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Leadership Challenge Interview with Jim Kouzes
By Porchlight
In this interview, I talk with Jim Kouzes, co-author of The Leadership Challenge. The book is a classic and was the first to look at leadership from a research-based perspective. I could have talked with Jim for three hours.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Greenspan Starts Strong
By Porchlight
Publisher's Lunch reports today that Alan Greenspan's The Age of Turbulence had sales of 128,000 copies in its opening week, according to Neilsen's Bookscan. That is a great start for the book, but people will be watching closely to see if the book can keeping that momentum into the next three or four weeks.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
Not related to business books...
By Porchlight
[If you're in the Milwaukee area, keep reading. ] If you've been with us for awhile, you may know we're based in Milwaukee. And, our sister company is the independent Harry W.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
links for 2007-09-26
By Porchlight
The Billionaire Who Wasn't>>The Wall Street Journal | Business Success Is Not Duty Free Chuck Feeney is a hard man to categorize. He made billions as a co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers, the world-wide retail chain familiar to almost anyone who has passed through an international airport, yet when he is traveling, he flies economy class.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
Financial Times and Goldman Sachs announce shortlist for Business Book of the Year Award
Book Review by Porchlight
This morning Financial Times and Goldman Sachs revealed the semifinalist titles in the running of being named their Business Book of the Year. Judges will determine the final winner on October 25. The list is as follows: Zoom by Iain Carson and Vijay V Vaitheeswaran The Last Tycoons by William D Cohan The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan Immigrants by Philippe Legrain The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Wikinomics by Don Tapscott and Anthony D Williams Good luck!
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Do It Wrong Quickly - Marketing in the Age of the Web
By Porchlight
A little background. . .
Categories: jack-covert-selects, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
Ask 8cr! - Happiness
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
Social Contract Networking
By Porchlight
I believe very strongly in personal responsibility and hard work, but have never really understood it when people say that someone else should "pull themselves up by their own bootstraps". I mean really, if someone were to accomplish that feat literally, they'd pull their own feet out from under themselves and fall right on their backside, so even as a metaphor it seems absurd. I know it's just a figure of speech, but its very utterance seems to deny any existence of a social contract.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Little Prince Debate
By Porchlight
Tom Peters refueled a little inner office discussion between the sales staff here at 8CR with a blog post over at TomPeters! , when mentioning The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. It wasn't until recent discussions, and Mr Peters' blog post that I looked past the personal value of the book, and thought of The Little Prince as a very valuable business tool.
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Blog / News & Opinion
More NYC food
By Porchlight
We have eaten at some incredible restaurants on this trip. Yesterday was Balthazar for breakfast and Bouley for dinner. I had to take a break from all that fine dining and eat lunch today at the Shake Shack.
Categories: news-opinion