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New Excerpt - The Gridlock Economy
By Porchlight
We've posted a new excerpt over on the blog that we post excerpts on--the excerpts blog. It is taken from Chapter 3 of The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Cost Lives by Michael A. Heller.
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Excerpt from The Gridlock Economy
By Porchlight
The following excerpt is the beginning of Chapter 3 in The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Cost Lives by Michael A. Heller. The publisher writes "Every so often an idea comes along that transforms our understanding of how the world works.
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Webinar with Dan Heath, author of Made to Stick
By Porchlight
One of our favorite authors, Dan Heath, is leading a web seminar through The Center for Great Management. Click here to learn more about the seminar and to sign up if you're interested. Here's the description of the event: Virtual Seminar Overview In this era of ever-tougher competition, your company's greatest asset is its managers.
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links for 2008-07-14
By Porchlight
When Markets Collide >> New York Times | Reaping the Fruits of Globalization In the end, the reader is left wishing that Mr. El-Erian were as clear about the causes of the global financial transformation, and the appropriate policy responses to it, as he is about how to realize its benefits.
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June's Top 25 Books Available in Audio!
By Porchlight
I bet you've been wondering to yourself, "Hrmmm, I wonder which 800-CEO-READ's top 25 books from June are available on compact disc? " Well, gentle reader, wonder no longer! !
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GLOBALITY Blog #3: You're Not Just Competing for Customers
By Porchlight
It's the final day of blog hosting by the authors of GLOBALITY: Competing with Everyone From Everywhere for Everything. Jim Hemerling, co-author and senior partner of The Boston Consulting Group's San Francisco office, is our host today; he'll be checking in every now and then to take your questions. - - - - - - - You're Not Just Competing for Customers In the era of globality, we will all be competing with everyone from everywhere for everything.
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ChangeThis: Issue 48
By Porchlight
People Don't Hate Change, They Hate How You're Trying to Change Them by Michael T. Kanazawa "According to a summary of over 40 research studies on change, the success rate of strategy execution and corporate change programs is 33%. At the same time, a Conference Board survey of over 600 global CEOs revealed that the top two challenges they see are: 1) generating consistent revenue growth and 2) strategy execution.
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The No Complaining Rule
By Porchlight
When I first saw the title "The No Complaining Rule" I had flashbacks to family road trips to "up north" Wisconsin, full of truly Ollie Hopnoodle-esque moments. But the title refers to a new business book about positivity: The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work by Jon Gordon, who also wrote The Energy Bus. The No Complaining Rule is constructed like a parable, with anecdotes that build to a point at which the fictional workplace develops "an actionable plan to win the battle against individual and organizational negativity.
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GLOBALITY Blog #2: The New Competitors Come from Everywhere
By Porchlight
Welcome to day two of the GLOBALITY blog hosting. Yesterday Hal Sirkin introduced us to the who side of globality. And today, Arindam Bhattacharya, partner of The Boston Consulting Group's New Delhi office, joins us to discuss the where of globality.
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GLOBALITY Blog #1: Your Competitors May Not Be Who You Think They Are
By Porchlight
As I mentioned yesterday, for the next three days the three co-authors of GLOBALITY: Competing with Everyone From Everywhere for Everything will be hosting our blog and taking your questions. Today, we welcome Hal Sirkin, a senior partner at The Boston Consulting Group's Chicago office and co-author of PAYBACK: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation. - - - - - - - Your Competitors May Not Be Who You Think They Are The subtitle of our new book GLOBALITY: Competing with Everyone From Everywhere for Everything pretty succinctly describes what this new business era is going to be like.
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