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The Low-Information Diet: How to Eliminate E-Mail Overload & Triple Productivity in 24 Hours
By Timothy Ferriss
It's Monday morning and your To-Do list for the day is lengthy. You turn on your computer, log into your inbox, and...spend the next six hours starting, stopping and backtracking, your To-Do list untouched. Tim Ferriss offers immediate solutions to improve your productivity and quiet the constant information interference.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Turning the Generational Dial: A Plea to Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y
By Carol Orsborn
Carol Orsborn argues that instead of participating in a complicated generational tug-of-war of who is more relevant, Gen X and Gen Y must learn from Boomers because these following generations will also face the same elongated lifespans and increased vitality...and buying power.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / News & Opinion
Book Videos
By Porchlight
In a time where book reviews are disappearing from major newspapers and magazines, one of the larger publishers Simon & Schuster (owned by CBS) is trying out online videos on books. Next month is the premiere of their new website Bookvideos. tv that will aide consumers in their choices and direct them towards Simon's books.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
Audio Elsewhere
By Porchlight
There is great business audio all over the net. Here are just a few places to supplement your media diet: Lisa Haneberg has been doing her Fireside Chats for some time. Some of hers include Peter Georgescu(The Source of Success), Lee Froschheiser (Vital Factors), and Marcus Buckingham (Go Put Your Strengths To Work).
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
links for 2007-05-09
By Porchlight
Prophet of Innovation >> Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism | HBS Working Knowledge “I think Schumpeter is the most penetrating analyst of capitalism who ever lived. He saw things other people didn't see.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Halo Effect Review
By Porchlight
I intend on writing my own review of Halo Effect. I think it is very good. If you read business books, you are going want to read this.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
What Podcasts People Are Listening To
By Porchlight
Here is a little peak into what people are listening to on our Podcasts blog. This is a ranked list for the first four months of 2007.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Authors visiting Google
By Porchlight
Google has been bringing authors in to speak for quite some time now. They recently shared the videos of the authors' visits from John McCain to Valentino Achack Deng. In the business arena, you'll find these folks and more: James Scurlock, Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders Chris Anderson, The Long Tail Max Barry, Company Tim Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek So far there are 68 posted.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
links for 2007-05-08
By Porchlight
Send >> New York Times | You’ve Got Trouble by Dave Barry Shipley and Schwalbe describe in detail the alarming array of ways you can botch e-mail even before you start writing the message [ book link].
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Publicity and no book.
By Porchlight
Mignon Fogarty, of the popular podcast Grammar Girl, is writing a book due out next year through Henry Holt & Company. Typically in the publishing world, a book precedes the audiobook (or in some cases is released simultaneously). For Mignon, this wasn't the case.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry