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Top 5 Bestselling Books of All-Time
By Porchlight
I know I promised no more "Best of" lists, but Good Magazine (which is really good by the way) has a sidebar on the bestselling books of all time. I couldn't resist.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Growing Great Employees Interview with Erika Andersen - Part 1
By Porchlight
In this interview, I talk with Erika Andersen, author of Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People Into Extraordinary Performers. When I asked Erika what the movie pitch was for her book, she said Growing Great Employees is "Good To Great meets Marcus Buckingham in the form of a Boy Scouts Handbook". You'll have to listen to get her full explanation of that, along with our discussion of nature versus nuture, why she used a gardening analogy, and why there are good reasons to have job descriptions.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Business Books For January: Wikinomics
By Porchlight
Don Tapscott has been writing about the intersection of business and technology for years. Wikinomics is his latest effort to explain how the networked Web is changing the relationships between companies and their customers. If you spend any time in this ideaspace, you are going to be familiar with many of the examples in Wikinomics.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Breakthrough Questions
By Porchlight
In a new book called "Simple Solution" are a few questions that the authors suggest will help middle managers make an impact and stand out. They state: "Here are some examples to practice asking breakthrough questions. After reading them, formulate at least three breakthrough questions that would initiate radical change in your department.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Daily Dose of The Executive Almanac Part 6
By Porchlight
Today's Dose from The Executive Almanac: "JPMorgan Chase, the third largest bank in the United States, has a lot of ancestors--and now it's making amends for two of them. Between 1831 and 1865, two predecessor banks, Citizens Bank and Canal Bank, both operating in Louisiana, apparently made loans with some 13,000 slaves as collateral. When planation owners defaulted on the loans, the banks took possession of 1,250 slaves.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
Fast Company stuck on Made to Stick
Book Review by Porchlight
The February issue of Fast Company magazine is calling Made to Stick a candidate for this year's Freakonomics. It also mentions Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg and Flower Confidential by Amy Stewart. That reminds me, have I mentioned lately that Dan Heath and Chip Heath (authors of Made to Stick) will be in Milwaukee on February 6?
Categories: staff-picks, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
NYT Book Review on Setting The Table
By Porchlight
I picked the Sunday New York Times yesterday and saw Setting The Table (written by Danny Meyer) was reviewed by Sara Dickerman. Her review shows she likes the book, but Dickerman thinks Meyer gets a little cutesy: But Meyer is not giving advice to would-be restauranteurs: his book aims for a broader business audience. Whether his model of "hospitalitocracy" can expand beyond the service industry is hard to say, but Meyer certainly tries hard.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Business Books for January: Intro
By Porchlight
January is a big month for business books. There are at least a dozen books that have come out in January (or late December) that are worthy of consideration. The list below is a starting point.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / News & Opinion
Daily Dose of The Executive Almanac Part 5
By Porchlight
Today's Dose of The Executive Almanac: How to Deal with White-Collar Crime "In September 2004, the Chinese government executed four bank executives for fraud totaling $15 million. The two banks involved were state-owned entities. Wang Liming, an accounting officer at China Construction Bank, was put to death, along with an accomplice, Miao Ping, for stealing 20 million yuan (about $2.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
800ceoread Blogs Now Available Through Email
By Porchlight
I got a request this week to make our blogs available to people through email. Since we use Feedburner to host our RSS feeds, adding Feedburner Email was a snap. So, if you have friends and neighbors who might enjoy what we do and don't use RSS yet, let them know we now welcome everyone.
Categories: news-opinion