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Blog / Staff Picks
5 Books That Changed My Perspective
Book Review by Porchlight
We've been talking about how to help people, how to focus on what's positive and helpful in the current state of our world, rather than grumbling over the things that are both out of our control and truly uncertain. One of the ways we can do that is by starting a conversation that starts at a personal level. .
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
A Time to Read
By Porchlight
The inherent purpose of any business book is to be useful to the reader. It is a genre of tools and solutions, with business practitioners, consultants, professors and journalists all adding to the stew of ideas and insight. Not many of us can sit down with Warren Buffet for the weekend, picking his brain on matters of business and life, but all of us can curl up on the couch with a copy of The Snowball by Alice Schroeder and have an intimate, 976 page conversation with the man.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Build your culture with free audio
By Porchlight
Zappos is a company that focuses foremost on company culture. By doing so, they believe that things like great customer service and branding will naturally evolve. They're not alone in this thought.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Enough already!
By Porchlight
For the last few weeks we have been pummeled, along with all of you, by this Category Five financial hurricane. We got sucked in writing post after post about what you could be reading if you wanted to better understand financial collapse. I stopped reading the newspaper because every headline contains some synonym of "worse".
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
Pecha Kucha Night #3 - Slideshow - October 28, 2008
By Porchlight
Thanks to everyone who came out to Pecha Kucha Night #3 last night. We had a blast, and we hope you did too! Here is a slideshow of photos from last night.
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
The good teacher named Failure.
By Porchlight
One of example of failure Bob Sutton mentions in Weird Ideas That Work is that of IDEO's invention process, specifically Skyline, a toy development department. This week he ran across a another organization's failure rate. That of, The Onion's.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Authors Guild, AAP & Google Reach an Agreement
By Porchlight
A groundbreaking settlement has been announced in the Authors Guild v. Google case, which charged Google with copyright infringement in it's drive to digitize the world's books on Google Book Search. The Chairman of The Association of American Publishers says of the settlement: "This settlement clearly took a long time to negotiate, and rightly so--it is breathtaking in scope, groundbreaking for publishers and authors, and trailblazing for intellectual property in general.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Two Lists
By Porchlight
The Arizona Republic printed a list of recommended finance and business titles from Jeffrey L. Coles'--finance department chair at Arizona State University. They are: Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
And Kindle Sales Skyrocket
By Porchlight
From Oprah. com: This summer, Oprah received a gift that she says changed her life. "It's absolutely my new favorite favorite thing in the world," she says.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Innovation.
By Porchlight
John Kao talked about it last year. Richard Elkus mentioned it last week. And, on Friday, NPR discussed it with Judy Estrin, author of Closing the Innovation Gap and former Chief Technology Officer at Cisco.
Categories: news-opinion