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Book Customization
By Porchlight
Customer Service is the heart of our organization. An extension of that is customizing books: for author events, corporate customers, and individuals. Here's a short movie about some of the cool stuff we can do (and some of the music we listen to while working - Atomic: "Boom Boom").
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Can Video Games Fix Reality?
By Porchlight
According to Jane McGonigal, Reality is Broken. But, she is a visionary, not a pessimist, and in her book, Reality is Broken, she outlines how video games, which adults often view as being for kids, is the very technology that is training people to solve problems on personal, local, and global levels. How can understanding this technology help you, your employees, and your business?
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2010 Business Book Awards
By Porchlight
It's that time of year! Since 2007, each year we receive hundreds of submissions for the year's best business books in various categories. Throughout fall, we spend a lot of time reading, talking, and thinking about what makes a book "best.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects – All the Devils are Here
By Porchlight
All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany McLean & Joe Nocera, Portfolio, 380 pages, $32. 95, Hardcover, November 2010, ISBN 9781591843634 I know you might be thinking, “Another book on the financial crisis… really? ” But this is the one that many have been waiting for, and after reading it for myself, I can safely say that Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera have delivered the most comprehensive documentation to-date of the many pieces that built the puzzle of our financial system over the decades.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects – Overconnected
By Porchlight
Overconnected: The Promise and Threat of the Internet by William H. Davidow, Delphinium Books, 240 pages, $27. 95, Hardcover, January 2011, ISBN 9781883285463 As we move from an industrial era mindset that new technologies have made obsolete, our ability to be plugged in and instantly connected has introduced us to unpredicted challenges and dangers.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Now, Build a Great Business
By Porchlight
Now, Build a Great Business: 7 Ways to Maximize Your Profits in Any Market by Mark Thompson & Brian Tracy, Amacom, 228 pages, $24. 95, Hardcover, November 2010 ISBN 9780814416976 Obviously, I read a lot of business books. I read business books on how to love your customers, how to hire and fire, how to think big, how to narrow your focus, how to be more creative and yet more disciplined.
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The 2010 Author Pow Wow
By Porchlight
It's been a whirlwind couple of days so far this week, but the 2010 Author Pow Wow wrapped up yesterday. My one sentence review? It's amazing how much people can help each other when they come together.
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ChangeThis - Issue 77
By Porchlight
The Era of Jack Welch is Over: Create Real Value Now, or Perish by Douglas Rushkoff "Yes, the net has changed business as profoundly as anything since central banking. But instead of seizing the opportunity, most businesses are still so addicted to the old way of doing things that they do the very opposite: they use the net to entrench themselves even further into the Industrial Age landscape that is fast disappearing. " Radical Management: Mastering the Art of Continuous Innovation by Stephen Denning "Radical management focuses the entire organization on the goal of constantly increasing the value of what the organization offers to its clients.
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Inc's Best Books for Business Owners 2010
By Sally Haldorson
Inc. com offers a wealth of information for business people, particularly small business owners. While many media outlets make end of year lists, Inc's list is particularly geared toward this group of readers.
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Blog / ChangeThis
Radical Management: Mastering the Art of Continuous Innovation
By Stephen Denning
"Radical management focuses the entire organization on the goal of constantly increasing the value of what the organization offers to its clients. Once a firm commits to this goal, traditional command-and-control bureaucracy ceases to be a viable organizational option. Instead the firm will, like Southwest Airlines or Starbucks, naturally gravitate towards some variation of self-organizing teams as the default management model for organizing work. That's because it is only through mobilizing the full energy and ingenuity of the workforce that the firm can generate the continuous value innovation needed to delight clients. Not surprisingly, those doing the work find more satisfaction as members of such productive teams."
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