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Great By Choice
By Porchlight
Chaos and uncertainty are all around us. The economy is struggling, some have been out of work for years, and entrepreneurs are having a more and more difficult time creating success. Yet despite those things, there are organizations that are extremely successful.
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Thoughts on "Generation Sell"
By Porchlight
"The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan. " That quote comes from an intriguing opinion piece called Generation Sell that was published in the New York Times this weekend. It is a piece about a generation just coming of age and today's youth culture.
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The End of Business As Usual
By Porchlight
This new book, The End of Business As Usual: Rewire the Way You Work to Succeed in the Consumer Revolution, by new media expert Brian Solis, is another firm reminder to companies that understanding social media will help them better understand their customers. In 2010, Nielsen research determined that 22. 7 percent of people were using social networks, up 43 percent over the previous year.
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It's Not About You
By Porchlight
In many situations, problems arise because we consider ourselves too much. We focus more on what we did or didn't get as opposed to what we contributed. The philosophy that one gets more by giving, was compellingly illustrated in Bob Burg and John David Mann's two books, The Go-Giver, and Go-Givers Sell More.
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Poor Economics, Winner of The FT/Goldman Sachs Award
By Porchlight
Congratulations are in order for Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, authors of Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (and their publishers PublicAffairs), for winning this year's Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. Both professors of economics at MIT, the authors based the book on their more than fifteen years of careful research and analysis of the economics of poverty—and their attempt to find solutions to it.
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What are your six words?
By Sally Haldorson
I was driving the other day and turned on the radio to The Ben Merens Show, a call-in program airing on a local NPR station. He and his guest were taking calls for listeners' Six Word Memoirs. I'd never heard of such a thing, and as I listened, I learned there are a number of books and a well-developed website all based on this concept of summing up your life in six words.
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ChangeThis: Issue 88
By Porchlight
The 5,000 Year History of How We Lost Half Our Mind (Or How Blah-Blah-Blah Has Gradually Taken Over Our Lives) by Dan Roam “Over the millenia, we have gradually purged our visual mind from our understanding of language, communications, and intelligence. Just when we need pictures the most, we no longer have the ability to think visually. It's time to bring our visual mind back.
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Despite protestations, changes are being made in business
By Porchlight
Amid the press coverage of Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party, government gridlock and bankrupt foreign countries, there is some evidence that there has begun a process of change with a new thought framework that serves as a backdrop to mistrust of government (89 percent in the latest New York Times-CBS News poll) and a hatred of big business. Worldwide, there are a number of individuals and institutions that are taking things into their own hands and improving the world in their own way, and three books illustrate the changes. Start Something That Matters Blake Mycoskie, who rose to fame as a contestant – along with his sister, Paige – on the CBS reality television series, The Amazing Race, has written Start Something That Matters.
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Visual Marketing
By Porchlight
It seems appropriate to start a post on visual marketing with something visual, so here's the cover of the new book by marketers David Langton and Anita Campbell. The book, Visual Marketing: 99 Proven Ways for Small Businesses to Market With Images and Design is exactly what it says - 99 different examples of companies and people that have combined visual design with marketing concepts in ways that increased their business. There are many interesting tips and tons of great ideas in here.
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Friday Links(ish)
By Sally Haldorson
While Dylan is relaxing on his honeymoon in Costa Rica, I'm going to take a stab at my version of Friday Links. Enjoy! There has been a lot of talk both online and around the water cooler about the New York Times article "Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal" published earlier this week that made the bold statement: Amazon.
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