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Crowdsourcing Interview with Jeff Howe
By Porchlight
Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business, and I talked about the phenomenon of using crowds to do work. In this 33-minute podcast, you'll hear about Jimmy Wales and the founding of Wikipedia, Procter & Gamble using crowds for innovation, and the British Crown -- one of the first examples of crowdsourcing (around the 11. 45 minute mark).
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August's International Best Sellers
By Porchlight
It's that time to find out what people were reading from 800CEOREAD in August all around the world! Canada Heads Up Kenneth McGee Great Britain Strengths Finder 2. 0 Tom Rath China The Necessary Revolution Peter M.
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Welcome Back Kotter
By Porchlight
Today marks the release of John Kotter's latest book, A Sense of Urgency, by Harvard Business School Press. Kotter has written about urgency before. .
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New excerpt up - from Leadership and the Sexes
By Porchlight
There's a new excerpt up on our Excerpts blog. It's taken from Chapter 1 of Leadership and the Sexes: Using Gender Science To Create Success In Business by Michael Gurian and Barbara Annis. From the publisher: "Men and women lead differently.
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Excerpt from Leadership and the Sexes
By Porchlight
The following excerpt is taken from Chapter 1 of Leadership and the Sexes: Using Gender Science To Create Success In Business by Michael Gurian and Barbara Annis. In this new book, Leadership and the Sexes gender experts Michael Gurian and Barbara Annis show what the latest scientific studies reveal about male/female brain differences, and explain how these differences impact the ways that men and women negotiate, communicate, lead, and run meetings. Chapter 1: Understanding the Science of Gender Human evolution has created two different types of brains (male and female) designed for equally intelligent behavior.
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Steven Levy's Top 10 Technology Titles
By Porchlight
You may know Steven Levy for his many books--his most recent is The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness--or from his work covering technology for various magazines. He made the move to writing full time for Wired after 12 years at Newsweek just this year (I linked to his recent review of Anathem last week). A true expert on the matter, he recently published his list of the top 10 general-interest technology books over at ieee spectrum online, writing: Any great nonfiction book combines education with entertainment.
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The Age of Speed
By Porchlight
Vince Poscente understands the opportunities speed offers. At age 26, he took up speed skiing, and merely four years later, he would race to a Canadian national record of 135 miles per hour at the Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. That was 1992.
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Nick Hornby on Naked Economics
Book Review by Porchlight
In Naked Economics, Charles Wheelan makes an analogy between music "piracy" and farming, writing "You spend all summer tending to your corn crop and then your neighbor drives by in his combine, waves cheerily, and proceeds to harvest the whole crop for himself. " Though an overall fan of the book, Nick Hornby disagrees with that specific sentiment. Writing about it on his blog on Tuesday, he grabbed hold of Wheelan's analogy and took it to a hilarious conclusion.
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The Myth of Multitasking
Book Review by Porchlight
It seems we all "multitask" these days. . .
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New Excerpts from Brand Digital and What's Stopping You?
By Porchlight
There are two new excerpts up on that blog devoted to them. The first is from What's Stopping You: Shatter the 9 Most Common Myths Keeping You from Starting Your Own Business by Duane Ireland and Bruce R. Barringer, and shares three insights into why starting a business is not as expensive as you think.
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