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Entrepreneurship Conference - Milwaukee
By Porchlight
For those of you in southeastern Wisconsin, the Institute of Management Accountants is hosting a two-day conference on October 22 - 23, 2009. Covering a wide range of topics from a variety of speakers, the conference provides a great overview of important things to consider and understand when starting a business. From accounting issues, to passion vs.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Recipe For a Successful Business Book
By Porchlight
David Galanis at the Peeble Creek Partners Blog shares the secret to creating a successful business book: Start with multiple authors – including an academic from a prestigious business school and a seasoned business consultant plus a business journalist from a major newspaper or magazine (someone has to actually write the book). Using free graduate student talent from the B-school, develop a database of the performance of thousands of companies over the past decade – more if you want to sound really authoritative. Be sure to select a few unique performance metrics to differentiate your results from all the other formulaic books.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
Crowdsourced Entrepreneurial Reads
By Porchlight
A few weeks ago, Fred Wilson from avc. com kicked up interest in books that entreprenuers should read. Fred, in particular, made the point that "there is way more insight to be gained from stories than from business books.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Exploiting Chaos
By Porchlight
Exploiting Chaos: 150 Ways to Spark Innovation During Times of Change by Jeremy Gutsche, Gotham Books, 271 Pages, $20. 00, Paperback, September 2009, ISBN 9781592405077 Without a doubt, this is one of the best books on sparking ideas that I have ever read. Jeremy Gutsche has written and designed an excellent book for an uncertain time—a time when all of our instincts scream at us to retreat.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Borrowed Brilliance
By Porchlight
Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others by David Kord Murray, Gotham Books, $26. 00 Hardcover, 304 Pages, September 2009, ISBN 9781592404780 You may have heard the cynical expression “There are no new ideas. ” Well, David Kord Murray wouldn’t necessarily disagree with that sentiment, but he would argue that it isn’t such a bad thing either.
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Blog / News & Opinion
A View Inside Publishing
By Porchlight
The Barnes & Noble Review published an essay this morning by Daniel Menaker, the former editor-in-chief of Random House. The piece disassembles publishing into its sub-optimized pieces: Editors competing with editors. The chasm between creative and commercial, both in acquisition and execution.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Leap
By Porchlight
The Leap: How 3 Simple Changes Can Propel Your Career from Good to Great by Rick Smith, Portfolio, 224 Pages, $24. 95 Hardcover, September 2009, ISBN 9781591842569 Rick Smith starts The Leap by telling the story of how he went from co-writing a best selling book to being unemployed within a very short period of time. Unfortunately, this is a pretty common situation these days.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Total Recall
By Porchlight
Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything by Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell, Dutton Books, 304 Pages, $26. 95, Hardcover, September 2009. ISBN 9780525951346 Imagine that you are in your doctor’s office complaining about an ache or pain and, to help her in her diagnosis, she asks you what activities you’ve engaged in lately.
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Awesomely Simple Interview with John Spence (800-CEO-READ Podcast)
By Porchlight
I recently talked with John Spence, the author of Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies For Turning Ideas Into Action. John believes if you concentrate on a small set of simple things and get those right that you'll have more time for the complicated tasks. His six simple principles for success are: Vivid Vision Best People Robust Communication Sense of Urgency Disciplined Execution Extreme Customer Focus We talk about how John reads more business books than I do, how mantras can make great mission statements, and what the next thing you do is after you read the book.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / ChangeThis
Breaking Organizational Codependence: Downsizing's Liberating Wake-Up Call
By David Noer
"I'm told there is an ancient Chinese curse that translates into 'May you live in interesting times. ' That it is a curse certainly rings true as we experience today's global pandemic of downsizing. Layoff victims and survivors alike react to this new reality with a toxic stew of debilitating emotions such as anger, fear, anxiety and depression—what I call layoff survivor sickness. We can change that though. We can reframe the death toll of the old paradigm into a wake-up call that will help us create an exciting world of work that is more autonomous, personally relevant, and more in congruence with our unique gifts. We first need to understand the nature of the change and the insidious power of organizational codependency. Then we need the courage to break its stifling grip on our human spirit and creativity. Part of our 'interesting times' involves living through the most fundamental change in the psychological contract that has connected employee to employer since the industrial revolution.
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