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Jack Covert Selects – Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar

By Porchlight

Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories of Work, edited by Richard Ford, Harper Perennial, 607 pages, $16. 99, Paperback, May 2011, ISBN 9780062020413 John Cheever, Andre Dubus, Donald Barthelme, Jhumpa Lahiri, Joyce Carol Oates, Eudora Welty, Tobias Wolff. These are names you expect to see on college literature course syllabi and New York Times Best Seller Lists.

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May 12, 2011

Blog / News & Opinion

Surviving Your Serengeti

By Porchlight

Do you want to overcome a challenge? Do you have a goal to achieve? Would you like to discover your instinctive strengths?

Categories: news-opinion

June 02, 2011

Blog / News & Opinion

PresentationZen

By Porchlight

Maybe you give presentations often. How effective are they? Maybe you've never given one.

Categories: news-opinion

June 07, 2011

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Jack Covert Selects – Car Guys vs. Bean Counters

By Porchlight

Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business by Bob Lutz, Portfolio, 256 Pages, $26. 95, Hardcover, June 2011, ISBN 9781591844006 The American auto industry has had some stellar books written about it.

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June 09, 2011

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The Invisible Gorilla

By Porchlight

Hey everyone, The Invisible Gorilla was released in paperback this month. Did you miss the hardcover last year? If you did, chances are the authors would understand.

Categories: news-opinion

June 28, 2011

Blog / Staff Picks

International Business Machines, Making the World Work Better

Book Review by Porchlight

Who knew that corporate history could be so beautiful? Just the name of the place, International Business Machines Corporation, makes it sound like a drab and soulless place, definitely gray. But IBM has a rich and colorful history, as the material they've been producing to celebrate their 100th year in existence makes abundantly clear.

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July 01, 2011

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ChangeThis: Issue 84

By Porchlight

What If They Listened to Entrepreneurs? by Henry R. Nothhaft “Before any significant and sustained increase in the creation of good middle-class jobs can take place, the voice of the entrepreneur who is the source of all breakthrough innovation and job growth must be heard.

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July 06, 2011

Blog / Excerpts

The Innovator's DNA - An Excerpt

By Porchlight

You may know Clayton Christensen for his classic works on innovation, The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution. In fact, The Innovator's Dilemma was included as one of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. Todd wrote something that struck me as I revisited the review he wrote for the book today.

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July 19, 2011

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Super Mario

Book Review by Porchlight

Like most people my age, I spent a significant portion of my childhood pretending to be a Italian plumber. You see, we were the Nintendo generation, and regardless of what games you ended up getting later on, you had to find every warp pipe and explore all the secret worlds of Super Mario Bros. first.

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August 01, 2011

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No Rest for the Wicket

By Porchlight

We held annual 800-CEO-READ summer picnic/croquet tournament yesterday. As we do every year, we all gathered at Jack's house. Being good Wisconsinites, we grill up some meat in tube form and fresh corn, grab a drink and settle into the back yard.

Categories: news-opinion, the-company

August 15, 2011

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Jack Covert Selects – Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar

Surviving Your Serengeti

PresentationZen

Jack Covert Selects – Car Guys vs. Bean Counters

The Invisible Gorilla

International Business Machines, Making the World Work Better

ChangeThis: Issue 84

The Innovator's DNA - An Excerpt

Super Mario

No Rest for the Wicket

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