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Blog / News & Opinion
Indexing Penguin
By Porchlight
Office favorite and author of a recent ChangeThis manifesto, Jessica Hagy will be Penguin USA's guest blogger this week. Her new book was released by Penguin last week, and though it's not a business book, I'm sure you'll enjoy it as much as we have. If you haven't taken a gander at her work yet, this would be a great time to start.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Food-gle
By Porchlight
If Oprah's chef can have a cookbook, why not Google's chef?
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Blog / News & Opinion
Ask 8cr! - Doing What Matters
By Porchlight
Ask 8cr! is a section of our blog used as a forum to address the kinds of issues and challenges people are having in the workplace. We take these issues and apply a business book we feel offers a viable solution.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Negotiation Thread at Signal vs Noise
By Porchlight
There is a great thread at Signal vs Noise where they are asking readers for good negotiating stories. The books mentioned thus far include: You Can Negotiate Anything by Herb Cohen NO: The Only Negotiating Strategy You Need for Work and Home by Jim Camp Humanitarian Negotiation: A handbook for securing access, assistance and protection for Civilians in Armed Conflcts by The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (free download) Jack Nicholson's famous negotiation in Five Easy Pieces is also mentioned.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Ferris' "Then We Came To The End" Wins B&N New Writers Award
By Porchlight
Joshua Ferris was named a winner in Barnes & Noble's 15th Annual "Discover Great New Writers Awards. " His book Then We Came To The End is a novel about a Chicago ad agency and the tumultuous 1990's. Our resident writer Todd Lazarski wrote this short piece about the book for an upcoming 800-CEO-READ project: The next generation of the business novel, Ferris' hilarious critique of modern office life and the world of marketing acts almost as the written word companion to "Office Space" or "The Office.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Indexed, Farber and Charity
By Porchlight
Three notes, not quite related. 1. Jessica Hagy's book Indexed is out today.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Ask 8cr! - Senior Leadership Teams
By Porchlight
Ask 8cr! is a section of our blog used as a forum to address the kinds of issues and challenges people are having in the workplace. We take these issues and apply a business book we feel offers a viable solution.
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Blog / Staff Picks
Books in the March issue of Portfolio magazine
Book Review by Porchlight
The March issue of Condé Nast Portfolio includes a lengthy review of Biography of the Dollar: How the Mighty Buck Conquered the World and Why It's Under Siege by Craig Karmin, published by Crown Business. You can read the review at www. portfolio.
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Blog / News & Opinion
5 Steps to Optimizing Your Website
By Porchlight
There are countless ways to get the most out of your web site, and even more opinions about the best ways. In Zero to One Million, Ryan Allis offers an evaluation system to determine whether your business idea is viable. Then, he provides strategies and steps for optimizing your online marketing efforts.
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Blog / News & Opinion
links for 2008-02-26
By Porchlight
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism >> BusinessWeek | "In Praise of Not-So-Free Trade" Chang argues that the policy recommendations of the "unholy trinity" of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization would have been unacceptable to the U. S.
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