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	<title>Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist</title>
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		<title>Chief Culture Officer, by Grant McCracken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazon link
I have been a fan of Grant McCracken&#8217;s for several years now, so I was eagerly awaiting his new book, Chief Culture Officer.  Note that I may be slightly biased in this review, as Grant mentions me in the book as a potential CCO candidate.
Chief Culture Officer is McCracken&#8217;s manifesto of how and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2010/02/10/chief-culture-officer-by-grant-mccracken/</link>
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		<title>The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, by Daniel Pink</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Book website
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Dan Pink&#8217;s book Drive was good, so I also picked up this book from the library, subtitled &#8220;The last career guide you&#8217;ll ever need&#8221;.  It&#8217;s written in the style of manga (Japanese comics), and can be read in half an hour, but offers solid advice on career management.  
Here are the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2010/02/05/the-adventures-of-johnny-bunko-by-daniel-pink/</link>
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		<title>NurtureShock, by Po Bronson and Ashley Merriman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Book website
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I&#8217;ve liked Po Bronson&#8217;s other books, like What should I do with my life?. I also really liked his New York magazine article called The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids, which described Carol Dweck&#8217;s research into the fixed vs. growth mindset of children, and what a tremendous difference it made to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2010/02/04/nurtureshock-by-po-bronson-and-ashley-merriman/</link>
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		<title>Coaching and feedback</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I talked about getting the reps to improve oneself on desired skills.  But it&#8217;s difficult to make the time for practice, especially for deliberate practice where we are always dancing on the edge of failure.  And I think that&#8217;s where I think Coyle&#8217;s observation that coaching is an integral [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2010/01/30/coaching-and-feedback/</link>
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		<title>Getting the reps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seen on Twitter: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle
Both Drive and The Talent Code make the same point: Becoming a master isn&#8217;t about natural talent or improbable achievements &#8211; it&#8217;s about getting a little bit better every day, and practicing until what is now challenging [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2010/01/28/getting-the-reps/</link>
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		<title>The Paradox of Self-Discipline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was listening to the Fresh Air interview with Jonah Lehrer, author of
How We Decide, and he mentioned an experiment that seems relevant to me right now.
Lehrer describes the experiment in a Wall Street Journal article about New Year&#8217;s Resolutions:
In one experiment, led by Baba Shiv at Stanford University, several dozen undergraduates were divided into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2010/01/26/the-paradox-of-self-discipline/</link>
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		<title>The Talent Code, by Daniel Coyle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Book website, with excerpts
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A coworker recommended this to me, and was even kind enough to lend it to me for the weekend.  
Coyle asks the question: where does talent come from?  Is it nature (genetics) or nurture (environment/opportunity)?  He started by visiting several talent hotbeds &#8211; the Russian tennis academy that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2010/01/24/the-talent-code-by-daniel-coyle/</link>
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		<title>Drive, by Daniel Pink</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Drive book website
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I really liked Pink&#8217;s TED talk on the &#8220;surprising science of motivation&#8221; where he says &#8220;There&#8217;s a mismatch between what science knows and what business does&#8221;.  In particular, the compensation and motivation strategies currently used by businesses have been shown to undermine motivation rather than enhance it.  So I&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2010/01/20/drive-by-daniel-pink/</link>
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		<title>The Design of Business, by Roger Martin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazon link
I&#8217;m not sure where I heard about this book, but the subtitle, &#8220;Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage&#8221;, pretty much sold me on at least checking it out, since I&#8217;m interested in both design and management.  So I got it from the library and read it.
Martin frames business as operating in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2010/01/19/the-design-of-business-by-roger-martin/</link>
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		<title>Measuring team skills</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Along the lines of yesterday&#8217;s post where I mashed up two different interests of mine (cognitive science and organizational theory), today&#8217;s post is about an intersection between basketball and management.
I don&#8217;t know a lot about basketball.  I watch the game recreationally, but I&#8217;ve never played, and don&#8217;t have a feel for the sport.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2010/01/18/measuring-team-skills/</link>
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