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Executive Hubris: How to Check Your Ego and Avoid Ruining Your Company and
2007-05-12 04:52:00
Executive Hubris: How to Check Your Ego and Avoid Ruin ing Your Company and Your Career By Mathew Hayward Hayward lays it out plainly: “If you are going to have a successful career and life, you are going to have to learn to check your ego.” Using examples such as Buffett and Welch to show that CEOs don’t have to have huge egos to succeed (and Dean Kamen of Segway as an example of hubris at work), Hayward offers ways to keep an eye on your ego while pushing the limits of success. 1. Checking Our Egos is Not an Optional Extra for Professional and Personal Success. If you are going to have a successful career and life, you are also going to have to learn how to check your ego. Don’t take it from me. Instead, heed the wisdom of successful executives which I lay out in my book, Ego Check. About the author: Mathew Hayward, PhD, worked as a consultant with Accenture and an investment banker with UBS. In 1992, he left the corporate world for academia to pursue a doc...
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Managers Ignite!
2007-05-12 04:46:00
Managers Ignite ! Now is the Time to Take Back Your Company, Your Career, Your Life By Vince Thompson Managers are under an extreme amount of stress and often their success is dependent upon the work of others. This pressure is driving managers to leave their jobs, or at least keep their options open. Vince Thompson advises: not so fast—there are ways to ignite your power as a manager and take your job back Is This You? Do you have a boss who’s not the CEO? Do you have direct reports? Does their success depend on you and your success depend on them? Welcome to the world of the manager… perhaps the most crucial role in the world of business and, over the last two decades, one of the scariest, as extreme pressure has been building on all sides. Armed with blackberries and a dozen technologies aimed at making your life easier, you still live in a world of disconnects. More to do at work..more to do outside of work. You likely feel trapped by the confines of time. To cope with the...
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Few and Far Between
2007-05-12 04:40:00
Few and Far Between: Black Swans and the Impossibility of Prediction By Nassim Nicholas Taleb Taleb, author of The Black Swan, contributes this thought-provoking essay on what we know about what we don’t know. A ‘black swan’ is an improbable, dynamic event that, once it occurs, we rationalize to make it seem predictable (e.g. 9/11). Taleb discusses that while these black swans are actually impossible to predict, we must relearn how to learn from their impact. It is easy to see that life is the cumulative effect of a handful of significant shocks. It is not so hard to identify the role of Black Swans from your armchair (or bar stool). About the author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb has devoted his life to immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge. Part literary essayist, part empiricist, part no-nonsense mathematical trader, he is currently taking a break as Dean’s Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty at the University of Mas...
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Turning the Generational Dial
2007-05-12 04:31:00
Turning the Gene ra tional Dial: A Plea to Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y By Carol Orsborn Carol Orsborn argues that instead of participating in a complicated generational tug-of-war of who is more relevant, Gen X and Gen Y must learn from Boomers because these following generations will also face the same elongated lifespans and increased vitality…and buying power. The Main Four Points of Turning the Generation al Dial: It’s misguided to blame boomers’ continuing dominance as stemming from selfishness. The lifespan has elongated the life cycle for all the generations. Boomers have suddenly found themselves to be the “cool generation.” Nobody is more surprised to still be in the limelight than the boomers themselves. Some great points in Turning the Generational Dial: with an AARP study finding that as many as 8 out of 10 boomers don’t plan to retire, it’s clear that we are all in uncharted terrain. now “older” consumers between 43â...
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The Low-Information Diet
2007-05-12 04:22:00
The Low-Informa tion Diet : How to Eliminate E-Mail Overload & Triple Productivity in 24 Hours By Timothy Ferriss The Low-Information Diet details an amazingly simple yet daring method for decreasing the amount of time wasted shuffling through your email inbox and spending more time actually getting things done at work and in your life that actually matter. It’s Monday morning and your To-Do list for the day is lengthy. You turn on your computer, log into your inbox, and…spend the next six hours starting, stopping and backtracking, your To-Do list untouched. Tim Ferriss offers immediate solutions to improve your productivity and quiet the constant information interference. (more…)
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With Books Falling From the Sky
2007-05-12 04:13:00
With Books Fall ing From the Sky: A Discourse on Literacy By Roxanne Coady 49% percent of the adult population of the United States reads below a sixth-grade level and has difficulty navigating such common demands as reading job applications, ATM screens, and outpatient care instructions. In this evocative manifesto - With Books Falling From the Sky, Roxanne Coady calls for change and suggests how you can improve the lives of others through promoting literacy in your community. In With Books Falling From the Sky, Roxanne points out a lot of the frightening correlations between illiteracy, poverty, and imprisonment. She also describes the profound impact that books can have on readers of any age: [Putting] the right book in the right hand can mean the world. I know this from my own experience, and I know it because I’ve seen the faces of children who have discovered the magic of reading, I’ve seen the faces of teenagers who have found comfort in a character or a story; I’ve se...

What the Romans Didn’t Know
2007-05-12 04:03:00
What the Roman s Didn’t Know : Overcoming Personal Constraints to Achieve Higher Performance and Fulfillment By Flip Flippen Do you really think Tiger Woods logs practice hours just to maintain what comes easiest to him? Flip Flippen says forget about discovering your strengths, instead it’s your weaknesses hold you back from achieving your personal best. In What the Romans Didn’t Know, Flip Flippen provides a method to identifying your weaknesses and eliminating them. Wouldn’t it have been impressive if I had found a term from antiquity—Latin would have been the coolest—that embodied the theme of this article? About the author: Flip Flippen is the head of The Flippen Group which offers personal development and transformation processes to businesses, organizations, and individuals. Clients have included football legend Terry Bradshaw, Wall Street private equity investors Richard Allsopp and Mark Bourgeois, IMG founder Mark McCormack, and National Baseball...
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Pushing Past the Dip: How to Become the Best in the World
2007-05-12 03:52:00
Pushing Past the Dip: How to Become the Best in the World By Seth Godin The long, tough slog through mediocre-ville. To be the best, Seth Godin explains in the Pushing Past the Dip, you must concentrate your effort, push a little harder, commit a few more resources and leave mediocre to those willing to be average. About the author: Seth Godin is a bestselling author, entrepreneur and agent of change. In Free Prize Inside, his follow up to the best selling marketing book of 2003, Purple Cow, Seth helps you make your product remarkable with soft innovations. You need to make each of your employees idea champions so they can find the Free Prize. Godin is author of six books that have been bestsellers around the world and changed the way people think about marketing, change and work. Seth is a renowned speaker as well. He was recently chosen as one of 21 Speakers for the Next Century by Successful Meetings and is consistently rated among the very best speakers by the audiences he addr...
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Manifesto to Accelerate: 15 Truths
2007-05-12 03:44:00
Manifesto to Accelerate : 15 Truths By Dan Coughlin Executive coach, Dan Coughlin, asserts that great businesses are defined by their ability to accelerate, which he defines as the ability to increase the rate of achieving desired outcomes in a sustainable manner. Manifesto to Accelerate: 15 Truths provides you with 15 applicable truths will enable you to take your company or career from 0 to 60 while optimizing your passion for your work. About the author: Dan Coughlin is president of The Coughlin Company, Inc., a consulting firm at the forefront of work on business acceleration. As a business speaker, consultant, and author, Dan has given over 500 presentations on business acceleration, provided more than 1,500 Executive Coaching sessions for presidents, vice-presidents and senior directors of Fortune 500 Companies and major privately owned firms, and written the books, Accelerate: 20 Practical Lessons to Boost Business Momentum (Kaplan Publishing 2007) and Corporate Catalysts: H...
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The Global Education Industry 2nd edition
2007-05-11 11:58:00
The Global Education Industry 2nd edition By Birgitta Kantola (Foreword), James Tooley The first edition of The Global Education Industry produced surprising conclusions from research around the world into the extent of private education. James Tooley challenged the prevailing wisdom that private education fosters social and economic inequality. On the contrary, he found that the private sector, as well as being innovative, often provides creative social responsibility programmes, subsidised places and student loan schemes. He concluded with a proposal about the role of for-profit education enterprises in promoting equitable development. In this second edition of The Global Education Industry, Professor Tooley contributes a new preface which shows how his work has developed and extended into other countries. In particular, he provides a fascinating account of how private education is flourishing in China. (more…)
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Hollywood Utopia
2007-05-10 15:18:00
Hollywood Utopia By Pat Brereton Pursuing an interest in the utopian communities of North America’s West Coast, Justine Brown, who previously wrote on such experiments in British Columbia, explores the visionary aspects of southern California’s “movie colony” in this slim, deftly written book. Her story begins, however, a decade before the first motion pictures were made in ...
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Nieman Report Winter 2005
2007-05-10 15:13:00
Nieman Repo rt Winter 2005 A report by Nieman Foundation For Journalism at Harvard University. Now in its 58th year, Nieman Reports serves a unique role in the community of journalism publications. Journalists write stories out of experiences they’ve had in covering events and issues, and they write about newsroom issues common in the craft. In these articles, ...

America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s
2007-05-10 15:07:00
America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s is the definitive interpretive survey of the political, social, and cultural history of 1960s America. Written by two top experts on the era. This book provides a compelling tale of this tumultuous era filled with fresh and persuasive insights. The ...
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Modernizing China?s Military
2007-05-10 15:01:00
Modernizing China ’s Military By Keith Crane, Roger Cliff, Evan S. Medeiros, James C. Mulvenon, William H. Overholt To help the U.S. Air Force assess the resources the government of the People’s Republic of China is likely to spend on its military over the next two decades, this study projects future growth in Chinese government expenditures as a ...
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The Cluetrain Manifesto
2007-05-08 04:56:00
The Cluetrain Manifesto : The End of Business as Usual By Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, David Weinberger, Perseus Books Group From four of the liveliest personalities on the Web comes a provocative, outrageous, and wickedly smart account of what it will take to prosper in the fast-forward world on the wire. This nationally acclaimed best seller ...
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Blue Water
2007-05-08 04:48:00
Blue Water By A. Manette Ansay, HarperCollins From New York Times bestselling author A. Manette Ansay comes an unforgettable story of two families united by tragedy — and one woman’s deeply emotional journey toward a choice she’d never thought possible. On an ordinary morning in Fox Harbor, Wisconsin, Meg and Rex Van Dorn’s lives are irrevocably altered ...
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
2007-05-08 04:43:00
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet By William Shakespeare The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, commonly referred to as Romeo and Juliet, is a play by William Shakespeare concerning the fate of two young lovers who would do anything to be together. It is, perhaps, the most famous of his plays and is ...
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Emma by Jane Austen
2007-05-08 04:10:00
Emma By Jane Austen Emma is a comedic novel by Jane Austen, generally regarded as the most perfectly constructed of all her works, concerning the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as “handsome, clever, and rich” but is also rather spoiled. As a heroine, Emma herself is more ...
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Growing Great New Managers
2007-05-07 05:19:00
Growing Great New Managers By Erika Andersen Growing Great New Managers. We’ve all seen it: a successful employee promoted to manager is given no training and essentially pushed into the deep end and told to swim? According to Andersen, this approach to creating new managers is epidemic. Using an accessible gardening metaphor, Andersen, founder of Proteus International, ...
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What Must Starbucks Do?
2007-05-07 05:08:00
What Must Starbucks Do? By John Moore What Must Starbucks Do? is a manifesto encapsulates the online response to the infamous “Starbucks CEO memo.” Howard Schulz is concerned Starbucks will lose its soul as it grows from 13,000 to 40,000 locations. Go figure. He challenged employees to find ways to stay true to the story behind the uber-brand. Over ...
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Beginner?s Guide to Business Blogging
2007-05-06 16:27:00
Beginner’s Guide to Business Blogging By Debbie Weil, ChangeThis Beginner’s Guide to Business Blogging is a quick guide to understanding, launching an maintaining a blog as a business & marketing tool. The what, why, and how of business blogging, by business blog expert, Debbie Weil. Originally a limited release, this critical resource guide is available to you ...
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Web 2.0: Strategies and Lessons for Business Leaders
2007-05-06 16:21:00
Web 2.0: Strategies and Lessons for Business Leaders By Troy Angrignon, ChangeThis Have you heard of blogs? How about wikis? RSS? VoIP? Podcast? This alphabet soup is just the tip of the iceberg. They are all part of something called ?Web 2.0.? Web 2.0: Strategies and Lessons for Business Leaders will introduce you to the principles ...
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Security Engineering
2007-05-06 16:14:00
Security Engineer ing : A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems By Ross J. Anderson, Ross Anderson, Wiley Security Engineering is a book that offering an end-to-end look at modern computer security design and engineering. Offers the reader coverage of management and policy issues, copyright protection, biometrics, tamper resistance, cryptography, access controls to distributed systems, and much more. ...
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Luxury SpaFinder Magazine, March/April 2007
2007-05-06 08:52:00
Luxury SpaFinder Magazin e , March /April 2007 Luxury SpaFinder Magazine, the most authoritative source of information on luxury spas and related lifestyle pursuits. In each issue you’ll find: In-depth articles on the world’s top spas Detailed reports on health and wellness topics such as thalassotherapy, aromatherapy, and antioxidant beauty products Insider’s Spa Guides to major destinations such as India, Ireland, Italy, ...
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The Invisible Man
2007-05-06 08:38:00
The Invisible Man By H. G. Wells The Invisible Man is a famous 1897 science fiction novel(la) by H. G. Wells. Some say it is a large short story, as implied in an introduction to the Bantam Classics edition. It is also commonly mistaken with the title to Ralph Ellison’s novel, Invisible Man (1952). Wells‘ ...
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David Copperfield
2007-05-06 08:32:00
David Copper field By Charles Dickens A novel by Charles Dickens, largely the story of Dickens’s own life. David Copperfield is sent away to work at a very young age and grows to manhood over the course of the book. The account of David’s grim boyhood was designed to expose the cruel conditions of child labor in Britain ...
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California Electricity Crisis
2007-05-06 08:26:00
California Electricity Crisis By James L. Sweeney, Hoover Institution Press The California Electricity Crisis focuses on policy decisions, their consequences, and alternatives: the saga California has faced and is still facing. Throughout this saga, one policy decision led logically to another, yet at almost every juncture very different choices were possible. Since the spring of 2000, energy problems ...
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Selling to Big Companies
2007-05-06 08:22:00
Selling to Big Companies By Jill Konrath, Kaplan Business Setting up meetings with corporate decision makers has never been harder. It’s almost impossible to get them to pick up the phone. They never return your calls. And if you do happen to catch them, they blow you off right away. It’s time to stop making endless cold ...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984
2007-05-03 15:52:00
Nineteen Eight y-Four 1984 By George Orwell, 1948 A novel by George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four depicts a totalitarian society of the future, ruled by an omnipotent dictator called Big Brother. In this society, called Oceania, people’s thoughts are controlled as tightly as their actions. The government maintains an organization called the “thought police” and engages in constant propaganda. Orwell’s ...
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The Old Man and the Sea
2007-05-03 15:46:00
The Old Man and the Sea By Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea is regarded as one of Ernest Hemingway’s most famous works, and it was published on this date in 1952. Critics praised the novella, which was Hemingway’s last major work of fiction, and he won 1953’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Award ...
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