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The Keen Thinker 3
By Sally Haldorson
Our newest edition of The Keen Thinker is available today! You can view it here, but remember to sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. And don't forget to drop us a line with your thoughts or suggestions about The Keen Thinker: email us at newsletter@800ceoread.
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Books as Intellectual Assets in an Economic Discourse
By Porchlight
Michael Lewis's latest book, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, was released this week to a lot of media attention and bestseller lists. We'll review the book more in depth on this site and elsewhere over the coming weeks, but its very release is what's giving me hope this week. You see, for all the doom-and-gloom surrounding publishing these days, publishers themselves have done a quietly masterful job of finding books that put the Great Recession, and what caused it, in focus over the last year and a half—Michael Lewis being but the latest (albeit one of the finest) voices in the choir that publishers have been directing.
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The Future of Publishing
By Porchlight
Everyone either has the answer, or is trying to find it. For myself, I'm pretty interested in the presence of publishing - what's happening right now. There's a lot of cool stuff happening; great books, great online stuff, great creativity and ideas exploding all around us.
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Giving
By Porchlight
Bob Burg and John David Mann's The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea quickly became a national bestseller. It's parable format told readers a great story that showed how giving could actually increase profits, rather than diminish them. More than that, it showed that those who don't give, actually struggled more, and were likely in a position to fail as opposed to those experiencing utmost success.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Rework
By Porchlight
Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson, Crown Business, 288 pages, $22. 00, Hardcover, March 2010, ISBN 9780307463746 I’m usually the first responder to new books that come in the office, but this book created much internal excitement even before I got my hands on it. The galley that is currently on my desk is quite beat up already from use.
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Jack Covert Selects - Getting Naked
By Porchlight
Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding The Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty by Pat Lencioni, Jossey-Bass, 220 pages, $24. 95, Hardcover, February 2010, ISBN 9780787976392 For over ten years, Pat Lencioni has helped define the genre of the business fable. He is most famous for The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, which I thought so highly of that I included it in our collection of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Art of Choosing
By Porchlight
The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar, Twelve, 329 pages, $25. 99, Hardcover, March 2010, ISBN 9780446504102 We make choices every day: small choices about what we will eat for breakfast, what clothes we’ll wear, how we react within our jobs; and big choices about relationships, purchases—real life-changing choices. But what is choice?
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The Linchpin Voltron
By Porchlight
Books can do a lot for us: inspire, teach, jolt, enlighten. They can be a call to action, but they can't actually make us act. You have to find the gumption to do that on your own.
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Blog / Staff Picks
The Right Fight
Book Review by Porchlight
Tensions are going to exist in any organization of human beings, from the marriage of two individuals all the way up to the social contract of a nation. The most successful leaders use that inherent tension and struggle to creatively further the organization—whether it's a spouse gently challenging the other to become the person they aspire to be, a corporate leader fomenting healthy disagreement on strategy to find a better approach, or a civil rights leader confronting an unjust, societal status quo to improve living conditions. It is when we try to suppress those struggles and ignore the tension that we ultimately fail to move forward.
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Do More Great Work
By Porchlight
I met author Michael Bungay Stanier at last year's ASTD conference in Washington, DC. My plane had just landed, I had a mere hour or two of sleep, and was on cold medicine. The bustle of the training conference quickly woke me up, and meeting Michael was a great dose of reality.
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