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Blog / News & Opinion
KnowledgeBlocks Delay
By Porchlight
Many were expecting our new product, KnowledgeBlocks, to launch today. While we certainly wish that were the case, some delays came up that were beyond our control. These should be cleared up by early next week and we'll post again here when the site is officially live.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Excerpts
Every Nation for Itself, An Excerpt
By Porchlight
One of the real stand-out successes in business books of 2010 was Ian Bremmer's The End of the Free Market. It stood out because it wasn't a typical business book—it seemed like something more likely to come out of Foreign Affairs than Portfolio—and there wasn't much precedent for a book of its type being a big commercial hit in the genre. His previous book, The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall was a critical success, selected by The Economist as one of the best books of 2006, and got him on some of the cable talk shows, but The End of the Free Market turned into a national bestseller.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / News & Opinion
Live In Wonder
By Porchlight
This book is a little different than most. Many business books, even data heavy academic works, attempt to inspire readers on some level. When we read ideas from people who have spent much time, sometimes years, analyzing, researching, interviewing and pondering how to improve work and life, we see the possibilities a bit more clearly.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
Resonate: Now at the Tip of Your Fingers
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
In the 2011 paperback edition of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time, author Todd Sattersten included a new sidebar of the best books on using visual thinking in business because, to play off an old saying, sometimes a picture is worth more than 1000 words. The list of recommended titles included Dan Roam's Back of the Napkin, Cliff Atkinson's Beyond Bullet Points, and Dona W. Wong's Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
Chris Guillebeau in Milwaukee!
By Porchlight
"DEAR BOSS, I’m writing to let you know that your services are no longer required. Thanks for everything, but I’ll be doing things my own way now. " Imagine that today is your final day of working for anyone other than yourself.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Apple Experience
By Porchlight
Carmine Gallo is no stranger to Apple. Having written other books about Steve Jobs, he rounds out his trilogy with a book about customer service, called, The Apple Experience: Secrets to Building Insanely Great Customer Loyalty. But calling this a customer service book is not necessarily accurate either.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Search Inside Yourself
By Sally Haldorson
You know this book is about Google the minute you lay your eyes on its cover. The title Search Inside Yourself showcased in the familiar font and primary colors of that online monolith. And yet there is no mention of Google anywhere in the title.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
An Interview with Peter Kiernan, Author of Becoming China's Bitch
By Porchlight
It's an election year, a year in which everything will invariably be colored by politics. This is especially true when discussing small business, entrepreneurship, and the economy as the candidates are certain to do—ad nauseam. I recently reached out to Peter Kiernan, a successful businessman, philanthropist, entrepreneur, corporate and government advisor, and the author of the recently released and provocatively titled Becoming China's Bitch, to get a view of the challenges we face and how we can refocus the debate from what he calls "The Radical Center.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Art of the Sale
By Porchlight
The Art of the Sale: Learning from the Masters About the Business of Life by Philip Delves Broughton, The Penguin Press, 304 pages, $27. 95, Hardcover, April 2012, ISBN 9781594203329 Sales is complicated. No one seems to like it, whether they’re doing the selling or being sold to, yet it is one of the most common positions in the world and many sales gurus preach, “everyone is in sales.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Advantage
By Porchlight
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Lencioni, Jossey-Bass, 220 pages, $27. 95, Hardcover, March 2012, ISBN 9780470941522 This is a book many people may have been waiting for. Although Patrick Lencioni has established himself as an elite business book writer, he writes parables, and for some, fictional stories just don’t get to the point quickly enough or clearly detail the important steps, data, and analysis of a situation in order to change and improve it.
Categories: jack-covert-selects