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Blog / News & Opinion
An Interview With Steven Johnson
By Porchlight
Steven Johnson is the author of eight books, including Where Good Ideas Come From, Everything Bad is Good For You, and The Invention of Air. He is also a contributing editor for Wired magazine. His newest book, Future Perfect is published on Riverhead Books.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Being a Leader: Fail First
By Sally Haldorson
Fail first for future success. View your failure as an opportunity, not an obstacle. That's the lesson we investigate in this latest KnowledgeBlocks exploration.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
A KnowledgeBlocks Book Giveaway!
By Sally Haldorson
Over on KnowledgeBlocks (powered by 800-CEO-READ) we're giving away 20 copies of Design Like Apple by John Edson. Entry is open to everyone! So stop on over and sign up to win this impressive and timely book!
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Wild Company
By Porchlight
Experience is the best teacher. I learn with my hands. If you find yourself saying things like these, perhaps you'll find Mel and Patricia Ziegler's story about the birth of Banana Republic to be an interesting item.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography
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Blog / News & Opinion
Creating & Innovating: Slow Down to Think Smarter
By Sally Haldorson
We've posted a new Exploration over on KnowledgeBlocks: Slow Down to Think Smarter. It's an age-old adage, most often told in relation to an Aesop's fable, "The Tortoise and the Hare": slow and steady wins the race. But is that still true?
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Excerpts
An Excerpt from The Fine Print
By 800-CEO-READ
Since Michael did such a fine job in his review of Steven Johnson's Future Perfect on Monday of describing how the future may well be, well. . .
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Excerpts
Precision Marketing
By Sally Haldorson
The folks over at Kogan Page generously provided us with an excerpt from Sandra Zoratti and Lee Gallagher's book Precision Marketing: Maximizing Revenue Through Relevance. Zoratti is an author and speaker, as well as the Vice President of Marketing, Executive Briefings and Education at Ricoh and manages a business created from former IBM and Ricoh companies located in Boulder, Colorado. She was named the recipient of the 2012 Business Marketer of the Year Award by the Business Marketing Association.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / News & Opinion
Future Perfect
By Porchlight
Optimism is a terrific force. But it can be difficult to tap into this force when you're confronted with information that indicates a steady decline in quality of life, punctuated daily by 'newsworthy' events involving such things as global economic demise or a rash of senseless and unexpected murders across one's country. My spouse and I were recently reassessing our budget due to some changes in healthcare costs and I became depressed over the outcome.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - The Pause Principle
By 800-CEO-READ
The Pause Principle: Step Back to Lead Forward by Kevin Cashman, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 192 pages, $16. 95, Paperback Original, September 2012, ISBN 9781609945329 Kevin Cashman’s classic Leadership From the Inside Out has been a consistent presence around here since he first published it nearly 15 years ago, so we were excited to see he is sharing his knowledge in a new book, The Pause Principle. Especially one with this paradoxical message: “Pause powers purposeful performance.
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
By 800-CEO-READ
The first thing to know about Daring Greatly is that it is engaging but unadorned. It’s an important distinction to make about a book we are recommending to a business audience, because while the book falls solidly into the self-help genre, Daring Greatly isn’t soft or amorphous despite its focus on feeling, on “vulnerability."
Categories: jack-covert-selects
