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What's Left of The Best Of
By Porchlight
This should be the end of it. I promise no more Best Of 2006 Lists. I thought these were worth of the one last look back at the year.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Gladwell on Enron
By Porchlight
Malcolm Gladwell writes in the current New Yorker about Enron and too much information. As usual Malcolm makes you think. Check out the article here.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Wal-Smart
By Porchlight
Bill Marquard came to Milwaukee to visit Kate and I and we had a great lunch at the local brew pub. I have been wanting to dig into the book ever since. Finally, I have.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Brand Autopsy Unboxes WSJ
By Porchlight
John at the Brand Autopsy unboxes The Wall Street Journal today. WSJ unveiled their new format going to a narrower format with more color and graphics. John does what any good business geek would do and shows you the new offering.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Launching LeaveSmarter
By Porchlight
If you're in or near Milwaukee, or will be in Milwaukee, or need a reason to come to Milwaukee this spring, we've got one. Our LeaveSmarter series. Actually, it's three reasons.
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Blog / ChangeThis
Elegant Solutions: Breakthrough Thinking the Toyota Way
By Matthew E. May
One million ideas a year. A culture of innovation. An intrinsic belief that good enough never is. Matthew May's manifesto shows you how Toyota's principles and practices will help you engage your creative spirit and bring elegant solutions to your work and life.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
No Need to Fear: How Global Outsourcing Equals Opportunity
By Porchlight
Here, Steve Hamm asserts that outsourcing need not result in the vilification of foreign workers and the American companies who choose to find cost solutions overseas. Instead, he believes it offers opportunity to those who choose to look for it.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Co-Creation Rules!
By Porchlight
Cherkoff and Moore present inspiring examples of open source marketing that prove engagement trumps control in maximizing customer experience and making meaning. It may be a platitude to say that two heads are better than one, but this manifesto features collaboration in a whole new light—between company and consumer.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Purpose: How to Define It and Make It Work for You and Your Company
By Nikos Mourkogiannis
Just read the first page of this manifesto, and you'll understand exactly what it is to have purpose. Read the subsequent pages and you'll find just how to develop your own sense of purpose through discovery, excellence, altruism and heroism.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Women Bloggers: Changing Their Worlds, Changing the World
By Porchlight
Women are the power consumers and connectors of the Internet, and yet, their influence has mostly been invisible to the mainstream media and industry pundits. The BlogHer web community was created to offer a centralized location for women bloggers, creating one voice out of many whispers.
Categories: changethis