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Discovering the Soul of Service, an interview with Dr. Leonard Berry
By Porchlight
My purpose in this book is to identify, describe, and illustrate the underlying drivers of sustainable success in service businesses. - Dr. Leonard Berry Len Berry is the disciple of service.
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100 Best: Jack interviews Dr. Leonard Berry, author of Discovering the Soul of Service
By Porchlight
You may have heard Len Berry's name come up in our conversation. He is the disciple of service. He has studied, researched and dissected what good service means from the likes of the Mayo Clinic, Charles Schwab, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and Midwest Express Airlines.
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The 100 Best: Two interviews with the authors of Financial Intelligence
By Porchlight
"If we are to truly understand business and the effects financial firms have on the world, we must understand the rules and the principles of accounting," starts Todd with his review in The 100 Best of Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean. What's happening in the market shows just how important understanding the numbers can be. That's where Karen Berman, Joe Knight and their writing partner, John Case come in.
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ChangeThis: Issue 55
By Porchlight
The 55th issue of ChangeThis has been published for your perusal and reading pleasure. Excerpts and links below. ::::: Live the Juggle Life by Ian Sanders "In this scrambled up world of work there are no rules and few walls.
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The Largest Gathering of 100 Best Authors West of the Mississippi
By Porchlight
Last week Todd and I hosted a 100 Best event at Stanford. This was the largest gathering to date of 100 Best authors west of the Mississippi River! Joining us were Jeffrey Pfeffer and Bob Sutton, authors of The Knowing-Doing Gap; Chip Heath, with Made to Stick; and Randy Komisar, with The Monk and Riddle.
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The 100 Best: an Interview with Strat Sherman of Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will
By Porchlight
As I mentioned yesterday, we're posting a number of interviews with the authors of books in The 100 Best. Today's interview is with Strat Sherman, co-author of Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will. This was the first book to write on the success of GE in the Jack Welch era.
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Twitter!
By Porchlight
Dear reader, If you're on twitter, we'd love to see you there. You can find us @800ceoread. com.
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The first of the podcasts with authors in The 100 Best
By Porchlight
This last week has been a bit of a whirlwind here! Much is going on with The 100 Best. Lots of folks are talking about it and tweeting about it.
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Blogging From O'Reilly Tools of Change
By Porchlight
I am in NYC for the next two days at the O'Reilly Tools of Change Conference. I am going to post updates on the author blog and on my twitter account.
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What my Twitter response to the BW article could have been...
By Porchlight
AmandaFenton : Before today slips away, my lesson: I miss reading my business books! No more Twitter on the train = 20 mins of old fashioned reading. Nite!
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