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The Art of Non-Conformity
By Porchlight
I first read Chris Guillebeau's blog after Seth Godin mentioned him a couple years ago, and have been fascinated ever since. Not only have I followed his blog, I bought one of his Art and Money guides, and was recently excited to see he had a book out, called, The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World. Yes, that's a pretty bold title, but Chris is the kind of person who can post it in confidence.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book Award: The Shortlist
By Porchlight
The shortlist for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year has been announced. As with the longlist for the award, it is dominated by books covering the recent financial turmoil. The only two covering other topics are: The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar, Twelve The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick, Simon & Schuster The books on the shortlist that cover the crisis are: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, W.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / Staff Picks
Two Google, or Not Two Google
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
Most of our employees have hidden talents. We're a creative bunch and while we love business books, we also love to dabble in various other art forms. We have musicians, collectors, writers, performers.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
Personality Poker
By Porchlight
Has this happened to you? You interview at a great company for a great job, and you get it! Then, you start the job and realize that there's much more at play than just the great position you landed.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Tomato. Tomahto.
By Sally Haldorson
A short while ago, I wrote a defense of business books here on the 800-CEO-READ blog, contending that the business book genre includes such a wide range of subgenres that it doesn't deserve the disdain or dismissal it often receives as being pedantic or unappealing to a wider audience. Today, Todd Sattersten contributes a precise retort against the criticism the genre receives by quoting some of the most recent critics and showing the shortcomings of their arguments against the value of business books. There is no right or wrong answer in the argument of whether most business books offer value to readers.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects – The Mesh
By Porchlight
The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing by Lisa Gansky, Portfolio, 256 pages, $25. 95, Hardcover, September 2010, ISBN 9781591843719 You want to see a movie, but don’t want to spend $25. 00 on a DVD that you will watch once, and then let sit uselessly around your home gathering dust.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Still Surprised
By Porchlight
Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership by Warren Bennis with Patricia Ward Biederman, Jossey-Bass, 272 Pages, $27. 95 Hardcover, August 2010, ISBN 9780470432389 When you look at the greatest business thinkers from the second half of the last century, Warren Bennis would have to be in the conversation. When you focus on the field of leadership, he would have to be on the top of that list.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Resonate
By Porchlight
Resonate: Present Visual Stories That Transform Audiences by Nancy Duarte, John Wiley & Sons, 272 pages, $29. 95, Paperback, September 2010, ISBN 9780470632017 Everyone gives presentations, in any number of forms. Expressing our opinion, our research, our hard work to a group of people is always a risk.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / News & Opinion
ChangeThis: Issue 74
By Porchlight
If you'd like to be an ethically upstanding, emotionally engaged, clutch performer who invests your money wisely, gives great presentations and empowers your employees, you will want to read the 74th issue of ChangeThis. If not, then might I suggest You're a Horrible Person, But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice (actually, you should read that anyway. .
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / ChangeThis
Bury My Heart at Conference Room B: Emotional Commitment at Work
By Stan Slap
"A manager's emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined. It's the kind of commitment that solves unsolvable problems, creates energy when all energy has been expended, and ignites emotional commitment in others, like employees, teams and customers. Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed managers."
Categories: changethis