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Wii are 800-CEO-READ
By Porchlight
Behold, the staff here at 800-CEO-READ. To learn more about us, visit our new about us page. *Wii portraits by 800-CEO-READ staff.
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Blog / Staff Picks
In the Books - Off to the Printers XIII
Book Review by Porchlight
The article below was printed in last year's In the Books—our annual review of the best in the business genre. It my (possibly ill-advised) attempt to look at how some of the books published in 2009 tackled the macroeconomic issues, with a (possibly ill-advised) splash of Candide thrown in awkwardly, for emphasis. If you don't feel like reading the entire essay on the topic, you can skip to the end of the post and see F.
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Blog / Staff Picks
In the Books - Off to the Printers XII
Book Review by Porchlight
In another installment from the annual review of business books we produced last year, we have an article from friend and former president of the company, Todd Sattersten. In it, he discusses the meta-themes in business thought that he and Jack uncovered as they spent 18 months compiling, reading, choosing and writing The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ The Five Universal Themes in Business BY TODD SATTERSTEN What happens when you spend 18 months reading the best in business literature?
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In the Books - Off to the Printers XI
Book Review by Porchlight
After an always busy year-end of hosting our Author Pow-Wow, reading and judging books for our 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards, producing our annual review of business books, planning our Book Awards Party in New York City, trying to keep up with our more mundane and unsung daily tasks, and working on our secret, obviously unannounced plans of world-domination, we're beginning to see the light here in the New Year. One big recent step was sending our annual review off to the printers*, and in a tradition I started last year to wrap up the project, I'd like to share with you here some of what we have written in previous issues. (I've also put links to previous entries in this series at the end of this post.
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800-CEO-READ in Japan????
By Porchlight
Jon Mueller became the GM at 8CR a little over a year ago, and has done a really great job making sure that 8CR continues to move forward in the business book world while preserving our off the wall, quirky culture. Jon is thousands of miles away from the office this week (playing music in Japan), so we wanted to share a little bit of what he's doing while we're in the office doing what we do best (playing the office Wii and listening to tunes—while reading, promoting, and selling books of course! ).
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Conference Room B
By Porchlight
“The irreducible essence of leadership is that leaders are people who live their deepest personal values without compromise, and they use those values to make life better for others—that is why people become leaders and why people follow leaders. ” —Stan Slap, Bury My Heart at Conference Room B (Portfolio, August 2010) If you follow Jack Covert Selects, you may recognize the quote above from Jack's most recent review. It's a quote that Jack and Carol appreciated so much that they asked me to put it on our conference room wall.
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The Keen Thinker Vol.2
By Sally Haldorson
Volume 2 of The Keen Thinker is now available for your reading pleasure. Find out the answers to the following persistent questions: What exactly is a Pecha Kucha? What is this "freemium" thing everyone is talking about?
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Our Blog - Accredited Online
By Porchlight
Jack copied me on his response to a message he received recently, writing "For an email out of the blue, this is a good one. " The message came from Adrienne Carlson, who runs the Accredited Online PHD University blog. She had written Jack to let him know that she included us in her recent post, 100 Awesome Blogs for Every Kind of Book Lover.
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New Feature: Books To Watch
By Porchlight
We have added a new feature to the site called "Books To Watch. " These are a set of lists categorized by month of books we think are cool. We see so many books that we want to tell you about but often run out of time getting to them all.
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My Favorite Business Book by You
By Porchlight
Earlier this year, we released The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. In making such a bold statement, we received both congratulatory notes and outright condemnation of our selections. As you can imagine, hard decisions had to be made.
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