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Excerpt from Fire Them Up!
By Porchlight
Below you'll find an excerpt from the Introduction and Chapter 10 Fire Them Up! 7 Simple Secrets to Inspire Your Colleagues, Customers & Clients by Carmine Gallo. Copyright (c) 2007.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Author's Choice and Reader's Choice voting begins today
By Porchlight
Part II of the 2007 Business Book Awards is now underway as voting for the Author's Choice and Reader's Choice begin today. Any author with a title published in 2007 as well as all readers are eligible to cast a vote for what they feel is the best book of the year. Voting will last until November 30 and can be done at: Author's Choice and Reader's Choice Vote The 8cr staff is currently busy reading entries as nearly 300 books were entered for the awards this year.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Ask 8cr! - What Should I Do With My Life?
By Aaron Schleicher
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
Amazon's Best of 2007 List
By Porchlight
Another list is out: Amazon's Best Books of 2007! You can see the categories by Editors' Picks, Customers' Favorites, the Top 100. .
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Blog / News & Opinion
It's Quite Fashionable
By Porchlight
This year, 800-CEO-READ became painfully hip. We really didn't mean to, it just sort of happened that way. You know how it is.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Judgment
By Porchlight
Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls by Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis, Portfolio, 365p, $26. 95, Hardcover, November 2007, ISBN 9781591841531 You make decisions constantly--sometimes subconsciously, sometimes deliberately--throughout every day. Some decisions are simple choices: Will you wear the brown shoes or the black shoes today?
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Blog / News & Opinion
links for 2007-11-10
By Porchlight
Asian Godfathers >> BusinessWeek | "The Trouble with Asia's Tigers" "Asia's economic ascendancy by turns awes and terrifies Western executives. Yet it's China and India that fascinate now—not the once-fabled Southeast Asian Tiger economies. " (tags: businessbooks global economics) The Oil and the Glory >> BusinessWeek | The Oil Rush to the Caspian Sea "Steve LeVine has gathered the whole Wild East tale in one canny and entertaining book.
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Blog / ChangeThis
Change the Way You Change the World
By Porchlight
Using Habitat for Humanity as a dynamic example, authors of Forces for Good, Crutchfield and Grant, present this manifesto on what high-impact nonprofits do to achieve wide-scale social change. These methods are insightful for all organizations, including for-profits and individuals. You may just want to pick up a hammer and take a swing at changing the world.
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Blog / ChangeThis
The RenGen Manifesto
By Patricia Martin
Patricia Martin brings her energy and enthusiasm to this inspiring manifesto which celebrates a new cultural trend: a renaissance generation that values creative and intellectual activity which will bring a rebirth to our current beige state of living.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Energy Crossroads: How Detroit and Washington Can Fuel the Future
By Vijay Vaitheeswaran
Vaitheeswaran, author of Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future, here asserts that within "the thorny geopolitical, environmental, and economic complications involved with cars and oil, America's federal energy policies do matter." He calls for a "market-minded" approach that offers a level playing field for entrepreneurs and innovators instead of the conventional and archaic.
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