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ChangeThis: Issue 45
By Porchlight
We have some interesting and counterintuitive advice this month. David Rendall advises us to flaunt our weaknesses, Barry Moltz tells us to temper our ambition, and Robert Rosen believes that we can, and should, use our anxiety to become better leaders. We also have Francis Wade weighing in on time management, suggesting we rid ourselves of the fancy PDA devices and gadgets until we have a grasp on the 7 basic skills needed to manage them.
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Beard Or Book
By Porchlight
Facial hair is a popular accessory at 800ceoread. We have folks who sport both beards and mustaches in the office. It was recently suggested that I should join the crowd; do what all the cool kids are doing.
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Meet Alltop: the Aggregator Site
By Porchlight
Guy Kawasaki launched the aggregator site called Alltop last week. What they do: We help you explore your passions by collecting stories from "all the top" sites on the web. We've grouped these collections -- "aggregations" -- into individual Alltop sites based on topics such as environment, photography, science, celebrity gossip, fashion, gaming, sports, politics, automobiles, and Macintosh.
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From 1994: Tom Peters in Milwaukee
By Porchlight
Jon interviewed Tom Peters the other day and it reminded me to share photos from when Tom visited us in Milwaukee in 1994 on his tour for The Pursuit of Wow.
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Atlas Shrugged as a business book
By Porchlight
A reader suggested an addition of Atlas Shrugged to the best business book of all time vote we're running. Interestingly a few weeks back the weekly edition of The Week had a quip about Ayn Rand's famous book: It was revealed that at least 17 universities had accepted $1 million from a wealthy donor under the condition that they make Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged required reading in a course on capitalism from a moral perspective. If you're a Rand fan, Atlas Shrugged is now up on the book vote site.
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Double or Nothing's Debut!: March's Top 25 Books Available in Audio
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Off of our current top 25 books of March, here is what is available now in audio format: 1) Double or Nothing by Cal Fussman 2) Made to Stick by Chip Heath 4) Hug Your People by Jack Mitchell 6) How Come that Idiot's Rich and I'm Not? by Robert Shemin 12) What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith 13) Rich Dad's Prophecy by Robert T. Kiyosaki and Sharon L.
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Paul Arden Passed Away at 67
By Porchlight
Paul Arden, famous for his 14 years of creativity at Saatchi & Saatchi, passed away last week. He shared his passion and made his impression on the book world with two titles: A telling profile of the bestselling author from Creativity-Online: "Paul Arden was one of the most exceptional creative directors I've known, with an individualism and passion for perfection that resulted in some of the best advertising of the 80s and 90s," said Anthony Simonds Gooding, chairman of U. K.
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Customized Books
By Porchlight
For everyone I speak to about how we can customize your books, I will now be referring you to this post. For those of you that didn't know, we do all sorts of stuff to books to make them more personalized for the people receiving them: tipped-in pages, signed copies, belly bands, etc.
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Canada Tops the List this Month!
By Porchlight
Here's what 800-CEO-READ shipped to other countries in March. Here's what they're reading overseas. : The Big Switch - Quebec, Canada Purpose - Besiktas, Istanbul The Quest for Global Dominance: 2nd Edition - Shanghai, China Get Out of Your Own Way - Frankfort, Germany Who's Your City?
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links for 2008-04-03
By Porchlight
Silicon Dragon>>The Wall Street Journal | China's New Frontier Ms. Fannin sets out to show, as her subtitle has it, "How China Is Winning the Tech Race. " But "winning" really goes too far.
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