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The Keen Thinker Vol.2
By Sally Haldorson
Volume 2 of The Keen Thinker is now available for your reading pleasure. Find out the answers to the following persistent questions: What exactly is a Pecha Kucha? What is this "freemium" thing everyone is talking about?
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Your Brain at Work and inBubbleWrap
By Porchlight
Our resident wordsmith Sally, who in her own words "probably think[s] about life in sports metaphors more often than your average nerdy female bookworm," has posted her second offer over on inBubbleWrap. She asks whether, as is the case with olympic athletes, "every high level of success must be accompanied by an equal amount of sacrifice. " And, by giving away David Rock's Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter all Day Long, she hopes to put a book in your hands that will help you work smarter and find a better work/life balance so you don't have to make Olympian sacrifices to succeed.
Categories: news-opinion
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PechaKucha Night: Milwaukee
By Porchlight
One week from tonight will be the sixth PechaKucha Night in Milwaukee, and it's going to be pretty special. Tuesday, February 23 8PM Sugar Maple 441 E. Lincoln Ave in Bay View PechaKucha Night was started in Tokyo as a non-profit.
Categories: news-opinion
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Rework
By Porchlight
In 1999, Jason Fried was one of the founders of 37signals - then a web design firm, and now a software development company. That transition occurred when the small company found challenges in keeping track of all the project components and information. They developed an in-house software program to help keep things organized, and it worked.
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This makes sense
By Porchlight
"There's no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
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Jack Covert Selects - Switch
By Porchlight
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Broadway Business, 320 pages, $26. 00, Hardcover, February 2010, ISBN 9780385528757 Chip and Dan Heath, brothers and scholars, won the inaugural 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year Award with their first book, Made to Stick. That book, despite being a newborn, also made our list of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time.
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Jack Covert Selects - Mojo
By Porchlight
Mojo: How to Get it, How to Keep it, How to Get It Back If You Lose It by Marshall Goldsmith, Hyperion Books, 224 pages, $26. 99, Hardcover, February 2010, ISBN 9781401323271 There are people on this planet who are scary smart, people who look at the world differently and help us see our own lives in a clearer light. Seth Godin is one.
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Jack Covert Selects - Denial
By Porchlight
Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face—and What to do About It by Richard S. Tedlow. Portfolio, 272 Pages, $26.
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Broken Windows, Broken Business
By Porchlight
The first thing I saw staring back at me from my email this morning came from the author of Fascinate, Sally Hogshead, whose manifesto led yesterday's ChangeThis issue. Being from Sally, it was a kind and generous message, but there was something there at the end that made my stomach feel a bit more empty than it really was. "Could you fill in my URL on the intro page (I think it's just blank right now)" she asked.
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Regrets
By Porchlight
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor.
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