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Jack Covert Selects - Zilch
By Porchlight
Zilch: The Power of Zero in Business by Nancy Lublin, Portfolio, 246 pages, $25. 95 Hardcover, June 2010, ISBN 9781591843146 On the surface, Nancy Lublin’s book seems to be about non-profits, but as you get a few pages in, it becomes apparent that Lublin uses her experience as a non-profit CEO to inspire for-profits to think about business differently. Non-profits have no budgets and small staffs made up primarily of volunteers, yet they often attain high productivity and impact.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Zeroes
By Porchlight
The Zeroes: My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane by Randall Lanes, Portfolio, 353 Pages, $27. 95, Hardcover, July 2010, ISBN 9781591843290 Every decade seems to have a nickname: The Roaring Twenties and The Swinging Sixties, for example. Randall Lane makes a strong case for the past decade to be christened The Zeroes.
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International Best Selling Books: June 2010
By Porchlight
Summer may be the time for hitting the beach, visiting those in-laws or just plain relaxing in the shade, but that doesn't keep our customers from opening up a good book while doing so! Here's what people everywhere were reading this past June from 8CR's International Best Selling Book Listing! FRANCE: Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently by Gregory Berns BELGUIM: Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality by Scott Belsky The NETHERLANDS: Strengths Finder 2.
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Creativity and Education
By Porchlight
There's an interesting article by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman over at Newsweek that talks about the decline of creativity in America. Titled, The Creativity Crisis, it focuses on how the lack of creative exercise in education is resulting in young adults who stop asking, "why? ," eventually turning in to adults who make decisions without pursuing all creative angles to solve problems and create positive change.
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PechaKucha: For GOOD
By Porchlight
Milwaukee will see it's 8th PechaKucha Night on Tuesday, August 17th as we present PechaKucha: For GOOD. This special event, arranged in conjunction with BeGoodGoLocal will feature presentations by people truly making a difference in our community, and the world: Howard Hinterhuer, Gigi Pomerantz, Jennifer Dellegrazio, Teig Whaley-Smith, Mario Hall, Kate Lundeen, Jay Salinas, Ron Doetch, Julie Courtright, and more. More info can be found at the PKN site.
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Blog / Staff Picks
Fortune's Fool
Book Review by Porchlight
A lot of business is not only getting back on it's feet, some companies are even downright starting to thrive. Except, it seems, any involved in the music industry. While there's certainly some interesting things happening in the independent realm, the major labels are struggling hard, and it's very questionable if they'll ever get back to where they were.
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ChangeThis: Issue 72
By Porchlight
The 72th issue of ChangeThis has gone live for your reading pleasure. Excerpts and links below. ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ Intelligence Multipliers: Tapping Into Every Company's Underutilized Resource by Liz Wiseman “Multipliers liberate people from the inherently oppressive forces within corporate hierarchy.
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Listen to The 100 Best Business Books of All Time
By Porchlight
Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten's book, The 100 Best Business Books of All Time: What They Say, Why They Matter, And How They Can Help You was published by Portfolio last year. Since then, it's been translated in nine different languages. Now, it's available as an audio book (in English) through Audible.
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When Chaos Moves In, and How to Conquer It: The True Story of Entrepreneurship
By Scott Martineau
"Proponents of entrepreneurship love to celebrate the freedom and adventure of owning and running a company. Established business owners put on a smile, perfect their elevator speech about "being their own boss," and proceed to sell you their product or service. The media tells us story after story about the multi-million dollar opportunities grown out of a garage or dorm room. But few people tell the true story of entrepreneurship—the story of long hours, sleepless nights, endless worry, mental and physical stress, strained family relationships and non-existent social life. Instead, would-be entrepreneurs buy into a dream that few will ever achieve. Believing in a promise of more money, more time, and freedom from the corporate world, entrepreneurs ignore the less-than-encouraging small business statistics and take the plunge into ownership. That's when chaos moves in."
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The White Space of Life
By Porchlight
"Most of my career has been in advertising, branding, and writing. Over the years, I've seen hundreds of ads, letters, proposals, and commercials. In the past, I would judge these creative renderings based on their message and intended audience—still not a bad consideration within the process. But now, as I begin passing judgment, I find myself critiquing something else: the white space. Does it have enough white space? I can't say it enough: I hate being crowded, and I really despise crowded letters, crowded ads, crowded 60-second spots. They try to say so much that I can't hear anything. Like the train, like the highway, like my closet, these communiqus and radio spots are all calling out in one accord, 'MORE WHITE SPACE. PLEASE!'"
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