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How the Wise Decide: Dermot Dunphy, Part II
By Porchlight
This blog post comes from the authors of How the Wise Decide. To read part I, click here. Here's part II: : : : : : : : Dermot Dunphy, Part II Formulating a vision is one thing, executing it quite another.
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Excerpt from BrandDigital
By Porchlight
The excerpt below is from Allen Adamson's BrandDigital: Simple Ways Top Brands Succeed in the Digital World. It is excerpted from Chapter 10, "Start with a Simple Idea. " Allen certainly believes in branding simplicity.
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How the Wise Decide: Dermot Dunphy, Part I
By Porchlight
It's day two of Aaron and Bryn's, authors of How the Wise Decide, joining us to share the problems, lessons and solutions garnered from their interviews with 21 leaders. Today, they're talking aboutDermony Dunphy, the former CEO of Sealed Air. : : : : : : : Dermot Dunphy, Part I Most companies today have vision statements, idealistic slogans intended to guide their management and employees.
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How the Wise Decide: Bill George, Part III
By Porchlight
Part III of the Bill George story, brought to you by the authors of How the Wise Decide. : : : : : : Bill George, Part III Bill George calls his traumatic experience in the Lenox Hill operating room a "power-of-one" observation. That single catheter failure crystallized in a way that no report ever could the problem confronting Medtronic.
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Excerpt from What's Stopping You?
By Porchlight
The following excerpt is the beginning of Chapter Three from the book What's Stopping You? : Shatter the 9 Most Common Myths Keeping You from Starting Your Own Business by Duane Ireland and Bruce R. Barringer.
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How the Wise Decide: Bill George, Part II
By Porchlight
Part II of the Bill George story, brought to you by the authors of How the Wise Decide. : : : : : : Bill George, Part II After having a faulty Medtronic catheter thrown at him by an angry surgeon, Bill George began investigating why he hadn't known about quality problems plaguing the catheter business. What he found was a tortuous path that routed the sales reps' field reports about failing catheters through seven layers of bureaucracy before they reached the people who designed the products.
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Welcoming Aaron Sandoski and Bryn Zeckhauser: How the Wise Decide
By Porchlight
Joining us this week on the blog are Bryn Zeckhauser and Aaron Sandoski, authors of How the Wise Decide. They conducted 21 interviews of wise business and government leaders - including, Bill George of Medtronic, Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court, Daniel Kahneman a Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, Shelly Lazarus of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide and many more. They found six decision-making principles.
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Bunches of Business Book Recommendations
By Porchlight
There has been quite a run in the blogosphere in the last two weeks with people recommending business books. Josh Kauffman may have started this tidal wave with his updated 2008 version of The Personal MBA. His list is 77 books long with the mantra "skip b-school and the $100,000 loan: you can get a world-class business education simply by reading these books.
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The Surprise Element of Our Countdown Book Club
By Porchlight
Last week we launched the official countdown to Jack and Todd's book, The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. We thought about hiring the New York City New Year's Ball and then decided on a book club, to help you gear up for Jack and Todd's book. As Todd mentioned, it's a six-month book club.
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Honest Feet and Other Non-Verbal Cues
By Porchlight
We're always giving off nonverbal cues. From rolling our eyes, as teenagers, when our parents asked us to help with dishes. To putting our elbows on the table at dinner time.
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