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Your "Inner Circle" in No Man's Land
By Porchlight
A few weeks ago we had Doug Tatum, author of No Man's Land, in town for an event with area business people. He talked about that difficult transition from a small company to a big company. One message that seemed to resonate with the audience was the idea that to grow in a healthy way, leaders must refresh their "inner circle" of confidants and managers.
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Ask 8cr! - Off-Ramps and On-Ramps
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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Best Books To Make Best Workplaces
By Porchlight
Last week, The Wall Street Journal announced their Top Small Workplaces 2007 winners. The Journal asked the folks who run those places what books they would recommend to others trying to create first-class workplaces. Here the alphabetical list of their selections.
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links for 2007-10-06
By Porchlight
The Future of Management >> BusinessWeek | Throw Away The Cookie Cutter "Such management monotony, writes Gary Hamel in The Future of Management, is evidence that when it comes to running organizations or leading teams, there's little experimentation.
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The Last Lecture
By Porchlight
A number of universities have created a "Last Lecture" series. The speakers are asked to answer one question, "What wisdom would you try to impart to the world if you knew it was your last chance? " Randy Pausch a professor at Carnegie Mellon, known for his sabbatical work at Disney, creation of the program Alice and work with Google, was one of the recent lecturers at CM.
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New Excerpt - Guinness: The 250 Year Quest for the Perfect Pint
By Porchlight
There's a new excerpt up on the Excerpts Blog. It's from the book Guinness: The 250 Year Quest for the Perfect Pint. The first thought I had when I saw the book was, "Wow, I think my dad would like this book.
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Excerpt from Guinness
By Porchlight
The following is an excerpt from the book Guinness: The 250 Year Quest for the Perfect Pint by Bill Yenne. Guinness in the Twenty-First Century By the beginning of the twenty-first century, two billion pints of Guinness were being poured annually in more than 150 countries around the world. According to the industry newsletter, Impact: Global News and Research for the Drinks Executive, Guinness Stout is the seventeenth largest selling beer brand in the world, and by far the best-selling beer brand that is not a pale yellow lager.
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Creativity Today
By Aaron Schleicher
Awhile back, we presented a book called, The Idea Book - an interesting book from Sweden we were surprised wasn't readily available here. We made it available to people in the States, and received a ton of compliments and thanks for bringing this title into the fold. Well, we've found another great book.
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links for 2007-10-03
By Porchlight
Michael O'Leary >> Economist | Snarling all the way to the bank As far as Mr O'Leary is concerned: "Business books are bullshit and are usually written by wankers.
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Business Book Video on BNet
By Porchlight
BNet has started running short video of authors in a feature they call Business Book Briefs. Right now, they are serving Vince Thompson (Ignited) and Bob Sutton (The No Asshole Rule).
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