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Drinking From the Fire Hose
By Porchlight
We are all competing for space these days, space to put our message, and mental space to take in more information. There's less space, and more information by the minute, but as problematic as that seems, it's not the issue. Having more information is a good thing, as it provides the possibility that we'll get closer to, and more of, what we're looking for.
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Pow Wow Attendees Get KnowledgeBlocks
By Porchlight
800-CEO-READ has been developing a new product called KnowledgeBlocks that allows members to create, search, gather, and organize knowledge in order to better use it. As new or continuing authors, this tool will be an invaluable resource for researching an idea, building a concept, and general inspiration - for themselves and others. All registrants for the 2011 Author Pow Wow will receive a Free 3 month membership to this new service when it launches in 2012.
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A New inBubbleWrap Giveaway: Plan B
By Sally Haldorson
If you were to open up David Kord Murray's Plan B to the Table of Contents and run your finger down the list of chapter inclusions, you'd scan such colorful teasers as these: iTunes as a Can Opener The Fat Man and Little Boy Ten Thousand Empty Stores Ernest Hemingway Beginner's Sex Intriguing, to say the least. And isn't it exciting to open up a new book, a book on strategy and management no less, and actually be curious not only about the information provided but also about how these teasers will be resolved, how the author's apparently quirky point of view will levitate the material? Murray did this same thing in his first book, Borrowing Brilliance too.
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Congratulations to Dylan and Kat
By Sally Haldorson
Dylan Schleicher has been working for 800-CEO-READ since 2003. He's done nearly every job, but for the majority of his time here, he's been creating things for us all to learn from and enjoy. Perhaps you've read some of his blog posts here that always include an entertaining and thought-provoking blend of current events and history, pop culture and more esoteric interests, as well as an excellent grasp of the context into which a new business book falls.
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The Leader in You
By Sally Haldorson
In Tribes, Seth Godin writes, "Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable. In other words, if everyone could do it, they would, and it wouldn’t be worth much.
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Jack Covert Selects - Great by Choice
By Porchlight
Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen, HarperBusiness, 320 Pages, $29. 99 Hardcover, October 2011, ISBN 9780062120991 Jim Collins, author of Good to Great, which has gone on to sell well over 4 million copies, and we liked it enough to pick it as one of our 100 best business books of all time, has written, with Morten Hansen, another seminal book.
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Iron Butterflies
By Porchlight
I was raised in a single-parent household. This is not a stark revelation at this point, same as the fact that my mother raised us in poverty – with some tremendous help from my grandparents, to whom I will always be grateful. The reason I bring it up is because of the amazing things my mother was able to accomplish despite limited financial resources but with the unlimited resources of inner strength, caring and tough love.
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Innovate
By Porchlight
Readers of this blog might be familiar with books on innovation by authors like Steven Johnson, Stephen Shapiro, Clay Christensen, and others. How do the ideas we read in these books get put to use? Are they just words on pages or screens, or do they translate to our activities?
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The Power of LEO
By Porchlight
We might be familiar with Six Sigma, Lean Management, Total Quality Management, and other quality management tools, and to some degree, they each can provide great results. So, do we need another? Subir Chowdhury has written a new book called The Power of Leo that shows that we do.
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Friday Link
By Porchlight
The world could really use more men like Amit Gupta. Amit is a starter. He helped build and launch ChangeThis, served as its first Managing Editor, and is the brains and gumption behind both Photojojo and Jelly.
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