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		<title><![CDATA[Need to Motivate Employees? Hit These Five Books]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/?p=617]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[As if it weren't tough enough to focus the shell-shocked employees still remaining on your staff, spring is coming. To the rescue is Edward Lawler, University of Southern California management professor and author of "Talent: Making People Your Competitive Advantage."    Lawler recommended five books for improving productivity...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:01:33 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Adam Smith Was No Fan of Free Markets]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/?p=613]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Amartya Sen takes on free-market orthodoxy by looking at what its patron saint, Adam Smith, had to say. In Capitalism Beyond the Crisis, Sen uses a Smithian prism to look at three big questions:       1. Do  we need a new capitalism?  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:59:22 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Mind on Money]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/?p=595]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Are our brains different when they're in debt? Perhaps, says Tim Harford in this intriguing column, Your Brain On Credit.     Harford, author of "The Logic of Life" and "The Undercover Economist,"  runs through some of the economics research on the topic. He cites studies suggesting...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:56:33 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How Companies Can Make Their Branding Better]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/?p=602]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Title: Branding Only Works on Cattle: The New Way to Get Known and drive your competitors crazy  Author: Jonathan Salem Baskin  Pages: 261  Price: $26.99 [Â£15.99 in the UK]  Type: Self-help  Theme: Branding is broken, you moron. Here's what to do about it.  Who...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:48:48 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Desperately Seeking MySpace]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/?p=599]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Wonder how the MySpace phenomenon happened? Timing and luck mattered more than talent in this case. Julia Angwin's "Stealing MySpace" gives all the details of how a couple of unsavory Internet scavengers leapt to the top of the Internet heap. I reviewed her book in MySpace Odyssey for the Boston...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:25:50 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Short-term Innovation Is Better than None at all]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/?p=597]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Now is the time for companies to focus on innovation that can be commercialized quickly, argues this post, Why short-term innovation can be a good thing.    The author cites four reasons why:     	Companies clean up the portfolio and get rid of "living-dead" projects...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:10:41 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Everything's Local, Even in the Global Economy]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/?p=592]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Does the downturn herald a shift to the way people lived at the turn of the last century, in the wake of the panics of 1893 and 1907? In The Future Is the Past? writer Jonathan Salem Baskin poses three points in favor of the idea:    ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:09:31 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[You Pick, I Review]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/?p=590]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are six recent books on my list to review. Tell me in comments which one you want me to read first, and I'll report back on it.    "Discovery-Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity," By Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian C. MacMillan...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:38:22 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Shirky: Now Is the Time to Experiment]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/?p=587]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Internet thinker Clay Shirky has a great post on innovation, disguised as a death knell for newspapers. In Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable. he makes the case for why newspapers can't be saved, online or off. Then he does something incredibly honest -- he admits that he doesn't know what's...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:15:40 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Can Virtual Goods Boost the Economy?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/?p=583]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The venture capitalist Bill Gurley has an insightful post on why virtual goods will emerge as the economic engine for many kinds of online companies, especially those with a community aspect, like gaming, and social networks. In  How to Monetize a Social Network, he points out the success of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:55:41 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[More on Trickle-up Innovation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/?p=581]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Business Week has just published a piece on trickle-up innovation, Innovation trickles in a new direction.    It includes nice examples from GE, Nokia and Nestle, some interesting steps from HP, Xerox and Microsoft and also an example from Philips of how innovation doesn't always trickle up. A...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:44:14 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Big Government Is Good for Us -- Jeff Madrick]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/?p=579]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Should our economic reset not only welcome but demand a bigger government? Jeff Madrick's book "The Case for Big Government," says unequivocally yes.    In Government Beyond Obama?, Madrick's book gets an interesting review by Richard Parker, a public policy lecturer at Harvard. Parker starts out with a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:48:57 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The New Economic Order Means Less Credit, More Goverment - McKinsey]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[McKinsey is now conceding that this is not just another recession. Ian Davis, McKinsey's global managing director, just wrote about The New Normal and called it "a restructuring of the economic order," with less leverage and more government regulation.    For the U.S., that's going to mean the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:00:55 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ram Charan's "Certainty" Gets You Nowhere]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/?p=571]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Fans of Ram Charan will like his newly published "Leadership in the era of Economic Uncertainty." It's a short synopsis of what he thinks each level of worker in a company needs to do in these times.    I was impressed that it went from him to bookstands...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:51:57 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[When Incentives Fail]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/?p=569]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Do incentives really work? We've seen a spate of behavioral economists arguing incentives do, and encouraging companies and government to offer incentives, or 'nudges,' to promote behaviors.    A reader, Peter A. Hunter, sends this review of "Punished by Rewards," Alfie Kohn's 1999 book arguing that incentives often...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:00:24 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reid Hoffman to the Rescue!]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/?p=567]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Reid Hoffman, one of the most connected people in Silicon Valley even before he founded LinkedIn, is out pumping long-term ideas that he thinks will help innovation. He's calling for grass-roots innovation, built around three policy shifts:    	Small loans -- $50,000 or so -- for small businesses...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:35:16 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Should We Abandon the Suburbs?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/?p=564]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[    Sprawl has distorted our economy, argues economic geographer Richard Florida in his essay How the Crash Will Reshape America. Florida says moving to suburbs and then exurbs was the right answer to industrialization. But theyâ€™re exactly the wrong answer to what a knowledge economy needs. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:55:22 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Delusional Economics]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/?p=562]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In Have Economists Gone Mad?, Paul Ormerod points out a breakdown in economic thought. He is agog at a recent article by Michael Woodford in an economics journal, which says in part  "it is now widely agreed that macroeconomic analysis should employ models with coherent intertemporal general equilibrium foundations"....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:42:25 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Depression or Not?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/?p=555]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert J. Barro has come up with an answer to the questionÂ  What are Odds of U.S. Depression?    Barro, a Harvard economist, looks at data from stock market crashes in 34 countries, and projects a one-in-five chance that the current crisis will morph into a depression in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:19:49 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Driving Towards a New Transportation Policy]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/?p=553]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[There are lots of thoughts out there about what to do now that the global economy appears to be going through a reset. Or, as the economists keep calling it, a secular change, meaning one that happens only once in an age (as opposed to the idea that weâ€™ve given...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:27:55 -0800</pubDate>
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