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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.
October 05, 2007
BNet has started running short video of authors in a feature they call Business Book Briefs. Right now, they are serving Vince Thompson (Ignited) and Bob Sutton (The No Asshole Rule).
October 03, 2007
I wrote last Friday about microcredit and a book entitled A Billion Bootstraps. When I got home that night a funny thing happened. I turned on the television, flipped it to channel 10, and there was microcredit pioneer and Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus on NOW's "Enterprising Ideas" series.
September 27, 2007
The Billionaire Who Wasn't>>The Wall Street Journal | Business Success Is Not Duty Free Chuck Feeney is a hard man to categorize. He made billions as a co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers, the world-wide retail chain familiar to almost anyone who has passed through an international airport, yet when he is traveling, he flies economy class.
September 26, 2007
By Aaron Schleicher
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.
September 24, 2007
Our friends at OnMilwaukee. com recommend a great business title in their most recent "OMC Recommends: Cool stuff we like right now" column. Jeff Sherman says this about Randy Komisar's The Monk and The Riddle: It's a bit outdated, but Randy Komisar's novel is a great read.
September 20, 2007
September 17, 2007
Greenspan got the plum spot in the 7:15 spot on the Today Show. There was a pre-recorded piece done with Maria Bartiromo and Matt Lauer did the live interview. The Q&A was awkward, but Greenspan mostly clarifying positions he took in the book ranging from the Iraq War being about oil (he says we needed to deal with Saddam or face $130/barrel) and his lack of opposition to Bush tax-cuts (he says he supported the action, but continually asked how it would be funded).
Last night Jon and I listened to a speech from Malcolm Faulds of BzzAgent -- the company founded by Dave Balter, author of Grapevine. I'm still fascinated by what BzzAgent is doing. Dave created BzzAgent to harness the power of word-of-mouth.
September 14, 2007
[ESPN Monday Night Football Baltimore Ravens vs. Cincinnati Bengals Transcript starting at 9:10 Central Time] Mike Tirico: Here's Michelle Tafoya. Michelle Tafoya: Well, let's talk about captains for a minute.
September 11, 2007
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