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Matt Mason Named Year's Best Pirate
By Porchlight
BusinessWeek's Best and Worst of Everything 2008 has named Pirate's Dilemma author Matt Mason the best pirate of 2008, writing: Journalist Matt Mason's totemic book explores the issues faced by struggling musicians and chief executive officers alike. In a culture of pervasive sampling and remixing, how are notions of ownership and copyright evolving? Pirates, Mason argues persuasively, break old rules to establish new innovations.
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Feeling Down?
By Porchlight
Let Charlie Rose and Competitive Advantage author Michael Porter cheer you up some. As Charlie notes at the beginning of the interview, The Times of London has called Porter the "Most important business thinker in the world. " Also mentioned in the interview is his feature article for BusinessWeek last month, Why America Needs an Economic Strategy.
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InBubbleWrap - McDonald's: Behind the Arches
By Porchlight
For all of you not in the know, we continue to give away books featured in Jack and Todd's 100 Best Business Books of All Time over on InBubbleWrap. The idea is to help you build up a library of the books they've chosen for The 100 Best by the time it's released. This week we are offering McDonald's: Behind the Arches.
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The Best Books OF ALL TIME! - The Independent Edition
By Porchlight
Jack and Todd will soon have the definitive list of the best business books of all time published, but, in the meantime, here is what The Independent's Sean O'Grady has to say on the matter. He chooses from both "timeless classics [and] the latest crop of credit crunch chronicles. " It's an interesting list because it's from a newspaper that leans to the left side of the British political spectrum, providing a perspective from the side of the aisle that doesn't speak up on business books as often.
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The Best Books of 2008 - The Economist Edition
By Porchlight
The Economist has chosen their books of the year in a variety of categories. You can go through the entire list here, but I've listed the choices in the Economics & Business category for quick review below. The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R.
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The 2008 800-CEO-READ Book Award Winners Announced
By Porchlight
Today is the day many have been waiting for, as we announced the winners for this year's Book Awards. Click here to view the winners in 13 categories, as well as the overall Best Business Book of the Year. The 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards site can be found at www.
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The 2008 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards - Leadership
By Porchlight
The books on our 2008 shortlist for the Leadership Category are: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin (Portfolio, October 2008) This may be Seth Godin's most important book yet. It's human nature to want to be part of a group that shares a connection, passion and a common leader: a tribe. Technologies today have changed the make-up and creation of tribes, enabling them to communicate and grow in ways not possible in the past.
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The 2008 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards - Finance & Economics
By Porchlight
The books on our 2008 shortlist for the Finance & Economics Category are: The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives by Michael Heller (Basic Books, July 2008) Michael Heller didn't have language to describe the tragedy he saw occurring due to too much ownership, so he coined the term "the tragedy of the anticommons"--a term that describes the overreaction to the "tragedy of the commons,"--when public resources are overused and degraded. In The Gridlock Economy, Heller cites time and again examples of stifled innovation and lost economic growth due to outdated patent law, underuse of resources and, in general, too much ownership. The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R.
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The 2008 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards - Advertising & Marketing
By Porchlight
The books on our 2008 shortlist for the Advertising & Marketing Category are: The Brand Bubble: The Looming Crisis in Brand Value and How to Avoid It by John Gerzema and Ed Lebar (Jossey-Bass, October 2008) Companies put a lot of effort and money into their brands, which can sometimes be higher than the value they place on their customers. As this occurs, the number of quality performing brands decreases. According to Gerzema and Lebar, this is the brand bubble, and the result could have a serious blow to the economy.
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The 2008 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards - Innovation & Creativity
By Porchlight
The books on our 2008 shortlist for the Innovation & Creativity Category are: Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently by Gregory Berns (Harvard Business Press, October 2008) What is an iconoclast? "A person who does something that others say can't be done. " Gregory Berns researched iconclasts and found that their brains function differently from the average person in three respects: perception, fear response and social intelligence.
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