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To Be or Not to Be...Creative
By Sally Haldorson
A friend posted on Facebook a link to this article, with the somewhat obvious title, "People are biased against creative ideas, studies find," and it's contents have stuck with me all week. It comes from a website called PhysOrg which I've never heard of despite having a science geek for a husband. PhysOrg's mission as described on it's website is "to provide the most complete and comprehensive daily coverage of the full sweep of science, technology, and medicine news.
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Nothing to Lose
By Porchlight
Business books have a certain stigma attached to them. For non-fans, they might seem intimidating, or pointless, depending which end of the judgment spectrum you're on. The assumption is that "they're for other, more business-types of people.
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Icon + Icon, Intertwined
By Sally Haldorson
I typed my first high school papers, my first non-hand-written stories, on an electric typewriter--a hand-me-down from a cousin--on the floor of my childhood bedroom. But when I got to college, there was a bank of Apple IIe computers in the dorm's lab and over the years I often spent all night in the company of those small white boxes, a happy computer face greeting me each time I came back from the cafeteria full and ready to settle back down to the grind of churning out the multitude of 10-20 page papers required for every class every term. Entering grad school, I bought a Macintosh Performa so that I could write my stories and more of those papers at my apartment while eating ramen noodles.
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Would You Recommend This?
By Porchlight
Earlier today, I spoke at a PRSA panel on blogger/publicist relationships. Publicists want bloggers to recommend something, and bloggers either do just that, or ignore them. The discussion then focused on how publicists might communicate with bloggers in order to reduce ignored pitches.
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Second Acts and our Paperback
By Porchlight
With weary conviction, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote near the end of his life that "There are no second acts in American lives. " He gets picked on a lot for that, mostly because it's an easy and somewhat eloquent introduction to the many stories that get written about second acts in American life.
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Welcome, Phil!
By Porchlight
After being longtime friends, featuring his guest blog posts, and having him speak at our Author Pow Wow, 800-CE0-READ is excited to welcome Phil Gerbyshak to our Author Services team! Who's Phil? Phil Gerbyshak is an accomplished speaker, author, strategist and all-around helpful guy who builds relationships with everyone he meets.
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The Myth of Work-Life Balance
By Sally Haldorson
When was the first time you heard that phrase: work-life balance? Initially, I remember it coming up primarily in discussions about women and the tough choices they make to balance their responsibilities and desires as mothers with the demands of their careers. So maybe the early 1990s?
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The FT/Goldman Sachs Book Award Longlist
By Porchlight
Understandably (looking at the award sponsors), the FT/Goldman Sachs Book Award always tends more toward macroeconomics, high finance and big business. But they always seem to pick well, and I always find books I feel the need to revisit when they announce their list. Just in case you missed the announcement of the the award's longlist as I did, it is: Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius by Sylvia Nasar, Simon & Schuster No Angel: The Secret Life of Bernie Ecclestone by Tom Bower, Faber & Faber Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit V.
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Coming soon from 800-CEO-READ
By Porchlight
For years, we've helped move ideas - from books and authors and manifestos and blog posts to people all over the world. Information is good, but more importantly, you have to work with it, it should inspire you to act. But maybe you're not sure what exactly to do with the information, how to look at it, or think about it.
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O is for Optimism
By Sally Haldorson
"D" words are being used quite liberally these days. Double Dip. Dollar.
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