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Blog / News & Opinion
In the end, it's all personal.
By Porchlight
A few months ago, I interviewed Umesh Ramakrishnan, author of There's No Elevator to the Top (hitting bookstores this week). A snippet of the interview (not verbatim): ME: You end the book with what I think leadership is all about. That, in the end, it's is all personal -- how do you think leadership changed and challenged the people you interviewed?
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
There's No Elevator To The Top Interview with Umesh Ramakrishnan
By Porchlight
A few months ago I had the opportunity to interview Umesh Ramakrishnan, a leading headhunter. Umesh traveled around the world to interview leaders about their journey to the top. In these 23 minutes, we talk about what he looks for when headhunting, Sam Walton, Bill Gates, humbleness and ego.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Article from Tracy L. Tuten, author of Advertising 2.0
By Porchlight
The following article was contributed by Dr. Tracy Tuten, author of Advertising 2. 0: Social Media Marketing in a Web 2.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Call Me Ted
By Porchlight
Call Me Ted by Ted Turner, Grand Central Publishing, 448 Pages, $30. 00, Hardcover, November 2008, ISBN 9780446581899 Ted Turner is an amazing man who has accomplished amazing things. He has won the America's Cup.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / News & Opinion
Petropolitics, Global Weirding and Why Al Gore Owes Us All a Big Apology
By Porchlight
Thomas Friedman's publisher has sent us a video that we think you'll all be interested in. It's taken from a presentation he gave in Washington, D. C.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
InBubbleWrap Is Giving and Giving Again
By Porchlight
We started InBubbleWrap back up a couple months ago, and then the site broke. We had to get under the hood and figure out why. Zach, our new addition to 800-CEO-READ, got it figured out and we are giving away again.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Need some (economic) group therapy
By Porchlight
Can we just be honest with each other? We, like everyone else, are freaking a little out right now. It is nearly impossible to make sense of what is going on in the business world, but wouldn't it be better if you had someone to talk to about it with?
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Gridlock Economy in Milwaukee
By Porchlight
We had Michael Heller, the author of The Gridlock Economy, in town today to speak at one of our LeaveSmarter events. Jon and I had the great privilege to sit and chat with him for an hour or so before the event, and he is as kind and gracious as he is smart. During our conversation, he mentioned how pleasantly surprised he was that former president William Jefferson Clinton had recently recommended The Gridlock Economy as a "bailout-related book" at The Daily Beast.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Brand Bubble: How Business Speculation in the Consumer Marketplace Threatens Our Economy
By John Gerzema
Today's housing bubble and the tech stock bubble from the last decade reveal a widening gap between market speculation and how typical Americans value things. If you thought those bubbles were bad, get ready for another, even bigger one on the horizon that represents over $4 trillion dollars in S&P market capitalization. That alone makes it twice the size of the sub-prime mortgage market. But, unlike other bubbles, the assets that are at risk cannot be traded away or hedged against uncertainty. Rather, they are the fundamental drivers of competitive advantage for most companies—their brands.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Positive Business Manifesto
By Jon Gordon
You would have to live on another planet not to notice the plethora of business books and articles discussing the importance of developing a positive organizational culture at work. The research is clear. Positive leaders, positive work environments, and positive engaged employees produce positive results. However, if building a positive business is so important and beneficial, then we are left to wonder, "Why aren't more companies, more positive?" Why are there not more people skipping through the halls, smiling at their co-workers and loving their job? Why do more people die Monday morning at 9am than any other time? Why does negativity cost companies 300 billion dollars and sabotage teamwork, careers, morale and performance?
Categories: changethis