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And the Winner is...
By Porchlight
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. The Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book Award was announced at a gala dinner last night at the British Library in London, and William D. Cohan took home the prize.
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If you liked A Whole New Mind...
By Porchlight
Dan Pink's publishing a new book in April. This one's a bit different. It's actually a manga -- a type of book started in Japan that has become widely popular throughout Europe.
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Chip Conley on Maslow
By Porchlight
I have a new podcast posted where I interview Chip Conley, author of Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo From Maslow.
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Ask 8cr! - Let's have a meeting!
By Aaron Schleicher
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. We then take these issues and apply a business book we feel offers a viable solution.
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Peak Interview with Chip Conley
By Porchlight
This week's interview is with Chip Conley, author of Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. Chip runs San Francisco based hotelier Joie de Vivre Hospitality and he is a big fan of Abraham Maslow. Chip has adopted Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to apply to employees, customers, and investors.
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Demystifying the Best-Seller List
By Porchlight
The Best-Seller List is one of the most fascinating and confusing aspects of the book publishing industry. Almost every time we work with a business book author, a conversation comes up about what being on the list means, and how a book can "hit" it. Having a best-seller can really make an author's success and drive future sales of the book, and future sales of future books.
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Excerpt from The Engine of America
By Porchlight
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of The Engine of America: The Secrets to Small Business Success from Entrepreneurs Who Have Made It! by Hector V. Barreto.
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Booklist's Business Top 10 for 2007
By Porchlight
It has begun. In a matter of weeks, we will start seeing a stream of "best of" lists. We'll report them as we see them and make a few of our own.
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Name your own Big Idea Book.
By Porchlight
This month's issue of Wired had an activity that we, and business book authors and industry folks, got a kick out of. It was concocting a best selling book using Wired's "Patent-Pending Big Idea Book Generator. " With this patent-pending Big Idea Book GeneratorTM, we provide the title, subtitle, and premise.
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Happy anniversary, Tom!
By Porchlight
Happy [belated] anniversary to Tom! 25 years ago, In Search of Excellence was published.
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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.