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We're Fascinated with Sally Hogshead
By Porchlight
Sally Hogshead has written a book that's curious, entertaining, and incredibly helpful. It's called, Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation. It's the kind of book that makes you feel a bit smarter about the world around you.
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Create Your Job
By Porchlight
Career coach Nancy Anderson had released the inspiring book Work With Passion: How To Do What You Love For a Living, and is now set to launch her newest book that addresses those looking for work with an even greater wealth of experience behind them. Titled, Work With Passion in Midlife and Beyond. To get an idea of the approach of either of these books, here's a blurb from a recent essay written by Anderson, where she talks about a conversation between her and a client: "When I met Charles he spent most of his time going to networking meetings, and surfing job sites on the Internet.
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PechaKucha Recap
By Porchlight
This week was the sixth PechaKucha event we've held in Milwaukee, and it was the biggest yet. With nine presenters, and a venue absolutely stuffed full of people, it's making us wonder if we've outgrown another location. Why so many people this time?
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A Book in a Briefcase?
By Porchlight
You might expect a business book to come in its own briefcase, but yesterday this landed at my desk: It's not a business book, but a book about the history of Magic (1400s-1950s), and it's a whopper. Weighing almost 20 lbs. , this Taschen deluxe edition could be about pretty much anything, and you'd be drawn into it.
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The Quants
By Porchlight
I've not yet finished reading Scott Patterson's The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It, but I'd like to go on record now in disagreement with The Economist's review of the book. I do agree that Patterson's prose can get a bit "purple" in places, but I think his focus on the quantitative models developed and used on Wall Street over the last three decades is an important one. And the way he explores the topic—through the stories of the individuals who created those models—keeps the reader engaged in a tale that might otherwise turn too academic for most.
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2009 - In the Books
By Porchlight
Due to a few minor—yet incredibly frustrating—errors at the printer, our annual review of business books, In the Books, had to be reprinted. (For those of you who received a copy at our awards event in New York City, please avert your eyes from page 48. We will be mailing out new copies to you soon.
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Want to go on a Shelfari?
By Sally Haldorson
This morning we received an email from Noah Fleming (self-described as a "linchpin in training"--which we love), letting us know that he had started a Shelfari for the books in The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. Noah's goal is to read all 100 books by December 31, 2010, and by creating a group on Shelfari, he is encourages others to take up the same challenge. Shelfari is "the premier social network for people who love books" where you can create a virtual bookshelf to feature the books you are reading and create reading groups to discuss those books.
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How do I Fascinate?
By Sally Haldorson
As I mentioned in our most recent The Keen Thinker newsletter, I highly recommend reading Sally Hogshead's new book, Fascinate. (Admittedly I feel a strange attachment to Sally because there aren't many of us in the world named Sally, let alone Sally H. And although I did not change my last name when I got married, I've never had much affection Haldorson.
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Social Media 101
By Porchlight
We are big fans of Chris Brogan and Julien Smith, as evidenced by us naming their book Trust Agents the best Advertising & Marketing book of 2009 in the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards. We're also huge fans of all things analogue here at 8cr—we love us some books and records. Sure, everybody has mp3 files on their computers, and we all read our blogs and follow the Twitter, but how many of us really bookmark our favorite posts and go back to them for inspiration, affirmation, or to remind ourselves of a valuable lesson?
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Treat Who Like a Customer?
By Porchlight
Jack asked me to take a look at a book recently that, I must admit, I was a bit skeptical about at first. For a number of different reasons, a book of marriage advice (geared mostly toward successful men) entitled Treat Me Like a Customer seems like a dicey proposition, especially so if it's being released by a Christian publisher. Zondervan seems to have pulled it off, though, with Louis Upkins' book of sage advice on building and, when need be, repairing the relationships with those closest to us.
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