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ChangeThis: Issue 72
By Porchlight
The 72th issue of ChangeThis has gone live for your reading pleasure. Excerpts and links below. ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ Intelligence Multipliers: Tapping Into Every Company's Underutilized Resource by Liz Wiseman “Multipliers liberate people from the inherently oppressive forces within corporate hierarchy.
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Listen to The 100 Best Business Books of All Time
By Porchlight
Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten's book, The 100 Best Business Books of All Time: What They Say, Why They Matter, And How They Can Help You was published by Portfolio last year. Since then, it's been translated in nine different languages. Now, it's available as an audio book (in English) through Audible.
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3x3 for June
By Porchlight
Hot on the tail of the recent Inc. /800-CEO-READ Business Book Bestseller List, we're launching a series of blog posts called '3x3' - where we'll ask the top three authors from each month's bestseller list three of the same questions. June's top three authors are: Dave and Wendy Ulrich (The Why of Work), Jim Champy (Reengineering Health Care), and Gregory Salsbury (Retirementology).
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Too Big To Fail again!
By Porchlight
From Penguin: "Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Too Big to Fail won a Loeb Award for the Best Business Book of the Year. The Loeb, an annual competition administered by the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is considered the highest award in business journalism. " Earlier this year, 800-CEO-READ awarded Sorkin's book, Business Book of the Year in our annual Business Book Awards.
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Inc.Live
By Porchlight
Innovation is a word that gets thrown around a lot in business and business writing, but in can be hard to catch—to understand and implement—in your daily operations. It's like a knuckle ball. .
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Tough Love interview with John Moore
By Porchlight
As announced last week, we've launched our first digital book over at ChangeThis. com. Tough Love, by John Moore is a business inspired screenplay, and follows his straight-up business book Tribal Knowledge.
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The Shallows of a Cognitive Surplus
By Porchlight
I think most reviewers will find that Nicholas Carr's The Shallows and Clay Shirky's Cognitive Surplus hold very different, and possibly opposing, views of the Internet. But I found them to be perfect compliments to one other. Taken together, and read simultaneously, I think they provide a more nuanced and intriguing perspective of the potential effects of the Internet on our intelligence than when read alone (though they both undoubtedly stand tall in their regard).
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Tough Love on ChangeThis | A Business Book Masquerading as a Screenplay
By Porchlight
You have always known ChangeThis for our free manifestos. Today, we are happy to announce the release of Tough Love: Scripting the Drive, Drama and Decline of Galaxy Coffee by the incomparable John Moore—our first foray into offering full-length books for download. We feel fortunate to have been able to team up with John Moore on this project, as talented a writer and fresh a thinker as there is in business today, and the only author ever to send me clips of Melle Mel & the furious Five doing "Beat Street" live.
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Being Wrong: a New inBubbleWrap offer!
By Sally Haldorson
Can a doggedly-researched book that relays the historical lineage of error, attempts to uncover the truth beneath truth, and even discusses something as impenetrable as "The Optimistic Meta-Induction from the History of Everything," be charming, accessible and eminently readable? Apparently so because Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz is just that. Many of us remain uncomfortable with being wrong, in admitting that time and experience won't necessarily prevent us from buying that lemon of a car or hiring the wrong person or adding yet another self-help book to our shelves that will teach us how to stop making the same mistakes.
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Being a Friend
By Porchlight
Last week, while hanging out at Translator, we talked about corporate use of social media, and how if used poorly, can actually hurt your business more than help it. The lesson being that just because the tools are available, doesn't mean you necessarily need to use them. For instance, I've never used a conche, and don't think I'll ever need to, while it's likely totally useful for others.
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