Here’s a site we think our users will appreciate! If you like books, and you like lists, then this is a site for you. It’s called Flashlight Worthy Books. Their tagline says it all - ‘Recommending books so good they’ll keep you up past your bedtime’ There is a business, self-help, and parenting section (as well as many many more.)
Check them out at:
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25 new titles have just been added to the library. A number of new management & leadership titles, parenting titles, organization, and personal development & growth. Many have audio clips and for a few we’ve added podcasts with the authors created by the publishers.
All have been added to the appropriate category, or can be found at the bottom of the New Titles - Added In 2008 category (the one at the top of the list.) We’d love to get your feedback, so feel free to comment on this post to let us know what you think.
Enjoy!
The titles are…
New Titles For Cultivate Employee Development November 2008
The 4-Hour work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America
The Art of Influence: Persuading Others Begins With You
Silos, Politics & Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers that Turn Colleagues into Competitors
The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play
On the Fly Guide to Balancing Work and Life
On the Fly Guide to Building Successful Teams
Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day
Me Inc: How to Master the Business of Being You…A Personalized Program for Exceptional Living
Screamfree Parenting: The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool
Have a New Kid by Friday: How to Change Your Child’s Attitude, Behavior & Character in 5 Days
Master Strategies for Higher Achievement: Set Your Goals and Reach Them - Fast!
The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals And Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World
The Four-Day Win: How to End Your Diet War and Achieve Thinner Peace Four Days at a Time
It’s All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff
Healthy Sleep: Fall Asleep Easily, Sleep More Deeply, Sleep Through the Night, Wake up Refreshed
Inside Drucker’s Brain
It’s Our Ship: The No-Nonsense Guide to Leadership
It’s Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t
Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything
Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing
Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out
The Angel Inside: Michelangelo’s Secrets For Following Your Passion and Finding the Work You Love
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12 new audio titles added to the library this month - all of them great titles. I’ve just added almost all of them to my personal ‘want to listen to’ list!
We’ve had extremely positive feedback regarding the addition of DVD’s, so we’ll be adding a bunch more in the coming weeks. Glad to see that the DVD’s are popular!
The new audio titles are:
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We added 32 DVDs to Cultivate today. (bringing our total title count over 300!) Most of these are in the Fitness, Wellness, and Parenting categories. While audio for the commute will continue to be our main focus, many people have been asking for workout and fitness DVD’s. We think it’s a great way to improve the selection of our wellness, fitness, and parenting sections.
When you log on there is now a category called ‘DVDs’ (clever, we know.) Let us know what you think, and what areas you’d like to see added!
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Derek Sivers is the founder of a website called CDbaby.com - a site to purchase music from independent musicians. He has an interesting post on his blog about whether musicians should bother producing a hard-copy CD, or just go completely digital (the short story is that they should absolutely produce a CD.)
To make his point even clearer he ends with a great story about his visit with Apple to talk about getting some of the CDBaby material better placement on iTunes. Here’s the story…
When visiting Apple iTunes, I had lunch with the guy who’s in charge of independent music editorial - the one who chooses who gets featured placement.
I asked him, “What’s the best way for me to turn you on to something I think you’ll love?”
His answer? “Send me the CD.”
I said, “Uh.. really? What if it’s already on iTunes? Shouldn’t I just send you the link?”
He said, “Yeah. I commute an hour each way to Apple’s office. I do all my real listening in the car, so I need the CD.”
(The whole post is here: http://sivers.org/dd-only )
That’s exactly what we’ve found with Cultivate - the majority of people listen in their car, and in those cases the CD is usually easier to deal with than an ipod. In our case CD’s let you reach everyone in your organization.
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Today we’ve announced the launch of our referral program. A number of our clients have come to us through word-of-mouth. Often the spouse of someone whose employer offers Cultivate will hear about the program, and recommend their HR team take a look at the program. So we want to make that conversation easier, and offer a little ‘thank you’ if the referral works out!
So today we’ve added the announcement to our login screen, with a link to a page that has more detailed information and a form people can fill out to start the referral process.
A couple of notes…..
1) If you think you may know a company that may be interested in our program, please read the whole FAQ section on this page: http://www.cultivateminds.com/referral-explanation.html
2) Any information submitted through the form will be kept confidential, and we will not spam! We won’t be sending them newsletters or other unwanted information.
Our hope here is to grow our business so we have the resources to continue to add new features and new titles. So if you know someone who works at a 50 - 500 employee company let them know about Cultivate!
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We’ve launched a new feature - client specific polls. We’ve had polls in the past that were site wide (every person who logged on saw the same poll.) Now we can do custom polls on a company basis. Now you can ask questions specific to your company’s initiatives and goals. Just get in touch with us to set yours up.
If you want to see an example, we’ve put a ‘general’ poll on every client’s homepage - just log in to check it out. (And answer the poll while you’re at it!)
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Seth Godin (one of the worlds widest read bloggers) has a wonderful post up about how to read business books.
You can read the whole thing here:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/05/how-to-read-a-b.html
I think he’s got a lot of great points - about the importance of motivation, the reason that ’summary’ titles aren’t as effective (because the motivation part gets stripped out), and the idea of finding 3 ‘things’ to change from each book.
His last point is important - the idea of sharing titles with team members. We’re working on making recommending titles to co-workers quick and easy. If you have any thoughts as to how this would work well for your workplace please feel free to comment!
If you are interested in improving what you ‘get’ out of the library, take a look at his post.
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8 more titles just added to give your summer reading list a few more options! A wide range of titles, with a focus on new management titles.
You: The Owners Manual
Always wanted to know more about what makes you…well…you? This title can help.
The Starfish And The Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
A new title that discusses the power of ‘leaderless’ organizations and how they have been able to adapt and change so quickly because of their structure.
Hug Your People: The Proven Way to Hire, Inspire, and Recognize Your Employees and Achieve Remarkable Results
This title gets fantastic reviews on Amazon.com - a must read for any manager or HR practitioner.
The Dream Manager: Achieve Results Beyond Your Dreams by Helping Your Employees Fulfill Theirs
Another title for managers looking for new ideas on how to bring their team to another level.
It’s Not About The Coffee: Leadership Lessons from a Life at Starbucks
The former CEO of Starbucks talks about leadership values that helped drive the growth of the coffee chain.
Bad Childhood, Good Life
A title to help people move beyond childhood issues to have a happy and successful adult life.
The Future Of Management
A great customer suggestion! This book isn’t about gimicks - it’s a hard look at what doesn’t work with todays type of management and what can be done about it.
Pimsleur Basic Brazilian Portuguese
Due to the popularity of our Pimsleur Spanish title (our most rented!) we’ve added Brazilian Portuguese. Another customer suggestion - thanks!
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A question we get from time to time is “what do we do with all the return envelopes?” Thanks to Dupont, we’re able to recycle them. We can’t put them in the ‘regular’ recycling - we need to collect them and ship them back to Dupont in a bag they provide us.
Here’s a bag that’s almost ready to ship back.
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