Books I Read In March 2012

L’appel de l’ange

Dans leur téléphone, il y avait toute leur vie…

New York. Aéroport Kennedy. Dans la salle d embarquement bondée, un homme et une femme se télescopent. Dispute anodine, et chacun reprend sa route.

Madeline et Jonathan ne s étaient jamais rencontrés, ils n auraient jamais dû se revoir. Mais en ramassant leurs affaires, ils ont échangé leurs téléphones portables. Lorsqu ils s aperçoivent de leur méprise, ils sont séparés par 10 000 kilomètres : elle est fleuriste à Paris, il tient un restaurant à San Francisco.
Cédant à la curiosité, chacun explore le contenu du téléphone de l autre. Une double indiscrétion et une révélation : leurs vies sont liées par un secret qu ils pensaient enterré à jamais…
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18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done

18 MINUTES clearly shows how busy people can cut through all the daily clutter and distractions and find a way to focus on those key items which are truly the top priorities in our lives.

Bregman works from the premise that the best way to combat constant and distracting interruptions is to create productive distractions of one’s own. Based upon a series of short bite-sized chapters, his approach allows us to safely navigate through the constant chatter of emails, text messages, phone calls, and endless meetings that prevent us from focusing our time on those things that are truly important to us.
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The Zappos Experience: 5 Principles to Inspire, Engage, and WOW

ZAPPOS. The name has come to stand for a new standard of customer service, an amazing online shopping experience, a great place to work, and the most impressive transformational business success story of our time. Simply put, Zappos is revolutionizing business and changing lives.

The Zappos Experience takes you through—and beyond—the playful, offbeat company culture Zappos has become famous for. Michelli reveals what occurs behind the scenes at Zappos, showing how employees at all levels operate on a day-today basis while providing the “big picture” leadership methods that have earned the company $1 billion in annual gross sales during the last ten years—with almost no advertising.
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