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Bloomberg Asked Some Prominent Influentials for their “Favorite Books of 2013? – Here are their Top Choices

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If you like books, I think you will want to browse through this article on the Bloomberg site: Buffett, Slim, Greenspan, Tyson Pick Best Books of 2013 by Simon Kennedy. They asked a bunch of folks – you know, “influencers” – to name their favoirite books of 2013. Here are the opening paragraphs of the […].

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The Smartest Kids in the World: A book review by Bob Morris

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The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way Amanda Ripley Simon & Schuster (2013) Valuable lessons to be learned from how school children are educated in Finland, South Korea, and Poland Amanda Ripley shares what she learned while studying pre-collegiate education in three foreign countries: Finland, South Korea, and Poland.

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Contagious: A book review by Bob Morris

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Contagious: Why Things Catch On Jonah Berger Simon & Schuster (2013) “What causes certain products, ideas, and behaviors to be talked about more?” ” That’s what this book is all about…and much more.

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The Nature of the Future: A book review by Bob Morris

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The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructed World Marina Gorbis Free Press/A Division of Simon & Schuster (2013) How and why “we are infusing more and more of our economic transactions with social connectedness” Why did Marina Gorbis write this book?

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The Power of Why: A book review by Bob Morris

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The Power of Why: Breaking Out in a Competitive Marketplace Richard Weylman New Harvest (April 2013) Why you must keep asking “Why?” until you understand why In his book Begin with Why, Simon Sinek asserts — and I agree — that individuals as well as organizations must have a crystal clear sense of purpose or [.].

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Word of Mouse: A book review by Bob Morris

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Word of Mouse: 101+ Trends in How We Buy, Sell, Live, Learn, Work, and Play Marc Ostrofsky Simon & Schuster (2013) “The new rule in business: Money doesn’t grow on trees; it grows in databases!”

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Malcolm Gladwell on “Complexity and the Ten-Thousand-Hour Rule”

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Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Malcolm Gladwell for The New Yorker (August 21, 2013) in which Gladwell makes a vigorous effort to clarify issues that always result from careless reading and simplistic thinking. To read the complete article, please click here.

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