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Welcome to this week's Carnival of the Capitalist
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Welcome! This week we're hosting Carnival of the Capitalist. If this is your first time visiting, here's our shameless self-promotion.
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Best Business Books via U.S. News and World Report
By Porchlight
U. S. News and World Report has a huge special report on the Best Business Books.
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links for 2007-05-18
By Porchlight
China: Fragile Superpower>>The Wall Street Journal | Pursuing Power -- and Trying to Keep It Susan Shirk argues that China's Communist leaders are a lot more insecure than they let on.
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On Depicting Data.
By Porchlight
From powerpoints to pie charts or bar graphs, depicting data doesn't always come easy. It often has to be boiled down to the main points. Take the NYC subway map, for example; Eddie Jabbour is attempting to redesin it to be more user friendly.
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links for 2007-05-17
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Way of the Turtle>>The Wall Street Journal | The Tortoise and the Harried Trader The book conveys the highs and lows that a trader goes through as he works through various systems. It shows, above all, how a trader must believe in his system even when it is going against him.
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Number of Books and Number of Readers
By Porchlight
According to the Mexican critic Gabriel Zaid, writing in So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance, the human race publishes a book every 30 seconds. If current trends continue, by 2052 the number of people writing and publishing a book in a given year will exceed the number of people who will read one. (Quote from Design Observer.
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Books From The Pile - May 2007
By Porchlight
We get a lot of books here at 800-CEO-READ. I would bet it is about 100 titles a month. They all end up in Jack's office and about once a month we have to clean the place up.
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links for 2007-05-15
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Prophet of Innovation >> Economist. com | Joseph Schumpeter : In praise of entrepreneurs He succeeds in getting inside the economist's head, explaining not just what he thought but why he thought it [book link]. (tags: businessbooks economics innovation biography entrepreneurship) Where Have All The Leaders Gone?
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Chandler, Our Historian
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Business historian Alfred Chandler passed away last week. The Wall Street Journal ran a thorough piece on his life and work in their Weekend Edition. Strategy and Structure is a title most look to as a hallmark in the study of business management.
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How to peel a banana
By Porchlight
How do you peel a banana? If you're like me, you peel it the "wrong" way. That's the way we're taught.
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