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		<title>Recommended Reading List</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last six years I&#8217;ve been looking at business problems that arise because people can&#8217;t find the information they wnat or specifically they can&#8217;t find the information about your company that you want them to find.  The following is a series of books that I have found helpful in understanding the simple questions around search: who, [...]]]></description>
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<p>For the last six years I&#8217;ve been looking at business problems that arise because people can&#8217;t find the information they wnat or specifically they can&#8217;t find the information about your company that you want them to find.  The following is a series of books that I have found helpful in understanding the simple questions around search: who, what, where, when and most importantly, why??</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.startwithwhy.com/">Start With Why</a>, Simon Sinek</li>
<li><a href="http://www.danpink.com/drive">Drive</a>, Dan Pink</li>
<li><a href="http://www.danpink.com/whole-new-mind">A Whole New Mind</a>, Dan Pink</li>
<li><a href="http://www.heathbrothers.com/madetostick/">Made To Stick</a>, Chip Heath &amp; Dan Heath</li>
<li><a href="http://www.heathbrothers.com/switch/">Switch</a>, Chip Heath &amp; Dan Heath</li>
<li><a title="The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell" href="http://www.thoughtsponsor.com/the-tipping-point-malcolm-gladwell/10/06/#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed">Tipping Point</a>, Malcolm Gladwell</li>
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<div>Those are six books I&#8217;ve read over the last few years that I think everyone should read.</div>
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		<title>Business Units as Tribes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Robb believes that business units shouldn&#8217;t be larger than what our brain can accommodate within our &#8220;tribe&#8221;. He thinks 40-80 person units are the optimum size. He found an interesting article from Thinking Managers that seems to reinforce his hypothesis.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.johnarobb.com/">John Robb</a> believes that business units shouldn&#8217;t be larger than what our brain can accommodate within our &#8220;tribe&#8221;. He thinks 40-80 person units are the optimum size. He found an interesting article from <a href="http://www.thinkingmanagers.com/management/management-profile.php">Thinking Managers </a> that seems to reinforce his hypothesis.</p>
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