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DHL using books for promotion again
By Porchlight
Last April, DHL was giving customers One Minute Manager when they tried the company's international service. DHL has a similar offer running now with Travels of a T-Shirt In A Global Economy. The offer is good until next Friday (4/13/07).
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What Must Starbucks Do?
By John Moore
In response to Howard Schulz's memo citing his concern over the direction Starbucks is headed, John Moore, a former long-time marketer at Starbucks, enlists the 'Starbucks Board of Customers' (i.e. readers of Moore's blog and Starbucks customers) to propose which changes the company must make to maintain (reclaim?) its integrity.
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Growing Great New Managers
By Erika Andersen
We've all seen it: a successful employee promoted to manager is given no training and essentially pushed into the deep end and told to swim? According to Andersen, this approach to creating new managers is epidemic. Using an accessible gardening metaphor, Andersen, founder of Proteus International, contends that new managers must have a support system available to train them, while on the job, to become successful managers.
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Manifesto to Accelerate: 15 Truths
By Dan Coughlin
Executive coach, Dan Coughlin, asserts that great businesses are defined by their ability to accelerate, which he defines as the ability to increase the rate of achieving desired outcomes in a sustainable manner. These 15 applicable truths will enable you to take your company or career from 0 to 60 while optimizing your passion for your work.
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Few and Far Between: Black Swans and the Impossibility of Prediction
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Taleb, author of The Black Swan, contributes this thought-provoking essay on what we know about what we don't know. A 'black swan' is an improbable, dynamic event that, once it occurs, we rationalize to make it seem predictable (e.g. 9/11). Taleb discusses that while these black swans are actually impossible to predict, we must relearn how to learn from their impact.
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Managers Ignite! Now is the Time to Take Back Your Company, Your Career, Your Life
By Porchlight
Managers are under an extreme amount of stress and often their success is dependent upon the work of others. This pressure is driving managers to leave their jobs, or at least keep their options open. Vince Thompson advises: not so fast—there are ways to ignite your power as a manager and take your job back
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Executive Hubris: How to Check Your Ego and Avoid Ruining Your Company and Your Career
By Porchlight
Hayward lays it out plainly: "If you are going to have a successful career and life, you are going to have to learn to check your ego." Using examples such as Buffett and Welch to show that CEOs don't have to have huge egos to succeed (and Dean Kamen of Segway as an example of hubris at work), Hayward offers ways to keep an eye on your ego while pushing the limits of success.
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links for 2007-04-05
By Porchlight
Threshold Resistance>>WSJ | Doing Business With Conviction Five years ago this month, at the age of 78, Detroit real-estate tycoon A. Alfred Taubman was sentenced to prison for a year and a day.
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New Excerpt Up!
By Porchlight
There's a new entry up on our Excerpts blog. It's from The Art of War for Women by Chin-Ning Chu, an internationally renowned speaker and the bestselling author of Thick Face, Black Heart. Chu brings the wisdom of philosopher-general Sun Tzu to women looking to gain a better understanding of who they are and who they want to be.
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Excerpt from The Art of War for Women
By Porchlight
The Art of War for Women Sun Tzu's Ancient Strategies and Wisdom for Winning at Work by Chin-Ning Chu This chapter is excerpted from The Art of War for Women by Chin-Ning Chu, an internationally renowned speaker and the bestselling author of Thick Face, Black Heart. She brings the eternal wisdom of philosopher-general Sun Tzu to women looking to gain a better understanding of who they are – and, more importantly, who they want to be. CHAPTER 1 Ji (Planning) The Elements of Strategy Before waging a war, the five elements that govern success must be examined.
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