Dylan Schleicher has been a part of the 800-CEO-READ claque since 2003. Even though he's stayed on at the company, he has not stayed put. After beginning in shipping & receiving, he joined customer service and accounting before moving into his current, highly elliptical orbit of duties overseeing the ChangeThis and In the Books websites, the company's annual review of books, and in-house design. He lives with his wife and two children in the Washington Heights neighborhood on Milwaukee's West Side.
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How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job
By Dylan Schleicher, published
April 12, 2018,
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3:00 PM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Leadership & Strategy, Management & Workplace Culture, Personal Development & Human Behavior
Our businesses, and society, are better off with more women in leadership. Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith have written a how-to guide for women to seize those positions of power and influence.
The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work That Wows and Jobs That Last
By Dylan Schleicher, published
April 6, 2018,
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12:00 PM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Current Events & Public Affairs, Innovation & Creativity, Leadership & Strategy, Management & Workplace Culture, Marketing & Sales, Narrative & Biography, Personal Development & Human Behavior, Publishing Industry, The Company
Tom Peters' latest book is in many ways a culmination of all he has learned over the past half-century, and a reminder of the simplest way to succeed in business: put people first.
Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It
By Dylan Schleicher, published
March 23, 2018,
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2:22 PM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Current Events & Public Affairs, Innovation & Creativity, Leadership & Strategy, Management & Workplace Culture
Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik have written a book about the increasing complexity of the world that makes it easy to understand, and oddly enjoyable to read.
Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance—and What We Can Do About It
By Dylan Schleicher, published
March 16, 2018,
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2:24 PM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Current Events & Public Affairs, Innovation & Creativity, Leadership & Strategy, Management & Workplace Culture, Personal Development & Human Behavior
Jeffrey Pfeffer explains why making employee health and well-being integral to the company’s culture and values is not only good for the employees, but a competitive advantage that is also good for the company’s bottom line.
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
By Dylan Schleicher, published
March 9, 2018,
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3:00 PM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Current Events & Public Affairs, Innovation & Creativity, Leadership & Strategy, Narrative & Biography
Claire Evans tells the story of the computer, and the internet, through the women who developed the languages they speak.
Business Books to Watch in March
By Dylan Schleicher, published
March 5, 2018,
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11:15 AM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Current Events & Public Affairs, Innovation & Creativity, Leadership & Strategy, Management & Workplace Culture, Marketing & Sales, Narrative & Biography, Personal Development & Human Behavior, Publishing Industry
These are the books we'll be digging further into in March.
A Second Chance: For You, For Me, And For The Rest Of Us
By Dylan Schleicher, published
March 2, 2018,
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9:00 AM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Current Events & Public Affairs, Leadership & Strategy, Personal Development & Human Behavior
Catherine Hoke knows that doing something wrong doesn’t make you a bad person, and that one's life shouldn’t be defined by the worst thing they’ve ever done. She works every day to make sure that's true for others.
Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World
By Dylan Schleicher, published
February 23, 2018,
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1:53 PM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Innovation & Creativity, Leadership & Strategy, Management & Workplace Culture, Personal Development & Human Behavior
Melissa Schilling examines the role of individual genius in innovation, along with how we can cultivate and harness our own and enhance it in the organizations we lead.
The Tyranny of Metrics
By Dylan Schleicher, published
February 16, 2018,
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9:00 AM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Current Events & Public Affairs, Innovation & Creativity, Leadership & Strategy, Management & Workplace Culture
Jerry Muller pulls the curtain back on the cult of metrics, and attempts to break our fixation on improving the numbers so we can get back to improving the world we live in.
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
By Dylan Schleicher, published
February 9, 2018,
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3:10 PM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Current Events & Public Affairs, Innovation & Creativity, Leadership & Strategy, Management & Workplace Culture, Personal Development & Human Behavior
Emily Chang explains how Silicon Valley became dominated by a certain male stereotype, how it has excluded women, and the promise inherent in changing the culture.
That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together
By Dylan Schleicher, published
February 2, 2018,
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8:44 AM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Current Events & Public Affairs, Innovation & Creativity, Leadership & Strategy, Management & Workplace Culture, Marketing & Sales, Narrative & Biography, Personal Development & Human Behavior
Joanne Lipman discusses the hidden lives of women at work, how they must recalibrate their behavior in the workplace, and the great benefits of changing that paradigm.
The 2017 800-CEO-READ Business Books Awards and Industry Party
By Dylan Schleicher, published
January 31, 2018,
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8:54 AM
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Publishing Industry, The Company
Scenes from our time in New York City, hosting and honoring our friends and colleagues in the publishing industry.
