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Jack Covert Selects - Body of Work
By Porchlight
Body of Work: Finding the Thread That Ties Your Story Together by Pamela Slim, Portfolio, 240 pages, $16. 00, Paperback, January 2014, ISBN 9781591846192 I recall an old employer of mine discussing candidates for a position, complaining “They jump around too much, one year here, another there,” inferring that these nuggets of experience wouldn’t add up to what we needed. I wondered how many other hiring managers felt the same way, and felt sorry for the candidates who had the challenge of telling their story.
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Blog / News & Opinion
A New KnowledgeBlocks Giveaway! Get Rich Carefully by Jim Cramer
By Sally Haldorson
In Get Rich Carefully, Wall Street veteran Jim Cramer of CNBC fame, aims to turn you "from amateur investor to someone who can go toe-to-toe with professionals. . .
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook
By Porchlight
Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World by Gary Vaynerchuk, HarperBusiness, 195 pages, $29. 99, Hardcover, December 2013, ISBN 9780062273062 Reading a recent New York Times article about Gary Vaynerchuk, I found a great story that epitomizes who Gary is, and why he’s written Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook. About once a week, Gary Vaynerchuk posts a twitter message that reads, “Is there anything I can do for you?
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Jack Covert Selects - Joy, Inc.
By Porchlight
Joy, Inc. : How We Built a Workplace People Love by Richard Sheridan, Portfolio, 288 pages, $27. 95, Hardcover, December 2013, ISBN 9781591845874 Depending on whom you ask, joy in the workplace may or may not be considered crucial to an organization’s bottom line.
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Jack Covert Selects - Ninety Percent of Everything
By Porchlight
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate by Rose George, Metropolitan Books, 304 pages, $28. 00, Hardcover, August 2013, ISBN 9780805092639 There is always one book that arrives with the submissions for our annual book awards that I’m surprised I missed when it came out. This year that book is Ninety Percent of Everything by Rose George, and it is probably my personal favorite of the year.
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Elite Eight: Our Picks for the Top Business Books of 2013
By Sally Haldorson
Click on the links below to read more about our choices for the top books of 2013, as well as the books that made our category shortlists. We will be announcing the Best Business Book of 2013 at our (mostly) annual We Believe in Books party in NYC the second week of January. Stay tuned!
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
ChangeThis: Issue 112
By Porchlight
The HUMAN Brand: How We Relate to People, Products and Companies by Chris Malone “Warmth and competence are the universal foundation for all human behavior and relationships. If you truly grasp the importance of these and take the appropriate actions, social science suggests you’ve done more than 80 percent of the job in winning the trust and loyalty of your fellow human beings. ” Customer Experience, Big Data, and Competitive Advantage by Larry Freed “To compete and win in today’s ultracompetitive environment .
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Blog / ChangeThis
What? Your Organization Doesn't Have a Constitution?
By S Chris Edmonds
"Most senior leaders put greater thought into their organization's products than they do its culture. Yet culture drives everything that happens in an organization each day, including what leaders pay attention to, whether problems are ignored or resolved, and how employees and customers are treated. Of course, understanding the need for an effective culture is one thing. Creating and managing that culture is another. How does one go about creating something that, on one hand, is so important, but, on the other hand, seems so amorphous? Through the creation of an organizational constitution."
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Customer Experience, Big Data, and Competitive Advantage
By Larry Freed
"To compete and win in today's ultracompetitive environment, where consumers are in control and switching costs are very low, the customer experience is more important than ever before. Businesses cannot stand still; they must continue to push the envelope and evolve—not only products, services, and marketing, but also analytics. [...] Companies with insightful and actionable analytics can respond to the market and their customers quicker than their competitors. Tomorrow's winners will be defined by the innovative strength of the customer experience analytics they use and implement. The key to measuring this new world of customer experience analytics is to understand the rise of big data. In 2000, only one-quarter of all the stored information in the world was digital; paper, film, and other analog media ruled. No more. With the amount of digital data doubling every three years, as of 2013 less than 2 percent of all stored information is nondigital."
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Business in Blue Jeans: A Manifesto on How to Have a Successful Business on Your Own Terms, in Your Own Style
By Susan Baroncini-Moe
"Comparing yourself to other people is always a losing game, because there'll always be someone who's more successful than you are. There'll always be someone who does something better than you do. Where you stand relative to other people isn't nearly as important as where you stand relative to where you could be standing if you realized your full potential."
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