Wally Bock
Wally Bock's book, Net Income, was chosen by Inc. as "a book every CEO should own." Wally helps leaders improve the performance and morale of their teams.. His website is www.wallybock.com
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The Web of Life by Fritjof Capra: Organization Philosophy for BusinessChapter One of Part One of the book begins with these words, "This book is about a new scientific understanding of life at all levels of living systems - organisms, social systems, and ecosystems."
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Lewis Gerstner's Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Executive Management BookThere are a lot of people who don't like this book. Some don't like it, because they perceive Lewis V. Gerstner as arrogant. Some don't like it, because his tenure at IBM saw thousands of people lose their jobs. I like this book.
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The Wal-Mart Way: The Success Story of Sam Walton CEOThere's a lot to be learned from the story of Wal-Mart. A lot of it is in this book by a former Wal-Mart COO, a man who actually knew Sam Walton. And that's where the problems start.
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Surfing On the Edge of Chaos: A Book About Corporate LeadershipI expected great things from this book. Richard T. Pascale had been a co-author on two other books that I thought were simply among the best business books I had read.
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The Paltinum Rule: How to Communicate in Business and ElswhereThe Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," is an excellent rule for ethical treatment of others.
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The Tipping Point: Transferable Skills Employment Career Change Jobs Book ReviewEvery now and then you read a book that ties a whole bunch of the world together and makes sense of all of it. The Tipping Point did that for me.
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Seabiscuit: A Book About Horse RacingWe carry our boundaries around with us. Many of them are simply the limits of our experience. Great books help us transcend those boundaries. By that test, Seabiscuit is a great book and Laura Hillenbrand is a great writer.
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Robert Kanigel's One Best Way: A Biography of Frederick Winslow TaylorFrederick Winslow Taylor virtually created some aspects of modern management. His influence was powerful and pervasive.
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On Writing: An Indispensable Guide for JournalistsI've been a writer since I was in my teens. I've studied the craft and I have a shelf full of books on writing. This book is one of the best.
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Paul Thorton's Leadership: Business Management Book ReviewLeadership by Paul Thornton is a book full of triangles. The author describes just about every topic he covers in terms of three key components, which he then presents as sides of a triangle.
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Leadership by Rudolph Giuliani: Business Politics Management Book ReviewIt seemed like the cheering had barely stopped at the change of regime in New York's Gracie Mansion when Rudy Giuliani came out with this book.
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Jim Collins' Good to Great: Business Leadership Management Investment Book ReviewThere aren't many authors who have written two great business books. Jim Collins can make that claim. The first one, co-authored with Jerry Porras was Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies.
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Danile Pink's Free Agent Nation: Freelance Writer Self-Employment Contract Worker Book ReviewDaniel Pink was doing quite well as publicist and speechwriter. He'd landed a job on the staff of the Vice President of the United States, in fact. Then he had one of those "Moments of Truth" we've heard about.
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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Something Done: Business Leadership Sucess Strategy Book ReviewEverybody knows about companies with brilliant strategies that don't deliver. They don't execute. The fact is that the greatest strategy in the world is useless if the company or other organization can't make it work.
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David Allen's Getting Thinks Done: Time Management Organization Book ReviewFifty years ago, having a simple to-do-list would put you at the top of the productivity charts. Thirty years ago, paying attention to time management would do the same.
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Freakonomic: Business Social Economics Success Book ReviewFreakonomics is a joyously entertaining book (at least up until page 179). It's an intellectual romp. But there are problems. Let's leave those for a moment and concentrate on the good parts.
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Birth of the Chaordic Age: Dee Hock CEO Visa Business Executive Book ReviewThis is a book that is fascinating and frustrating by turns. It's about one of the most fascinating and effective and least written-about business executives in the world, Dee Hock.
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Creating Minds by Howard Gardner: Psychology Book ReviewHoward Gardner has changed the way we think about intelligence. His seminal book, Frames of Mind, introduced the idea that the correct question we should be asking is not, "How smart am I?" but rather "How am I smart?"
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Running a Successful Business Requires Talented Staff and EmployeesThe General might get the credit for an incredible strategy or an inspirational style, but if the battles are going to be won, you'd better have good sergeants there with the troops. It's true in business, too.
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Fair and Final Firing: How to Make it HappenLots of managers will tell you that you just can't fire people anymore. They think that every time you try to fire someone, you risk getting sued.
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Marketing RulesDigital or traditional, the basics of marketing haven't changed since Oog and Ogg crawled out of their cave and began dickering over a stone ax-head. Here are some of the rules for marketing success in any age.
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Starting and Running a Successful Web Business as an Online RetailerRetailing in the digital age is going to be dramatically different than it has been in the past. Net only stores like amazon.com are springing up all over the place, and "bricks and mortar� retailers are setting out to do business on the net as well.
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A Web Ad GlossaryIn print, it's easy to know the types of ads. Full page ads take up a full page. Half page ads are half as big. Four color ads are ads in color. Same in TV, a thirty second spot lasts 30 seconds.
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Online Business Myths that Can Hurt YouFrankly, there's a lot of wrong stuff out there about how you should do business online and what makes a great business web site. Here are some things that are often presented as "common knowledge" that simply aren't true.
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The Four Biggest Mistakes Companies Make About Supervision, and How You an Avoid ThemNo single factor predicts productivity for an employee more than his or her direct relationship with the immediate supervisor.
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Online Banking: Not Ready for Prime TimeWhen I signed up for online banking, I thought it would be easy, fast, and efficient.
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Effectively Using Email for Business Communications, PR and MarketingElectronic mail or email is one of the most powerful tools that you will use in the online world. In order to use electronic mail most effectively, do the following.
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Beating GoliathIt was the Israelites versus the Philistines in the book of 1 Samuel in the Bible. The Philistines had a not-so-secret weapon, a ten foot tall armored giant named Goliath.
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What Business Users Want from Your Web SiteGreat business web sites meet the needs of their visitors. For over three years, I've been doing research, finding out what sites experienced business users visit often, and why they go back.
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Placing Banner, Pop-up and Other Internet AdvertisementsThe August 20, 1998 Wall Street Journal included an article with the headline, "Companies push for much bigger, more complicated online ads."