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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Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude
By Dylan Schleicher, published
June 16, 2017,
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1:22 PM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Biography & Narrative, Current Events & Public Affairs, Innovation & Creativity, Leadership & Strategy, Management & Workplace Culture, Personal Development & Human Behavior
Raymond M. Kethledge and Michael S. Erwin employ exquisite storytelling to teach us the importance for leaders to carve out some time for solitude.
The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return
By Dylan Schleicher, published
June 9, 2017,
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10:28 AM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Biography & Narrative, Current Events & Public Affairs, Innovation & Creativity, Leadership & Strategy, Personal Development & Human Behavior
Mihir Desai puts values back at the center of value creation by bringing the humanities to bear on finance, and finance to our understanding of our humanity.
Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures
By Dylan Schleicher, published
June 1, 2017,
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2:59 PM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Biography & Narrative, Personal Development & Human Behavior
Jennifer Romolini's new book about building a career is honest, real, wonderfully written, and just wonderful.
Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination
By Dylan Schleicher, published
May 26, 2017,
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2:56 PM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Biography & Narrative, Current Events & Public Affairs, Innovation & Creativity, Leadership & Strategy, Management & Workplace Culture, Marketing & Sales, Personal Development & Human Behavior
Uber's story is one worth telling and listening to, and we’re fortunate Adam Lashinsky took on the formidable task.
Q&A with Steven Clifford, Author of The CEO Pay Machine
By Dylan Schleicher, published
May 25, 2017,
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8:47 AM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Current Events & Public Affairs, Innovation & Creativity, Leadership & Strategy, Management & Workplace Culture, Personal Development & Human Behavior
Steven Clifford's new book describes what has caused CEO compensation to explode over the last four decades, how it damages companies, the economy, and our democracy, and what we can do about it.
Insight: Why We're Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life
By Dylan Schleicher, published
May 18, 2017,
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3:00 PM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Current Events & Public Affairs, Innovation & Creativity, Leadership & Strategy, Management & Workplace Culture, Personal Development & Human Behavior
Dr. Tasha Eurich's new book is a sometimes uncomfortable, always powerful eye-opener to what it takes to be truly successful.
The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States
By Dylan Schleicher, published
May 12, 2017,
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Biography & Narrative, Current Events & Public Affairs
Benjamin C. Waterhouse opens up the grand sweep of American history by looking at it from a business perspective.
The CEO Pay Machine: How it Trashes America and How to Stop it
By Dylan Schleicher, published
May 4, 2017,
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2:06 PM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Current Events & Public Affairs, Innovation & Creativity, Leadership & Strategy
Steven Clifford chronicles the inexorable rise of CEO pay, how it harms companies, curbs economic growth, and undermines democracy, and how we can fix it.
Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently
By Dylan Schleicher, published
April 25, 2017,
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11:27 AM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Innovation & Creativity
Beau Lotto's new book is about the evolutionary, physiological underpinnings of our perception, and "shows that the next big innovation is not a new technology: it is a new way of seeing."
Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
By Dylan Schleicher, published
April 21, 2017,
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2:45 PM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Innovation & Creativity
Jonathan Taplin's new book asks us to reconsider the virtues and values of the digital economy, and how we can rebuild it on more decentralized, democratic values.
The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do About It
By Dylan Schleicher, published
April 14, 2017,
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9:00 AM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives
Richard Florida's new book deepens his thoughts on the economic power of urbanism, detailing its negative consequences as well as its continued promise.
The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World
By Dylan Schleicher, published
April 7, 2017,
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1:00 PM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Leadership & Strategy
In her new book, Anne-Marie Slaughter gives us a new both/and paradigm with which to view the world.
