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Blog / ChangeThis
Work is Broken: Here's How We Fix It
By Porchlight
Meetings, presentations, and e-mail are a part of many people's work day. Used effectively, each can help keep teams aligned, impart important information, and move projects forward. We now are bombarded with information from the web, blogs, wikis, intranets, search engines, and other digital sources in addition to paper. We're challenged to develop and maintain a system for collecting, processing, and acting on all of this information. And the classic techniques we've relied on in the past have either ceased to be effective or have simply broken. In this essay, originally written for The More Space Project, the late Marc Orchant shared some proven techniques for fixing what's been broken.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / News & Opinion
Business book columnist posts his best-of list.
By Porchlight
FYI. Over at Words on Words, Richard Pachter has his list of favorite 2007 business books posted. Pachter has been the business books columnist at The Miami Herald since 2000.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Embracing the future of travel guides
By Porchlight
The New York Times must be reading our minds because just yesterday Todd and I were discussing the future of travel books, and today there's a great article about what travel guide publishers are doing to anticipate and incorporate changes in the industry. A few approaches mentioned in the article: Specialized guides are available online - you can get an entire guide to pubs and inns in the UK, without the other information available in more comprehensive guides. And, you can get a version that connects to the GPS in your rental car.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
Gitomer Milwaukee
By Porchlight
I'm sure most of you know of Jeffrey Gitomer--he of the Sales Caffeine eZine and prolific author of the "Little Book" series. If you've enjoyed his work in the past and live close to us here in Milwaukee, you'll soon have an easy opportunity to see him live. He will be speaking at the Country Springs Hotel in Waukesha on March 5th.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
links for 2008-01-03
By Porchlight
House Lust>>The Wall Street Journal | Passion Comes with a Mortgage To Mr. McGinn's credit, "House Lust" is not yet another attempt to show how you too can hit the jackpot with no money down. Nor is it a storehouse of revelations about the economics or psychology of real estate.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Innovation through new eyes.
By Porchlight
Over at the NYTimes, you'll find one of the most viewed articles this week is on innovation. It features Chip and Dan of Made to Stick and Cynthia Barton Rabe of The Innovation Killer. In her 2006 book, "Innovation Killer: How What We Know Limits What We Can Imagine -- and What Smart Companies Are Doing About It," Cynthia Barton Rabe proposes bringing in outsiders whom she calls zero-gravity thinkers to keep creativity and innovation on track.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Strategy and the Fat Smoker
By Porchlight
David Maister has taken a break from larger publisher Free Press, and has recently self-published his latest book The Strategy and the Fat Smoker. Since June, David has written a series of blog posts documenting the process of completing the book, and we've posted an excerpt from the book on our excerpts blog. Suzanne Lowe has also written a great article about David over at MarketingProfs We wish David the best with this gutsy venture.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Excerpts
Excerpt: Strategy and the Fat Smoker
By Porchlight
Strategy and the Fat Smoker is David Maister's latest book (among a history of many books). From a different perspective, he approaches the subject covered in The Knowing-Doing Gap by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton back in 2000. Originally, each chapter was written as a separate article, so you can pick and choose where to start.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / News & Opinion
Thoughts of Friends
By Porchlight
Seeing old friends during the holiday season always seems to encourage some reflecting. One thing that I personally thought about were the friends that no longer live close to me anymore. This past year, I made my usual pilgrimage to Hoboken, New Jersey where they moved to.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
More Kudos For Michael Gates Gill
By Porchlight
In the Wall Street Journal's Best Books of 2007, deputy books editor Mark Lasswell calls out Michael Gates Gill's How Starbucks Saved My Life saying: At 63, Michael Gates Gill, father of five, found himself out of work, divorced, and nearly broke--not quite what he expected when he was growing up on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the son of New Yorker writer Brendan Gill. But then Mr. Gill found a life raft in the form of an unlikely job, as he relates in the memoir How Starbucks Saved My Life.
Categories: news-opinion