This isn’t a traditional business book by any means In Delivering Happiness you get to experience the ups and downs that all small business owners know to be part of the lifestyle they have chosen. Zappos While Zappos may not be a small business today, it tries very hard to maintain the entrepreneurial ways that […]
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1. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman The author challenges the rational model of judgment and decision making and takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind He exposes the extraordinary capabilities—and also the faults and biases—of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behaviour. Those
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Ivan Misner Ivan Misner is mister networking and the founder of BNI (Business Network International). He wrote this book with two other network experts. One male expert and one female expert. This is significant as the book is based on a survey of 12,000 business, 50% male, 50% female on their networking habits and perspectives.
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Can you answer the most essential strategy question facing every business: Does Your Company Matter? The strategist Author Cynthia Montgomery redefines strategy and issues a call to arms for leaders to take back their rightful claim to be strategists of their own organisations. Ingvar Kamprad’s IKEA and the compelling purpose that is enabling the company to reap huge profits in
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My Klout score was 55, my Peerindex score was 60 (now brandwatch), my Kredscore is 758, my PROskore was 50, my twittercounter showed a steady increase, although there was a serious dip in followers on the 2nd of September 2012 where 2,157 stopped following me. I posted a review of “Adapt” on that day on
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In the author’s experience, people only change their ways when what they truly value is threatened. It’s in our nature. It’s the law. People will do something, including changing their behaviour, only if it can be demonstrated that doing so is in their own best interests as defined by their own values. What Got You
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Philip Delves Broughton is the author of “What they teach you at Harvard business school”. Not to be confused with “What they don’t teach you at Harvard Business School by Mark McCormack. He wrote a book about sales. Selling I have been searching for a book like this. Our clients regularly ask us to find
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Adapt takes a long time to illustrate how random and complex things are. Uses anecdotes and stories to make that point. From toasters, Iraq, global warming and takes a failed Gladwell approach to it. Lots of better books You could have read “Loose”, “Little Bets”, “Business exposed”, “The wide lens”, “Overconnected”, “Black Swan” and a
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For a client, we are looking at the area of outreach and engagement, particularly with young people. We recommended, “Join the club”. The book is about how social pressure works and how “join the club” models can change behaviour. Examples and science The book combines lost of examples (tackling AIDS, anti-smoking, teenagers, promoting math, microlending,
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We normally write an article for the summer break with suggested books for you to consider when you are re-charging your batteries. Due to the weather we forgot it was summer. In some ways that is good news as the weather will keep you inside with lots of time to read a good book. Under
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