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An Excerpt of the Book "Empty Abundance" - (The Science Says . . .)

By Tim McCarthy

July 31, 2014

The “Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey” included thirty thousand interviews completed in two waves by researchers at the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University. Among other findings, the study...
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Contagious
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Contagious

By Jonah Berger

July 6, 2014

Editor’s note:  In this thoughtful book, we’re reminded that like any new “phenomenon” much is done to little effect in the social media business.  Dr. Jonah Berger starts with a...
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Broke, USA
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Broke, USA

By Gary Rivlin

March 31, 2014

Editor’s note: Like “Fast Food Nation,” I found this work to be like any other that looks for a sole source of a complex problem. That is, blaming sub-prime lending...
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The Dip”
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The Dip”

By Seth Godin

February 1, 2014

Editor’s Note:   I’ve been a Godin fan since “Permission Marketing” which was published many years ago as I was ramping a permission marketing business. Another favorite is “Purple Cow”...
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What Then Must We Do
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What Then Must We Do

By Gar Alperovitz

January 5, 2014

Editor’s comment: Warning to my conservative friends: This book can be interpreted as an attack on American capitalism! I realized that only a few pages in, and almost threw the...
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The Billionaire Who Wasn’t
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The Billionaire Who Wasn’t

By Conor O’Clery

December 6, 2013

Editor’s Note: I’m not much of a biography guy but this one reads like fiction. Through 400 pages, O’Clery does a great job with short punchy chapters about a man...
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Creating Innovators
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Creating Innovators

By Tony Wagner

October 4, 2013

Editor's note:  Creating I nnovators offers an expose on what it takes to foster creative and entrepreneurial skills in students and adults alike.  I agreed with Tony W agner’s general...
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The Lean Startup
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The Lean Startup

By Eric Ries

August 31, 2013

Editor's Note: We have a team in the process of launching a promising start-up social enterprise called America Mentors (dba Cleveland Mentors), designed to significantly increase the size and quality...
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Startup Communities
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Startup Communities

By Brad Feld

July 29, 2013

Editor’s note: Our foundation has enjoyed our work in my little town, Ashtabula, since 2009 that started with loans to five entrepreneurs. We didn’t know we were doing a lot...
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

By Stephen Chbosky

July 1, 2013

Editor's Note: A poignant read, comparable to A Catcher in the Rye, a book that's so true and raw, a book that all adolescents, and anyone who's ever been an...
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Fierce Conversations
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Fierce Conversations

By Susan Scott

May 31, 2013

Editor's Note: This is a very difficult book to read for me. Yet I will read it at least two more times. I was raised in an atmosphere where it...
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Start with Why
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Start with Why

By Simon Sinek

April 29, 2013

Editor’s note: This is the best business book I’ve read in a year or more. Mr. Sinek uses simple, if sometimes repetitive language and tangible examples to support the concept...
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Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential
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Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential

By Dan Pallotta

March 28, 2013

Editor’s Note: Because I read a lot of books and articles on philanthropy, I assumed this would be another dull but earnest attempt to improve the world of charitable giving,...
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The Advantage
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The Advantage

By Patrick Lencioni

February 28, 2013

Editor’s comment: The soft side of business is the most difficult for most people, including me. And yet, the two most successful companies I’ve been involved in demonstrated exactly what...
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Keep Calm and Carry On
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Keep Calm and Carry On

By Mark Reinecke

November 29, 2012

Editor’s Note: If you aren’t an anxious person and/or don’t believe in psychiatry – don’t read this book. But for those of us who suffer anxiety issues, as I do,...
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Thieves in the Temple
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Thieves in the Temple

By G. Jeffrey McDonald

November 1, 2012

Editor’s Note: This book came to me from my work with International Partners in Mission as they are featured in Chapter 3 as “doing right.” But I must tell you,...
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Night
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Night

By Elie Wiesel

September 5, 2012

Editor’s Note: It’s hard to be reminded of the Holocaust, especially when I think I was born only seven years after it ended. It’s not like so many things–ancient history....
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The Non Nonprofit
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The Non Nonprofit

By Steve Rothschild

August 2, 2012

Editor’s Note: Steve Rothschild, former executive vice president of General Mills and founder of Twin Cities RISE!, a nonprofit that works to advance anti-poverty programs, offers a useful case study...
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The Real Mad Men
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The Real Mad Men

By Seth Andrew Cracknell

July 1, 2012

Editor’s Note: I worked in an Interpublic Group advertising agency from 1979 to 1987. And so I was on Madison Avenue after the period covered by AMC’s hit show, Mad...
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The World America Made
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The World America Made

By Robert Kagan

March 31, 2012

Editor’s note:  I went back and forth on featuring this book due to Kagan’s known conservative credentials and the books rambling nature.  But in the end, two ideas, one past...
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Warmth of Other Suns
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Warmth of Other Suns

By Isabel Wilkerson

February 2, 2012

Editor’s note:  First of all, I never considered six million African-Americans relocating from the “Jim Crow” south to the industrial north and west from 1930 to 1960 as one of...
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