News & Opinion RSS
Last week, The Wall Street Journal announced their Top Small Workplaces 2007 winners.
The Journal asked the folks who run those places what books they would recommend to others trying to create first-class workplaces. Here the alphabetical list of their selections.
Continue reading
Welcome to "Ask 8cr! " - a new section of our blog where we've created a forum to find out what kinds of issues and challenges people are having in the workplace. We then take these issues and apply a business book we feel offers a viable solution.
Continue reading
The Future of Management >> BusinessWeek | Throw Away The Cookie Cutter
"Such management monotony, writes Gary Hamel in The Future of Management, is evidence that when it comes to running organizations or leading teams, there's little experimentation.
Continue reading
The following is an excerpt from the book Guinness: The 250 Year Quest for the Perfect Pint by Bill Yenne.
Guinness in the Twenty-First Century
By the beginning of the twenty-first century, two billion pints of Guinness were being poured annually in more than 150 countries around the world. According to the industry newsletter, Impact: Global News and Research for the Drinks Executive, Guinness Stout is the seventeenth largest selling beer brand in the world, and by far the best-selling beer brand that is not a pale yellow lager.
Continue reading
There's a new excerpt up on the Excerpts Blog. It's from the book Guinness: The 250 Year Quest for the Perfect Pint. The first thought I had when I saw the book was, "Wow, I think my dad would like this book.
Continue reading