Review by Jennifer Dawson What do Napster, Alcoholics Anonymous, Wikipedia, the Apaches, Skype, the abolitionist movement in Britain, the Animal Liberation Front, and al Qaeda all have in common? According to Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom, authors of The Starfish and The Spider, they are all examples of “starfish”...
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By Keith Rosen Review by Jennifer Dawson Management is dead. Keith Rosen admits it’s a bold statement, but it underlies his innovative approach to creating sales champions and is certainly a thought-provoking sentence to slide into the opening chapter of his book. Since Rosen isn’t advocating for flat organizational...
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This was written by Jennifer Dawson under my direction for Sage Portfolio Group. I like her work so much I wanted to share it on the bookshelf. Yet another of the inspirational books making the rounds at Sage Portfolio Group is Susan Scott’s Fierce Conversations, a quick read that uses concrete examples and evocative phrases...
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Write a Book Review I am super excited about adding a virtual bookshelf to the Crucible Bookii. We are all readers and it is great to hear what people think of books before I invest the time to read them. I am not a book reviewer–just not my thing–but I would like to invite you to submit book reviews of books you...
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Dear Diary, Yesterday was a crazy day. And by that, I mean that I made myself a little crazy. I created a world I don’t really want to live in–but only in my head. It has been a tough week. I have been sharing the Crucible with a focus group and I also took some entries to my writing group. Then, one of my kids told...
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