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The Obvious Choices
By Porchlight
Lately, I've been thinking a lot about the case studies used in business thought. There are some massively powerful examples to learn from. For instance, we all recognize the genius of Apple.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Accidental Creative
By Porchlight
The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment’s Notice by Todd Henry, Portfolio, $25. 95, 240 pages, Hardcover, July 2011, ISBN 9781591844013 Todd Henry is a self-described “arms dealer for the creative revolution. ” Continuing that metaphor, you can think of him as a freedom fighter of sorts, but he wisely understands that every struggle (even the creative struggle) needs to be organized.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Great Again
By Porchlight
Great Again: Revitalizing America's Entrepreneurial Leadership by Henry R. Nothhaft with David Kline, Harvard Business Review Press, $26. 95, 193 pages, Hardcover, May 2011, ISBN 9781422158579 When I read the essay we received from Henry R.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Art of Uncertainty
By Porchlight
The Art of Uncertainty: How to Live in the Mystery of Life and Love It by Dennis Merritt Jones, Tarcher, 304 pages, $14. 95, Paperback, June 2011, ISBN 9781585428724 “I don’t know. ” That’s a phrase most of us try to avoid.
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Blog / Staff Picks
I'm There For You, Baby!
Book Review by Porchlight
Neal Senturia is not for everyone. After all, the cover of his book is a barbed wire fence flipping the bird, which I didn't even know was possible until this book came out. I'm There For You, Baby: An Entrepreneur's Guide to the Galaxy is not as abrasive as its cover may lead you to believe, but it definitely has a devil-may-care attitude, and an irreverent, unapologetic tone.
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The New Guy at 800-CEO-READ
By Porchlight
While many people take summers off, we at 800-CEO-READ have been brewing up some new things to help people work better. But it's going to take a lot to execute these ideas, so we've added Bob Warde to our team to make sure they're handled the best they can be. Who's Bob?
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Blog / Staff Picks
To Lead is to Teach
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
Back in January, we were sent a manuscript for a new book in the Notes On Series created by Russell Reich. Jack wrote a JCS on the first book in the series, Notes on Directing, and has been enthusiastically following Reich and his impressive accomplishments ever since. When Jack received this new manuscript for Notes on Teaching, written by Shellee Hendricks and Reich, he forwarded it on to me.
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Psychotic Psummer!
By Porchlight
Last night, I watched the film version of author Brett Easton Ellis' American Psycho. While the film has many limitations compared to the book, the gist of the story remains: Powerful people in powerful positions can have powerful problems. Those of you that might have stomached Ellis' book (it published in 1991, and I felt sort of awful for a week after reading it), might be thinking the story is indicative of a work of fiction.
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Stranger to Fiction
Book Review by Porchlight
I read something in the industry newsletter Shelf Awareness recently that took me aback. It was from an interview Philip Roth did with Jan Dalley of the Financial Times. The conversation I’d longed to have with him since I first read him many decades ago, a conversation about fiction itself, died an early death.
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Blog / News & Opinion
ChangeThis: Issue 84
By Porchlight
What If They Listened to Entrepreneurs? by Henry R. Nothhaft “Before any significant and sustained increase in the creation of good middle-class jobs can take place, the voice of the entrepreneur who is the source of all breakthrough innovation and job growth must be heard.
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