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Brad Hooper of the American Library Association's Booklist Online has posted his list of 2008's top 10 business titles (that have been reviewed on Booklist over the past year). The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr, W. W.
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Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition by Guy Kawasaki, Portfolio, 496 pages, $29. 95, Hardcover, November 2008, ISBN 9781591842231
Guy Kawasaki gives entrepreneurs two options when they ask him about their ideas--"the truth or 'feel good' pablum. " Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition offers no such choice.
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Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair by Frank Hauser ad Russell Reich, Walker & Company, 127 pages, $15. 00, Paperback, September 2008, ISBN 9780802717085
Authors Joseph Pine and James Gilmore told us "Work is Theatre" in their 1999 book The Experience Economy. The authors drew on the arts, in particular theatre, and explored the metaphor between business and the stage.
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Inside Drucker's Brain by Jeffrey Krames, Portfolio, 224 Pages, October 2006, $24. 95 Hardcover, ISBN 9781591842224
Peter Drucker, the man often referred to as "the inventor of modern management" died in 2005. Drucker was an author of numerous influential business books.
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Africa Rising: How 900 Million African Consumers Offer More Than You Think by Vijay Mahajan, Wharton School Publishing, 288 pages, $29. 99, Hardcover, September 2008, ISBN 9780132339421
We tend to get an overly negative picture of Africa from its coverage in the press and on the silver screen, with stories focused on war, poverty, disease and corruption. This book awakens its reader to the great potential hidden by--and sometimes resulting from--the many challenges Africa faces, challenges innovative entrepreneurs are quietly addressing.
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