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What You Need To Know About The Airline Industry
By Porchlight
In this passage from Boeing Versus Airbus, John Newhouse is elegant and efficient in his description of aircraft industry's product tiers, important equipment specifications, and overall history of the industry. I have been fascinated by the duel between these two companies and Newhouse tells me more in 700 words than I have read in countless articles. Airliners, like T-shirts, com in different sizes—small, medium, large, and extra-large.
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Improv-e it.
By Porchlight
There are a lot of different ways to improve public speaking. You could "buy Knockout Presentations, a book by speech coach Diane DiResta for $19. 95 [$15.
Categories: news-opinion
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Books for 20-somethings: Part 2
By Porchlight
I've posted an excerpt from My Reality Check Bounced! The Twentysomething's Guide to Cashing In on Your Real-World Dreams. It's an interesting look at the issues facing new recruits and fresh-out-of-college employees.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects: Simple Solutions
By Porchlight
Simple Solutions: Harness the Power of Passion and Simplicity to Get Results By Tom Schmidt and Arnold Perl, John Wiley, 210 Pages, $22. 95 Hardcover, February 2007, ISBN 0470048182 Not every business book needs to change the world or even teach us something brand new. Here, the authors offer a new way of looking at leadership: “Most importantly…is the underlying philosophy of leadership as something (a) that can be learned; (b) that is a practical, powerful way to building relationships; and (c) that gets results.
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Excerpt from My Reality Check Bounced!
By Porchlight
For twentysomethings entering the work force, more than a few lessons can be hard-hitting. In the following excerpt from Chapter 7 of My Reality Check Bounced! , Jason Ryan Dorsey shows how to turn difficult past experiences into power and energy for the future.
Categories: news-opinion
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Made To Stick Interview with Dan Heath
By Porchlight
In this interview I talk with Dan Heath, co-author with his brother Chip of Made To Stick: Why Some Ideas Thrive and Others Die . Dan and I talked for over an hour. We covered each of their six points from their book.
Categories: news-opinion
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Jack on IBM and Business Development
By Porchlight
From Jack. . .
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
What stuck after Made to Stick
By Porchlight
Our first LeaveSmarter event was a sticky success! On Tuesday about 60 people braved sub-zero temperatures and gathered at the Eisner to hear Dan and Chip talk about Made to Stick.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects: What Got You Here Won't Get You There
By Porchlight
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith with Mark Reiter, Hyperion, 200 Pages, $23. 95 Hardcover, January 2007, ISBN 1401301304 Marshall Goldsmith is huge in the world of executive coaching, so understand that the person this book is written to is not the mail room clerk. It is her supervisors’ supervisor.
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Market Inefficiencies
By Porchlight
I have been walking around with a October issue of Fortune in my bag for months. There is a special section in the 10/30/06 edition called Secrets of Greatness. The Q&A with Michael Lewis is what has kept in my bag.
Categories: news-opinion