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What All Great Leaders Have
By Justin Menkes
BusinessWeek Book Review

Why is it that one newly minted executive becomes a spectacular success and another a miserable flop? For decades, hiring managers and corporate boards have exerted considerable energy trying to figure out what separates future business stars from the also-rans. Is it charisma? Emotional intelligence? Or simply a profound knowledge of the industry in which they work?

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Three-Legged Race: A How-To on Delivering Effective IT

If there is one thing the best CIOs have learned, it's this: Managing technology is as important as the technology itself. Every company can buy the same machines and software, so the only source of competitive advantage lies in how the stuff is used.

More info: http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,1903977,00.asp

Brand Sense: Build Powerful Brands

In perhaps the most creative and authoritative book on sensory branding ever written, international business legend Martin Lindstrom reveals what the world's most successful branding companies do differently -- integrating touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound -- with startling and measurable results.

More info: http://www.forbesbookclub.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=IQDDS

The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler

In the annals of contemporary change literature, Alvin Toffler is the 600-pound gorilla. He and his wife and collaborator Heidi Toffler have written a baker's dozen of books that have all been best-sellers, starting way, way back in 1970 with Future Shock. The family tree of thousands of books about the future, and about how to cope with it, all lead to the leafy canopy where he makes his roost. He has written about society, culture, the media, organizations, science, computers, politics, and economics.

More info: http://www.skypoint.com/members/mfinley/toffler.htm