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Jack Covert Selects - The Future of Management
By Porchlight
The Future of Management by Gary Hamel with Bill Breen, Harvard Business School Press, 288 pages, $26. 95 Hardcover, September 2007, ISBN 9781422102503 Gary Hamel is a smart man. After he published his best selling book, co-authored with C.
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Blog / News & Opinion
If you liked A Whole New Mind...
By Porchlight
Dan Pink's publishing a new book in April. This one's a bit different. It's actually a manga -- a type of book started in Japan that has become widely popular throughout Europe.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Chip Conley on Maslow
By Porchlight
I have a new podcast posted where I interview Chip Conley, author of Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo From Maslow.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Ask 8cr! - Let's have a meeting!
By Aaron Schleicher
Welcome to "Ask 8cr! " - a new section of our blog where we've created a forum to find out what kinds of issues and challenges people are having in the workplace. We then take these issues and apply a business book we feel offers a viable solution.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Peak Interview with Chip Conley
By Porchlight
This week's interview is with Chip Conley, author of Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. Chip runs San Francisco based hotelier Joie de Vivre Hospitality and he is a big fan of Abraham Maslow. Chip has adopted Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to apply to employees, customers, and investors.
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Blog / Staff Picks
Jack Covert Selects - Forces for Good
Book Review by Porchlight
"Forces For Good: The Six Practices of High Impact Non-Profits" by Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant, Jossey-Bass, 336 pages, $29. 95, Hardcover, October 2007, ISBN 9780787986124 What industry generates more than $1 trillion in revenues, is adding more jobs than any other sector, and is ranked #3 after retail and wholesale trade? Non-profits.
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Blog / Staff Picks
New Excerpt - The Engine of America
Book Review by Porchlight
We've got a new excerpt up on the Excerpts blog, chapter 4 of The Engine of America: The Secrets to Small Business Success from Entrepreneurs Who Have Made It! by Hector V. Barreto.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Demystifying the Best-Seller List
By Porchlight
The Best-Seller List is one of the most fascinating and confusing aspects of the book publishing industry. Almost every time we work with a business book author, a conversation comes up about what being on the list means, and how a book can "hit" it. Having a best-seller can really make an author's success and drive future sales of the book, and future sales of future books.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
Excerpt from The Engine of America
By Porchlight
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of The Engine of America: The Secrets to Small Business Success from Entrepreneurs Who Have Made It! by Hector V. Barreto.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Booklist's Business Top 10 for 2007
By Porchlight
It has begun. In a matter of weeks, we will start seeing a stream of "best of" lists. We'll report them as we see them and make a few of our own.
Categories: news-opinion