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Book Review by Porchlight
Chronicle Books publishes some of the coolest books on the planet. In 2005, Chronicle partnered with a California-based design firm called IDEO to put out a book called Thoughtless Acts? , a little book of photography that illuminated ways people unconsciously interact with objects in the world -- like placing something in your teeth when your hands are full or following a straight line in the sidewalk.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
links for 2007-10-03
By Porchlight
Michael O'Leary >> Economist | Snarling all the way to the bank As far as Mr O'Leary is concerned: "Business books are bullshit and are usually written by wankers.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Business Book Video on BNet
By Porchlight
BNet has started running short video of authors in a feature they call Business Book Briefs. Right now, they are serving Vince Thompson (Ignited) and Bob Sutton (The No Asshole Rule).
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Ask 8cr! - Negotiate
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 / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - No Man's Land
By Porchlight
No Man's Land: What to Do When Your Company is Too Big to Be Small, But Too Small to Be Big by Doug Tatum, Portfolio, 256 pages, $24. 95 Hardcover, September 2007, ISBN 9781591841722 It is often difficult to find your way forward in business, particularly when your company is growing at a fast clip. The possibilities are myriad and the next step is not always clear.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / News & Opinion
links for 2007-09-29
By Porchlight
The Shock Doctrine >> New York Times Book Review | Bleakonomics " 'The Shock Doctrine' is Klein’s ambitious look at the economic history of the last 50 years and the rise of free-market fundamentalism around the world. " (tags: economics global businessbooks) Supercapitalism >> Portfolio Magazine | Hellbent on Capitalism As Reich admits, this unfettered capitalism is very good at what it tries to do: mainly, earn profits for shareholders and offer a wide array of affordable products to consumers. It is lousy at everything else.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Financial Times Asks "What Is Best Business Book of All Time?"
By Porchlight
In conjunction with their Business Book of The Year Award, The Financial Times is asking the question: "What is the best book of all time? " They solicited suggestions from a wide variety of business executives, including GE's Jeff Immelt and Ebay's Meg Whitman. The editorial staff then created a short list using the same criterea as their yearly awards.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Better
By Porchlight
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande, Metropolitan Books, 288p, $24. 00, Hardcover, April 2007, ISBN 9780805082111 Innovation research shows that almost every major innovation has an origin outside the industry it impacts. Amazon.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Fired Up or Burned Out
By Porchlight
Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team's Passion, Creativity, and Productivity By: Michael Lee Stallard, with Carolyn Dewing-Hommes and Jason Pankau, Thomas Nelson, 230 pages, $22. 99 Hardcover, July 2007. ISBN 9780785223580 Great leadership is something we think is easy to recognize, but it can be a hard thing to define.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Microfinance Update
By Porchlight
I wrote last Friday about microcredit and a book entitled A Billion Bootstraps. When I got home that night a funny thing happened. I turned on the television, flipped it to channel 10, and there was microcredit pioneer and Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus on NOW's "Enterprising Ideas" series.
Categories: news-opinion