JT Pedersen
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What I’ve Read Lately: Take the Cold Out of Cold Calling

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If doing effective web searches—sometimes more effectively than at others—is important to you, you need to get a copy of this book.

I own two copies. It’s one of the very few books I bought as an ebook initially and then decided I needed to have it in paper form.

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What I've Read Lately: The New Social Learning

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The New Social Learning takes us beyond social technologies themselves, beyond Facebook and Twitter, to look at their direct impact on our lives, today. Read this book to see how ‘learning’ is evolving around you.

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What I’ve Read Lately: Open Leadership

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Every once in a while you come across a new book that just knocks the ball out of the park. And, so it is with Charlene Li’s Open Leadership. As an active proponent of social media I’ve read a number of books on the topic. Yet Open Leadership is the first that has a presented a practical, pragmatic, and far-reaching discussion about how to integrate it into the fabric of existing companies.

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iPad Dominance? Nah….

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There’s a lot of hype about iPad dominating the ebook market. Some are even claiming dedicated eReaders are dead. Nah, don’t think so.

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What I’ve Read Lately: Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door

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It’s not often the boss tells you the way it is, even if only from his or her perspective. Mr. Mackay’s perspective is fairly unique in the market of job search books…at least that I’ve come across. He is actually a CEO making hiring and firing decisions. His views, and advice, are based on 40 years of staffing decisions.

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What I’ve Read Lately: Real Secret to Finding a Job?

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Book review of Rick Gillis’ “The Real Secret to Finding a Job,” and making the case for an updated resume format in light of contemporary job search.

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What I’ve Read Lately: How We Decide

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“How We Decide,” has innumerable applications for every day life. I encourage you, whether a golfer, musician, business leader, or motorcyclist, to read the book. You might find it worth while to spend some time thinking, about your thinking.

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My Gift To You: Wisdom

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My gift to you: A compilation of fresh thought that’s down to earth, refreshing, and thought provoking.

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What I’ve Read Lately: Never Eat Alone

Successful, being happy, is more about the value of relationships with the people you know, how you can help them, how you can be both mentor and mentee.

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What I’ve Read Lately: Free

Recently I happened across Chris Anderson’s new book, “Free.” It discusses how digital content of all types tends to gravitate toward becoming ‘free,’ or, as inexpensive as to not be worth measuring. Rather than do a ‘review’ I want to look at my own experiences and how they compare to being ‘free.’