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Fine Tune Your Company
By Porchlight
Inc. Magazine has a great feature in their Jan/Feb 09 issue in which they asked their "favorite entrepreneurs for the tips and tricks they have used to pilot their business through difficult times. " One of the twenty three respondents just happens to be one of our favorite authors.
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The Core Trilogy
By Porchlight
I am a big fan of Chris Zook's work. He is a partner at Bain & Company and he has spent alot of time researching what companies should do from a strategic point of view to be successful. Zook offers sobering statistics for the success of new ventures and equally inspiring numbers for the power that market leaders have in their industries.
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100 Posts about The 100 Best
By Porchlight
Jack and I have this book coming out. You might have heard about it :) The 100 Best Business Books of All Time hits shelves February 5th, a mere 29 days from now (not that anyone is counting). We have a lot of things planned as we run up to the launch.
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Two Discussions Worth Having
By Porchlight
The New York Times economics blog, Economix, has had two great posts recently that tie into recent business books and big ideas. The first, Helping People Make Good Choices, was posted on Sunday by economics editor Catherine Rampell and discusses "libertarian paternalism," an idea at the center of Richard Thaler and Cass Sustein's Nudge. It covers irrational behavior (the bane of traditional economists) and the subtle ways in which we can influence people to act in their own and others' best interests.
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Book Wish Foundation
By Porchlight
I personally think books always make the best and most thoughtful gifts. They require a good knowledge of the person you're giving them to and a reflection on what you believe they'd like to expend their precious time and intellectual capital on. We hope you gave and received many books this holiday season, and hope you'll consider giving a dollar for each to Book Wish Foundation, whose mission is "to provide reading relief for people in crisis.
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Leader's Seven Essential Behaviors
By Porchlight
According to Ram Charam and Larry Bossidy's book Execution, the leader's seven essential behaviors are: Know your people and your business Insist on realism Set clear goals and priorities Follow through Reward the doers Expand people's capabilities Know yourself.
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InBubbleWrap - A David Allen Twofer
By Porchlight
We begin 2009 with a twofer over on InBubbleWrap. We continue in our Herculean effort to give away The 100 Best Business Books of All Time by offering up David Allen's Getting Things Done, and are supplementing that already substantial offer with Allen's new book, Making It All Work. If you ask me, Getting Things Done and Making It All Work are two important goals to set for the remainder of the year, and you only have 360 days left to accomplish them.
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Authentic Charisma. Charismatic Authenticity.
By Porchlight
Communication is everything. As Nick Morgan explains, every bit of communication consists of two conversations: verbal and non-verbal. Which has a greater impact?
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On the future of books
By Porchlight
Hugh McGuire at The Huffington Post has written a fascinating essay on the state of book publishing and his hopes for its future. He asks, "What would happen if, tomorrow, every publisher, and every book store, went out of business? What would you do?
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This week on inBubbleWrap: Beyond the Core
By Porchlight
"It's tough to decide what to become if you don't know who you are. " *From a Q&A with Zook. This week over at inBubbleWrap, we're giving away Chris Zook's Beyond the Core, one of the books featured in The 100 Best Business Books of All Time.
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