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Free!?
By Porchlight
Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert and author of the recently released Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain! , has an intriguing op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today. It deals with the complications of providing one's material on the internet for free.
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links for 2007-11-01
By Porchlight
Options>>The Wall Street Journal | The Apple of His iBook Playing on Mr. Jobs's reputation as conceited, quick-tempered and implacable, not to mention his godlike status among techies, Mr. Lyons as Fake Steve posted foul-mouthed first-person rants about Apple's customers, its competitors, and Mr.
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We Are Smarter Than Me on Morning Edition
By Porchlight
Tomorrow, Thursday, morning, Barry Libert and Jon Spector will be on NPR's Morning Edition to talk about We Are Smarter Than Me. It starts at 8:50 ET. Tune in tomorrow.
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Our turn to yodel.
By Porchlight
We're yodeling back to The Inside Flap. For all of the literary buffs out there, The Inside Flap is all about books -- fiction, non-fiction, anything that catches the eye of the crew at our sister company. If you're not familiar with them, their Milwaukee's own independent string of bookstores.
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On Strategy: Paralyzing Fear
By Porchlight
One trend that has come up in various conversations I've had lately has been the barriers to productivity. There are, of course, the literal barriers of corporate red tape, financing and other practical matters. I also had an invigorating conversation earlier this week about weaknesses as barriers with Dave over at The Freak Factor.
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Save your money, forget school...Here is what business is
By Porchlight
From The HP Way, is the best description of what "Business" is: At Hewlett-Packard (and other companies as well), people, materials, facilities, money, and time are the resources available to us for conducting our business. By applying our skills, we turn these resources into useful products and services. If we do a good job, customers pay us more for our products than the sum of our costs in producing and distributing them.
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links for 2007-10-31
By Porchlight
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands >> BusinessWeek | "Are B-Schools a Blight on the Land? " Khurana's From Higher Aims to Hired Hands is an important and surprisingly disparaging look at business-school education in the U. S.
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Essay from the author of The Taboos of Leadership
By Porchlight
Today we're happy to host an essay by Dr. Anthony F. Smith, author of The Taboos of Leadership, a book that "reveals the rarely discussed realities of leadership--the secrets that leaders just cannot admit to publicly for fear of losing power, self-respect, or even their jobs.
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Hudson Booksellers Best Books of 2007
By Porchlight
With 66 bookstores in airports all over North America, you may know Hudson Booksellers from your travels. They have now decided that it is time to help busy travelers select the books they sell, announcing their picks of the best books of 2007. It's a pretty long list, with selections in the fields of fiction, non-fiction, children's, and--aha!
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Ask 8cr! - Momentum
By Aaron Schleicher
Ask 8cr! - Momentum Welcome to "Ask 8cr! " - a new section of our blog where we've created a forum to find out what kinds of issues and challenges people are having in the workplace.
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Keep up with the latest industry news and trends, our annual business book awards, and other pieces of news and opinion floating around the offices and minds of Porchlight Book Company.