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Freakonomics' Levitt Questioning Good To Great
By Porchlight
Steven Levitt on his Freakonomics blog takes a shot at Good To Great and the recent performance of GTG standouts Fannie Mae, Circuit City, and Wells Fargo. A purchase of either Fannie Mae or Circuit City at the time of the book's publication would have netted you an 80% loss in your investment today. Not so good.
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Books and bikes - one bookstore makes a difference
By Porchlight
To go along with Kate's post on biking to work, check out what one book store is doing to reduce its ecological footprint: From Shelf Awareness, the book world's daily e-newsletter: Cool Idea of the Day: The Bicycle as Bookstore Sideline Monkey See, Monkey Read, Northfield, Minn. , which opened two years ago (Shelf Awareness, February 22, 2007), is now selling the Kona Africabike 2. 0 in the store and online.
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How to Wow - A Free Teleseminar and an Excerpt
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We've posted a new excerpt from How to Wow: Proven Strategies for Presenting Your ideas, Persuading Your Audience, and Perfecting Your Image by Frances Cole Jones. If you like what you see, you can join her for a free one-hour teleseminar tomorrow at 4pm EST/1pm PST. The seminar will touch on: Maximizing the Verbal *Incorporating the 12 most influential words in the English language *Avoiding the useless modifier/The importance of living language *Proven phrasing for increasing listener buy-in Maximizing the Vocal *Understanding/optimizing your tonal quality *Conveying authority: the power of the pause *Making numbers accessible Maximizing the Physical *Introducing yourself to maximize authority *Sitting to maximize others' trust *Playing to your team: optimizing the impression you leave behind Meeting Preparation/Presentation *Decoding unspoken agendas *Ally or observer?
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Article from Joseph A. Michelli, author of The New Gold Standard
By Porchlight
Thanks to Joseph A. Michelli for providing this article for our blog. Shrink Not - Adjust the sail and seek The New Gold Standard of Leadership By Joseph A.
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Excerpt from Mind Capture
By Porchlight
The following excerpt is from the first chapter of Mind Capture: How You Can Stand Out in the Age of Advertising Deficit Disorder by Tony Rubleski. This is Tony's second book on "Mind Capture" and it's received a glowing endorsement from marketing guru Jeffrey Gitomer (who even agreed to write the book's forward) writing "If you can capture their mind, you can capture their wallet. Capture this book, and both will be yours.
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From David Whyte's "Crossing the Unknown Sea"
By Porchlight
We've been gearing up for this year's author pow-wow. For me, that means going through all of my old notes. In doing that, I ran across this piece from last year.
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Excerpts from How to Wow
By Porchlight
You'll find below three short excerpts from How to Wow: Proven Strategies for Presenting Your ideas, Persuading Your Audience, and Perfecting Your Image by Frances Cole Jones. In the inroduction, Frances writes: I present the information in How to Wow in a one or two page "search and destroy" format to make it easy for you to find the information needed in your situation--meeting, lunch, job interview, speech, PowerPoint presentation--so you can begin employing it, and enjoying the benefits of it, immediately. Below, then, you'll find three of these sections.
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Books Available in Spanish
By Porchlight
Here are some titles available now in Spanish. If ordering these books, or any titles in another language, take care to note that availability of these books can change without notice due to publishing need, copyrights, popularity, etc. Menos es Mas: It's All Too Much by Peter Walsh - Veteran "organizational consultant" TV show host and author Walsh (How to Organize 'Just About' Everything) has more ideas in his latest book on clutter management then the spare closet has junk, and, even better, it's organized, in depth and entirely user-friendly!
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Books for Baby Boomer Business Owners
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The Small Business Boomers blog is running a contest, and all you have to do to enter is leave a comment. Here's the deal. If you leave a comment recommending a business book you think would be valuable to baby boomers starting a business, you will automatically be entered to win two books: The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber and The Warren Buffett Way by Robert G.
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Pockets of Knowledge
By Porchlight
On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to interview Jeff Howe on his book Crowdsourcing. We talked about what crowdsourcing is. Essentially, it means harnessing the power of an undefined crowd to do work.
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