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Some of you may have read my post yesterday on Hugh De Pree’s Business As Unusual, the book charting the principles by which Herman Miller became the venerated company it is.
Hugh records four principles enshrined by the founders of the firm: Trust. Stewardship. Equity. Innovation. [I guess he could have held the record for the [...]

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I must have missed it the first time around, and only saw it via Boing Boing (thanks, Cory!).
Reuters reported last Friday that “Book sales get a lift from Google scan plan“.
I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when I read the story. Read it for yourself.
Someone’s finally figured out that letting people ‘taste” books [...]

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