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'Praise the good,' and other tips for embracing change

BY RICHARD PACHTER, Miami Herald | Today at 12:01 a.m.

"Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard." Chip Heath and Dan Heath. Broadway Books. 320 pages.

  • Book shows ways to more meaningful work

    BY RICHARD PACHTER, Miami Herald | March 11 at 2:49 p.m.

    "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us" by Daniel H. Pink (Riverhead, 256 pages, $26.95)

  • Edgy, aggressive ideas for recouping losses

    March 4 at 12:05 a.m.

    "Jim Cramer's Getting Back to Even" by James J. Cramer, with Cliff Mason (Simon & Schuster, 352 pages, $26)

  • March 4 at 12:05 a.m.

    Cheri Kovacic

  • Book explores 'semantic Web'

    BY RICHARD PACHTER, Miami Herald | Feb. 25 at 6:14 a.m.

    "Pull: The Power of the Semantic Web to Transform Your Business" by David Siegel (Portfolio, 288 pages, $27.95).

  • Author: Customer service is crucial to businesses' growth

    BY RICHARD PACHTER, Miami Herald | Feb. 18 at 5:39 a.m.

    "Flip the Funnel: How to Use Existing Customers to Gain New Ones" by Joseph Jaffe (Wiley, 286 pages, $29.95)

  • Books offer social media tips for business

    BY RICHARD PACHTER, Miami Herald | Feb. 11 at 12:06 a.m.

    It looks like this social media thing for business could be a solid accompaniment to your company's marketing and advertising initiatives — assuming that you still allocate resources to those things.

  • Want to secure your job? Endow it with 'art'

    Feb. 4 at 12:05 a.m.

    "Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?" by Seth Godin (Portfolio, 256 pages, $25.95)

  • Book details what makes government projects successful

    BY RICHARD PACHTER, Miami Herald | Jan. 21 at 6:44 a.m.

    "If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Government" by William Eggers and John O'Leary (Harvard Business School Press, 256 pages, $24.95)

  • Book traces billionaire's career built on investing

    BY RICHARD PACHTER, Miami Herald | Jan. 14 at 12:06 a.m.

    "Money Talks . . . : Inside the Contrarian Mind of Billionaire Mogul Sam Zell" by Ben Johnson (Portfolio, 246 pages, $25.95)

  • Exceptional business books from 2009 that are worth your time

    BY RICHARD PACHTER, McClatchy Newspapers | Jan. 7 at 6:11 a.m.

    I didn't — I couldn't — read every business book published during the last year, but I was still gobsmacked by the number of books that I did read in 2009, including a few just for fun.

  • What he's reading: Warren Farha, owner of Eighth Day Books

    Jan. 7 at 6:16 a.m.

    Warren Farha, owner of Eighth Day Books

  • Dec. 31 at 12:04 a.m.

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  • Lots of books for job seekers on the shelves

    BY RICHARD PACHTER, Miami Herald | Dec. 31 at 12:04 a.m.

    Next to social networking primers, the biggest pile of bound dead trees in my stash are job-search books. And no wonder.

  • Book examines, explains much about economy

    BY RICHARD PACHTER, Miami Herald | Dec. 24 at 12:03 a.m.

    "The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money" by Brad DeLong and Stephen S. Cohen (Basic Books, 176 pages, $22)

  • Books explore hows, whys of online marketing

    BY RICHARD PACHTER, Miami Herald | Dec. 3 at 12:06 a.m.

    Like some people, I read several books at the same time and do a mostly good job, I think, of keeping them apart and discrete. But sometimes my subconscious (probably) constructs mash-ups of books, leaving it to another part of my brain to sort things out.

  • Nov. 26 at 12:05 a.m.

    Gary Mason, CEO, iSi Environmental Services

  • Gladwell's collection of essays enlightens

    BY RICHARD PACHTER, McClatchy Newspapers | Nov. 26 at 12:05 a.m.

    "What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures" by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown & Co., 410 pages)

  • Book explores failure of media conglomerates

    BY RICHARD PACHTER, Miami Herald | Nov. 19 at 12:06 a.m.

    "The Curse of the Mogul: What's Wrong with the World's Leading Media Companies" by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald and Ava Seave (Portfolio, 320 pages, $26.95)

  • Top 10 business books tackle myriad of topics

    McClatchy-Tribune News Service | Nov. 12 at 12:07 a.m.

    800-CEO-READ, a leading direct supplier of book-based resources, compiles a monthly list of best-selling business books based on purchases by its corporate customers nationwide. Here are the best-sellers for October 2009, plus descriptions.

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