——————– From […]. Brothers and sisters, never war, never war! I am thinking above all of children, who are deprived of the hope of a worthwhile life, of a future.” Randy''s blog entries'

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FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Because of weather, and especially because of road uncertainly, we have postponed our February First Friday Book Synopsis one week, to February 14, 2014. Please do not try to register on line for the February 14 “make-up” session. Randy''s blog entries David Kelley Steven Watts'

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OCTOBER 2, 2016

You may remember that two years ago, I presented a synopsis of Simon Sinek‘s best-seller, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t (New York: Portfolio, 2014) . He is described as an optimist, and touts inspiration as his key deliverable in business.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

A social media storm erupted in June 2014 when a luxury apartment… Read More For the homeless, cities are discovering Housing First – It is humane; it is smart; and it works. Use of security fencing, razor wire, and “no trespassing” signs went up as did security cameras and guard services.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Yesterday, (Februrary 12, 2014), Diane Rehm spent an hour with Melinda Gates: Melinda Gates On Philanthropy. As of this writing, the transcript is not available, but there is a video of the interview available on Diane Rehms’s site: After a brief break, as Ms. Rehm resumed the segment, she read (probably from a document supplied […].

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

The book is entitled The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It (New York: Viking, 2014). I am in the process of reading John Dean’s newest book about Richard Nixon and Watergate. I am about 4/5 done, as I write today’s post. Dean, who was chief counsel during the Nixon era, arranged […].

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JUNE 1, 2014

Adam Braun’s blockbuster best-seller, The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change (New York: Scribner, 2014) has hit the lists with fervor. The book I present this Friday at the First Friday Book Synopsis is currently # 9 on the New York Times business best-seller list.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Last week, Simon and Schuster published a provocative new business book that flew to the # 3 spot in the best-seller list revealed in the 9/27/2014 edition of the Wall Street Journal. The book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. Climate, written by Naomi Klein, is a certain selection for one of us at the First Friday […].

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JULY 12, 2014

This week, I finished reading #GIRLBOSS (New York: Portfolio, 2014) by Sophia Amoruso, the founder and CEO of Nasty Gal. It remains a blockbuster business best-seller, with more than two months on all the major lists. Even today, it is # 7 on the Wall Street Journal hardcover business best-seller list, and #37 on the Amazon.com […].

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

If you would like quick and substantive encounters with good business books, then the First Friday Book Synopsis is the perfect event to attend.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

So, last December, when we planned our books for each month for the Urban Engagement Book Club (sponsored by CitySquare), we chose this 2014 book for November: Border Insecurity: Why Big Money, Fences, and Drones Aren’t Making Us Safer by Sylvia Longmire.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Brad Thor’s newest novel, Act of War (New York: Atria, 2014) was one of the best-selling novels in the summer and early fall, topping the fiction lists for awhile. Thor, has written numerous thrillers, one of which, The Lions of Lucerne (New York: Pocket Books, 2002) will be adapted for the big screen in 2015. You can […].

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JUNE 15, 2014

#GIRLBOSS Sophia Amoruso Portfolio/Penguin–Putnam (2014) Some readers could be deterred by a writing style that may seem to resemble narcissism on steroids. Other readers who are not put off by the constant self-references (there are almost 50 in her brief Chronology) and melodramatic assertions (e.g.

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OCTOBER 2, 2015

Random House (April 8, 2014). – (Guest presenter, Charlotte Hudgin). Here are our two book selections for the November 6 First Friday Book Synopsis. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace. by Ed Catmull – Coming for the November 6 First Friday Book Synopsis.

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