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The Daily Drucker ** CONTEST ALERT **
By Porchlight
CONTEST IS OVER! CONGRATS PAUL IN OREGON! Once in awhile it happens.
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inBubbleWrap - The Smartest Guys in the Room
By Porchlight
It being Monday as it is, we're back at inBubbleWrap, giving away another one of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. This week, we have The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron. As Jack will tell you, it's the best narrative of the Enron saga that exists on bookshelves, and the edition that we're giving away is updated to include the Enron trial and the death of Ken Lay.
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Our Response to BusinessWeek
By Porchlight
There are only a few people in the media who know business books as well as Jack and I. Hardy Green, an associate editor at BusinessWeek, is one of those people. We met with Hardy in New York two weeks ago and he quickly commenced with critiquing our selections for The 100 Best.
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Today is the Day
By Porchlight
Jack and I have been working on an idea for about two years. We thought it made sense to put our knowledge about business books into a book of our own. Today, The 100 Best Business Books of All Time was released by our wonderful friends at Portfolio.
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The Snowball Effect
By Porchlight
While it's slightly gossipy, there was an interesting article from Leslie Wayne in The New York Times recently about Warren Buffet and his biographer, Alice Schroeder. Apparently, the dinner hosted by Ms. Schroeder, a tradition of many years at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, has been canceled this year.
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2008's International Best Sellers!
By Porchlight
I know, I know - it's kind of a bit late for New Year's Wishes, but I'm gonna do it anyway! I'm offering up our listing of what was HOT HOT HOT last year from our customers across the borders, times zones and bodies of water! Take time to see what was popular in Poland, on demand in Denmark, cool in Canada and intoxicating in India!
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inBubbleWrap - The 100 Best Business Books of All Time
By Porchlight
Have we mentioned that we have this book coming out? About business books, perhaps? Like, this week?
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Are you in California?
By Porchlight
Next week is the big week for us at 800-CEO-READ. You've seen a fair amount of our chatter over the excitement of our book, The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. This coming week is the official launch week!
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Why A Book? - Part II
By Porchlight
My prior "Why A Book? " post describes why we are writing a book versus doing something else. This post is more about who will benefit from this project.
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Why A Book? - Part I
By Porchlight
This is the question every journalist has asked us in their interviews about The 100 Best. Jack and I normally get about one sentence to answer. The internet allows more space for the proper respsonse.
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