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Don't Quit Your Day Job
Book Review by Porchlight
There are a great many (and many great) literary books about work. There are those that search for the deeper meaning of work by interviewing others about the work they do, such as Po Bronson's What Should I Do with My Life? , Studs Terkel's Working, and The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alex De Botton.
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Where Good Ideas Come From
By Porchlight
Steven Johnson has a new book coming out in October called Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. Not only does it report on much of the innovation that has occurred over time, it focuses heavily on the process. We all have ideas.
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The Shibumi Strategy
By Porchlight
Matthew May is known for his thoughts on innovation and design strategy. His books The Elegant Solution and In Pursuit of Elegance focused on those topics, and were written in a more straightforward business style. Now, he's taken another turn: the business parable.
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8cr Pow Wow Adds Chris Guillebeau and Sally Hogshead
By Porchlight
The 800-CEO-READ Pow Wow is really incredible. I continue to hear stories about people who met at the first one in 2005, and are still working on projects together. Also, their work is better based on the things they learned by coming to the Pow Wow over the years.
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Progress or Paper Ceiling?
By Sally Haldorson
In the 2008 edition of our annual year-in-review, In the Books, I wrote an essay titled: "For Women Only? A Look at Trends in Business Books Written by Women. " It's a topic that always intrigues me.
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Pete Carroll and the Grateful Dead
Book Review by Porchlight
After leading a train of counter culture, tie-dyed long-hairs around the country for over three decades, the Grateful Dead is now being used to teach valuable lessons in some unlikely places. David Meerman Scott and Brian Halligan released a great book last month with John Wiley and Sons about how the band built its devoted following and the many lessons they offer marketers today. Basketball legend, Dead Head and current NBA announcer Bill Walton wrote in the book's introduction that "Brian and David's newest book, Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead, is like a powerful, hard-charging anthem that fills in so many of the blanks while closing the circle of life all around us.
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The Dragonfly Effect
By Porchlight
What do we post on social media sites? Should we only announce marketing related info, or get more personal? Should we have individual accounts, or ones with our company names?
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A new edition of "The Keen Thinker" newsletter
By Sally Haldorson
In case you haven't signed up yet to receive The Keen Thinker newsletter via email every month, you can read it here. In this month's edition, you can learn more about: the 2010 Author Pow Wow an excuse to play poker at work how to make your company more profitable how to live your life by your own rules what to do to keep from choking when the stakes are high what the Milwaukee "The Rework Event" is which new books you should add to the pile on your bedside table why there is a business book for everyone (even people who hate business books) the newest issue of ChangeThis and Jack Covert Selects how to win a free book every week and. .
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LeaveSmarter with Jonathan Byrnes
By Porchlight
We were thrilled to have Jonathan L. S. Byrnes, author of Islands of Profit in a Sea of Red Ink, in Milwaukee yesterday to speak at our latest LeaveSmarter* event, held on the third floor of the breathtaking Grohmann Museum.
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Announcing! The 2010 800-CEO-READ Author Pow Wow
By Sally Haldorson
The 800-CEO-READ Author Pow Wow is back! The theme of this year’s event is Making Connections. Now, we don’t mean making connections in strictly networking terms—that’s just a bonus.
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