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An Excerpt from The Power of Instinct
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The Air They Breathe: A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate Change
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A Quick Weekend To Do List from Seth Godin
By Porchlight
Here is Seth's list What would you add? I would add, clean your clothes dryer vent. There was a fire around here caused by the lint igniting in a clogged dryer vent and I was surprised at the number of house fires each year caused by clogged dryer vents.
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ChangeThis : The New and The Popular
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ChangeThis has a new set of manifestos for your consumption. Bob Sutton gives the alternate argument to his best-selling book with a piece titled The Upside of Assholes. Consultant Mark Graban says the things Toyota does to make great cars can help healthcare.
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Promote Different.
By Porchlight
There is a big article in the Wall Street Journal today about Apple's iTunes and how they wield their power to promote. The classic promotion model in media is to offer co-operative advertising to retail outlets in exchange for favorable placement in store displays or through featuring product in advertising the retailer is doing. Examples of this range from the placement of a book in the front of a Barnes & Noble to a image from Lords of The Rings on all the televisions in the Best Buy Sunday ad to books featured on inBubbleWrap.
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Excerpt from The Mormon Way of Doing Business
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A new excerpt is up on our Excerpts Blog. It's a chapter from The Mormon Way of Doing Business: Leadership and Success Through Faith and Family by Jeff Benedict. Before being named CEO of Dell, Kevin Rollins developed a reputation within the company for being a logistics and operational genius.
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The Mormon Way of Doing Business
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The Mormon Way of Doing Business byJeff Benedict The following excerpt is taken from The Mormon Way of Doing Business: Leadership and Success Through Faith and Family by Jeff Benedict. Through original interviews with top business executives (including the CEOs of JetBlue, Delitte & Touche, Dell Computer, Harvard Business School, and more), Benedict examines and discovers how their Mormon beliefs have influenced them, and enabled them to achieve incredible success. CHAPTER 1 ON A MISSION "In business situations we get well prepared and we go in undaunted.
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Building On Your Strengths
By Porchlight
I did a interview with Tom Rath of Gallup on Monday. We will be posting that in a couple of weeks, but I wanted to share something that he said during the interview. A little background first.
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Ben & Jackie
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Get ready for the second installment of the LeaveSmarter event series. In just two weeks, on Thursday, March 22, Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba will be in Milwaukee to talk about Citizen Marketers: When People are the Message. Ben and Jackie are writers and consultants based in Chicago.
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Good to Great: Fabulous or Fabulistic?
By Porchlight
In The Halo Effect, author Phil Rosenzweig challenges the neat conclusions and timeless principles that business experts create to explain high performance. And he focuses his sharpest critique on Jim Collins, who is arguably the most influential management thinker today (gee—not so dumb a target to pick if he wants exposure….
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More on The Halo Effect
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I’m delighted to see Phil Rosenzweig’s The Halo Effect getting the attention it deserves. His core argument merits attention on this site, where we take the power of business ideas very seriously.
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Erika Andersen and Danny Meyer Live
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Forbes. com has video of our friend Erika Andersen (Growing Great Employees) and her ten year client Danny Meyer (Setting The Table).
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