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Jack Covert Selects - Myself and Other More Important Matters
By Porchlight
Myself and Other More Important Matters by Charles Handy, AMACOM, 213 pages, Hardcover, February 2008, ISBN 9780814401736 Charles Handy, one of today's greatest managerial thinkers, has written a memoir about his life, his loves and his ideologies. It is not a business book per se, yet it's packed from page to page with his theories about the way business and organizations are run. Reading the book feels like Handy is carrying on a personal conversation with a young protege to whom he reminisces about how he first started out, all the mistakes he made along the way, some philosophies that helped him, his own personal gurus, and even love and mortality.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Another way for Your Voice To Be Heard
By Porchlight
The presidential election is taking center stage right, so we thought to remind you have another election going on right now. We are looking for you to help us choose the best business books of all time. My last report on our Reader's Poll at the vote count at 500.
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 800-CEO-READ Mystery Box for charity!!!
By Porchlight
In an effort to give back to the community, we are holding a very special book offer to benefit Room to Read, a great organization that partners with local communities throughout the developing world to establish schools, libraries, and other educational infrastructure. We recently held our very first 8CR Business Book Awards, and recieved an enormous amount of great books from publishers and authors around the globe. Our idea is to share the best books of 2007 with you, and help out a great charitable organization in the process.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
links for 2008-02-16
By Porchlight
The Middle-Class Millionaire - Russ Alan Prince - Lewis Schiff - Book Review - New York Times So think of a driven, Machiavellian business dynamo who networks, boasts and cares desperately about propelling his or her children into schools that have names worth dropping. Then put on rose-colored glasses and think of Benjamin Franklin. Seriously.
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Blog / News & Opinion
links for 2008-02-15
By Porchlight
Lessons From Private Equity Any Company Can Use>>The Wall Street Journal | Embracing Debt, Enhancing Value Ms. Gadiesh and Mr. MacArthur concede that private equity is a tiered system, with the best firms offering stellar returns and most of the others struggling to match the returns of the S&P.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Reasonable Rx
By Porchlight
With all the talk about health care costs swirling around this election year, Stan Finkelstein and Peter Temin's Reasonable Rx: Solving the Drug Price Crisis is a very timely book. To prove that it can bring some of the various factions on this issue together, they have blurbs on the back from a Nobel Laureate in Economics, a former senior official in the FDA, a US Congressman, and a retired president of a pharmaceutical research group. Although they did write the book for laypeople, you really have to be interested in the topic to wade through the first 150 pages, and you'd have be a real policy wonk to read the appendix after that, which lays out their plan in detail after already giving you a general outline in the last chapter.
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Celebirity Experience - Part II
Book Review by Porchlight
For some reason, this morning I recalled something I read in Donna Cutting's The Celebrity Experience. In the beginning of the book she talked about assisted living and it struck a cord with me. One of my friends works in a place for senior citizens and they implemented some things that were brought up early on in The Celebrity Experience to make the residents feel more at home.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Ask 8cr! - Free Prize Inside
By Porchlight
Ask 8cr! is a section of our blog used as a forum to address the kinds of issues and challenges people are having in the workplace. We take these issues and apply a business book we feel offers a viable solution.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Update from Tools of Change Conference
By Porchlight
Yesterday Kate and I got to hear Douglas Rushkoff, author of Get Back in the Box, talk about how content context contact is king. He explained that what people are really looking for online is social currency, the opportunities to interact with and respond to other people. The predominant marketing model has been to get people to interact with products, to take them away from other people so that, as Doug said in an example, they buy their oatmeal from Quaker, and not from Joe at the local farmer's market.
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Blog / News & Opinion
January's Top Books on Compact Disc
By Porchlight
We know that you all have been waiting for this ALL month, so here it is! ! Our Top 25 Books from last month that are available in audio format!
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