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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects: Simple Solutions
By Porchlight
Simple Solutions: Harness the Power of Passion and Simplicity to Get Results By Tom Schmidt and Arnold Perl, John Wiley, 210 Pages, $22. 95 Hardcover, February 2007, ISBN 0470048182 Not every business book needs to change the world or even teach us something brand new. Here, the authors offer a new way of looking at leadership: “Most importantly…is the underlying philosophy of leadership as something (a) that can be learned; (b) that is a practical, powerful way to building relationships; and (c) that gets results.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Excerpt from My Reality Check Bounced!
By Porchlight
For twentysomethings entering the work force, more than a few lessons can be hard-hitting. In the following excerpt from Chapter 7 of My Reality Check Bounced! , Jason Ryan Dorsey shows how to turn difficult past experiences into power and energy for the future.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Made To Stick Interview with Dan Heath
By Porchlight
In this interview I talk with Dan Heath, co-author with his brother Chip of Made To Stick: Why Some Ideas Thrive and Others Die . Dan and I talked for over an hour. We covered each of their six points from their book.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Jack on IBM and Business Development
By Porchlight
From Jack. . .
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
What stuck after Made to Stick
By Porchlight
Our first LeaveSmarter event was a sticky success! On Tuesday about 60 people braved sub-zero temperatures and gathered at the Eisner to hear Dan and Chip talk about Made to Stick.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects: What Got You Here Won't Get You There
By Porchlight
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith with Mark Reiter, Hyperion, 200 Pages, $23. 95 Hardcover, January 2007, ISBN 1401301304 Marshall Goldsmith is huge in the world of executive coaching, so understand that the person this book is written to is not the mail room clerk. It is her supervisors’ supervisor.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Market Inefficiencies
By Porchlight
I have been walking around with a October issue of Fortune in my bag for months. There is a special section in the 10/30/06 edition called Secrets of Greatness. The Q&A with Michael Lewis is what has kept in my bag.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects: Cut to the Chase
By Porchlight
Cut to the Chase and 99 Other Rules to Liberate Yourself and Gain Back the Gift of Time by Stuart R. Levine, Currency/Doubleday, 180 Pages, $19. 95 Hardcover, ISBN 9780385516204 Business books range from fables to advanced project management titles.
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Blog / ChangeThis
Talking Strategy: Three Straightforward Ways to Make Your Strategy Stick
By Chip Heath, Dan Heath
The Heath Bros. walk the walk in this manifesto about three straightforward ways to make your strategy work. They preach the power of concrete language and stories to communicate your strategy effectively. Missed the Heath Bros. on "The Today Show" or NPR? Get to know them here because these ideas stick.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Why Corporate "Goodness" is Not Enough: Rethinking Corporate Responsibility
By Porchlight
Arena argues that the widely-held notion that corporate responsibility is about "doing good" marginalizes an important part of doing business in the 21st century. Instead, it is about innovation, changing as the world changes. She also lets us in on which extraordinary companies driven by purposeful ideas actually succeed.
Categories: changethis