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Guest Bloggers This Week: Authors of Globality
By Porchlight
This week we welcome the three authors of Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything to our blog to talk about the ideas in their book and what it takes to compete in a world where globalization is common. What is globality? Here's how the authors define it.
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BusinessWeek Best Sellers from May 2008
By Porchlight
The BusinessWeek Best Seller list for May 2008 is now available online at businessweek. com. (It typically takes a month to gather sales data from all retailers and distributors and then tabulate the list.
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** June's Top 10 International Bestsellers **
By Porchlight
You guessed it! It's that time again to find out what everyone is reading outside of the United States! We had quite a busy month internationally, and here's just a smattering of what was popular: India Mass Career Customization Cathleen Benko and Ann Weisberg Spain Rules to Break and Laws to Follow Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, Ph.
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From MarketingProfs' Business-to-Business Forum
By Porchlight
MarketingProfs recently posted two of their podcasts from their annual Business-to-Business Forum. The first being Dan Ariely's, author of Predictably Irrational, keynote on "Unlocking Customer Behavior. .
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Reduce Stress and Have more Fun at Work by Joel Zeff
By Porchlight
Today we have a small article from Joel Zeff, author of Make the Right Choice: Creating a Positive, Innovative and Productive Work Life. A trimmer version has appeared at the Orange County Register blog, and it has been previously posted in it's entirety (as was Zeff's 11 Ideas to Enhance the Creative Process) at the photography blog Black Star Rising. Since most of our dear readers probably don't frequent the OCRegister or BSR, we thought we'd post it for you here.
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Evolutionary Economics
By Porchlight
Found this today. A Fast Company article on evolutionary economics from Michael Shermer, author of The Mind of the Market. If the fruit of the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 hasn't landed in your bank account yet, it's likely just a matter of time before you're throwing $600 on the bed just to see what it feels like to roll around in that much cash.
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Friday Tidbits
By Porchlight
Here's an offering of some random, yet interesting things from the Internet this week! Book Review: The Office from Hell Cure by Jeffrey A. Landers.
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Magazines Reviewing Books
By Porchlight
There's another round of book reviews from some of the big business magazines. My personal favorite is from Business Week and Christopher Farrell. In an article entitled "The Squeeze on the American Worker," Farrell takes a look at two books with similar themes, Peter Gosselin's High Wire and Steven Greenhouse's The Big Squeeze.
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Globality
By Porchlight
Hopefully, some of you remember my blog listing about Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation. Well, Harold L. Sirkin, along with 2 other of his colleagues from the Boston Consulting Group have put there minds together in the new book: Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything.
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Seinfeld on Carlin
By Porchlight
Jerry Seinfeld talks about George Carlin's death here.
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