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Blog / News & Opinion
Kindle packaging
By Porchlight
All opinions on Kindle aside, have you seen its packaging? Pretty spiffy. * Image from Bad Banana Blog.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
Excerpt from The Sales Manager's Success Manual
By Porchlight
The following chapter is excerpted from The Sales Manager's Success Manual by Wayne M. Thomas (AMACOM). This book covers fundamental sales management topics including compensation, forecasting, and motivation, along with more advanced topics such as dealing with internal politics, understanding generational issues, managing up, and developing intuition.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
2007 Brand Autopsy Marketing Book Awards
By Porchlight
John over at Brandy Autopsy has announced his favorite marketing books of the year. Among them are What Were They Thinking? , Wal-Smart, and Made To Stick.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Catching up with the guys from Freakonomics
By Porchlight
Yesterday I had a chance to catch up on a few weeks of blog posts over on the Freakonomics blog. I found out that their book is going to be made into a documentary; each story will be told by a different set of directors. One set of directors is looking for ideas from Freakonomics fans.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Ask 8cr! - Growing Great Employees
By Aaron Schleicher
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.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Let's Take a Holiday
By Porchlight
So, there I was waiting patiently in line to go through the first of 3 security checkpoints at the airport. It was the first time I was traveling overseas with my mom, which I may not do again, but that's only because I lost her during the trip to Mexico. It turns out she was just getting a tattoo, but I digress.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Bloomberg suggests business books for gifts
By Porchlight
We've been in Chicago for the past two days for our second annual Author Pow-wow. I'll write more on that soon. There's much to share.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Giving Notice - book excerpt
By Porchlight
I'm currently reading a very interesting book called, Giving Notice . It's about employee retention and why some workers just leave their work entirely even though they are some of the best, brightest people on their team. Here's just one of the examples given: One weekend, Eric came into the office to put in more time on an important project.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
A Milwaukee Company
By Porchlight
It has been a little quiet on the blog this week because most of our crew is in the Windy City to meet with business book authors and publishers. I was there yesterday and it was a blast - I'm sure we'll have more to tell you over the next few weeks. I'll take this opportunity to mention something our sister company, Schwartz Bookshops, is participating in this winter.
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
End of Days
By Porchlight
I was surfing the net looking for books for a client when I came across the desk calendar for The Power of Now 2008. OK, I know it is just the beginning of December and all and I should have realized this before, but it's going to be 2008 soon! And with all the hubbub of the holidays we tend to not think about our desks at work.
Categories: news-opinion