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New Titles in Spanish!
By Porchlight
Another listing of titles in Spanish came to my attention! These can be great as gifts for bi-lingual clients or employees! If you want to place an order for any of these books, let me know (roy@800ceoread.
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"The Modern Era's Second Worst Promulgator of Intelligence Reduction"
By Porchlight
The following is my letter to the editors of Fast Company Magazine on Elizabeth Spiers recent column in their publication. You can read Spiers column here. Kate wrote about it earlier in the week, and I couldn't let it pass either.
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links for 2008-03-21
By Porchlight
Myself and Other Important Matters>>The Wall Street Journal | A Business Guru's Portfolio Life "Myself and Other More Important Matters" is a charming autobiography, recounting Mr. Handy's life in genial prose. Like the best Oxford tutorials, it is much more substantial than it first appears.
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Kindle supply and demand
By Porchlight
There's a message from Jeff Bezos on Amazon's home page describing the company's success with the Kindle. According to Bezos, Amazon sold out of the device within the first 5. 5 hours after its announcement, and have been struggling to keep up with manufacturing.
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Defending the business book genre.
By Porchlight
It seems just a bit ironic that the last page in April's Fast Company is a grueling review and warning of the business section of your local bookstore. Especially considering more than a handful of business book authors--including the Heath brothers, Dan Roam, Amy Sutherland*, Tim Ferriss, Robert Scoble, Fred Krupp--contributed to or were mentioned in the issue. The last page is Elizabeth Spiers' (founding editor of Gawker and Dealbreaker) article "Library of the Living Dead.
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NYT review of Predictably Irrational
By Porchlight
The New York Times Sunday Book Review had a great article on Predictably Irrational: A Behavioral Economist's Startling Insights for Irrationally Better Living by Dan Ariely. We've had several good reads on this book, one the reviewer calls "a far more revolutionary book than its unthreatening manner lets on. " Writer David Berreby tells us that: Another sign that times are changing is "Predictably Irrational," a book that both exemplifies and explains this shift in the cultural winds.
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Excerpt from Brain Rules
By Porchlight
The excerpt below is the introduction to Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School. The book was authored by John Medina, a developmental molecular biologist and research consultant, and director of the Brain Center for Applied Learning Research at Seattle Pacific University. Brain Rules By John Medina Go ahead and multiply the number 8,388,628 x 2 in your head.
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Ask 8cr! - Divide or Conquer
By Porchlight
Ask 8cr! is a section of our blog used as a forum to address the kinds of issues and challenges people are having in the workplace. We take these issues and apply a business book we feel offers a viable solution.
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More on Dan Roam...
By Porchlight
As Dylan mentioned last week, we're a big fan of Dan Roam's The Back of the Napkin. It seems others are catching on to the Roam trend. Tom Peters deemed him worthy of the Cool Friend title where he was interviewed by another guy we like who uses words like "grok" in regular conversations, Erik Hansen.
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The Bottom Billion
By Porchlight
Over at WorldChanging is Ethan Zuckerman's review of Paul Collier's book The Bottom Billion. Collier points out that in much of the world poverty is decreasing. It's but a few states (maybe 50) which account for the poorest people in the world that are not seeing any improvement.
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