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The ChangeThis Connection
By Porchlight
Just in time for the weekend. . .
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New Excerpt - from Pricing with Confidence
By Porchlight
There's a new excerpt up on the Excerpts blog. It's the summary of the book Pricing with Confidence: 10 Ways to Stop Leaving Money on the Table by Reed Holden and Mark Burton. Holden and Burton show you how you can get everyone in your firm to feel 100% confident in your pricing--no matter what customers are saying or how fierce the competition.
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Excerpt from Pricing With Confidence
By Porchlight
The following excerpt is a summary of Pricing with Confidence: 10 Ways to Stop Leaving Money on the Table. From the publisher: "Bad pricing is a great way to destroy your company's value, revenue, and profits. With ten simple rules, this book shows you how to deliver both healthy profit margins and robust revenue growth while kicking the dreaded discounting habit.
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links for 2008-03-06
By Porchlight
BusinessWeek Best-Sellers - (Opens Slidshow) "The New Year is seeing lots of change among best-selling books. New this month are titles on ethics, compassionate business and generosity, getting tough on your debts, and the advantages of the superrich. Take a look.
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Robber Baron
By Porchlight
The new biography, Robber Baron, is about the streetcar magnet, Charles Tyson Yerkes, who was instrumental in Chicago's Loop Elevated and the London Underground. Check out the life of one of the most interesting entrepreneur's of the nineteenth century in this new book. It was put out earlier this year and promises to by quite a read!
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Blog / Staff Picks
BusinessWeek reviews Creating a World Without Poverty
Book Review by Porchlight
BusinessWeek reviews Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad Yunus: Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his work as founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, the pioneering microcredit organization in Bangladesh. He launched Grameen 31 years ago to help poor people start businesses. Since then the microcredit movement has gone global, with copycat organizations springing up in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
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From Churchill's Speeches...
By Porchlight
In my various book scouring, I ran across this piece of a Churchill speech. You cannot tell from appearances how things will go. Sometimes imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done.
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Bestsellers Overseas
By Porchlight
Recently, I found a book called India's Century by Kamal Nath, that would be a great precursor to our listing of February's top sellers in other countries. Here's just a sampling of the book, from chapter five: In the foreign mind, it was Mumbai (Bombay), of all Indian cities, that used to be the best suited to evoke a vision of modern India. This was all the more evident when I, as the minister for the environment and forests, represented India at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development - the "Earth Summit", as it was called - in Rio de Janeiro in the summer of 1992.
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Second Super Tuesday
By Porchlight
It is another big day in the presidential primaries with Hillary and Barack battling it out in four states today. In our own election to find the best--the best business book that is---we are over 1650 votes cast. The top five choices right now are: The Goal The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Good To Great The Effective Executive How To Win Friends and Influence People If for some crazy reason you have not voted for your favorites, click through to our Reader's Poll and make your voice heard.
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Mystery Box Success
By Porchlight
We would like to extend a very special thank you to everyone who was kind enough to take part in the Mystery Box sale to benefit Room to Read. Due to the overwhelming response, we have raised just over $3500 for a great charity and mailed out close to 600 books in just over two weeks. Our bookshelves are empty, and we all have smiles on our faces from everyone showing such amazing support.
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