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A Thousand Things Matter
By Porchlight
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Business Books For The Current Credit Crunch
By Porchlight
Shelf Awareness, a great site that follows the book trade, requested book suggestions that would help explain the current credit crisis. On Friday, they ran the piece under the heading Meltdown Lit: Recommended Books for the Wall Street Debacle. Please go check out the whole piece.
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Taking the Show on The Road
By Porchlight
800-CEO-READ is celebrating its 25th year this year and we have sold business books in almost every conceivable manner during that time. So, we thought it was time to share some of what we know with others. Jack and I spoke on Thursday in St.
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New Buffet Book Bought and Being Blogged
By Porchlight
At the Kempton Ideas Revolution blog, they have managed to get a copy of The Snowball: Warren Buffett and The Business of Life ahead of its Monday release date. It didn't sound very hard: a call to the local bookstore and a trip over to pick it up. The blogger is going through the book's 62 chapters and posting their favorite quote.
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On a fictional note. Well, it's true. McSweeney's will be live on(line) air.
By Porchlight
With 800-CEO-READ having a sister that's an independent bookstore, we hear about a fair amount of fiction titles. Some of those coming from McSweeney's -- a favorite independent publisher of many here. On this day (Friday), one of our favorites will join another of our local favorites on a conversation (and possibly some music) revolving around McSweeney's.
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Reviewing Reviews
By Porchlight
Heather Green has written a wonderful review of Jeff Howe's Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business for the September 29 issue of BusinessWeek. After observing that "Books about the crowd are becoming a crowd unto themselves," Green writes: What sets Howe's book apart is his focus on business, an examination of different crowdsourcing models, and a deep dive into academic research to explain why people work together. It's a welcome and well-written corporate playbook for confusing times.
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Freakonomics: Around the world in cover images
By Porchlight
Check out these cover images. Each time a new edition of Freakonomics is published, Steven and Stephen add it to their online collection. I'd love to hear the cultural reasoning behind each design.
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Profile of a Marketing Guru
By Porchlight
This week BusinessWeek ran a profile of our friend Seth Godin. Godin's ability to synthesize and combine topics helps account for his broad influence. "Some people want a deep dive; they want metrics.
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Our first Milkshake Moment
By Porchlight
This is just a short post to give a shout out to our friend Steve Little. Today at lunch, when the waitress took our drink orders, Michele asked for hot chocolate. It's getting to be fall here in Wisconsin, so hot drinks are common requests.
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Essay from Byrne Murphy, author of Le Deal
By Porchlight
Byrne Murphy, the author of Le Deal: How a Young American, in Business, in Love, and in Over His Head, Kick-Started a Multibillion-Dollar Industry in Europe, graciously wrote this essay for our blog. Le Deal is best described as an entrepreneurship book, but there are elements of memoir, adventure, global economics, and business narrative here. Murphy recounts his abrupt decision to move his life and family to Paris, his early struggles to gain a foothold in a foreign business culture, and his eventual success with McArthurGlen Europe, "which created nearly 8,000 jobs, opened 1,500 stores featuring 500 brands, and attracted nearly 40 million shopping visits per year.
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