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Posted by: Jan Wallace | July 31, 2009 | Comments Off on New Books
Outliers: the story of success, by Malcolm Gladwell.
Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, is interested in people who are outliers— who are so accomplished and so extraordinary and so outside of ordinary experience that they are as puzzling to the rest of us. In Outliers, he looks at corporate lawyers in New York, hockey players, Asian math whizzes and software entrepreneurs.
The global brain: your roadmap for innovating faster and smarter in a networked world, by Satish Nambisan, Mohanbir Sawhney.
In this book, two business school professors provide practical guidance on every facet of network-centric innovation, from identifying opportunities to implementing metrics, enhancing operations to overcoming “not invented here” cultures.
Comments
New Books- The tyranny of merit : what's become of the common good? / Michael J. Sandel.
- Designing the best work-from-home you : how to work remotely (but not all the time) / Vennessa McConkey.
- How to work from home and actually get sh*t done : 50 tips for leaders and professionals to work remotely and outperform the office / Cynthia D. Spraggs.
- Subprime attention crisis : advertising and the time bomb at the heart of the Internet / Tim Hwang.
- Effortless : make it easier to do what matters most / Greg McKeown.
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