Book: Johnny Cash: The Life Author: Robert Hilburn Reviewed by: Chris Carr, commissioner, Georgia Department of Economic Development I am a big fan of music. I have been fortunate to see many of...
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Books 2013: Don Keough’s Rules for Business Failure
Book: The Ten Commandments for Business Failure Author: Don Keough, former Coca-Cola Co. chairman Review: Kevin Conboy, retired partner from Paul Hastings and president of the Irish Chamber of Atlanta Anyone...
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Books 2013: Are America’s Best Days Over or Ahead?
Book: The Coming Jobs War Author: Jim Clifton, chairman and CEO, Gallup Review by: John Hope Bryant, founder and CEO, Operation HOPE This is simply the best book I have read, not...
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Books 2013: Rise and Fall of a Wall Street Swindler
Book: The Wolf of Wall Street Author: Jordan Belfort Review by: Martin Richenhagen, Chairman, President & CEO, AGCO Corporation “The Wolf of Wall Street” is not your run-of-the-mill memoir. It tells the story...
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Books 2013: A Tale of Two Presidents, the Press and a Polarized Nation
Book: The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and The Golden Age of Journalism Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin Review by: Bruce Allen, honorary consul of Liechtenstein in Georgia I...
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Books 2013: ‘We Are More Than Our Job Titles’
Book: Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife Author: Dr. Eben Alexander Review by: Anisa Telwar, founder and CEO of makeup brush manufacturer Anisa International, which has a...
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Books 2013: Connecting, not Creating, Innovative Leaders
Book: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t Author: Jim Collins Review by: Faruq Hunter, CEO of GeniusCorps and founder of Geeks Gone Global, which leads innovation...
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Books 2013: Assessing Our Powers of Prediction
Book: The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don’t Author: Nate Silver Review by: Paul Gleeson, Irish consul general in Atlanta Nate Silver came to national and international...
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Book Reviews 2012: Haiti: The Aftershocks of History, Laurent Dubois
Phil Bolton Publisher, Global Atlanta To prepare for a reporting assignment in Haiti about the role of NGOs in August, I read Laurent Dubois’ “Haiti: The Aftershocks of History”. Yes,...
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Book Reviews 2012: How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, Paul Tough
Doug Shipman CEO, National Center for Civil and Human Rights Book: How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character Author: Paul Tough The book from 2012 that...