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If you're in Milwaukee, come see Suze Orman.
By Porchlight
On Friday night, March 9th Suze Orman will be in Milwaukee. Our sister company, Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops (the local independent) will be bringing her to Alverno College to talk about her latest book, Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny.
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Refuting some of the classics
By Porchlight
This has potential to start a bit of dialogue. There's a recently published book out there refuting some of the big business books such as Good to Great and In Search of Excellence. Phil argues that he has.
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The Three Letter Word
By Porchlight
Yesterday, Kate was talking about kicking ass. Today, I am going to go the other way and talk about Bob Sutton's new book No Asshole Rule. I have gotten to know Bob over the last year and I think he is onto something with the book.
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Kicking some _______.
By Porchlight
Todd and my lunch conversation yesterday turned towards work [as tends to regularly be the case]. The specific subject being this -- the blog. He brought up a post by Kathy Sierra over at Creating Passionate Users on helping your users kick ass.
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A conversation
By Porchlight
Our crew of 13 has bi-weekly meetings where we take an hour or two of our day to talk about what's going on in our world. The goal being shared knowledge--which can only make us smarter. In another effort to become smarter, last week we had the pleasure of being taught by Erika, author of Growing Great Employees.
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Dead Kings and Queens
By Porchlight
I watched the CNBC Business Excellence Awards the other night. I know some of you are going to say I need to find a hobby, but I would not have been able to bring you this little nugget. Sallie Krawcheck of Citigroup was named Business Leader of The Future.
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Shaping The Game Interview with Michael Watkins
By Porchlight
NOTE TO LISTENERS: We have been getting alot of comments about the low volume levels on the recordings. This is the first recording where we have cranked it up. Please let us know if it is better by sending at note to podcasts at 800ceoread .
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Obsolete Forms of Entertainment
By Porchlight
I was looking through my new issue of Paste Magazine. Paste covers the indie scene, writing mostly about music, but more recently expanding into movies and books. It was an ad from music label Saddle Creek that made me chuckle: SADDLE CREEK NEW MUSIC FULLY BACKWARD COMPATIBLE WITH YOUR EXISTING MUSIC COLLECTION.
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8cr's Social Styles workshop
By Porchlight
Yesterday our team partipated in a Social Styles workshop, led by Erika Andersen, author of Growing Great Employees and founder of Proteus International. By the end of the day we had mapped ourselves out across four social styles: Analytical, Driver, Expressive and Amiable. Now, understanding our social weaknesses and strengths, we have new ideas for how to interact with one another and develop a stronger workplace.
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A captivated audience
By Porchlight
Taken by Kate at our event with Dan and Chip last week. Visit our Flickr site to see the rest of the photos! www.
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