From The Great Depression 2.0 to Google

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Googled: The End of the World As We Know It Ken Auletta Penguin Press Unless you live in a cave or have never touched a keyboard, Google has touched your life, perhaps in ways you didn't even realize. Author Ken Auletta, whom you may recognize from his regular columns i... More »

Feel Like Gambling? How About Writing a Book on Social Media?

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Mathletics: How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts Use Mathematics in Baseball, Basketball, and Football Wayne L. Winston Princeton University Press This book takes the kind of math-sports mashup that we first experienced in Michael Lewis's Moneyball and injects... More »

New Rules to Harness the Web, New Manifestos to Change the World

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The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web Tamar Weinberg O'Reilly Large organizations are just scratching the surface on the use of social networks, blogs, networking sites, and other new communication technologies and platforms. How will your training organi... More »

Picking Your Successor and Picking Up After Financial Ruin

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Succession: Are You Ready? Marshall Goldsmith Harvard Business Press We've said it before: little books can deliver powerful ideas. As part of its Memo to the CEO series, this book from Harvard Business Press compresses some of Goldsmith's most important thoughts about ... More »

Expanded Thinking: Favorite Authors and Ideas Revisited

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The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won Peter Navarro FT Press We will admit, we have read more than a couple of techno-thrillers where China's government gets out of control and the sleeping Red Giant goes to war with the world. While t... More »