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Who wants to run a lemonade stand with me?
By Porchlight
Tis the time for lemonade stands -- a business venture I remember all too well. Dixie cups. Kid-sized plastic table.
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links for 2007-07-19
By Porchlight
The Elephant and the Dragon>>The Wall Street Journal | The Boom Beyond Our Borders In "The Elephant and the Dragon," Robyn Meredith, a Hong Kong-based correspondent for Forbes magazine, neatly navigates between the boom and the gloom.
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WSJ Review of The Elephant and the Dragon
Book Review by Porchlight
Here's a review from today's Wall Street Journal. The Elephant and the Dragon, by Robyn Meredith, details the rapid economic growth both China and India have experienced over the past 100 years. Meredith shows that these two emerging economic giants have important lessons the U.
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What is it about fables?
By Porchlight
The New York Times interviewed John Kotter yesterday and reported on his business fable Our Iceberg Is Melting. These numbers set the stage: Since its release last September, "Iceberg" has sold some 224,000 copies in hardcover (Leading Change [his prior book] has sold more than a million copies in 10 years), and been translated into 10 languages, with 10 more foreign editions in the works. When I reported on the Publisher Weekly best-seller numbers, Our Iceberg Is Melting was the surprise on the list.
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From Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines
By Porchlight
I have seen brilliant entrepreneurial strategies falter as an organization grows and matures. Obviously, you manage a $25 billion company differently than you do a $25 million company. But you change your practices, not your principles.
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The business of the book business
By Porchlight
Random House (a piece of that German giant Bertelsmann) recently crunched their publishing numbers with New York magazine. The numbers: There are 1,500 Random House employees in New York. Every week they unveil 67 new books (around 3500 books/year).
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Bet On Longer Attentions Spans
By Porchlight
Monocle, a very cool and hip European magazine, has an video interview with Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, the CEO of Lego. When asked how his company would deal with children's lack of time to play with their product, this was his response: Playing with Lego is like reading a book,. Books, people have said books would die.
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links for 2007-07-17
By Porchlight
High Cotton >> BusinessWeek | "Gambling On King Cotton" "Killebrew's experience during the tumultuous year of 2005 is the subject of High Cotton: Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta by Gerard Helferich.
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Jack Covert Selects Winning (again)
Book Review by Porchlight
"Winning" by Jack Welch with Suzy Welch, HarperBusiness, 350 Pages, $27. 95, Hardcover, April 2005, ISBN 9780060753948 Note: At the end of this 2005 review I wrote "Not only is this book relevant today, but I think it will be adding value for many years to come. " I'm no prophet, but I do know that my prediction was right.
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Jack Covert Selects Good to Great (again)
Book Review by Porchlight
"Good to Great" by Jim Collins, HarperCollins, 320 Pages, $27. 50, Hardcover, October 2001, ISBN 9780066620992 Note: This Jack Covert Selects is from October of 2001. Not only has the book Good to Great emerged as a classic and a "breakthrough," cross-genre sensation, but the phrase itself has entered business jargon.
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