Job Therapy with Tessa West: How to Repair Your Relationship With Your Job or How to Change Careers
July 25, 2024
An Excerpt from The Power of Instinct
July 25, 2024
Love Is My Favorite Flavor: A Midwestern Dining Critic Tells All
July 12, 2024
The Air They Breathe: A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate Change
June 27, 2024
'Getting Things Done with Others': An Interview with David Allen and Edward Lamont
May 28, 2024
The 2023 Porchlight Business Book Awards
November 30, 2023
Promo Video: Our Author Interview Series
July 31, 2023
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Beauty and The Geek talks with Freak(onomics)
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One of the keys to the success of Freakonomics is the widespread media coverage the book has gotten. Good Morning America did a series of interviews with the authors. The authors were featured on 20/20.
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Susan Quandt at Mequon Schwartz Bookshops
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This is for the Milwaukee area residences in our audience. Local business book author Susan Quandt is doing a talk the Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop in Mequon.
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Growing Great Employees Interview with Erika Andersen - Part 2
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This is the second part of my interview with Erika Andersen, author of Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People Into Extraordinary Performers. We start talking about the Social Styles Model and how it supports Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence concepts. We spend some time talking about the importance of diversity as it relates to Social Styles.
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The Dip: A New Book Coming From Seth Godin
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During our October NYC trip, we heard there was a new book coming out from book machine called Seth Godin. Since there wasn't much to say beyond "Hey, Seth has a new book coming out! ", we held off.
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Books from The Computer Class
By Porchlight
Sally (editor of ChangeThis) and I are taking a class on Adobe InDesign right now. We both consider ourselves computer literate, but find the Adobe products start from a different base than we are familiar with. We got a free book with the class for future reference.
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File This Under: Weird Coincidences
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The information technology department at 800ceoread compiled sales reports today. Scott, our chief analyst, brought to my attention some weird coincidences in our year-end sales report. He noticed as you looked down a list of our best selling books that pairs of titles seemed to go together.
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Excerpt from Words That Work by Frank Luntz
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The following excerpt is taken from "Corporate Case Studies," Chapter 7 of Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear by Dr. Frank Luntz. VII Corporate Case Studies Jack Welch understood the power of words that work better than anyone in corporate America.
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Business Books For January: Ego Check
By Porchlight
Given headlines that executives like Bob Nardelli and Bill McGuire are getting, the timing of Mathew Hayward's new book Ego Check couldn't be better. Hayward believes it is hubris, what many consider the original deadly sin, to be the cuplrit for fallings of Enron, Worldcom, and Parmalat. Consider Hayward's four sources of Hubris: If extraordinary confidence is grounded in the best available data, it is authentic, and a positive force for advancement.
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Business Audio at The Cranky Middle Manager
By Porchlight
The number of podcasts with a business angle are growing. The latest we have come across is The Cranky Middle Manager hosted by Wayne Trumel. I could give you a long drawn out explanation of what Wayne is up to, but it makes more sense to just send you to his 2007 show manifesto.
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Today's Vocabulary Quiz
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I am sure you already received your November/December issue of Selling Power. Seth is on the cover (ten times). We tend to talk about Seth alot and thought we should take a moment to get the new folks caught up.
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