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August's International Best Sellers
By Porchlight
It's that time to find out what people were reading from 800CEOREAD in August all around the world! Canada Heads Up Kenneth McGee Great Britain Strengths Finder 2. 0 Tom Rath China The Necessary Revolution Peter M.
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Welcome Back Kotter
By Porchlight
Today marks the release of John Kotter's latest book, A Sense of Urgency, by Harvard Business School Press. Kotter has written about urgency before. .
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New excerpt up - from Leadership and the Sexes
By Porchlight
There's a new excerpt up on our Excerpts blog. It's taken from Chapter 1 of Leadership and the Sexes: Using Gender Science To Create Success In Business by Michael Gurian and Barbara Annis. From the publisher: "Men and women lead differently.
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Excerpt from Leadership and the Sexes
By Porchlight
The following excerpt is taken from Chapter 1 of Leadership and the Sexes: Using Gender Science To Create Success In Business by Michael Gurian and Barbara Annis. In this new book, Leadership and the Sexes gender experts Michael Gurian and Barbara Annis show what the latest scientific studies reveal about male/female brain differences, and explain how these differences impact the ways that men and women negotiate, communicate, lead, and run meetings. Chapter 1: Understanding the Science of Gender Human evolution has created two different types of brains (male and female) designed for equally intelligent behavior.
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Steven Levy's Top 10 Technology Titles
By Porchlight
You may know Steven Levy for his many books--his most recent is The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness--or from his work covering technology for various magazines. He made the move to writing full time for Wired after 12 years at Newsweek just this year (I linked to his recent review of Anathem last week). A true expert on the matter, he recently published his list of the top 10 general-interest technology books over at ieee spectrum online, writing: Any great nonfiction book combines education with entertainment.
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The Age of Speed
By Porchlight
Vince Poscente understands the opportunities speed offers. At age 26, he took up speed skiing, and merely four years later, he would race to a Canadian national record of 135 miles per hour at the Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. That was 1992.
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New Excerpts from Brand Digital and What's Stopping You?
By Porchlight
There are two new excerpts up on that blog devoted to them. The first is from What's Stopping You: Shatter the 9 Most Common Myths Keeping You from Starting Your Own Business by Duane Ireland and Bruce R. Barringer, and shares three insights into why starting a business is not as expensive as you think.
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Creative and Personal Mastery coming to Los Angeles
By Porchlight
Srikumar Rao, author of Are You Ready to Succeed? , is offering his Creative and Personal Mastery course in Los Angeles for the first time this fall. The course has been wildly popular in its previous incarnations at Columbia Business School, the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley and London Business School.
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How the Wise Decide: Final Post
By Porchlight
For the past few days, we've been joined by Bryn and Aaron, authors of How the Wise Decide. If you'd like to catch up on their blog posts, start here. This is their final post for our blog.
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How the Wise Decide: Dermot Dunphy, Part III
By Porchlight
This blog post comes from the authors of How the Wise Decide. To read part I, click here and part II. Here's part III: : : : : : : : : Dermot Dunphy, Part III The real challenge confronting Dermot Dunphy as he pursued his vision for Sealed Ait was how to keep the technological edge that allowed Sealed Air to charge premium prices.
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