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Memo to the CEO
By Porchlight
Harvard Business Press has begun publishing a series of 100 page books called Memos to the CEO. The Publisher's Note from the beginning of the book sums them up perfectly. Authored by leading experts and examining issues of special urgency, the books in the Memo to the CEO series are tailored for today's time-starved executives.
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Blog / News & Opinion
If you're in Milwaukee...do join us where Design Meets Business : Business Meets Design
By Porchlight
If you're in Milwaukee, keep reading. . .
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Blog / News & Opinion
As a nation, we must embrace innovation.
By Porchlight
One of the runner-ups for our Innovation/Creativity award was Innovation Nation by John Kao, who, among other pursuits, is a professor at Harvard, a jazz musician and was named "Mr. Creativity" by the Economist. This quote from the Economist should tell you something about him: "If Orsen Welles and Peter Drucker were somehow to mate, the resulting progeny might resemble John Kao, a serial innovator.
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links for 2008-02-21
By Porchlight
The New Asian Hemisphere>>The Wall Street Journal | A Rising in the East Even so, there are lessons to be learned from "The New Asian Hemisphere" -- not least that, in a world of truly global free trade, there is no room for the petty self-dealing of protectionism.
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Thing About Life....
Book Review by Porchlight
The Wall Street Journals own Stephen Bates' review written about the book The Thing About Life is that One Day You'll be Dead : Coordination and strength peak at 19, IQ at around 20, bone mass at 30, Mr. Shields reports. On the down slope, the brain shrinks, the eyes go cloudy, the metabolic rate falls.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Senior Leadership Teams
By Porchlight
Senior Leadership Teams: What it Takes to Make Them Great by Ruth Wageman, Debra A. Nunes, James A Burruss, J. Richard Hackman, Harvard Business School Press, 256 pages, $29.
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Excerpt from Leadership Brand - 2 of 2
By Porchlight
The following is the second of two excerpts from the book Leadership Brand: Developing Customer-Focused Leaders to Drive Performance and Build Lasting Value by Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood. Leadership Brand details the authors' six-step process to leadership brand--"a shared identity among your organization's leaders that differentiates what they can do from what your rivals' leaders can do. " This second excerpt focuses on the process of training.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Excerpt from Leadership Brand - 1 of 2
By Porchlight
The following is an excerpt from the book Leadership Brand: Developing Customer-Focused Leaders to Drive Performance and Build Lasting Value by Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood. Leadership Brand was published last September and has been on our best seller list several times. The book is the authors' six-step process to leadership brand--"a shared identity among your organization's leaders that differentiates what they can do from what your rivals' leaders can do.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Logic of Life
By Porchlight
The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World by Tim Harford, Random House, 272 pages, $25. 00, Hardcover, January 2008, ISBN 9781400066421 A number of economists have crossed over from academic publishing into popular literature recently. The most successful was Steven Levitt's Freakonomics--a book co-authored by New York Times columnist Steven J.
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Blog / News & Opinion
links for 2008-02-19
By Porchlight
Billion of Entrepreneurs >> BusinessWeek | Just Don't Call It 'Chindia' Why is China so much more open to multinationals than India yet vastly less hospitable to its own private entrepreneurs? Why do Indian companies have a far deeper pool of world-class managerial talent than China?
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