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Book Excerpt - Bull in China
By Porchlight
From: A Bull in China by Jim Rogers This is from Rogers' current book in which he examines the growth and future of the Chinese economy. He just didn't stumble upon this, he first came upon China's importance in the world back in 1984 on his motorcycle tour around the world. Rogers has been following this certain country's growth and development for some time.
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Dip into Seth's Meatball Sundae: it's available.
By Porchlight
With all the hype and Meatball Mondae blog posts, we've been waiting for this book. Seth's latest is now available! Check out Squidoo to find excerpts and riffs from the book.
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MIT Author's New Job
By Porchlight
Author, artist, and technologist John Maeda has been named president of Rhode Island School of Design. His video announcement is worth a look. His latest book The Laws of Simplicity provides 10 Laws and 3 Keys described in his self-imposed limit of 100 pages.
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Jack speaks with The Cranky Middle Manager Show on notable books in 2007.
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For the second year in a row, Wayne Turmel over at the Cranky Middle Manager Show spoke with Jack on some of the books nominated for our awards. A number of our award nominees were interviewed by Wayne at various points throughout the year. You can find the interviews here.
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strategy + business Best Books of 2007
By Porchlight
The folks over at strategy + business have chosen what they consider the best business books of the year. There were eight categories, and each one was assigned to an expert in that field for review. Each reviewer also delivered an essay on the books chosen, and they are all good reads.
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Five Books from 2007: Wikinomics, Halo Effect, Firing Back, one on Starbucks and a Fable.
By Porchlight
Carol Hymowitz over at the WSJ shared her list of business books for holiday reading (you may need to log in). On it, were these books: Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams. This is what we've all been talking about in the past few years and even more so since the rise of Wikipedia.
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Yes, Reading is Sexy.
By Porchlight
Last week we gave Jack a Christmas present. You see, long before our beloved Jack founded this crazy entity now known as 800-CEO-READ and became an author, he ran a record store with his wife Ann. [Local Milwaukeeans out there can probably recall his nickname.
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Three Leadership Experts on Dealing With Internal Trouble
By Porchlight
Hidden inside Fortune's 2008 Investor's Guide is a one page article titled "The Three Minute Manager: Lessons In Leadership. " They interview Bill George (True North), Noel Tichy (Judgment) and Jeffrey Sonnenfeld (Firing Back) and each was asked questions around the problem: "What do you do if you discover a huge loss at your company? " There is no link on the Fortune's site to the piece, so I can only give you the choicest words from each authority: Sonnenfeld on your first move: "First you want to figure out the entirety of the problem so you don't lose credibility coming out with more and more bad news.
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Kindle vs. Reader and Beyond
By Aaron Schleicher
I recently spent some time with the Amazon Kindle side-by-side with the Sony Reader. Having never used any type of virtual book device before, it took me a bit to adjust to both (both have slightly awkward hardware characteristics), but once I settled in, some big things became apparent. Kindle is very connected to a large world beyond the text you're reading on the screen.
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The Inside Advantage
By Porchlight
Robert Bloom has marketed the launch of some very great and successful companies--Southwest Airlines, Nestle, T-Mobile and Novartis just to name a few. He has worked with numerous others along the way, including BMW and L'Oreal. In each instance he applied a winning formula for growth based on the assertion that every company has an Inside Advantage.
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