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Blog / News & Opinion
Books From the Staff at The Economist
By Porchlight
There has been an explosion of business books written by journalists in the past few years, and this trend doesn't seem to be stopping. Personally, I like the trend. The authors write for a living, so the books are usually well written, and the topics they touch on are making business literature accessible to a wider audience.
Categories: news-opinion
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Post Pow-wow Thoughts
By Porchlight
I promised I'd write more about the pow-wow. With the assistance of the words from some of the pow-wow-ees, here goes. This year was our second annual Author Pow-wow.
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Blog / Staff Picks
New Excerpt up - from The Sales Manager's Success Manual
Book Review by Porchlight
There's a new chapter up on the Excerpts blog--Chapter 19 of The Sales Manager's Success Manual by Wayne M. Thomas (AMACOM). This book covers fundamental sales management topics including compensation, forecasting, and motivation, along with more advanced topics such as dealing with internal politics, understanding generational issues, managing up, and developing intuition.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
Kindle packaging
By Porchlight
All opinions on Kindle aside, have you seen its packaging? Pretty spiffy. * Image from Bad Banana Blog.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
Excerpt from The Sales Manager's Success Manual
By Porchlight
The following chapter is excerpted from The Sales Manager's Success Manual by Wayne M. Thomas (AMACOM). This book covers fundamental sales management topics including compensation, forecasting, and motivation, along with more advanced topics such as dealing with internal politics, understanding generational issues, managing up, and developing intuition.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
2007 Brand Autopsy Marketing Book Awards
By Porchlight
John over at Brandy Autopsy has announced his favorite marketing books of the year. Among them are What Were They Thinking? , Wal-Smart, and Made To Stick.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Catching up with the guys from Freakonomics
By Porchlight
Yesterday I had a chance to catch up on a few weeks of blog posts over on the Freakonomics blog. I found out that their book is going to be made into a documentary; each story will be told by a different set of directors. One set of directors is looking for ideas from Freakonomics fans.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Ask 8cr! - Growing Great Employees
By Aaron Schleicher
Ask 8cr! is a section of our blog used as a forum to address the kinds of issues and challenges people are having in the workplace. We take these issues and apply a business book we feel offers a viable solution.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Let's Take a Holiday
By Porchlight
So, there I was waiting patiently in line to go through the first of 3 security checkpoints at the airport. It was the first time I was traveling overseas with my mom, which I may not do again, but that's only because I lost her during the trip to Mexico. It turns out she was just getting a tattoo, but I digress.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Bloomberg suggests business books for gifts
By Porchlight
We've been in Chicago for the past two days for our second annual Author Pow-wow. I'll write more on that soon. There's much to share.
Categories: news-opinion