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Blog / News & Opinion
What Borders Is Selling For the Credit Crisis
By Porchlight
In today's Wall Street Journal, Borders business-book buyer Michael D'Agostini says there are five titles that seems to be of most interest to credit concerned consumers visiting his stores: The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers and the Great Credit Crunch by Charles Morris The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy by David Smick The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means by George Soros Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and The Global Crisis of American Capitalism by Kevin Phillips Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse by Peter Schiff The article also says that you will probably find a similar display at your local Barnes & Noble the next time you visit.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Amazon lists The 100 Best Business Books of All Time
By Porchlight
Amazon now has catalog copy and cover art for our book. Four months before publication date, our sales ranking is already 280,000, but who's counting. Check us out here.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
The ChangeThis Connection - Hugh MacLeod Interviews Seth Godin
By Porchlight
The author of the most downloaded ChangeThis manifesto of all time recently interviewed the site's founder about his new book and much, much more. A lot of people are saying this is Seth's finest book, which is really saying something considering the consistent quality of his writing. Hugh asks Seth 10 questions, the first of which is: 1.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
Review Roundup
Book Review by Porchlight
David Brooks had praise of the highest order for The World is Curved in his op-ed on Tuesday, writing: In his astonishingly prescient book, The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy, David M. Smick argues that we have inherited an impressive global economic system. It, with the U.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Inside Drucker's Brain
By Porchlight
Inside Drucker's Brain by Jeffrey Krames, Portfolio, 224 Pages, October 2006, $24. 95 Hardcover, ISBN 9781591842224 Peter Drucker, the man often referred to as "the inventor of modern management" died in 2005. Drucker was an author of numerous influential business books.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Notes on Directing
By Porchlight
Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair by Frank Hauser ad Russell Reich, Walker & Company, 127 pages, $15. 00, Paperback, September 2008, ISBN 9780802717085 Authors Joseph Pine and James Gilmore told us "Work is Theatre" in their 1999 book The Experience Economy. The authors drew on the arts, in particular theatre, and explored the metaphor between business and the stage.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Reality Check
By Porchlight
Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition by Guy Kawasaki, Portfolio, 496 pages, $29. 95, Hardcover, November 2008, ISBN 9781591842231 Guy Kawasaki gives entrepreneurs two options when they ask him about their ideas--"the truth or 'feel good' pablum. " Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition offers no such choice.
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Blog / ChangeThis
Finding Your Howl
By Porchlight
"To find our howl we have to pay a price... This process may feel like a death and may at its most intense terrify us and at its least unsettle us. This is the price of finding our howl, our own one of a kind authentic voice, and there is no way around it... The only way out of our self-erected prison is to go through it completely. There is no quick escape, every square inch of our imprisonment must be touched and lived through before it can be abandoned."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Let's Get Persian
By Paul B. Carroll, Chunka Mui
"Herodotus, the Greek historian, reported that the ancient Persians always made important decisions twice—first when they were drunk, and then again when they were sober. Only if the Persians reached the same decision, drunk and sober, would they act on that decision. In addition to using what might be called a second-chance meeting to review important decisions in an unbiased light, businesses should also take advantage of other means of introducing constructive contention into their decision-making. . . Our research found nine additional ways to introduce disagreement and to manage that disagreement so it keeps everyone on their toes without harming the camaraderie of a management team: 1) Informal devil's advocacy 2) Escalation systems 3) Bets 4) Staring into the abyss 5) Finding history that fits 6) Deciding (ahead of time) how to decide 7) Smoothing out management ruts 8) Constructing alarm systems 9) A formal devil's advocate review We'll look at those nine methods, one by one, starting with the relatively simple and concluding with a formal process that, we believe, should be used by every company before any major decision is made.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Today's Trojan Horse
By Diana McLain Smith
"At least as far back as Agamemnon and Achilles on the beaches of Troy, relationships have had the power to create or to destroy enormous amounts of capital—human, social, intellectual, and economic. Yet few among us can say anything even remotely systematic about how relationships work, develop, or change. [...] If relationships can have such a decisive impact on the success, even survival, of leaders and their firms, why do so many of us give them such short shrift? The answer lies in the outdated belief system that governs how we conduct business. Among the many beliefs that make up this system, four are killers. This manifesto is a call for us to shift to a new set."
Categories: changethis