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Blog / News & Opinion
BusinessWeek Best Sellers from May 2008
By Porchlight
The BusinessWeek Best Seller list for May 2008 is now available online at businessweek. com. (It typically takes a month to gather sales data from all retailers and distributors and then tabulate the list.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Summer Reading From the Wall Street Journal
By Porchlight
Carol Hymowitz in her In The Lead column for The Wall Street Journal recommends summer reading. Among the business titles you will find: John Kotter change fable Our Iceberg Is Melting (John has a new book coming in September, more on that soon). A.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / Staff Picks
Business Novels
Book Review by Porchlight
In his wonderful review of Personal Days in last weeeknd's New York Times Sunday Book Review (free subscription), Mark Sarvas pondered the following: . . .
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
** June's Top 10 International Bestsellers **
By Porchlight
You guessed it! It's that time again to find out what everyone is reading outside of the United States! We had quite a busy month internationally, and here's just a smattering of what was popular: India Mass Career Customization Cathleen Benko and Ann Weisberg Spain Rules to Break and Laws to Follow Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, Ph.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
From MarketingProfs' Business-to-Business Forum
By Porchlight
MarketingProfs recently posted two of their podcasts from their annual Business-to-Business Forum. The first being Dan Ariely's, author of Predictably Irrational, keynote on "Unlocking Customer Behavior. .
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Reduce Stress and Have more Fun at Work by Joel Zeff
By Porchlight
Today we have a small article from Joel Zeff, author of Make the Right Choice: Creating a Positive, Innovative and Productive Work Life. A trimmer version has appeared at the Orange County Register blog, and it has been previously posted in it's entirety (as was Zeff's 11 Ideas to Enhance the Creative Process) at the photography blog Black Star Rising. Since most of our dear readers probably don't frequent the OCRegister or BSR, we thought we'd post it for you here.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Evolutionary Economics
By Porchlight
Found this today. A Fast Company article on evolutionary economics from Michael Shermer, author of The Mind of the Market. If the fruit of the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 hasn't landed in your bank account yet, it's likely just a matter of time before you're throwing $600 on the bed just to see what it feels like to roll around in that much cash.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
Consumer or Consumed? BusinessWeek reviews two books about brands
Book Review by Porchlight
Yesterday Dylan did a nice job of summing up the latest reviews and discussions about business books in business magazines. Sometimes it's hard for us to keep up with everything, so here's one from a few weeks ago. In the June 19 issue of BusinessWeek, writer Susan Berfield reviewed two books that "explore the question of whether brands control us, or vice versa": Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are by Rob Walker, and Obsessive Branding Disorder: The Illusion of Business and the Business of Illusion by Lucas Conley.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
Friday Tidbits
By Porchlight
Here's an offering of some random, yet interesting things from the Internet this week! Book Review: The Office from Hell Cure by Jeffrey A. Landers.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Magazines Reviewing Books
By Porchlight
There's another round of book reviews from some of the big business magazines. My personal favorite is from Business Week and Christopher Farrell. In an article entitled "The Squeeze on the American Worker," Farrell takes a look at two books with similar themes, Peter Gosselin's High Wire and Steven Greenhouse's The Big Squeeze.
Categories: news-opinion