Don’t Bring It to Work – Breaking the Family Patterns That Limit Success, by Sylvia Lafair, PhD
I absolutely love it when an expert in a non-business field brings their knowledge to the business world. Whether it’s a former all-star athlete turned successful businessman (ala Julius Erving), or a rehabbed musician turned stock trader (ala [...]
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The Amazing(?) Amazon Kindle
This week Amazon lowered the price of their popular six-inch Kindle by $60. No fanfare, no major announcements and no (á-la-Steve-Jobs) laser shows. In fact, Jeff Bezos was nowhere to be seen, just a new lower price on the Amazon homepage.
The Kindle, for those of you who’ve been under a rock [...]
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New York Times – Hardcover Business Best Sellers – July 2009
Okay, how long can this thing last?
What will certainly be recorded as the most successful business book written in 2008, Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers continues to dominate the best seller rankings for the eighth consecutive month. With success like this, Outliers truly [...]
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Chaggle is the Next (Fill in the Blank)
Last month a colleague told me about this little technology startup that had carved out a pretty cool niche for themselves – and within ten minutes of hearing his description of Chaggle.com, I was happily using what should prove to be the next big thing on the World [...]
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TheManager’s Leadership Book Review
In what may become a regular feature of AskTheManager.com, we tackle the sometimes thankless task of reviewing the work of a published author. While you could argue that we’ve provided book reviews in the past with our Ten Best Leadership Books or our Ten Best Decision Making Books lists, this time it’s [...]
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New York Times – Hardcover Business Best Sellers – April 2009
It’s déjà vu all over again as the April 2009 New York Times Hardcover Business Best Sellers list looks a lot like what we saw in March and February. Just as those months revealed America’s concern over the economy through our reading choices, April continues [...]
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The Ten Best Business Decision Making Books Ever Written
Gaining insight into how the editors of AskTheManager.com chose the Ten Best Decision Making Books Ever can itself be a lesson in decision making. While the list of qualified books on this subject is quite long, we decided early on to exclude any and all that read [...]
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New York Times – Hardcover Business Best Sellers – March 2009
The March 2009 New York Times Hardcover Business Best Sellers list looks a lot like what we saw in February. Just as last month began to (finally) reveal America’s concern over the economy, March continued this trend. While the March list contains no credible financial [...]
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