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Elbowroom: Space the Final Frontier
By Porchlight
The time has come for 800CEOREAD to move into their new space! It's been a long time coming and we're still trying out different things that work for us to get settled in nice and cozy like. Here's a few pictures of what it's like so far.
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Twitter gifts
By Sally Haldorson
I'm torn about Twitter. Most days I struggle with what to add to our company Twitter account. While I can write a haiku at a drop of a hat, I blank out when trying to create potent 140 character messages.
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"Do Cool Stuff that Lasts"
By Sally Haldorson
There's a new article today on Salon titled: Healthcare Reform Rock Star, featuring one of our favorite authors, Atul Gawande. Gawande is a staff writer for the New Yorker and author of The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, and Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, books we copiously recommended. And his first book, Complications, garnered rave reviews.
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Entrepreneur stories?
By Porchlight
Scott Gerber, columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine, has a book coming out on Wiley this year, titled, Never Get a Real Job, and is now in the process of collecting war stories from entrepreneurs - experiences they've had that were challenging, but helped shape how their businesses formed. Do you have a story? Watch Scott's video below for instructions on how to submit.
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The More You Know
By Sally Haldorson
"The More You Know" is a well-known public service campaign. "The more you know, the more you know" is a oft-used phrase touting the importance of learning, of having endless curiosity about the world. Todd Sattersten (our former president and continued friend of the company) wrote a new e-book, Fixed to Flexible, which offers everything you need to know about "cost, price, margin and the options available to the 21st century business.
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We're in Japan!
By Sally Haldorson
Two copies of the Japanese version of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time appeared at our offices on Friday. It's both impressive and fun to look at. We must give kudos to the Japanese publisher, Kodansha, for doing a wonderful job on the book.
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Lucky or Smart on inBubbleWrap
By Porchlight
For those of you who haven't been following along, we are still giving away free books on inBubbleWrap (and more regularly now that some of our larger, year-end projects are behind us). Today, we have one of the 100 best business books of all time, Lucky or Smart by Bo Peabody. It's an easy-to-read 58 pages, an afternoon of business insight and inspiration.
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Thank You!
By Porchlight
We hosted our second annual 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards event in New York City on Monday night, and want to thank everyone who attended. We'd also like to thank the good folks of The Shoreham Hotel who helped set us up for a great evening, and give a special shout out to the wonderful people of Cave Henricks Communications, without whom we couldn't have pulled it all off. We started the awards three years ago to recognize the authors and publishers of the business-improving, career-guiding, and often life-changing books published in our genre every year.
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Order Two Linchpin, Get The Blue Sweater
By Porchlight
In an effort to bring awareness to the wonderful work that Acumen Fund continues to do around the world, Seth Godin and 800-CEO-READ have created a special offer. We are going to give you a free copy of Jacqueline Novogratz's (the founder and CEO of Acumen Fund) The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World when you buy two copies of Seth's latest book, Linchpin. Not to sound too much like an infomercial, but this offer really is only available while the stock (of around 200) we have here lasts, and Seth already announced it this morning, so hustle up and get in on it.
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Learning
By Porchlight
"The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.
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