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The No Asshole Rule by Bob Sutton
By Porchlight
The No Asshole Rule by Robert I. Sutton This excerpt is taken from The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One that Isn't. The author, Bob Sutton, is a professor at Stanford University.
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Marching Along...
By Porchlight
I like periodically pointing you to other spots in the 800ceoread family of sites where you might find some things of interest. If you were subscribed to our New Releases Blog, you would have seen that Private Label Strategy, You Inc. , Miracles Medicines, and Punk Marketing were all released yesterday.
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The Leader "Incubator"
By Porchlight
In college I studied entrepreneurship. Some hiring heads would occasionally rumor that companies would look down upon an entrepreneurship major; they'd see it as a threat or immediately put you into the "will-leave-quickly" category. That logic always struck me as funny and short-sighted.
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Thirty Thousand Pounds....
By Porchlight
of business books. [To the tune of Harry Chapin's song. ] When I returned from vacation today I found a desk overflowing with mail, most of it books.
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If you're in Milwaukee, come see Suze Orman.
By Porchlight
On Friday night, March 9th Suze Orman will be in Milwaukee. Our sister company, Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops (the local independent) will be bringing her to Alverno College to talk about her latest book, Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny.
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Refuting some of the classics
By Porchlight
This has potential to start a bit of dialogue. There's a recently published book out there refuting some of the big business books such as Good to Great and In Search of Excellence. Phil argues that he has.
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The Three Letter Word
By Porchlight
Yesterday, Kate was talking about kicking ass. Today, I am going to go the other way and talk about Bob Sutton's new book No Asshole Rule. I have gotten to know Bob over the last year and I think he is onto something with the book.
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Kicking some _______.
By Porchlight
Todd and my lunch conversation yesterday turned towards work [as tends to regularly be the case]. The specific subject being this -- the blog. He brought up a post by Kathy Sierra over at Creating Passionate Users on helping your users kick ass.
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A conversation
By Porchlight
Our crew of 13 has bi-weekly meetings where we take an hour or two of our day to talk about what's going on in our world. The goal being shared knowledge--which can only make us smarter. In another effort to become smarter, last week we had the pleasure of being taught by Erika, author of Growing Great Employees.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Made To Sell
By Porchlight
Made To Stick has spent the past couple of weeks on the Wall Street Journal's Bestseller List. I think you are going to start seeing it appear on some of the other lists in the next month. The buzz for the book continues to build.
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