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Megacommunity: Where Governments, Organizations and People Work Together to Take on Issues
By Porchlight
Four senior managers at Booz Allen Hamilton have a new book out this coming Tuesday (the 18th). Megacommunities is the book. This book landed on my desk a few months back and I remember being attracted to the idea.
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The Back of the Napkin, Out Now!
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That's right folks, it's the official release date of The Back of the Napkin. As you can see in Dan's picture below (click to enlarge), it took a lot to get to this point. We here at 8cr are big fans of Dan Roam and his book (see the previous post for more on that).
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Excerpt from The Back of the Napkin
By Porchlight
The excerpt below is from the introduction to The excerpt below is from The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures, by Dan Roam. The story begins when a coworker asked Dan to cover for him as a presenter at a conference in England. After an overnight flight, Dan was asked en route to the conference to run his PowerPoint by the British team leader.
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links for 2008-03-12
By Porchlight
Predictably Irrational >> BusinessWeek | "Why You Do the Crazy Things You Do" "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, by Dan Ariely, is an entertaining tour of the many ways people act against their best interests, drawing on Ariely's own ingeniously designed experiments.
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Ask 8cr! - The Life Guide
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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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One of our own will be at SXSW
By Porchlight
Friday was opening day at SXSW, the famous Austin music/film/media/interactive festival that's been running for the past two decades. If you're not familiar with it, here's an introduction. Most of us here are missing the fun.
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Go Ask Alice...
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"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations? " - from Alice in Wonderland Well, the following books from February's top 25 may or may not contain pictures, or even conversations in them. .
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links for 2008-03-08
By Porchlight
Putting Some Fun Back Into 9 to 5 :: New York Times :: The Levity Effect Grandma would be beyond surprised at what Adrian Gostick and Scott Christopher have to say in "The Levity Effect: Why It Pays to Lighten Up" (Wiley). The book, which is to be released later this month, examines how fun in the office increases the bottom. .
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The ChangeThis Connection
By Porchlight
Just in time for the weekend. . .
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New Excerpt - from Pricing with Confidence
By Porchlight
There's a new excerpt up on the Excerpts blog. It's the summary of the book Pricing with Confidence: 10 Ways to Stop Leaving Money on the Table by Reed Holden and Mark Burton. Holden and Burton show you how you can get everyone in your firm to feel 100% confident in your pricing--no matter what customers are saying or how fierce the competition.
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