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Making It Happen
By Porchlight
Occasionally, each of us can say we have good ideas. But how often do we act on them, and were they in fact really good ideas? Young entrepreneur and best-selling business author Peter Sheahan's new book, Making It Happen: Turning Good Ideas Into Great Results addresses those very questions.
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Curation Nation
By Porchlight
Author Steven Rosenbaum's new book, Curation Nation: How to Win in a World Where Consumers Are Creators, addresses the growing dilemma we all face - how to deal with the onslaught of information in our lives. Here's a Q&A with the author that reveals more about the book: It seems like almost overnight, the web has become a torrent of data. What changed?
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Steve Farber at G5 Leadership
By Porchlight
Our friends at G5 Leadership are gearing up for their April 13th online event, this time featuring Steve Farber drawing from his recently released book, Greater Than Yourself: The Ultimate Lesson of True Leadership. The book helps those in leadership positions to focus on helping other people, raising them up to become leaders themselves, being more confident and accomplished in their roles. Here are some of the things you'll learn from this workshop: • Build an aspirational culture • Take risks that improve business performance • Create higher levels of trust among and with your team • Build leadership ability in others • Become a more authentic leader Click here to take part.
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A new inBubbleWrap giveaway: The Social Animal
By Sally Haldorson
The Social Animal is, in part, a book about success--what really drives us toward the superficial accomplishments we tout, where ambition stems from--, but more so it looks at the human experience from numerous perspectives: sociological, neurological, philosophical, anecdotal. He ponders rich questions about how our character is built and evolves, why we remain our own deepest mystery. Brooks succeeds in winding many threads together into a tight braid of story, research, and reflection, with humor and insight.
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Pre Commerce
By Porchlight
It may be no surprise to you that the internet has changed your business, but with the rise in social media, those changes will continue, and will reveal great opportunities for those who are paying attention. Bob Pearson, chief technology and media officer at WCG, has written a book called Pre-Commerce: How Companies and Customers Are Transforming Business Together, describing those changes and how leaders can apply the right knowledge to take advantage of the opportunities they bring. To further describe some of the ideas contained within the book, I sent Mr.
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Tim Sanders at G5 Leadership
By Porchlight
Tim Sanders is blowing up our blog today! Having just posted my Q&A with him this morning, I'm now informed that our friends at G5 Leadership will feature Tim for their next event on April 28th. G5 is a great leadership training service that connects people with some of the most sought-after leadership speakers on the circuit.
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Failing Can Be Cool
By Sally Haldorson
This week's inBubbleWrap giveaway is for an eye-opening book called Better By Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong. Alina Tugend, a New York Times columnist, realizes that we've heard this message before--most often from our parents and early teachers--that we can and should learn from our mistakes and those who are afraid to make them become stagnant with a fear of failure. But Tugend wanted to explore "the inherent tension between what we're told--we must make mistakes in order to learn, how all great leaders and inventors have embraced them--and the reality that we often get punished for making mistakes and therefore try to avoid them--or cover them up.
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Today We Are Rich
By Porchlight
Tim Sanders lights up the room when he walks in, and his words have a similar effect. The positive messages of his previous books, Love is the Killer App, The Likability Factor, and Saving the World at Work, have inspired both big corporations and small organizations to focus on people, how they can help them, and work better together. His new book, Today We Are Rich: Harnessing the Power of Total Confidence is now available, and it's his best yet.
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SXSW and other movements
By Porchlight
We just returned from our first time attending SXSW Interactive in Austin, TX. Between the informative sessions, networking, after-parties, and even our own late night discussions, it was information overload in the best way possible. While many blogs and Twitter feeds will tell you about specific sessions and speakers, what really struck me is the event itself, and that each year, so many people gather in one place, hungry for knowledge sharing.
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ChangeThis: Issue 80
By Porchlight
A Call Against Complacency by Dambisa Moyo “Given the evidence and importance of positive incentives, why, over the past 50 years, have policymakers embarked on a systematic and deliberate strategy of putting in place a catalog of policies that dis-incentivise citizens from acting in a manner that could be beneficial to their economies, and the world at large? ” The Reinvention Imperative by Daniel Burrus & John David Mann “In the good old twentieth century, you could reinvent your company, product category or industry once, and then go for a decade before doing anything especially innovative again. That doesn’t work anymore.
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