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Ahead of the Curve - Part Two
By Porchlight
I pointed to some reviews of Ahead of the Curve by Philip Delves Broughton last week, but I may have missed the best. Written by Land of Lincoln author Andrew Ferguson for The Wall Street Journal, the review is no kinder to the institution that Broughton profiles in the book than the previous reviews had been, but it is funnier and Ferguson reviews author Broughton as much as he derides Harvard Business School culture. He begins: As Paris bureau chief for the London Daily Telegraph, Philip Delves Broughton had one of the most desirable jobs in newspapering--indeed, one of the last remaining desirable jobs in newspapering--and he did it well enough to earn the admiration of boss and colleague alike.
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The Second Annual 800ceoread Business Book Awards
By Porchlight
On December 15, 2008, 800-CEO-READ will announce the winners of the second annual "The 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards. " These awards will recognize the best business books of 2008 and the authors who committed time and energy to the books' creation. Thousands of business books are published each year, each with the potential to promote change and enlighten the way people think about business.
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Divide or Conquer video
By Porchlight
Diana McLain Smith has a nice new video overview of her book, Divide or Conquer. The book, which we've written about in other posts, talks about how personality differences, conflicting interests, and other working relationship scenarios, can drastically affect the success or failure of an organization. As she states, in successful relationships, the focus on those relationships is as strong as the focus on the company mission.
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Jack Covert Selects - The Levity Effect
By Porchlight
The Levity Effect: Why It Pays to Lighten Up by Adrian Gostick and Scott Christopher, John Wiley & Sons, 229 pages, $22. 95, Hardcover, March 2008, ISBN 9780470195888 Adrian Gostick and Scott Christopher have written a book whose tone perfectly matches its subject--levity. It isn't a word you often hear when discussing business strengths, but The Levity Effect makes a compelling and often hilarious case for why fun should be more common in the workplace.
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Jack Covert Selects - Sway
By Porchlight
Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman, Doubleday Business, 206 Pages, $21. 95, Hardcover, June 2008, ISBN 9780385524384 Sam Bowie over Michael Jordan. It's the 1984 NBA draft and the Portland Trail Blazers choose a promising 7-footer over the future face of basketball.
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Launching The Countdown Book Club
By Porchlight
Our communication has been sporadic on the book project. Kate, our air traffic controller, is imploring us to get with it and start telling you what we have been up to. She's right and there is a lot that has happened.
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Jack Covert Selects - How to Be Useful
By Porchlight
How to Be Useful: A Beginner's Guide to Not Hating Work by Megan Hustad, Houghton Mifflin Company, 232 pages, $19. 95, Hardcover, May 2008, ISBN 9780618713509 Basic common sense and courtesy sometimes seem to be lacking in today's organizations. So what if someone had read (and re-read) all the important "success literature" of the past 100 years, put it together in one resource, and then modernized it for the contemporary business world?
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Churchill quote on books
By Porchlight
"If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or, as it were, fondle them--peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on their shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you will at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances.
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** Contest Alert **Ten Commandments for Business Failure
By Porchlight
** UPDATE ** CONTEST HAS ENDED! CONGRATULATIONS, ROB M. FROM UTAH - - YOU WON THE BOOK AND CD SET!
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Ahead of the Curve
By Porchlight
Both The Economist and BusinessWeek have reviews of Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School in their latest issues. Auspiciously published on Harvard Business School's 100th anniversary, Ahead of the Curve is Philip Delves Broughton's insider account of life at HBS. Broughton is not your typical business student, however.
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