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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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Learning from Neil Young
By Porchlight
Stew Friedman, over at the Harvard Business Publishing Blog, shares leadership lessons he gained from Neil Young's music. Stew's the author of Total Leadership.
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We met the guy who invented the VCR.
By Porchlight
Richard Elkus is his name. And well, he didn't invent the VCR himself but he led the team that invented the VCR. He flew into Madison to speak about his book, Winner Take All, for one of our LeaveSmarter events.
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Do you eat Stonyfield Yogurt?
By Porchlight
GOOD magazine devoted 32 pages to business in their November/December issue. To start the section off is an interview with Gary Hishberg, dairy king, founder of Stonyfield Farm and author of Stirring it Up: How to Make Money and Save the World. Here's a link to the interview.
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It's a good day for a ... Good Office
By Porchlight
Kate is our token "What if? " employee, always coming up with ideas for ways to host events, run a meeting, or arrange our workspace. Many of her ideas are terrific--like hosting our annual Author Pow-Wow at the Catalyst Ranch in Chicago--and some are a little bit "out there"--like putting all of our desks on hydraulics so we can move up and down and across our office.
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New excerpt up - from The Integrity Dividend
By Porchlight
There's a new excerpt up on our Excerpts blog. It's taken from Chapter 1 of The Integrity Dividend: Leading by the Power of Your Word by Tony Simons. From the publisher: In The Integrity Dividend Tony Simons shows how leaders' personal integrity drives the profitability and overall success of their organization.
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Excerpt from The Integrity Dividend
By Porchlight
The following excerpt is taken from Chapter 1 of The Integrity Dividend: Leading by the Power of Your Word by Tony Simons. From the publisher: In The Integrity Dividend Tony Simons shows how leaders' personal integrity drives the profitability and overall success of their organization. This groundbreaking book is based in on solid research and reveals that businesses led by managers of higher integrity enjoy deeper employee commitment, lower turnover, superior customer service, and substantially higher profitability.
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Two Tribes Things
By Porchlight
Just a two quick adds to what Dylan said earlier today: 1. Jack and I are going to be at the Tribes launch event next Wednesday in NYC. If you are going, drop us a note (todd at 800CEOREAD dot com) .
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CEO Update writes about CEO-READ
By Porchlight
Jacqueline Blais interviewed us about the company. She says nice things.
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Tribes Released!
By Porchlight
What many (including Todd) are calling Seth's best book since Purple Cow, and some are even calling his best book ever, goes on sale today. Entitled Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us, it describes the new paradigm of marketing as (and) leadership. Seth wrote of the book on his blog today: .
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