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Ask 8cr! - One Foot Out the Door
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.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Friday Links: What we've been checking out this week
By Porchlight
Howdy. Time for another round of Friday links. Here's what we enjoyed this week: *We found that Carnegie Mellon University surpassed a lofty goal: the digitization of over 1,500,000 books.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Guest essay from Ram Charan
By Porchlight
Today we're pleased to feature an essay from Ram Charan, author of Leaders at all Levels. Here, Charan discusses the impact profit and loss has on the balance sheet and overall health of an organization, especially when a leader is in tune with those numbers. An intuitive feel for business is evident in good leaders, whether seasoned or rookie, and it is the ability to harness that acumen that makes the difference, especially when it comes to adding value to the organization or when promotion opportunities are at hand.
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Rust Belt Redux
By Porchlight
The News Hour with Jim Lehrer began a new series on America's response to globalization last night, and their first installment focused on our home city of Milwaukee. We don't see Milwaukee on television that often anymore, so it was kind of odd to turn on the news and see them tearing down the old tannery on Water Street. "Wonderful," I thought to myself, "another uplifting story about the demise of the Upper Midwest and decline of manufacturing in America.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
links for 2007-11-29
By Porchlight
Punched In>>The Wall Street Journal | Will Work for Fodder A certain winnowing process can also be usefully applied to "Punching In.
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Blog / News & Opinion
The presents we're buying.
By Porchlight
If you're looking for a gift guide for books to buy for presents, here are a few of the books the 8cr crew bought for the holidays. Feel free to add your best buys, too: Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer One Hundred Young Americans by Michael Franzini Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough, Michael Braungart When You Were Me by Robert Rodi The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, Scott Brick How to Be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson Sublime Spaces & Visionary Worlds by Erika Doss, Ruth D. Kohler, Lisa Stone, Jane Bianco, Leslie Umberger (Editor) The Last Tycoons by William D.
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Blog / News & Opinion
How morality fits into the global picture.
By Porchlight
Business executives have justified their actions with a "when in China, do as the Chinese do" defense. To do business in China, these executives insist, they must comply with local laws. But China's local laws often force executives to make moral and ethical choices that would be intolerable in the West.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Following up on predictions from publishers
By Porchlight
It's always interesting to go back and see what the publishing community predicted would do well in a given season. Last May, Publishers Weekly had a great piece about trends in business book publishing. Todd blogged about it in June.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
links for 2007-11-27
By Porchlight
Punching In >> USA TODAY | Finding a job in retail may not be so simple Frankel went undercover to report on the corporate culture of some of the county's leading retailers.
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Opposable Mind
By Porchlight
I've been reading the Opposable Mind by Roger Martin. We humans have long been distinguished from other animals by our opposable thumbs. Yes, we're born with the ability to hold something with the tension of our forefinger and thumb.
Categories: news-opinion