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On Depicting Data.
By Porchlight
From powerpoints to pie charts or bar graphs, depicting data doesn't always come easy. It often has to be boiled down to the main points. Take the NYC subway map, for example; Eddie Jabbour is attempting to redesin it to be more user friendly.
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links for 2007-05-17
By Porchlight
Way of the Turtle>>The Wall Street Journal | The Tortoise and the Harried Trader The book conveys the highs and lows that a trader goes through as he works through various systems. It shows, above all, how a trader must believe in his system even when it is going against him.
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Number of Books and Number of Readers
By Porchlight
According to the Mexican critic Gabriel Zaid, writing in So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance, the human race publishes a book every 30 seconds. If current trends continue, by 2052 the number of people writing and publishing a book in a given year will exceed the number of people who will read one. (Quote from Design Observer.
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Jack Covert Selects - Unstoppable
By Porchlight
Unstoppable: Finding Hidden Assets to Renew the Core and Fuel Profitable Growth by Chris Zook, Harvard Business School Press, 208 pages, $29. 95 Hardcover, May 2007, ISBN 9781422103661. You expect to find trilogies in fantasy or science fiction literature.
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Jack Covert Selects - Off-Ramps and On-Ramps
By Porchlight
Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Harvard Business School Press, 320 pages, $29. 95 Hardcover, May 2007, ISBN 9781422101025. I admit it: I take great pride in the fact that our small company has, over the years, made modifications to the standard work week in order to keep talented people working for us.
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Books From The Pile - May 2007
By Porchlight
We get a lot of books here at 800-CEO-READ. I would bet it is about 100 titles a month. They all end up in Jack's office and about once a month we have to clean the place up.
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Jack Covert Selects - The Dip
By Porchlight
The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick), by Seth Godin, Portfolio, 92 pages, $12. 95 Hardcover, May 2007, ISBN 9781591841661 I have been reviewing Seth Godin books since Purple Cow came out in 2003. What I respect most about Seth is his ability to practice what he preaches.
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links for 2007-05-15
By Porchlight
Prophet of Innovation >> Economist. com | Joseph Schumpeter : In praise of entrepreneurs He succeeds in getting inside the economist's head, explaining not just what he thought but why he thought it [book link]. (tags: businessbooks economics innovation biography entrepreneurship) Where Have All The Leaders Gone?
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Chandler, Our Historian
By Porchlight
Business historian Alfred Chandler passed away last week. The Wall Street Journal ran a thorough piece on his life and work in their Weekend Edition. Strategy and Structure is a title most look to as a hallmark in the study of business management.
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How to peel a banana
By Porchlight
How do you peel a banana? If you're like me, you peel it the "wrong" way. That's the way we're taught.
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