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Blog / News & Opinion
Could Carnegie do it today?
By Porchlight
Back around the early 1900s, Andrew Carnegie set out to build libraries -- 2509 libraries, in fact. 1689 of which were built in the United States. The folks over at Freakonomics point out that publishing was a completely different animal then than it is now.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
A note on July's Jack Covert Selects
By Porchlight
In this midsummer's month we decided to run a few of the classic Jack Covert Selects. The books discussed in these reviews have emerged as staples in contemporary business thought literature. Each has been a consistent bestseller for our company, and all regularly appear on bestseller lists throughout the country.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects Execution (again)
By Porchlight
"Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done" by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan, CrownBusiness, 260 Pages, $27. 50 Hardcover, July 2002, ISBN 9780609610572 Note: This review was first published in 2002. In a recent conversation with an editor at a major publishing house, I shared my belief that Execution is still one of the best books on strategy and execution.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / Staff Picks
Chicago Sun-Times reviews "Apples are Square"
Book Review by Porchlight
Jack sent me a link to this book review published in the Chicago Sun-Times yesterday. "Polishing up on leadership qualities: Insightful read outlines values needed to succeed today" by John A. Challenger In Apples are Square: Thinking Differently about Leadership Susan and Thomas Kuczmarski contend that, aside from sincere efforts made some companies, we haven't learned our proverbial lesson after Enron.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
links for 2007-07-12
By Porchlight
The New Influencers>>The Wall Street Journal | Caught in a Web of Comment How, then, should companies deal with the world of blogs, as well as podcasts, social-network sites such as Facebook and other "social media"? That question is at the center of "The New Influencers," written by former Computerworld editor Paul Gillin.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Greening of Business: Recent Trends & Remaining Hurdles
By Porchlight
In late 2006, Andrew Winston co-authored Green to Gold, a book detailing what companies must do to 'go green.' Here, he writes an original reflection on the recent trends and remaining challenges in the greening of business.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Forget Formulas: How Managers are Fooled in their Search for Success
By Phil Rosenzweig
Phil Rosenzweig argues convincingly that managers should stop trying to find the formula for success, but should adopt a more realistic view, one based on probability and changeability.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
When You Absolutely, Positively Should NOT Use Email: A Civilized List
By David Shipley, Will Schwalbe
For those of us email addicts who can't quit cold turkey but are increasing stressed by the size of our inbox each morning, Shipley and Schwalbe offer advice for managing our input and output in this engaging manifesto.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Happy at Work Manifesto
By Alexander Kjerulf
Much of what happens to us in life is beyond our control, but Kjerulf tells us that being happy at work is a choice. His message is simple, yet inspiring: When you decide to take steps toward being happy, you can be.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Dramatic Impact: The Effect of "The Silent Revolution"
By Porchlight
We asked you, our ChangeThis readers, to submit brief manifestos of 250 words to describe the impact of "The Silent Revolution" as defined in Elizabeth Haas Edelsheim's earlier manifesto on the continuing influence of Peter Drucker on business.
Categories: changethis