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Pecha Kucha: 20x20
By Porchlight
Similar to The Idea Book and Creativity Today, we've taken on another title available only through us: Pecha Kucha Night: A Celebration. Things are a bit different this time around though. While we're excited about this extremely cool book, which shows a pictorial overview of many Pecha Kucha presentations from around the world, we're even more excited that we've become the Milwaukee franchise for Pecha Kucha Night.
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Beard or Book: Day 16
By Porchlight
It's Day 16. The book and beard are both longer. The book currently weighs in at 87,126 words spread out over 429 manuscript pages.
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George Washington on Leadership
By Porchlight
George Washington on Leadership by Richard Brookhiser showed up on my desk the other day and it looked like a very timely read, what with the debates going on and the United States searching for a new president. So, what about the first leader anyway? Why would anything he did be relevant now?
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A book that predicts the future of Delphi?
By Porchlight
There's a lot of controversy surrounding yesterday's release of Steve Miller's book, The Turnaround Kid: What I Learned Rescuing America's Most Troubled Companies. Miller is the former CEO of Delphi Corp. , the auto-parts supplier; he was called in to help bail out the company.
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Excerpt from The Breakthrough Imperative
By Porchlight
The following is an excerpt from the book The Breakthrough Imperative: The Strategies That Drive the World's Best Managers by Mark Gottfredson and Steve Schaubert. How Great Managers Capture Profit Pools -- and Anticipate or Precipitate Shifts As a general manager, your job is to devise a strategy for performance improvement. Insight into your customers' preferences and behaviors, and into how those preferences and behaviors might change over time, is essential.
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The Quest for Global Domination, 2nd Edition
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The excerpt below is the first chapter of the second edition of The Quest for Global Domination: Transforming Global Presence into Global Competitive Advantage. Originally released to wide acclaim in 2001, the first edition was the result of 20 years of research into over 200 global corporations. This new edition has not only been updated, but contains three entirely new chapters: Lessons from the Globalization of Wal-Mart; Globalizing the Young Venture; and Leveraging China and India for Global Dominance.
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New Excerpt - The Quest for Global Domination
By Porchlight
You find Chapter 1 of the 2nd Edition of The Quest for Global Dominance over on our excerpts blog. Even if you've read the first edition, you may want to consider updating your thinking on the global economy with this new offering which includes three new chapters: Lessons from the Globalization of Wal-Mart; Globalizing the Young Venture; and Leveraging China and India for Global Dominance. Jeffrey E.
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An essay from John Hammergren on health care reform
By Porchlight
Thanks to John Hammergren, author of Skin in the Game: How Putting Yourself First Today Will Revolutionize Health Care Tomorrow, for offering us this article on his views about the role of business in health care reform. Hammergren is a leader at McKesson Corporation, a 175-year-old heath care company. He writes passionately about the need for corporations to consider and take seriously their role in the health care issues this country is facing.
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Another perspective on Nudge
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Friday we posted a review of Nudge. Steven Levitt over at the Freakonomics blog recently posted his thoughts on the book, too. It seems he liked it: Which is why I could not have been more surprised and delighted when I finally got to read a copy of their new book Nudge.
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links for 2008-04-10
By Porchlight
The Adventures of Johnny Bunko >>The Wall Street Journal | Please, Johnny, Work Harder Now workplace strategist Daniel H. Pink, who is all of 43, has taken this pattern to outrageous, delightful extremes.
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