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Books for 20-Somethings: Part 1
By Porchlight
This is the first in a series of blog posts I plan to write about books for new recruits and fresh-out-of-college employees. I think these books can be beneficial to both 20-somethings and the people who employ them. It discusses the issues new recruits face and provides strategies for high, quality performance.
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Must-Read: Made To Stick
By Porchlight
My friend Bob Sutton told me in March 2006 that I needed to watch out for the Heath brothers. Bob said they had a great book coming out and that Dan and Chip were going to be stars. I saw a galley for Made To Stick the next month and I fell in love with it.
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Change or Die. (Wait, what?!)
By Porchlight
Do you remember this cover story in Fast Company magazine? Change or Die Well, Alan Deutschmann has developed it into an entire book. Change or Die.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects: The Three Tensions
By Porchlight
The Three Tensions: Winning the Struggle to Perform Without Compromise by Dominic Dodd and Ken Favaro, Jossey-Bass, January 2007, $27. 95, Hardcover, 256 Pages, ISBN 0787987794 800-CEO-READ has experienced considerable growth over the last four years. We are very fortunate, but our success has presented us with options we have never had to consider before.
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iRapture
By Porchlight
Mea culpa: I am one of the pod people, an invadee of the body snatchers, when it comes to the mass hysteria surrounding the iPhone. To me this is not a story about an insanely great $500 cel phone cum music player; Jobs’s landmark keynote signaled an event of huge business consequence. More than a shiny new toy, more than the buzziest product of the decade, more than a business tool with ginormous cultural cachet; this iPhone blows me away in the following ways.
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Jack Covert Selects: Run with the Bulls Without Getting Trampled
By Porchlight
Run With the Bulls Without Getting Trampled: The Qualities You Need to Stay Out of Harm’s Way and Thrive at Work by Tim Irwin, Ph. D. , Nelson Business, January 2007, $24.
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Harvard Business School Press Goes Web 2.0
By Porchlight
The publicity team at Harvard Business School Press is using del. icio. us to store and distribute PR hits they get for their books.
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Daily Dose of The Executive Almanac Part 4
By Porchlight
Today's Dose of The Executive Almanac: Whatever Happened to Borden Founded 1857 "Once the world's largest food company--Gail Borden invented condensed milk, and the company was the first to put fresh milk into bottles--Borden lost its way in the 1980s, selling and buying companies at a rapid clip. Meanwhile, it was making more money in chemicals than in foods. In 1995 the investment firm Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts acquired Borden in a leveraged buyout and then sold off the food business, including Cracker Jack, Creamette and Prince pastas, Snow's Clam Chowder, Realemon, and Wise's Cheez Doodles.
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Jack Covert Selects: Made to Stick
By Porchlight
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Random House, January 2007, $24. 95 Hardcover, 288 Pages, ISBN 1400064287 One of the perks about being in the book industry is meeting some really smart people. In November, at our Author Pow-Wow, I got to meet Dan Heath, one of the authors of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die.
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Daily Dose of The Executive Almanac Part 3
By Porchlight
Today's dose from The Executive Almanac: "Teach Your Son to Play First Base Here are the average annual salaries of baseball players in 2004, according to position played First base: $6. 8 million Outfield: $4. 5 million Third base: $3.
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