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Blog / News & Opinion
Make your brand's purpose and passion clear
By Sally Haldorson
Joy Stauber runs Stauber Design Studio in Chicago, IL, and not only is she a great friend of the company, she is also a terrific designer who has helped us identify, articulate, and express our brand. If you've enjoyed any of our marketing pieces over the years, know that Joy has partnered with us to create the most eye-catching and consistent of messages. Watch the video below, created by Joy's intern, Lizzie Callen, which captures the best of our brand.
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
A Covert Departure
By Porchlight
Today is officially the last day of Jack Covert's tenure as President of 800-CEO-READ, a company he founded and has led since 1984. If it were up to us as a staff, we would find some grand gesture to mark the occasion. We would release a flock of exquisite birds in his honor, or etch "Thanks, Jack" onto the face of the moon.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
In the Books, 2012 - The Digital Edition
By Porchlight
Jon and Sally have both spread the good word about In the Books, our annual review of business books, offering copies to anyone that asked and provided an address. Jon offered them here on the blog while I was out on paternity leave, and Sally offered them up in our latest Keen Thinker (the monthly newsletter she releases that, if you're reading this, you really should be following). I'm the one responsible for the project here, and now that I'm pretty sure everyone that cares enough to ask for a paper copy has received one, I am making the digital copy available to any and all takers.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Author Pow Wow recap
By Porchlight
Some of us here at 800-CEO-READ just returned from this year's Author Pow Wow in Austin, TX. What's the Pow Wow? Every year since around 2005, we've gathered a room full of publishers, authors, marketers, speaking experts, designers, editors, agents, sales people, and a few people curious about becoming an author, to talk about what works, what doesn't, and how to make a more successful career as a business author.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Author Pow Wow and The Art of Project Management (For Authors)
By Porchlight
The 800-CEO-READ Author Pow Wow is just around the corner, and we still have a few spots open. For those still on the fence, know this: We have last year's keynote speaker and New York Times bestselling author Tim Sanders—Love is the Killer App, The Likeability Factor, and Today We Are Rich—giving a special half hour session on publishing entitled The Art of Project Management (For Authors). His talk on publishing last year melted minds, and left people changed for the better in opinion and approach.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / Staff Picks
KnowledgeBlocks
Book Review by Porchlight
We're very pleased to announce the official opening of KnowledgeBlocks, a subscription-based service and online resource that gives readers access to quality content and business resources, a way to save, organize, and customize the information that is important to them, and engages business authors and thought leaders to help solve business problems and build new knowledge. Among the key features of the site, subscribers have access to the following: Explorations: Every month we publish three business book explorations that examine a narrow subject within a broader business topic. Each begins with a featured book and then branches out in unexpected directions, introducing you to author insights via podcast or interview, other related must-reads, curated links, and brief analyses that will help you build your business knowledge.
Categories: staff-picks, narrative-biography, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
In The Books
By Porchlight
It's that time of year again. We've compiled all the great books, ideas, and activities that 800-CEO-READ was involved in over the past year and published them in our annual In the Books publication. As the intro states: "At 800-CEO-READ, we don't come to work everyday just to sell business books.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Congratulations to Dylan and Kat
By Sally Haldorson
Dylan Schleicher has been working for 800-CEO-READ since 2003. He's done nearly every job, but for the majority of his time here, he's been creating things for us all to learn from and enjoy. Perhaps you've read some of his blog posts here that always include an entertaining and thought-provoking blend of current events and history, pop culture and more esoteric interests, as well as an excellent grasp of the context into which a new business book falls.
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
No Rest for the Wicket
By Porchlight
We held annual 800-CEO-READ summer picnic/croquet tournament yesterday. As we do every year, we all gathered at Jack's house. Being good Wisconsinites, we grill up some meat in tube form and fresh corn, grab a drink and settle into the back yard.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Snowbound
By Sally Haldorson
Jack has always said that we would never close unless the city buses stopped running, and as far as I can remember, this is the first time 800-CEO-READ has been forced to close due to weather. The blizzard last night was everything the weather experts advertised (for once) and there is a Civil Danger Alert for the City of Milwaukee. The schools are closed.
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