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Ask 8cr! - Negotiate
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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links for 2007-09-29
By Porchlight
The Shock Doctrine >> New York Times Book Review | Bleakonomics " 'The Shock Doctrine' is Klein’s ambitious look at the economic history of the last 50 years and the rise of free-market fundamentalism around the world. " (tags: economics global businessbooks) Supercapitalism >> Portfolio Magazine | Hellbent on Capitalism As Reich admits, this unfettered capitalism is very good at what it tries to do: mainly, earn profits for shareholders and offer a wide array of affordable products to consumers. It is lousy at everything else.
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Financial Times Asks "What Is Best Business Book of All Time?"
By Porchlight
In conjunction with their Business Book of The Year Award, The Financial Times is asking the question: "What is the best book of all time? " They solicited suggestions from a wide variety of business executives, including GE's Jeff Immelt and Ebay's Meg Whitman. The editorial staff then created a short list using the same criterea as their yearly awards.
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Microfinance Update
By Porchlight
I wrote last Friday about microcredit and a book entitled A Billion Bootstraps. When I got home that night a funny thing happened. I turned on the television, flipped it to channel 10, and there was microcredit pioneer and Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus on NOW's "Enterprising Ideas" series.
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Leadership Challenge Interview with Jim Kouzes
By Porchlight
In this interview, I talk with Jim Kouzes, co-author of The Leadership Challenge. The book is a classic and was the first to look at leadership from a research-based perspective. I could have talked with Jim for three hours.
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Greenspan Starts Strong
By Porchlight
Publisher's Lunch reports today that Alan Greenspan's The Age of Turbulence had sales of 128,000 copies in its opening week, according to Neilsen's Bookscan. That is a great start for the book, but people will be watching closely to see if the book can keeping that momentum into the next three or four weeks.
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Not related to business books...
By Porchlight
[If you're in the Milwaukee area, keep reading. ] If you've been with us for awhile, you may know we're based in Milwaukee. And, our sister company is the independent Harry W.
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links for 2007-09-26
By Porchlight
The Billionaire Who Wasn't>>The Wall Street Journal | Business Success Is Not Duty Free Chuck Feeney is a hard man to categorize. He made billions as a co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers, the world-wide retail chain familiar to almost anyone who has passed through an international airport, yet when he is traveling, he flies economy class.
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Ask 8cr! - Happiness
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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Social Contract Networking
By Porchlight
I believe very strongly in personal responsibility and hard work, but have never really understood it when people say that someone else should "pull themselves up by their own bootstraps". I mean really, if someone were to accomplish that feat literally, they'd pull their own feet out from under themselves and fall right on their backside, so even as a metaphor it seems absurd. I know it's just a figure of speech, but its very utterance seems to deny any existence of a social contract.
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