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Blog / News & Opinion
links for 2007-07-04
By Porchlight
Smart World >> BusinessWeek | The Science Of "Aha! " "Spinning a wide variety of tales, with characters ranging from Gutenberg, Steve Jobs, and Watson and Crick to the Barbie doll and Pablo Picasso, Ogle arrives at nine laws that 'crack the code of creativity. '" (tags: businessbooks innovation creativity) The BusinessWeek Best-Seller List | May 2006 "BusinessWeek's Best-Seller List is based on a survey of chain and independent booksellers that carry a broad selection of books on economics, management, sales and marketing, small business, investing, personal finance, and careers.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Excerpt from Fired Up or Burned Out
By Porchlight
This excerpt is taken from the introduction of Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team's Passion, Creativity, and Productivity by Michael Lee Stallard. The author presents three keys that can empower a leader to transform even a lethargic, disconnected organization into an impassioned, innovative, and thriving workplace Introduction What fires up people and helps them and the organizations they work in thrive? I'm not talking about motivational speeches and incentives that produce a short-term burst of enthusiasm.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Movies as a replacement for books.
By Porchlight
Four Italian consultants, Francesco Bogliari, Sergio Di Giorgi, Marco Lombardi and Piero Trupia, concluded "executives learn little from books. " So they wrote a book* to recommend movies "they say showcase good business practice and highlight major issues. " "High-quality films, though, can offer lessons about problem-solving and teamwork as well as focusing on issues such as globalisation and diversity, Mr Bogliari said.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Definition of Management and Leadership
By Porchlight
John Kotter in his book Leading Change defines management and leadership thusly: Management is a set of processes that can keep a complicated system of people and technology running smoothly. The most important aspects of management include planning, budgeting, organizing, staffing, controlling, and problem solving. Leadership is a set of processes that creates organizations in the first place or adapts them to significantly changing circumstances.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
What are you reading?
Book Review by Porchlight
Since Kate, Todd and Jack are out of the office today, I am going to be sneaky and ask a non-business-book related question. What are you reading this summer? And what would you say when recommending it?
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
links for 2007-06-28
By Porchlight
New Ideas from Dead CEOs>>The Wall Street Journal | Their View From the Top The remarkable lives in "New Ideas From Dead CEOs" are more than enough to carry a reader along.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
Implications of the Blogosphere
Book Review by Porchlight
Dov Seidman, who we mentioned earlier in the week, was the focus of Thomas Friedman's New York Times column today. You need to subscribe to the New York Times online to view the article (a trial version is available), so those who have a subscription or want to get one can access the column here: The Whole World is Watching Here's a brief excerpt: When everyone has a blog, a MySpace page or Facebook entry, everyone is a publisher. When everyone has a cellphone with a camera in it, everyone is a paparazzo.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Excerpt from The Ultimate Sales Machine
By Porchlight
The following excerpt is taken from Chapter 4 of The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies. Author Chet Holmes offers this advice: Instead of trying to master four thousand strategies to improve your business, zero in on the few essential skill areas that make the big difference. Chapter 4: Becoming a Brilliant Strategist How to Get Up to Nine Times More Impact from Every Move You Make As we've already established, it's harder than ever to get in front of a potential buyer, so when you finally get your company in front of that buyer, you need to maximize what you can accomplish in that moment.
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Blog / News & Opinion
links for 2007-06-27
By Porchlight
BusinessWeek | "The Twisted Economics Of Harry Potter" "For booksellers, the source of the pain is mammoth retailers like Amazon. com (AMZN ), Wal-Mart (WMT ), and Britain's ASDA chain, which have slashed prices by 50% to woo fans.
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Inevitable change.
By Porchlight
What provokes change? Back in the mid-1400s, Gutenberg changed communication (as did his lesser known predecessor). Communication was again changed with the Internet.
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