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Blog / Excerpts
An Excerpt from The Watchman's Rattle
By Porchlight
We currently post links on Friday to provide you with a bevy of informative and interesting weekend reading. I am hoping to start a new trend here on Mondays—excerpts and guest posts—to provide some consistent insights to begin the week with. We'll see how it goes.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Staff Picks
Hacking Work
Book Review by Porchlight
Does the infrastructure your company set up to help you get your work done actually get in the way of you doing it? Does it slow you down, or even create extra work instead of streamlining it? Well then, it's time to start hacking work.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Leadership and Influence Summit - A FREE Online Event
By Porchlight
We've talked a lot in these offices about how the high cost of author events and business conferences makes it difficult for burgeoning leaders, business owners and bootsrappers—those that could really benefit from the ideas, information and insights that are exchanged there—to attend. And, though we've tried, we haven't figured out how to crack that problem. But Daniel Decker and the good folks putting on The Leadership and Influence Summit have, and we are excited to support them in their gargantuan efforts.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / New Releases
An Excerpt from Voice-of-the-Customer Marketing
By Porchlight
Ernan Roman didn't just fall off the marketing turnip wagon. Rather than just discussing the latest trends in marketing—in social media and elsewhere—he puts them in a larger context and provides you with performance indicators and benchmarks to measure your marketing efforts over time. And he has the experience to do so.
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects – Where Good Ideas Come From
By Porchlight
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson, Riverhead Books, 326 Pages, $26. 95, Hardcover, October 2010, ISBN 9781594487712 Steven Johnson has written a brilliant analysis of creativity and innovation in his new book, Where Good Ideas Come From. It is no coincidence that this natural history opens with a story about Darwin, the most famous studier of origins.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects – What Technology Wants
By Porchlight
What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly, Viking Books, 416 pages, $27. 95, Hardcover, October 2010, ISBN 9780670022151 in-its-entirety issue—technology. Business changes.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects – The Watchman's Rattle
By Porchlight
The Watchman’s Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction by Rebecca D. Costa, Vanguard Press, $26. 95 Hardcover, 384 Pages, October 2010, ISBN 9781593156053 “This book is the sound of the watchman’s rattle in the dead of night.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects – You Already Know How to Be Great
By Porchlight
You Already Know How to Be Great: A Simple Way to Remove Interference and Unlock your Greatest Potential by Alan Fine with Rebecca R. Merrill, Portfolio, 256 pages, October 2010, $25. 95, Hardcover, ISBN 9781591843559 Despite being primarily a business bookseller, we recommend and sell a lot of self-help books.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / News & Opinion
Are Your Customers Worth Tchotchkes?
By Porchlight
Some companies send out coffee cups with their name on it. Or pens, or calendars. Other companies give away polo shirts.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Some Perspective from What Technology Wants
By Porchlight
"The hydrogen atoms in a human body completely refresh every seven years. As we age we are really a river of cosmically old atoms. The carbons in our bodies were produced in the dust of a star.
Categories: news-opinion