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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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Where's Your Wow?
By Porchlight
There's a book coming out sometime in the next few weeks called Where's Your Wow? : 16 Ways to Make Your Competitors Wish They Were You! The authors, Robyn Spizman and Rick Frishman, talk about Wow people: "Everyone wants to be around them.
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Random Links For Your Friday Afternoon
By Porchlight
Here's some things you may find interesting, like we did: Maya Angelou celebrates turning 80 years old. Financial firms letting go of thousands of workers - many face unemployment in the real estate and finance fields at all levels. South African activist Ivan Toms passed away at the age of 55 in his home, this past Tuesday.
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EyesOpen
By Porchlight
Who doesn't love IDEO and the work they do. Fast Company recently listed them at number 5 on its "Fast 50" list of the world's most innovative companies, and they have been hired in the past year by such stalwart and venerable organizations as the CDC, the Acumen Fund, the Red Cross and HBO (hey, HBO heals too). I write today to tell you of a great new project they've embarked on.
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Finding It
By Porchlight
Recently, I was at a popular electronic "super store" (think Circuit City/Best Buy type). I was browsing through the DVDs and noticed a flaw, basically due to the fact that I'm a big trivia geek: most of The Thin Man mystery series were shelved with movie musicals like Grease, West Side Story and everything Elvis. Odd, right?
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What book is your favorite?
By Porchlight
Of all time. Vote today. Books added daily.
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New Excerpt Up - from The IT Value Stack
By Porchlight
There's a new excerpt up on our Excerpts blog: the introduction to The IT Value Stack: A Boardroom Guide to IT Leadership by Ade McCormack. From the inside flap: "Successful IT value realisation is a cloudy subject. This in part contributes to the overall dissatisfaction many organisations have with IT.
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Excerpt from The IT Value Stack
By Porchlight
The following excerpt is from the introduction to The IT Value Stack: A Boardroom Guide to IT Leadership by Ade McCormack, a book that tackles the subject of IT value realisation head on and provides a model to help CIOs and business leaders maximize the return on their IT investment. Introduction: What's IT All About? "Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides.
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links for 2008-03-25
By Porchlight
Stirring It Up >> Advertising Age | The CE-"Yo" Speaks: Gary Hirshberg Blows the Lid on Stonyfield's Green History Hirshberg has shown environmental ethic and profitability can coexist in a business plan--long before "going green" became as common a brand position as the oft-cited platitude, "The consumer is king.
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Brain Rules
By Porchlight
A rather interesting book was released last week by Pear Press entitled Brain Rules. It was written by the director of the Brain Center for Applied Learning Research at Seattle Pacific University, John J. Medina, and he writes in the introduction: If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom.
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