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Books for Baby Boomer Business Owners
By Porchlight
The Small Business Boomers blog is running a contest, and all you have to do to enter is leave a comment. Here's the deal. If you leave a comment recommending a business book you think would be valuable to baby boomers starting a business, you will automatically be entered to win two books: The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber and The Warren Buffett Way by Robert G.
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Pockets of Knowledge
By Porchlight
On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to interview Jeff Howe on his book Crowdsourcing. We talked about what crowdsourcing is. Essentially, it means harnessing the power of an undefined crowd to do work.
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The World Is Flat... Now It's Free
By Porchlight
Beginning tomorrow, and running through August 4th, Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Macmillan Audio will be offering the audio edition of Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat for free. Listeners will receive the audiobook in three easy-to-download sections, and soon after that, as an added bonus, will also receive an exclusive prepublication audio excerpt of Friedman's Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America. The book itself will be released by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on September 8th.
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Rajesh Setty Interviews Mike Kanazawa
By Porchlight
Beyond the Code author Rajesh Setty has posted an interview with Mike Kanazawa, author of Big Ideas to Big Results. The two met at our 2007 Author Pow-wow, and are both ChangeThis authors as well. Here is an excerpt of that interview: Rajesh Setty: I've heard you talk about doing "more on less.
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More From The Penguin Blog--The Hornby Edition--and Other Stuff I've Been Missing
By Porchlight
I love Nick Hornby. His column, "Stuff I've Been Reading," is (or, sadly, was) the first thing I turn to every month when The Believer arrives in the mail. They're consistently the most unpretentious, enjoyable and downright funny reviews out there.
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Feel free to submit your Crowdsourcing questions
By Porchlight
This afternoon I'm interviewing Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing. * Back in 2006, Jeff coined the phrase of crowdsourcing in his article for Wired magazine. Crowdsourcing, a play on outsourcing, is the idea of using crowds to solve problems, invent and generally, get work done.
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The Behavioral Economics of Penguin Classics and A Long Tail Discussion
By Porchlight
The Penguin Blog has an excellent post on behavioral economics and why people buy more Penguin Classics than other publishers. Sales Managaer Fiona Buckland has obviously been following business literature, as she references not only the classic Why We Buy, but also recenty released Predictable Irrational and Nudge--the latter of which they've recently acquired the paperback rights to and will be releasing in January. (In her post, Buckland also links to a great review of Predictably Irrational from The Guardian) Seth Godin had a very interesting post on the profitability of The Long Tail on Friday.
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Joe Nocera's Best Business Books Ever
By Porchlight
Joe Nocera is a columnist for The New York Times who writes about big business, and yesterday my inbox was filled with notes pointing me to his blog. His latest post recommends what he believes are the best business books ever. Here is Nocera's list with his commentary: "Liar's Poker," by Michael Lewis (even though I've since become convinced that the anecdote that gives the book its title never happened).
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The Bicycle Gang
By Porchlight
I'm sure somewhere, there's a theory that, those who ride together, work well together. Or so holds true here. We 8cr-ers have a bicycle gang.
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Edgelings and The Longer Tail
By Porchlight
Silicon Valley's native son Mike Malone has been covering the tech industry better and for longer than anyone. We voted his latest book, Bill & Dave, the best of the year in the biography and memoir category in our first annual 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards. He has now teamed up with Robert Grove and Tom Hayes to create Edgelings.
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