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Guest Post III - Lee J. Colan, Ph.D.
By Porchlight
And now for the third installment of Lee J. Colan series of guest posts. If you like what you're reading, pick up his new book, Engaging the Hearts and Minds of All Your Employees: How to Ignite Passionate Performance for Better Business Results.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Guest Post II - Lee J. Colan, Ph.D.
By Porchlight
Below is the second part in Lee J. Colan's series of guest posts. We'll have two more for you tomorrow.
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Blog / Staff Picks
Green Collar Economy
Book Review by Porchlight
Another seemingly awesome read just came to my attention per a client that wanted these books for a meeting this month for her employees. It's called Green Collar Economy and boy does this sound like exactly what this country needs right now. It's by Van Jones and it's basically a wake-up call to our economy and the movers and shakers within its walls.
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Management Lessons from the Ryder Cup Win
By Porchlight
"If I tell you, then I can never do a book, right? " That's the answer WSJ Golf Journal writer John Paul Newport got from Ryder Cup captain Paul Azinger after asking how he managed to take the twelve person squad minus Tiger Woods and break the Americans nine year losing streak. Azinger says he was inspired by the Navy Seals 13-man units and their smaller sub-units constructed for specific missions.
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Exciting Book News
By Porchlight
Amazon now shows the cover of our new book. Check it out here. Thanks Jeff.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Guest Post - Lee J. Colan, Ph.D.
By Porchlight
Over the next few days, we will have a series of guest-posts from Lee Colan, the author of Engaging the Hearts and Minds of All Your Employees: How to Ignite Passionate Performance for Better Business Results, recently released by McGraw-Hill. To read this post in it's entirety, click the "continue reading" link at the end of the entry. Achieving Passionate PerformanceRegardless of current economic trends, the labor shortage is still alive and well.
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Snowball or Avalanche?
By Porchlight
I am annoyed by the newswire stories that each day report causes for stock market fluctuations without any real substantiation. I am surprise no one has connected some aspect of the 777 drop in the Dow Jones Industrial yesterday to the release of The Snowball, the new biography about Warren Buffet. In writing about the new book, Marketwatch did manage to call out Buffet's Goldman Sachs investment as an example of his prowess for finding bargains.
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Dave Eggers Weighs In On the Future of Reading
By Porchlight
Esquire recently asked one of my publishing heroes, Dave Eggers, what he thinks of the future of reading. It's an important and recurring concern for us here, and after so reading many doomsday scenarios for the publishing industry (like this one), Mr. Eggers vision is thankfully optimistic.
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Blog / News & Opinion
A Thousand Things Matter
By Porchlight
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Business Books For The Current Credit Crunch
By Porchlight
Shelf Awareness, a great site that follows the book trade, requested book suggestions that would help explain the current credit crisis. On Friday, they ran the piece under the heading Meltdown Lit: Recommended Books for the Wall Street Debacle. Please go check out the whole piece.
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