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When Ira Meets Dale.
By Porchlight
Ira Glass adds a spin on a classic business read -- Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People.
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Build your culture with free audio
By Porchlight
Zappos is a company that focuses foremost on company culture. By doing so, they believe that things like great customer service and branding will naturally evolve. They're not alone in this thought.
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Enough already!
By Porchlight
For the last few weeks we have been pummeled, along with all of you, by this Category Five financial hurricane. We got sucked in writing post after post about what you could be reading if you wanted to better understand financial collapse. I stopped reading the newspaper because every headline contains some synonym of "worse".
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Pecha Kucha Night #3 - Slideshow - October 28, 2008
By Porchlight
Thanks to everyone who came out to Pecha Kucha Night #3 last night. We had a blast, and we hope you did too! Here is a slideshow of photos from last night.
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The good teacher named Failure.
By Porchlight
One of example of failure Bob Sutton mentions in Weird Ideas That Work is that of IDEO's invention process, specifically Skyline, a toy development department. This week he ran across a another organization's failure rate. That of, The Onion's.
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Authors Guild, AAP & Google Reach an Agreement
By Porchlight
A groundbreaking settlement has been announced in the Authors Guild v. Google case, which charged Google with copyright infringement in it's drive to digitize the world's books on Google Book Search. The Chairman of The Association of American Publishers says of the settlement: "This settlement clearly took a long time to negotiate, and rightly so--it is breathtaking in scope, groundbreaking for publishers and authors, and trailblazing for intellectual property in general.
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Two Lists
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The Arizona Republic printed a list of recommended finance and business titles from Jeffrey L. Coles'--finance department chair at Arizona State University. They are: Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L.
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And Kindle Sales Skyrocket
By Porchlight
From Oprah. com: This summer, Oprah received a gift that she says changed her life. "It's absolutely my new favorite favorite thing in the world," she says.
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Innovation.
By Porchlight
John Kao talked about it last year. Richard Elkus mentioned it last week. And, on Friday, NPR discussed it with Judy Estrin, author of Closing the Innovation Gap and former Chief Technology Officer at Cisco.
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Tune In: Muhammad Yunus on Charlie Rose tonight
By Porchlight
I thought I'd follow up on Dylan's praise of Charlie Rose. Tonight Charlie is bringing in Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner for his efforts in microlending and author of both Banker to the Poor and Creating a World Without Poverty. Joining them will be Michael Milken.
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