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Maureen Cole

Book Excerpt: DENIAL at Sears

This week, we’re publishing DENIAL: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face – And What to Do About It.  Author Richard S. Tedlow, a professor of business history at Harvard Business School, shows how countless companies get stuck in denial while their challenges escalate into crises.  He tackles these two essential questions:
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Gordon (and his huge cell phone) are back!

Looks like we have a new contender for the next Portfolio movie night (sorry, LEAP YEAR).  The trailer for WALL STREET 2 was just released.
Michael Douglas returns as a disgraced Gordon Gekko who partners up with a young trader. The film (due out in April) has the tag line “Money Never Sleeps.” Here’s [...]

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The 2009 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards

Last night, 800-CEO-READ held their annual Business Book Awards at The Shoreham Hotel in New York City. We were honored that several Portfolio books from 2009 were nominated and that MAESTRO and ESCAPE FROM CUBICLE NATION were named category winners.
A bunch of us from Portfolio were there to celebrate with our authors Roger Nierenberg, [...]

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Is your team overcommunicating?

Over at INC.com, Joel Spolsky proposes that a little less conversation could mean a little more productivity.  He writes:

Now, we all know that communication is very important, and that many organizational problems are caused by a failure to communicate.  Most people try to solve this problem by increasing the amount of communication: cc’ing everybody on [...]

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A Woman’s Guide to Financial Freedom

Portfolio author Marianna Olszewski visited FOX & Friends this morning to discuss her new book LIVE IT, LOVE IT, EARN IT and her advice for reaching your financial dreams in 2010.  Here’s that great clip:
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Do you know a Go-Giver?

Two years ago, Portfolio published a business parable called THE GO-GIVER: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea.  The book went on to become a National Bestseller and earned tons of praise from business leaders.   In addition, authors Bob Burg and John David Mann received an overwhelmingly positive response from their readers.  [...]

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