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Wharton Digital Press and The Leader's Checklist
By Porchlight
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania made a big announcement last month, launching Wharton Digital Press. From that release: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announces the launch of Wharton Digital Press, an innovative global all-digital publishing initiative that will publish books electronically, including ebooks, enhanced ebooks, mobile apps, and print books available through print-on-demand technology. In collaboration with Knowledge@Wharton, the School’s online journal of research and business analysis, Wharton Digital Press will take advantage of the Wharton School’s global presence to communicate relevant business knowledge from experts throughout the world to readers wherever and whenever they need it.
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LeaveSmarter with Peter Sims
By Porchlight
We were overjoyed to have Peter Sims in town earlier this week for our LeaveSmarter* series. We first became aware of Peter when he coauthored True North with Bill George, which was a favorite of ours when it came out, and one of our bestsellers in 2007 and 2008 (and, coincidentally, Bill was in town to speak about True North at a previous LeaveSmarter event). So, we were really excited when we saw Mr.
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Sales Surge!
By Porchlight
Jeffrey Gitomer and Noah Rickun will be LIVE in Milwaukee on June 10th at the Sales Surge Seminar! Here's what you'll hear: Building business momentum. .
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Presentations in Action
By Porchlight
We all know a great presentation when we see it. With Jerry Weissman's new book, Presentations in Action, we get lessons from 80 great presentations about what makes them great. For those that have ever presented to a group, you're familiar with the myriad of issues one needs to address (and often realizes they missed once in front of the group - too late!
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A Call For Submissions to the The FT/Goldman Sachs Book Awards
By Porchlight
The call is on for submissions to the 2011 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. From the press release: Now in its seventh year, the award is firmly established as a feature of the business and publishing calendars. [.
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ChangeThis: Issue 82
By Porchlight
Little Bets: Think Differently by Peter Sims “Our education system places great emphasis on teaching us about facts that are already known, such as historical information or scientific tables, and then testing us in order to measure how much we’ve retained about that body of knowledge. Those skills work perfectly well for many situations, but not when doing something new. Or creative.
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Friday Links on a Monday Afternoon
By Porchlight
ChangeThis preparations and office birthday celebrations kept me from posting links on Friday, so I thought I'd remedy that by rustling some up for y'all this afternoon. ➻ "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness. " So begins Allen Ginsberg's "Howl.
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Gary Vaynerchuk and Joe Sorge
By Porchlight
Gary Vaynerchuk, author of the bestselling books Crush It! and The Thank You Economy, as well as a successful entrepreneur in the wine and media industries, and Joe Sorge, partner with Chris Brogan at Kitchen Table Companies and owner of a Milwaukee restaurant group that utilizes social media to build business (he and his restaurant, AJ Bombers, are profiled in Gary's book, The Thank You Economy), stopped by the 800-CEO-READ offices and talked about how companies can innovate with technology and marketing, and where the focus should be when using social media.
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Inc. Leadership Conference
By Porchlight
On June 15-17, 2011, Inc. Magazine will be hosting it's Leadership Conference in Dallas, TX. At Inc.
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The 2011 Pulitzer Prize - Is There No Justice?
By Porchlight
Seth Godin wrote last October that, "If there's justice, [Kevin Kelly's What Technology Wants] will win the Pulitzer Prize. And, while I think there remains some justice in the world regardless of the fact that it did not, we would agree that it deserved at least a nomination in the general nonfiction category (something another of our favorite books, Nicholas Carr's The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brain, did happily receive). But, I'm sure that the book that won the category—Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer—is not at all undeserving.
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