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Dec 23, 2008

First Alternate for Business Book of the Year

by Porchlight

We have been a big fan of Dan Roam and his book The Back of The Napkin. We wrote the Jack Covert Selects review in March. That same month, we published the lost chapter on ChangeThis.

Dec 17, 2008

The Best Books of 2008 - Business Pundit Edition

by Porchlight

Business Pundit knows business books well, and has chosen the 10 from 2008 they think are the best. I think they have the right idea in describing the popular feelings of the year: 2008 came in two parts. Part I, which ran through Bear Stearns, carried the vestiges of prior years, when we thought we could get away with everything, never anticipating that in actuality, everything would get away from us.

Dec 12, 2008

Jack Covert Selects - Panic

by Porchlight

Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity edited by Michael Lewis, W. W. Norton & Company, 391 Pages, $27.

Dec 11, 2008

Jack Covert Selects - The Knack

by Porchlight

The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up by Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham, Portfolio, 274 pages, $25. 95, Hardcover, October 2008, ISBN 9781591842217 Most entrepreneurship books just don't deliver. The wide variability in fledging businesses makes it nearly impossible to write a universal prescription for success.

Dec 10, 2008

Jack Covert Selects - The Watercooler Effect

by Porchlight

The Watercooler Effect: A Psychologist Explores the Extraordinary Power of Rumors by Nicholas DiFonzo, Avery Publishing Group, 291 pages, $24. 95, Hardcover, September 2008, ISBN 9781583333259 We have an open-plan office; the majority of the staff is situated in one main room, without cubical walls or even much distance to separate employees. This concept has worked well for us.