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links for 2007-09-06
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Doing What Matters>>The Wall Street Journal | The Man Who Sharpened Gillette "Doing What Matters" is informative about how Mr. Kilts brought all this about, but the prose, alas, is at times clunky and couched in executive-speak ("pushback," "strat plan," "walk the walk," "metrics").
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Six Essentials for Networking - Rules for Renegades
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The following blog entry comes from Christine Comaford-Lynch, author of Rules for Renegades: How to Make More Money, Rock Your Career, and Revel in Your Individuality. Six Essentials for Networking Networking is about creating an extended family. It's about developing connections, caring about people, increasing the size of your "tribe.
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Next Up: 800-CEO-READ Book Project
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Jack and I have been working on a project for the last few months and we thought it was time to unveil it to the public. We are excited to announce that we are writing a book. The topic will not surprise you--the 100 business titles everyone should read.
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Excerpt from The Age of Speed
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The following is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of The Age of Speed: A New Perspective for Thriving in a More-Faster-Now World by Vince Poscente, who unravels the notion that in today's world we need to slow down, and illustrates why harnessing the power of speed is the ultimate solution for those seeking less stress, less busyness, and more balance. Chapter 2: Want + Need + Access Today we want speed, we need speed, and we can get it--all on a level never before experienced. Of course, the human race has pursued speed for ages, but what separates our modern quest for speed from previous generations'--what makes our experience a revolution--is the combination of our ancestral desire with two factors unique to our time: an unprecedented need for speed and a new ability to achieve it.
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Fall book preview: No Man's Land
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When the seasons change (and we're almost to that point here in Wisconsin), we start buzzing a little bit louder. The phones ring, the books move about the office, and we start asking each other questions like "When does that book pub? " and "Are we doing anything special with this new title?
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Two New Fables Break-up Summer Bestsellers Club
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After a summer of same-old, same-old on the Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller List, two new books appear this week signaling the start to the fall business book season. Given some of my comments recently, it serves me right that I have to report both titles are business fables. Pat Lencioni returns with his sixth story-based book, titled The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (and Their Employees).
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Colbert/Keen Bout
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Stephen Colbert brought Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of The Amateur, onto to the show last week.
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Getting Our Audio More Easily
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Just a little reminder. . .
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Super Crunching Podcast
By Porchlight
There are 19. 3 megabytes of Super Crunching audio just waiting for a listen over on our podcasts blog. If you prefer text, Newsweek has 511 words on Ian Ayres as well as 1,040 words excerpted from the book.
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Books via camels and mules
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Earlier in August Kevin Kelly blogged a unique book mobile service. Two such services deliver books to the readers in the remote areas of Venezuela (via mule) and Kenya (via camel). Meet a Venezuelan bibliomula: And a Camel Book Mobile in Kenya: These mules and camels are sometimes the only access remote communities have to books.
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