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About the Authors: Ivan R. Misner is the chairman and founder of the world's largest busines networking organization BNI. The Daily Bulletin recently named him "Humanitarian of the Year." Michelle R. Donovan is the owner The Referral Institute of Western Pennsylvania. She has written for business publications such as LifeLines and Dynamic Business.

This guide to networking by Misner, the founder and chairman of BNI (Business Network International), is an invaluable roadmap for businesspeople seeking to develop or fine-tune a necessary and often overlooked skill. Misner and Donovan's title stems from a study that spawned the six degrees of separation theory, which actually revealed that only 29% of the population ... more review

 

 

About the Author: Fareed Zakaria writes a regular column for Newsweek and hosts Fareed Zakaria GPS, which airs on CNN.

Starred Review. When a book proclaims that it is not about the decline of America but the rise of everyone else, readers might expect another diatribe about our dismal post-9/11 world. They are in for a pleasant surprise as Newsweek editor and popular pundit Zakaria (The Future of Freedom) delivers a stimulating, largely optimistic forecast ... more review

 

 

About the Author: Bill Tancer is the General Manager of Global Research at Hitwise. He was named Television Week's "12 to Watch" for 2008

Do Americans really spend that much time surfing porn sites? Which demographic visited Anna Nicole Smith's Web site most frequently? Who reads Perez Hilton? More than mere trivia nuggets, the answers to these questions define online behaviors among a varied mix of Internet users. Tancer, who leads global research at Hitwise, an online market research company, guides... more review

 

 

About the Author: Philip Delves Broughton has written for the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London, and Spectator. He has an MBA from Harvard.

This debut by a former journalist at the Daily Telegraph of London chronicles the author's love-hate relationship with the Harvard Business School, where he spent two years getting his M.B.A. Beginning with a confessional account of his disillusionment... more review

 

 

 

About the Author: John Kotter is a Harvard Business School professor. He is the author of 17 books and has written articles for the The Harvard Business Review over the past 20 years.

Change can strike fear in the hearts and minds of businesspeople, whether frontline employee or C-suite executive. Harvard Business School professor Kotter is the master of change, hammering home his eight principles straightforwardly (Leading Change, 1996) and via fable (Our Iceberg Is Melting, 2006). Now Kotter identifies the... more review

 

 

About the Authors: Chip Heath is a Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Dan Heath is a Consultant at Duke Corporate Education. more...

Based on a class at Stanford taught by one of the authors, this book profiles how some ideas "stick" in our minds while the majority fall by the wayside. Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and compelling advertising make up much of the intrinsically interesting examples that the Heaths profile that qualify for "stickiness."... more review

 

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