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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.
January 22, 2007
Remember that special offer I mentioned? It's up at inBubbleWrap. com.
January 25, 2007
I just started reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan and I think it is wonderful. The former Wall Street trader writes about outliers in the world (9/11, 1929 Market Crash, etc). He says Black Swans have three characteristics: rarity, extreme impact, and retrospective (though not prospective) predictability.
February 01, 2007
I love adventure sports (jumping out of planes in Arizona, canyoning paragliding in Switzerland, white water rafting in West Virginia, rock climbing in Colorado [despite my fear of heights]). You can imagine my excitement when I saw that the co-founder of JanSport, Skip Yowell, was publishing a book: The Hippie Guide to Climbing the Corporate Ladder & Other Mountains. <-- That's the cover Last year at BEA, I picked up an excerpt and got a free JanSport backpack (not a bad deal).
February 02, 2007
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.
February 08, 2007
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.
In this passage from Boeing Versus Airbus, John Newhouse is elegant and efficient in his description of aircraft industry's product tiers, important equipment specifications, and overall history of the industry. I have been fascinated by the duel between these two companies and Newhouse tells me more in 700 words than I have read in countless articles. Airliners, like T-shirts, com in different sizes—small, medium, large, and extra-large.
February 12, 2007
Taken by Kate at our event with Dan and Chip last week. Visit our Flickr site to see the rest of the photos! www.
February 14, 2007
I like periodically pointing you to other spots in the 800ceoread family of sites where you might find some things of interest. If you were subscribed to our New Releases Blog, you would have seen that Private Label Strategy, You Inc. , Miracles Medicines, and Punk Marketing were all released yesterday.
March 02, 2007
I decided to bring back Charles Fishman, author of The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy. In the paperback version of the book, Charles has added an afterword. In it, he writes about his visit to Wal-Mart headquarters.
March 06, 2007
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