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Two New Fables Break-up Summer Bestsellers Club
By Porchlight
After a summer of same-old, same-old on the Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller List, two new books appear this week signaling the start to the fall business book season. Given some of my comments recently, it serves me right that I have to report both titles are business fables. Pat Lencioni returns with his sixth story-based book, titled The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (and Their Employees).
Categories: news-opinion
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Colbert/Keen Bout
By Porchlight
Stephen Colbert brought Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of The Amateur, onto to the show last week.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Getting Our Audio More Easily
By Porchlight
Just a little reminder. . .
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
Super Crunching Podcast
By Porchlight
There are 19. 3 megabytes of Super Crunching audio just waiting for a listen over on our podcasts blog. If you prefer text, Newsweek has 511 words on Ian Ayres as well as 1,040 words excerpted from the book.
Categories: news-opinion
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Books via camels and mules
By Porchlight
Earlier in August Kevin Kelly blogged a unique book mobile service. Two such services deliver books to the readers in the remote areas of Venezuela (via mule) and Kenya (via camel). Meet a Venezuelan bibliomula: And a Camel Book Mobile in Kenya: These mules and camels are sometimes the only access remote communities have to books.
Categories: news-opinion
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Super Crunchers Interview with Ian Ayres
By Porchlight
In this podcast, I talk with Ian Ayres, author of Super Crunchers: How Thinking by Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart. The book is a great survey of how analytical tools are allowing us to reach a whole new set of understandings about how the world works. Netflix uses regression to figure out what movie you may like, as eHarmony does the same for mates.
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Super Crunchers - A Story Continued...
By Porchlight
One story line in Super Crunchers is that of Dick Copaken and his secretive company Epagogix. Copaken thinks that neural networks can improve scriptwriting in Hollywood. Most of his clients don't want the world to know what he is doing or that they are paying for it.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
Jack Covert Selects: The Dream Manager
Book Review by Porchlight
The Dream Manager by Matthew Kelly, Hyperion, 176 pages, $19. 95 Hardcover, August 2007, ISBN 9781401303709 Pat Lencioni has created a franchise by writing well-written, easy-to-read fables about business. His books feature subjects like meetings, team building and silos at work.
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links for 2007-08-25
By Porchlight
No Man's Land >> Inc. Magazine | "Welcome to No Man's Land" "Welcome to No Man's Land. Few firms make it to the other side.
Categories: news-opinion
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The Value of a Good Story
Book Review by Aaron Schleicher
How many times have you retold a good story? Likewise, can you recite the notes you took at last week's meeting? I am betting that's a bit more difficult.
Categories: staff-picks