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Ask 8cr! - Growing Great Employees
By Aaron Schleicher
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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Let's Take a Holiday
By Porchlight
So, there I was waiting patiently in line to go through the first of 3 security checkpoints at the airport. It was the first time I was traveling overseas with my mom, which I may not do again, but that's only because I lost her during the trip to Mexico. It turns out she was just getting a tattoo, but I digress.
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Bloomberg suggests business books for gifts
By Porchlight
We've been in Chicago for the past two days for our second annual Author Pow-wow. I'll write more on that soon. There's much to share.
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Giving Notice - book excerpt
By Porchlight
I'm currently reading a very interesting book called, Giving Notice . It's about employee retention and why some workers just leave their work entirely even though they are some of the best, brightest people on their team. Here's just one of the examples given: One weekend, Eric came into the office to put in more time on an important project.
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A Milwaukee Company
By Porchlight
It has been a little quiet on the blog this week because most of our crew is in the Windy City to meet with business book authors and publishers. I was there yesterday and it was a blast - I'm sure we'll have more to tell you over the next few weeks. I'll take this opportunity to mention something our sister company, Schwartz Bookshops, is participating in this winter.
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End of Days
By Porchlight
I was surfing the net looking for books for a client when I came across the desk calendar for The Power of Now 2008. OK, I know it is just the beginning of December and all and I should have realized this before, but it's going to be 2008 soon! And with all the hubbub of the holidays we tend to not think about our desks at work.
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Friday Links: What we've been checking out this week
By Porchlight
Howdy. Time for another round of Friday links. Here's what we enjoyed this week: *We found that Carnegie Mellon University surpassed a lofty goal: the digitization of over 1,500,000 books.
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Guest essay from Ram Charan
By Porchlight
Today we're pleased to feature an essay from Ram Charan, author of Leaders at all Levels. Here, Charan discusses the impact profit and loss has on the balance sheet and overall health of an organization, especially when a leader is in tune with those numbers. An intuitive feel for business is evident in good leaders, whether seasoned or rookie, and it is the ability to harness that acumen that makes the difference, especially when it comes to adding value to the organization or when promotion opportunities are at hand.
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The Rust Belt Redux
By Porchlight
The News Hour with Jim Lehrer began a new series on America's response to globalization last night, and their first installment focused on our home city of Milwaukee. We don't see Milwaukee on television that often anymore, so it was kind of odd to turn on the news and see them tearing down the old tannery on Water Street. "Wonderful," I thought to myself, "another uplifting story about the demise of the Upper Midwest and decline of manufacturing in America.
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links for 2007-11-29
By Porchlight
Punched In>>The Wall Street Journal | Will Work for Fodder A certain winnowing process can also be usefully applied to "Punching In.
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