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Title for A New Book
By Porchlight
Richard Florida of Rise of the Creative Class and Flight of the Creative Class is looking for some help on the title for his next book. Some of the ideas include: The Wealth of Place Who's Your City? Where Location Factor Why Place Matters Geography is Destiny What's Your LQ (Location Quotient) I suggest in the comments that they keep working on it.
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links for 2007-05-30
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BusinessWeek | The Working-Mom Quandary "Out now are four books that deconstruct the underlying causes of stopping out and formulate some smart solutions beyond HR pablum. " (tags: businessbooks organizational_development personaldevelopment) The BusinessWeek Best-Seller List April 2007 bestsellers (tags: businessbooks lists) BusinessWeek Bestsellers - Slideshow ". .
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Bridging the Generational Divide
By Porchlight
The author of Motivating The "What's In It For Me? " Workforce, Cam Marston, offered us the essay below for our web site. (It reminds me of this essay by Anna Quindlen and this blog entry by our very own Kate.
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How to Work a Room Interview with Susan RoAne
By Porchlight
I had the pleasure of talking with Susan RoAne last week. There is a new edition of her classic How To Work a Room that Collins has just put out in paperback. Susan has updated alot of the antecdotes and adding a chapter on working the "virtual" room.
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The art of telling stories
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Storytelling is an art. It entertains, teaches and shares. From the time we're told the tale of the boy who cried wolf to the stories in newspapers and magazines, our lives are inundated with stories.
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Happy Birthday Mr. Zimmerman
By Porchlight
Robert Allen Zimmerman AKA Bob Dylan is 66 today. All the best and Happy Birthday! We really are lucky to have lived during his lifetime.
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Children who dine at Chick-fil-A
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Doane's Blog tells us that with Stephen Covey's help Chick-fil-A is educating their youngest diners about being highly effective people. Covey's 7 Habits were split into 7 kids' books to round out Chick-fil-A's kids' menu. Find them at a Chick-fil-A near you.
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links for 2007-05-23
By Porchlight
Watch This, Listen This, Click Here >> Advertising Age | A look at the media world's fast-approaching future lives up to the hype. Good news is, the text more than lives up to the hype.
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Be the Elephant: Build a Bigger, Better Business
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This excerpt is taken from the Preface of Be the Elephant: Build a Bigger, Better Business by Steve Kaplan. Kalplan combines dynamic advice, real-life experience, and a friendly, no-nonsense writing style to take the mystery and fear out of achieving significant business growth. He gets readers to understand the exact nature of their business by showing how to define objectives, identify risks, and get the operation on solid footing.
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links for 2007-05-22
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The Upside >> BusinessWeek | Don't Worry, Be Ready "'Unmanaged risk is the greatest source of waste in your business and in our economy as a whole,' he writes. At times, Slywotzky treads familiar ground—many of his subjects, including Apple, Toyota, and IBM, are hardly unknown. Yet The Upside's big poin (tags: businessbooks management strategy) Deals on the Green >> BusinessWeek | An 18-Hole Character Test "Adapted from Deals on the Green: Lessons on Business and Golf from America's Top Executives, by David Rynecki.
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