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Excerpt from Leadership Brand - 2 of 2
By Porchlight
The following is the second of two excerpts from the book Leadership Brand: Developing Customer-Focused Leaders to Drive Performance and Build Lasting Value by Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood. Leadership Brand details the authors' six-step process to leadership brand--"a shared identity among your organization's leaders that differentiates what they can do from what your rivals' leaders can do. " This second excerpt focuses on the process of training.
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Excerpt from Leadership Brand - 1 of 2
By Porchlight
The following is an excerpt from the book Leadership Brand: Developing Customer-Focused Leaders to Drive Performance and Build Lasting Value by Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood. Leadership Brand was published last September and has been on our best seller list several times. The book is the authors' six-step process to leadership brand--"a shared identity among your organization's leaders that differentiates what they can do from what your rivals' leaders can do.
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links for 2008-02-19
By Porchlight
Billion of Entrepreneurs >> BusinessWeek | Just Don't Call It 'Chindia' Why is China so much more open to multinationals than India yet vastly less hospitable to its own private entrepreneurs? Why do Indian companies have a far deeper pool of world-class managerial talent than China?
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Another way for Your Voice To Be Heard
By Porchlight
The presidential election is taking center stage right, so we thought to remind you have another election going on right now. We are looking for you to help us choose the best business books of all time. My last report on our Reader's Poll at the vote count at 500.
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The 800-CEO-READ Mystery Box for charity!!!
By Porchlight
In an effort to give back to the community, we are holding a very special book offer to benefit Room to Read, a great organization that partners with local communities throughout the developing world to establish schools, libraries, and other educational infrastructure. We recently held our very first 8CR Business Book Awards, and recieved an enormous amount of great books from publishers and authors around the globe. Our idea is to share the best books of 2007 with you, and help out a great charitable organization in the process.
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links for 2008-02-16
By Porchlight
The Middle-Class Millionaire - Russ Alan Prince - Lewis Schiff - Book Review - New York Times So think of a driven, Machiavellian business dynamo who networks, boasts and cares desperately about propelling his or her children into schools that have names worth dropping. Then put on rose-colored glasses and think of Benjamin Franklin. Seriously.
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links for 2008-02-15
By Porchlight
Lessons From Private Equity Any Company Can Use>>The Wall Street Journal | Embracing Debt, Enhancing Value Ms. Gadiesh and Mr. MacArthur concede that private equity is a tiered system, with the best firms offering stellar returns and most of the others struggling to match the returns of the S&P.
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Reasonable Rx
By Porchlight
With all the talk about health care costs swirling around this election year, Stan Finkelstein and Peter Temin's Reasonable Rx: Solving the Drug Price Crisis is a very timely book. To prove that it can bring some of the various factions on this issue together, they have blurbs on the back from a Nobel Laureate in Economics, a former senior official in the FDA, a US Congressman, and a retired president of a pharmaceutical research group. Although they did write the book for laypeople, you really have to be interested in the topic to wade through the first 150 pages, and you'd have be a real policy wonk to read the appendix after that, which lays out their plan in detail after already giving you a general outline in the last chapter.
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Ask 8cr! - Free Prize Inside
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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Update from Tools of Change Conference
By Porchlight
Yesterday Kate and I got to hear Douglas Rushkoff, author of Get Back in the Box, talk about how content context contact is king. He explained that what people are really looking for online is social currency, the opportunities to interact with and respond to other people. The predominant marketing model has been to get people to interact with products, to take them away from other people so that, as Doug said in an example, they buy their oatmeal from Quaker, and not from Joe at the local farmer's market.
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