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The 2009 Business Book Awards
By Porchlight
It's that time of year again. We've just announced the opening of our third annual Business Book Awards, so if you're an author or publisher, feel free to head over to the submission form to register your book. Categories range from management to marketing and many areas in between.
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Blueprint to a Billion Revised
By Porchlight
It is rare that a management book is revised. David Thomson's Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth is an exception. Thomson's original work, which achieved top 10 positions on our 2006 and 2007 Best Seller list, presented a case that teams can learn from best practices.
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Living the writing life...in Iowa
By Sally Haldorson
A lot of books come and go through our doors, and we spend a lot of time discussing the various merits of these books, but rarely do we talk about what is in between the covers. And I'm not talking about the idea. Because, yes, the idea is king; but an idea will only get you so far if the actual writing is unreadable.
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BusinessWeek's Summer Reading '09
By Porchlight
We know summer is already starting to wane, but we haven't linked to Business Week's recommending reading for the season. Having recommended quite of few of these, we think this is a great list. Rubies in the Orchard by Lynda Resnick with Francis Wilkinson Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging and Outmarketing Your Competition by Guy Kawasaki Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: Managing in a Downturn by Ram Charan The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.
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100 Best Bonus Industry Chapter on Scribd.com
By Porchlight
Today, I posted the Industry Books Bonus Chapter on Scribd. com. This is long overdue, but combination of Chris Anderson's Free promotions and a BEA podcast I listened to on the way into work convinced me it was time to stop dragging me feet.
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Business Book Reviews From Indonesia
By Porchlight
I love running across other passionate business book readers. Riri Satria has some great reviews on his site rirsatria. com (here is the Google-translated link from Riri's native Indonesian to English).
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Being Strategic on CBS Early Morning
By Porchlight
This morning, our good friend Erika Andersen on was CBS Early Morning talking about her new book Being Strategic. Watch CBS Videos Online CBS also has a transcript-ish article based on the interview with Erika.
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Monday Dots Describes Christensen's Disruptive Innovation
By Porchlight
Jeff Monday at Monday Dots has focused his latest video on the process of disruptive innovation. Jeff's source material is Harvard Business School Professor Clay Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma (a 100 Best selection) and The Innovator's Solution. Using his unique dots approach, the video below quickly summarizes Christensen's theories: At the end of the video, Jeff goes even further and suggests an improvement: While I think this is good solution, I see it as highly reactive.
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Bob's Slice of The 100 Best
By Porchlight
Bob Adams at 27 gen has written a series of posts on books he liked from The 100 Best Business Books of All Time and how they apply to church leadership. His first post is about our book and Drucker's Effective Executive. His other books include: Purple Cow - blog post / book link Six Thinking Hats - blog post / book link Leading Change - blog post / book link Why We Buy - blog post (with additional here , here, and here) / book link Little Red Book of Selling - blog post / book link He ends his last post by saying: That's my quick look at "The 100 Best Business Books of All Time.
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SalesHQ Recommends Their Twenty Favorites
By Porchlight
SalesHQ has posted a list of their 20 Must-Read Sales Books. Like any good list, there is tried and true as well as some less-knowns. Little Red Book of Selling by Jeffrey Gitomer [1] The Game by Neil Strauss Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Cold Calling by Keith Rosen Sales 2.
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