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Most Influential (Business) People Who NEVER Lived
By Porchlight
Aren't you getting tired of all these lists? People's Most Beautiful People. Forbes Richest People.
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Harvard Business Review's Big Ideas for 2007
By Porchlight
Harvard Business Review publishes a list of breakthrough ideas each year. Bob Sutton doesn't think breakthrough is the right word for them, but I think there are a few definitely worth paying attention to this year. Duncan Watts' piece on Accidental Influentials is going to create interesting discussions with the word of mouth marketing community.
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Adventure sports, Mother Nature's fury, and a lesson on tents
By Porchlight
I love adventure sports (jumping out of planes in Arizona, canyoning paragliding in Switzerland, white water rafting in West Virginia, rock climbing in Colorado [despite my fear of heights]). You can imagine my excitement when I saw that the co-founder of JanSport, Skip Yowell, was publishing a book: The Hippie Guide to Climbing the Corporate Ladder & Other Mountains. <-- That's the cover Last year at BEA, I picked up an excerpt and got a free JanSport backpack (not a bad deal).
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The Black Swan - Few and Far Between
By Porchlight
I just started reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan and I think it is wonderful. The former Wall Street trader writes about outliers in the world (9/11, 1929 Market Crash, etc). He says Black Swans have three characteristics: rarity, extreme impact, and retrospective (though not prospective) predictability.
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Give it away already...
By Porchlight
Would you keep your nicely designed business card for yourself? No, probably not. Your goal is to get it eyeballed as much as possible.
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Interactive chat with Dan Heath
By Porchlight
Visit the web site Milwaukee's daily newspaper, the Journal Sentinel, to post questions for Dan Heath. He's leading an online chat tomorrow--Wednesday, January 31 at 12:00 noon. Here are a few suggestions to get the conversation started: * Why is the story of Subway's weightloss celebrity, Jared, so sticky?
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Links From My Inbox - 1/29/07
By Porchlight
Joel Spolsky reviews Dreaming In Code The Los Angeles Times ran the Financial Times' review of Purpose over the weekend. WSJ's Carol Hymowitz has a Q&A with The Three Tensions author Ken Favaro [sub. needed].
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Time to re-position?
By Porchlight
Jack asked me to post this brief excerpt from Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't by Ram Charan. Early-warning signals that the positioning of your business may need to take advantage of emerging opportunities: Nascent industries emerge. Nontraditional competitors start to appear.
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Nobody says it like Suze.
By Porchlight
Our sister company, Schwartz Bookshops, wanted to let you know that they're bringing Suze Orman to Alverno College on March 9. She has a new book out, Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny, about the personal finance concerns women face. (Or, you can reserve an autographed copy here.
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BusinessWeek reviews 800ceoread Blog
By Porchlight
We were a little excited yesterday when we found out BusinessWeek wrote about this blog in their Blogspotting column. I figured we wouldn't get into too much trouble if we showed all 102 words in its original form. Word to The Wise: Whenever I talk to people about the blogging world, I always say to start by listening to what others are saying.
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