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Tom Peters Thoughts on Dealing with these Strange Times
By Porchlight
In Tom Peters blog today he has some great ideas about how we can deal with these uncertain times. Check it out here. The comments are also very good.
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September's Audio Books
By Porchlight
Here are September's Top 25 Books from 800CEOREAD that are now available in audio format! Surprisingly, 7 new titles made our list this month starting out in the # 2 and # 3 positions with the Encore Effect and The First Billion is the Hardest. Compact disks may have become more in style or perhaps people have been on the go/traveling more.
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Guest Post IV - Lee J. Colan, Ph.D.
By Porchlight
Below is the last post we have from Lee Colan. We'd like to thank him for the providing the material and hope you've all enjoyed it. If so, I would humbly recommend looking into his new book, Engaging the Hearts and Minds of All Your Employees: How to Ignite Passionate Performance for Better Business Results.
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Guest Post III - Lee J. Colan, Ph.D.
By Porchlight
And now for the third installment of Lee J. Colan series of guest posts. If you like what you're reading, pick up his new book, Engaging the Hearts and Minds of All Your Employees: How to Ignite Passionate Performance for Better Business Results.
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Guest Post II - Lee J. Colan, Ph.D.
By Porchlight
Below is the second part in Lee J. Colan's series of guest posts. We'll have two more for you tomorrow.
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Management Lessons from the Ryder Cup Win
By Porchlight
"If I tell you, then I can never do a book, right? " That's the answer WSJ Golf Journal writer John Paul Newport got from Ryder Cup captain Paul Azinger after asking how he managed to take the twelve person squad minus Tiger Woods and break the Americans nine year losing streak. Azinger says he was inspired by the Navy Seals 13-man units and their smaller sub-units constructed for specific missions.
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Exciting Book News
By Porchlight
Amazon now shows the cover of our new book. Check it out here. Thanks Jeff.
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Guest Post - Lee J. Colan, Ph.D.
By Porchlight
Over the next few days, we will have a series of guest-posts from Lee Colan, the author of Engaging the Hearts and Minds of All Your Employees: How to Ignite Passionate Performance for Better Business Results, recently released by McGraw-Hill. To read this post in it's entirety, click the "continue reading" link at the end of the entry. Achieving Passionate PerformanceRegardless of current economic trends, the labor shortage is still alive and well.
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Snowball or Avalanche?
By Porchlight
I am annoyed by the newswire stories that each day report causes for stock market fluctuations without any real substantiation. I am surprise no one has connected some aspect of the 777 drop in the Dow Jones Industrial yesterday to the release of The Snowball, the new biography about Warren Buffet. In writing about the new book, Marketwatch did manage to call out Buffet's Goldman Sachs investment as an example of his prowess for finding bargains.
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Dave Eggers Weighs In On the Future of Reading
By Porchlight
Esquire recently asked one of my publishing heroes, Dave Eggers, what he thinks of the future of reading. It's an important and recurring concern for us here, and after so reading many doomsday scenarios for the publishing industry (like this one), Mr. Eggers vision is thankfully optimistic.
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