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Three Minutes to a Million

The Innovation Factor: What’s Your Innovation Quotient?

by IIan Morchari in Inc. Magazine.

Are you a "Control Freak?"

Are You The Bottleneck In Your Organization?

Telling a Story On the Label

If you've ever thought about what makes a great package,

Women Lead from the Heart

Myrna

Blue Ocean Strategy

By W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne

focus on developing strategy in new, non-existent markets and flips everything you thought you knew on its head

Good To Great

By Jim Collins

understand what you’re best at, preserve the core, and sublimate the personal for organizational ambition

The Next 100 Years - A Forecast for the 21st Century

By George Friedman

a lucid, highly readable forecast of the changes we can expect and how we will live world-wide during the 21st century

Personal History

By Katherine Graham

courageous example of the socially seismic 2nd half of the century

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Don’t

By Heath & Heath

identify the qualities of memorable and effective ideas in one of the most entertaining, readable formats

Selling the Invisible

by Harry Beckwith

This is a great book for those selling a service. It’s old but relevant. He has some new books too on branding positioning and customer relationships.

Any of Seth Godin’s books

Any of Seth Godin’s books are worth your time. He has an active blog too. His book Purple Cow was a big part of our marketing strategy when I ran ProGroup. He has several new books out right now. They are all short and fun to read, while getting your mind working.

EMyth Revisited

This is an old book that I just revisited based on many recommendations. Michael Gerber has nailed it when he talks about you gals out there. It's scary how he knows you. If you've read it, read it again. It will really get you focused on working "on" the business. His web site offers many new and improved tools. It's a quick read, but keeps you thinking. The only thing to remember is change doesn't happen in a day. It requires a step by step plan where you can measure success.

Frances Hesselbein

"Leadership is being not doing", Frances Hesselbein.

One of the great women leaders is Frances Hesselbein. She turned the Girl Scouts of America around with her great leadership skills. She is now 91 and continues to speak on leadership. I will be hearing her speak at the National Women President’s Organization in April. If you don’t know about her you need to.

Watch Her Speak on YouTube

There is also a good article on her at this site.

Amplify Your Success Virtual Leadership Conference

The Geek Girls Guide

One of my favorite blogs is called The Geek Girls Guide. I love Nancy and Meghan because they are so down to earth and so knowledgeable. They have podcasts that you can download and listen to in drive time.

USA Today

USA Today on line has a couple of good blogs related to small business called Ask an Expert, The Entrepreneurial Tightrope, and Strategies. They are quick little hits of information.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

I’ve always loved Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a brilliant professor at Harvard Business School, who is a wisewoman. She writes on leadership, change and innovation. I think you might enjoy her blog.

I really like Dan Pink.

Seth Godin

Seth Godin's posts are thought provoking and timely. You can subscribe to his blog from there.