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Build Your Brand in Bits and Bytes: Building Your Personal Brand Online
By William Arruda
Arruda and Dixson warn: you are being googled. Internet research is now a no-brainer in the hiring process, whether you are applying for a job or pitching your bid. So, how can you impress recruiters and clients when they perform this kind of reference check? The authors offer steps to making you digitally distinctive.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The New Theory of Relativity: Relationships = Productivity
By Noah Blumenthal
Blumenthal believes there is simply no stronger motivation for good performance than strong relationships and hopes to revolutionize leadership with a deceptively simple equation: Relationships = Productivity. He warns of an epidemic of "ineptivity" (motion without reason) has lead to a state of disenfranchisement within business, and a good leader who attends to people's needs can prevent mutiny.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Slow Innovation: A Savour-y Way to Success
By Porchlight
Using the Slow Food Movement as a metaphor, Derek Cheshire suggests a slow approach to innovation. There is immense pressure to innovate quickly or to rush to market, but does this bargain of speed versus quality really benefit a company? He lauds the goal of creating "an innovative company whose structure and culture are conducive to long-term growth and sustainability."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / News & Opinion
A Reader Request - Your Newspapers
By Porchlight
I first want to officially declare my love for Monocle Magazine. It is a wonderful magazine out of the UK that covers "Affairs, Business, Culture, Design, and Edits (ie stuff). " The design is brilliant with great and plentiful photography, the right mix of short and long content, and a global perspective which is all but missing from stateside media.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Business in Singapore
By Porchlight
800-CEO-READ is doing more and more business internationally. This is not a new trend for us. In fact, we've shipped to places in Australia, Africa and so on since we first delved into the business book world.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Publisher's Weekly Best of Everything (But Business Books) 2007
By Porchlight
Publisher's Weekly released this morning their Best of 2007 list. They pulled 150 titles from the 6,000 they reviewed this year and declared the worthiest reads. There is not a single business book on the list, so it's best to enjoy the compilation as a book lover or as a gift guide this holiday season.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Ask 8cr! - Quitting
By Aaron Schleicher
Ask 8cr! - Quitting Welcome to "Ask 8cr! " - a new section of our blog where we've created a forum to find out what kinds of issues and challenges people are having in the workplace.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Reliable Innovation
By Porchlight
Robert Austin's using lessons gleaned from the Medici String Quartet to write a business book; the working title is Reliable Innovation. 'Reliable innovation is "a weird concept," Austin admits. "Reliability in business is about things aimed at consistency of outcome.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Free!?
By Porchlight
Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert and author of the recently released Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain! , has an intriguing op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today. It deals with the complications of providing one's material on the internet for free.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
links for 2007-11-01
By Porchlight
Options>>The Wall Street Journal | The Apple of His iBook Playing on Mr. Jobs's reputation as conceited, quick-tempered and implacable, not to mention his godlike status among techies, Mr. Lyons as Fake Steve posted foul-mouthed first-person rants about Apple's customers, its competitors, and Mr.
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