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Superconnect: Harnessing the Power of Networks and the Strength of Weak Links. By Richard Koch and Greg Lockwood. W. W. Norton.
September 1, 2010 – 10:20 pm | Comments Off
Superconnect: Harnessing the Power of Networks and the Strength of Weak Links. By Richard Koch and Greg Lockwood. W. W. Norton.

As the world becomes more densely populated, the connections between us are expanding in ever more intricate ways. How does this affect us in business and in life? And how can we make the most …

Fubarnomics: A Lighthearted, Serious Look at America’s Economic Ills. By Robert E. Wright. Prometheus Books.
August 30, 2010 – 11:03 am | Comments Off
Fubarnomics: A Lighthearted, Serious Look at America’s Economic Ills. By Robert E. Wright. Prometheus Books.

In this lighthearted, serious look at America’s economic ills, Robert E. Wright not only identifies the problems of our current economic conundrum but also proposes new, intriguing solutions. Avoiding the partisanship that is so prevalent …

Consumed: Rethinking Business in the Era of Mindful Spending. By Andrew Benett and Ann O’Reilly. Palgrave Macmillan.
August 17, 2010 – 5:05 pm | Comments Off
Consumed: Rethinking Business in the Era of Mindful Spending. By Andrew Benett and Ann O’Reilly. Palgrave Macmillan.

As the effects of the global recession linger, consumers everywhere are changing their purchasing patterns, paying greater attention to what and why they are buying, and from whom. While many feel rampant spending is hard-wired …

Coolfarming: Turn Your Great Idea Into the Next Big Thing. By Peter Gloor. AMACOM.
August 17, 2010 – 12:03 pm | Comments Off
Coolfarming: Turn Your Great Idea Into the Next Big Thing. By Peter Gloor. AMACOM.

Building on the ideas found in the groundbreaking book Coolhunting, consumer trend expert Peter Gloor’s Coolfarming moves beyond simply hunting for the latest hot ideas that are already happening and shows you how to get …

The 24-Hour Customer: New Rules for Winning in a Time-Starved, Always-Connected Economy. By Adrian C. Ott. HarperBusiness.
August 15, 2010 – 7:01 pm | Comments Off
The 24-Hour Customer: New Rules for Winning in a Time-Starved, Always-Connected Economy. By Adrian C. Ott. HarperBusiness.

Today’s customers are overwhelmed, overworked, and over-stressed, and it seems that everyone–from CEOs to soccer moms–is short on time and overwhelmed with information. As a result, despite the availability of 24/7 commerce …

Competitive Selling: Out-Plan, Out-Think, Out-Sell to Win Every Time. By Landy Chase. McGraw-Hill.
August 15, 2010 – 6:36 pm | Comments Off
Competitive Selling: Out-Plan, Out-Think, Out-Sell to Win Every Time. By Landy Chase. McGraw-Hill.

There’s a hard fact we all have to face: Buyers have evolved. They almost never consider a single vendor when making a buying decision. Instead, they call you — and your competitors — …

How Companies Win: Profiting from Demand-Driven Business Models No Matter What Business You’re In. By Rick Kash and David Calhoun. HarperCollins.
August 14, 2010 – 10:35 pm | Comments Off
How Companies Win: Profiting from Demand-Driven Business Models No Matter What Business You’re In. By Rick Kash and David Calhoun. HarperCollins.

For the past twenty years, the growth formula for business has been to increase revenues by expanding product offerings and streamlining supply. But with the recent financial collapse, the world economy has changed forever. Now, …

The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change. By Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
July 30, 2010 – 5:18 am | Comments Off
The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change. By Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

The Power of Appreciative Inquiry describes the internationally embraced approach to organizational change that dramatically improves performance by engaging people to study, discuss, and build upon what’s working — strengths — rather than trying to …

The Betrayal of American Prosperity: Free Market Delusions, America’s Decline, and How We Must Compete in the Post-Dollar Era. By Clyde Prestowitz. Free Press.
July 29, 2010 – 4:41 pm | Comments Off
The Betrayal of American Prosperity: Free Market Delusions, America’s Decline, and How We Must Compete in the Post-Dollar Era. By Clyde Prestowitz. Free Press.

Bestselling author Clyde Prestowitz reveals the astonishing extent of the erosion of the fundamental pillars of American economic might—beginning well before the 2008 financial crisis—and the great challenge we face for the future in competing …

Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society. By Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski and Betty Sue Flowers. Nicholas Brealey Publishing.
July 29, 2010 – 4:25 pm | Comments Off
Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society. By Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski and Betty Sue Flowers. Nicholas Brealey Publishing.

Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society gives the reader an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. In wide-ranging conversations held over a year and a …

The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World. By David Kirkpatrick. Simon & Schuster.
July 29, 2010 – 5:40 am | Comments Off
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World. By David Kirkpatrick. Simon & Schuster.

How did a nineteen-year-old Harvard student create a company that has transformed the Internet and how did he grow it to its current enormous size? Kirkpatrick shows how Zuckerberg steadfastly refused to compromise his vision, …

Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges – The Social Technology of Presencing. By C. Otto Scharmer. SoL.
July 28, 2010 – 7:38 pm | Comments Off
Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges – The Social Technology of Presencing. By C. Otto Scharmer. SoL.

In this ground-breaking book, Otto Scharmer invites us to see the world in new ways. Fundamental problems, as Einstein once noted, cannot be solved at the same level of thought that created them. What we …

Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. By Evan D. G. Fraser and Andrew Rimas. Free Press.
July 28, 2010 – 6:19 am | Comments Off
Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. By Evan D. G. Fraser and Andrew Rimas. Free Press.

Cities, culture, art, government, and religion are founded on the creation and exchange of food surpluses, complex societies built by shipping corn and wheat and rice up rivers and into the stewpots of history’s generations. …

The Lifestyle Puzzle: Who We Are in the 21st Century. By Henrik Vejlgaard. Prometheus Books.
July 18, 2010 – 8:11 pm | Comments Off
The Lifestyle Puzzle: Who We Are in the 21st Century. By Henrik Vejlgaard. Prometheus Books.

With increasing affluence, more and more Americans are in a position to choose whatever lifestyle most appeals to them. The result is that the national landscape has become an intricate mosaic of varying styles, self-expressions, …

Leading Outside the Lines: How to Mobilize the (in)Formal Organization, Energize Your Team, and Get Better Results. By Jon R. Katzenbach and Zia Khan. Jossey-Bass.
July 18, 2010 – 7:09 am | Comments Off
Leading Outside the Lines: How to Mobilize the (in)Formal Organization, Energize Your Team, and Get Better Results. By Jon R. Katzenbach and Zia Khan. Jossey-Bass.

In this dynamic work, thought leaders Jon R. Katzenbach, coauthor of the business classic The Wisdom of Teams, and Zia Khan offer an all-new examination of the modern workplace, and how leaders and managers must …

2014: How to Survive the Next World Crisis. By Nicholas Boyle. Continuum.
July 16, 2010 – 9:51 pm | Comments Off
2014: How to Survive the Next World Crisis. By Nicholas Boyle. Continuum.

A new world crisis is already looming. By 2014, our generation’s legacy to the twenty-first century will be decided. Will it be a century of climatic disaster and war? The roots of the present crisis …

Ill Fares the Land. By Tony Judt. Penguin Press.
July 16, 2010 – 9:12 pm | Comments Off
Ill Fares the Land. By Tony Judt. Penguin Press.

Something is profoundly wrong with the way  we think about how we should live today. In Ill Fares the Land, Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and  thinkers, reveals how we have …

Pandora’s Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization. By Spencer Wells. Random House.
July 15, 2010 – 6:07 pm | Comments Off
Pandora’s Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization. By Spencer Wells. Random House.

Pandora’s Seed takes us on a powerful and provocative globe-trotting tour of human history, back to a seminal event roughly ten thousand years ago, when our species made a radical shift in its way of …

The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest Problems. By Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin and Monique Sternin. Harvard Business Press.
July 15, 2010 – 5:09 pm | Comments Off
The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest Problems. By Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin and Monique Sternin. Harvard Business Press.

When it comes to solving complex problems, most leaders turn to internal or external “experts,” borrowing” best practices” and implementing top-down strategies that typically inspire few and accomplish little. It’s time to …

Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis. By Anatole Kaletsky. Public Affairs.
July 14, 2010 – 8:36 pm | Comments Off
Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis. By Anatole Kaletsky. Public Affairs.

Market fundamentalism collapsed in 2008, but the crash has brought into play capitalism’s unerring instinct for self-preservation. As a result, the next version of the capitalism system is now evolving: Capitalism 4.0. …

Engage! The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New Web. By Brian Solis. John Wiley & Sons.
July 14, 2010 – 8:09 pm | Comments Off
Engage! The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New Web. By Brian Solis. John Wiley & Sons.

Social media has democratized influence, forever changing the way businesses communicate with customers and the way customers affect the decisions of their peers. With platforms like Twitter, YouTube, and …

Absolutely Small: How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World. By Michael D. Fayer. AMACOM.
July 14, 2010 – 7:55 pm | Comments Off
Absolutely Small: How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World. By Michael D. Fayer. AMACOM.

To understand what’s really happening in the world around us, to comprehend the mysterious, counterintuitive science of the small, we must take a quantum theory view of nature. Like no …

The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. By Nicholas Carr. W. W. Norton.
July 14, 2010 – 5:44 am | Comments Off
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. By Nicholas Carr. W. W. Norton.

“Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also …

The Laws of Disruption: Harnessing the New Forces That Govern Life and Business in the Digital Age. By Larry Downes. Basic Books.
July 13, 2010 – 7:04 pm | Comments Off
The Laws of Disruption: Harnessing the New Forces That Govern Life and Business in the Digital Age. By Larry Downes. Basic Books.

While digital life races ahead, the rest of our life, from law to business, struggles to keep up. Business strategists, lawyers, judges, regulators, and consumers have all been left behind, scratching …

Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. By Clay Shirky. Penguin Press.
July 4, 2010 – 6:20 pm | Comments Off
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. By Clay Shirky. Penguin Press.

In Cognitive Surplus, internet guru Clay Shirky forecasts the thrilling changes we will all enjoy as new digital technology puts our untapped resources of talent and goodwill to use at last. Since Americans …