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Summer 2010: International Best Sellers
By Porchlight
I know, I know - I promised there would not be a long gap for best selling books around the country - but it has been a pretty busy summer! So, I will not prolong the wait. .
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New inBubbleWrap giveaway: UnMarketing
By Sally Haldorson
In everything we do, as business people, as employees, as leaders, we are marketing ourselves. We are presenting our ideas, hoping for buy-in. We are presenting ourselves, hoping for acceptance.
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ChangeThis: Issue 75
By Porchlight
Personality Poker: How to Create High-Performing Innovation Teams by Stephen M. Shapiro "'Opposites attract,' or at least that’s the line we’ve all been fed. However, in reality, nothing could be further from the truth.
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An Embarrassment of Riches
By Porchlight
In 1997, Sebastian Junger wrote a great book called The Perfect Storm. The phrase, “a perfect storm” is used when multiple things come together to create an extraordinary experience. That thought fleeted through my mind last night as I sat reading Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, because, including Freedom, I’m actually reading three brilliant books in three rather different genres.
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Five Quick Questions with Jack Covert
By Porchlight
For the first installment of its Five Quick Questions With Publishing’s Top Leaders series, the wonderful folks of Cave Henricks Communication interviewed Jack this week about the current state of Publishing—and where it's heading. Asked what "influences people most to buy business books? " Jack replies: This is a hard question.
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Where Good Ideas Come From
By Porchlight
Steven Johnson has a new book coming out in October called Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. Not only does it report on much of the innovation that has occurred over time, it focuses heavily on the process. We all have ideas.
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The Shibumi Strategy
By Porchlight
Matthew May is known for his thoughts on innovation and design strategy. His books The Elegant Solution and In Pursuit of Elegance focused on those topics, and were written in a more straightforward business style. Now, he's taken another turn: the business parable.
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8cr Pow Wow Adds Chris Guillebeau and Sally Hogshead
By Porchlight
The 800-CEO-READ Pow Wow is really incredible. I continue to hear stories about people who met at the first one in 2005, and are still working on projects together. Also, their work is better based on the things they learned by coming to the Pow Wow over the years.
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Progress or Paper Ceiling?
By Sally Haldorson
In the 2008 edition of our annual year-in-review, In the Books, I wrote an essay titled: "For Women Only? A Look at Trends in Business Books Written by Women. " It's a topic that always intrigues me.
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The Dragonfly Effect
By Porchlight
What do we post on social media sites? Should we only announce marketing related info, or get more personal? Should we have individual accounts, or ones with our company names?
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