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The Greatest Gamble Ever
By Porchlight
Gregory Zuckerheim's The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-The-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History tells of how Paulson "realized something few others suspected—that the housing market and the value of sub-prime mortgages we grossly inflated and headed for a major fall. " But it turns out that "The Greatest Trade Ever" may have been something very akin to a rigged bet. What the book didn't tell us (because it was unknown at the time) is that Paulson had shaped the portfolio of mortgages—hand-picking the bonds it contained for Goldman Sachs—that he bet against to make his fortune.
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Leadercast
By Porchlight
For those in the Milwaukee area, Kelly Leadership Group is hosting a Leadercast session on May 7, 2010 at Crowne Plaza in Wauwatosa. Tickets and more details can be found at www. kellyleadershipgroup.
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Truth
By Porchlight
"The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth lies within their vision.
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Pulling
By Porchlight
With developments in technology, and the effects they are having on our lives; how we think, research, question, and seek, there's a lot to be said about how we're changing how we work and interact. Two recent books address that through the definition of 'Pull,' David Siegel's Pull: The Power of the Semantic Web to Transform Your Business and John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison's The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion. Siegel's book talks about how the web is changing, and how it will infiltrate more and more into our lives though our interaction with it (working in the cloud) and physical material (ex.
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Truth--serious and fun
By Porchlight
"The greatest truths are the simplest; and so are the greatest men. " Julius Charles Hare "I don't want yesmen around me. I want everyone to tell me the truth--even though it costs him his job.
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unGeeked Elite: A Social Media Event
By Porchlight
Milwaukee will soon be hosting the first nationwide unGeeked Elite event. The conference is being organized by Cd Vann, owner of SohoBiztube. com, who defines unGeeking as "the widespread adoption of trends, strategies, and tools that allow us to enhance and embrace internal and external marketing campaigns, enhance customer service, strategize effective sales efforts, and develop better PR campaigns.
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Business Narratives Take Home Two Pultizer Prizes
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Business narratives took home the Pulitzer Prize in two separate categories this year—Biograghy and History. Liaquat Ahamed's Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World won top honors in History, and has been widely praised elsewhere, including winning the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and being the sole book in the business category to have been chosen in The New York Times Book Review 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2009. (Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin was a runner-up in the category.
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The Referral Engine
By Porchlight
John Jantsch, author of Duct Tape Marketing and the blog of the same name, has a new book coming out shortly on Portfolio. Titled, The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself, the book shows small businesses how to harness the power of customer referrals; how to do work that inspires them, how to ask for them, and how to create a whole community of marketers excited about telling others about your company. In advance of the book's release, I asked John a few questions inspired by reading it.
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Happiness
By Porchlight
"Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
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ChangeThis: Issue 69
By Porchlight
We've just posted a new issue of ChangeThis manifestos for you to dig around in. You can start digging with the links and excerpts below. ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ What the Creative World Needs Now Is Organization by Scott Belsky "Although we, as creative minds, would rather not think about it, the sad truth is that most of our ideas will never see the light of day.
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