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Top 10 E-Docs 
by Michael Finley
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 by BrownHerron Publications

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#1

"Finding 
Work 
After 50"

 Wow, is it hard sometimes.
But here is a practical methodology for identifying things you know that people will pay for, that you didn't know you knew.

 

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#2
"Toffler's Waves"

This essay has been downloaded by over 80,000 students and researchers

 No idea of the past 30 years has so altered our understanding of history as Alvin Toffler's Third Wave. This essay has been downloaded by over 80,000 college students.
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#3
"Deep Change"

Robert Quinn explains our bitter choice between change and death.


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#4

"Getting Organized"

 Why can't you 
get more done? Maybe it's because you're asking your brain to remember too many stupid details. 


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#5

Deep Thinking

 "Can a Christian 
Run a Business?"

In business, we are taught that the primary consideration must be return on investment. At all costs, we twiddle with the variables to keep that ROI in the black. 


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#6
Deep Thinking

 "Yavneh"

The greatest organizational transformation ever

 

#7

"Rational Negotiating"

Win every negotiation, by making simple sense.

We don't have to let every deal be be driven by bloodlust and fear. Here's a method for cutting through the emotion and getting to the expanding deal that is hiding in plain sight.


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#8

"So, You Want 
To Write A Book"

Who will write it? Who will publish it? What will it cost?

 Writing a book and finding an audience for it is a complicated, human, hyper-
emotional thing. So I have written this "think sheet" showing the sequence of most important decisions to be made, and the choices available at each step.
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#9

Deep Thinking

"The Ballad of Chainsaw Al"

 

Last week, Al Dunlap
 walked away from the corporate world forever. Before he vanishes into the sunset, one final farewell to an uncommonly vicious SOB.


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#10

"Managing Disaster"

What To Say When Things Go Really
Wrong

 There is a famous moment for a crisis team meeting as a hurricane advanced toward the Florida coast. As the team emerged from its meeting, reporters demanded: "What are you going to do about the hurricane?" 


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#11

"Tough Guys"

Garry Wills on the Necessary Ruthlessness of Leaders

 Was Lincoln a son of a bitch?
 Should you be one, too? Thoughts on leadership by Garry Wills


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#12

"Al Qaeda Kids"

Why have we ignored 
the children of 
the madrassas?

 Half the world hates us, 
including an entire generation of young people. What are we doing, and what should we be doing, to head off this generation of jihad?


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#13

"Spiritual 
Intelligence"

Is Your Business Using 
All Its Brain? 

It is the intelligence that makes us whole, that gives us out integrity. "Spiritual intelligence," says Danah Zohar, "is our ultimate intelligence."
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#14

"Leadership Jungle"

Ron Heifetz 
on Being the 
Gorilla In Chief 

The silverback gorilla, so useful for everyday leadership, is unable to innovate. So the gorillas die. 


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#15

"How to Make A Decision"

There are 7 ways to decide. Democracy, autocracy, expertocracy, and beyond.
Are you choosing the right method for your decisions?


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#16

A year after Afghanistan, 
what do we know about terror cells?
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Deep Thinking

 "Teams & Terror"

 

#17

Hirotaka Takeuchi offers a philosophy of knowledge that it took Japanese managers 800 years to arrive at. You can do it in 15. 
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"Really Knowing"

 

#18
Terry Warner explains how we routinely deceive ourselves and others, and what this does to our careers and lives.
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"Honest Business"

 

 

#19

"Ripples of 
September 11"  

by Michael Finley 
& Others 

 A special one-time only commemoration from BrownhHerron Publishing.

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#20

Sam Hill describes what the Grateful dead are doing in their business that you could do.
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"Radical Marketing"

 


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A professional sports trainer shares lessons from the pros for aspiring leaders.
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"CEOs As Athletes"

 

The "borderless economy" is terrible news for most of us. Why? Because life was easier when the catfish were jumping, industries changed gradually, and we had our own attractive markets all to ourselves. 
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"Learning To Breathe"
Necessary Habits 
For A Borderless World
"I'm in the attitude business," says Bill Strickland. "To bring people back to life they must feel like the solution, not the problem." That's why he buys fresh-cut flowers for the lobby, not plastic. "You don't need a task force to buy flowers," he grumped. 
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"Leadership 
Is a Crock"

For Bill Strickland, 
Something Astonishing Happens 
With A Handful Of Clay 

 

Ethics must be more 
 than a code printed on a piece of paper. It goes beyond virtuous words to following through in real life.
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"Making Ethical Decisions"

 

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Overcoming Impotence

    

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