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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Good Is Not Enough
By Porchlight
Good Is Not Enough: And Other Unwritten Rules for Minority Professionals by Keith R. Wyche with Sonia Alleyne, Portfolio, 242 pages, $24. 95, Hardcover, July 2008, ISBN 9781591842101 It's no secret that the leaders of America's largest corporations do not reflect the makeup of our country's population.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Predictably Irrational
By Porchlight
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely, Harper, 280 pages, $25. 95, Hardcover, February 2008, ISBN 9780061353239 We've all been there--the skin-to-strip adhesive is beginning to give, and it's clearly time to give the Band-Aid the ol' yank. That truism from mom--"fast and easy"--rings true, but does it really?
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Blog / News & Opinion
New Excerpt - The Gridlock Economy
By Porchlight
We've posted a new excerpt over on the blog that we post excerpts on--the excerpts blog. It is taken from Chapter 3 of The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Cost Lives by Michael A. Heller.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Excerpt from The Gridlock Economy
By Porchlight
The following excerpt is the beginning of Chapter 3 in The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Cost Lives by Michael A. Heller. The publisher writes "Every so often an idea comes along that transforms our understanding of how the world works.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Webinar with Dan Heath, author of Made to Stick
By Porchlight
One of our favorite authors, Dan Heath, is leading a web seminar through The Center for Great Management. Click here to learn more about the seminar and to sign up if you're interested. Here's the description of the event: Virtual Seminar Overview In this era of ever-tougher competition, your company's greatest asset is its managers.
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Blog / News & Opinion
links for 2008-07-14
By Porchlight
When Markets Collide >> New York Times | Reaping the Fruits of Globalization In the end, the reader is left wishing that Mr. El-Erian were as clear about the causes of the global financial transformation, and the appropriate policy responses to it, as he is about how to realize its benefits.
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Blog / News & Opinion
June's Top 25 Books Available in Audio!
By Porchlight
I bet you've been wondering to yourself, "Hrmmm, I wonder which 800-CEO-READ's top 25 books from June are available on compact disc? " Well, gentle reader, wonder no longer! !
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Blog / Staff Picks
What to Say to a Porcupine
Book Review by Porchlight
This cute, recently published, little book came to my attention the other day when a company called in to place an order for books to give to their staff. I was taken aback by the title and wondered what kind of a book this was, until that is I pulled it up on our website and found out that the subtitle was: 20 Humorous Tales that Get to the Heart of Great Customer Service. What to Say to a Porcupine is a book that contains twenty different tales all centering around customer service and it offers topics for group (or single) discussion at the end of each fable.
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Blog / News & Opinion
GLOBALITY Blog #3: You're Not Just Competing for Customers
By Porchlight
It's the final day of blog hosting by the authors of GLOBALITY: Competing with Everyone From Everywhere for Everything. Jim Hemerling, co-author and senior partner of The Boston Consulting Group's San Francisco office, is our host today; he'll be checking in every now and then to take your questions. - - - - - - - You're Not Just Competing for Customers In the era of globality, we will all be competing with everyone from everywhere for everything.
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Blog / ChangeThis
People Don't Hate Change, They Hate How You're Trying to Change Them
By Porchlight
According to a summary of over 40 research studies on change, the success rate of strategy execution and corporate change programs is 33%. At the same time, a Conference Board survey of over 600 global CEOs revealed that the top two challenges they see are: 1) generating consistent revenue growth and 2) strategy execution. This translates to weak performance on the top executive priority, a situation that needs to change. [...] Because so many of these programs fail, some executives and managers start to believe the old saying that "people hate change" must be true. That is not true. In fact, employment surveys reveal that the top reason good employees leave companies is over a lack of new opportunities and boredom with stagnant, never-changing, dead-end jobs. People don't hate change; they hate corporate change programs. How can we fix that?
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