Author Interviews
One of the best things about working at Porchlight is the opportunity to form relationships with the authors who write the books we sell and ask them about their work. Doing that in an interview extends the relationship, connecting authors with new readers, and readers with new authors.
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Thinker in Residence: Ryan Holiday
By Porchlight
"We decide what we will make of each and every situation. " ~Ryan Holiday
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Thinker in Residence: Warren Berger on Business & Books
By Sally Haldorson
"On the big questions of finding meaning, fulfillment, and happiness, we're deluged with answers--in the form of off-the-shelf advice, tips, strategies from experts and gurus. It shouldn't be any wonder if those generic solutions don't quite fit: To get to our answers, we must formulate and work through the questions ourselves. " ~Warren Berger
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Thinker in Residence: A Q&A with Warren Berger
By Sally Haldorson
"We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn’t encouraged—it is barely tolerated. " ~Warren Berger
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Thinker in Residence: Warren Berger
By Sally Haldorson
"We’re all hungry today for better answers. But first, we must learn to ask the right questions. " Warren Berger believes questions are more important than answers.
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Thinker in Residence: Richard Sheridan on Business & Books
By Sally Haldorson
When you visit the website for Menlo Innovations, you'll find a link titled "Experience by Reading" on the top bar. Click there, and you'll find not only find information about Menlo books, but also a link to Recommended Reading, which features 25 books from innovation to design to social science. So this edition of "On Business & Books" is particularly appropriate.
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Thinker in Residence: A Q&A with Richard Sheridan
By Sally Haldorson
I also came to an important realization: I wasn’t running towards risk by making these changes, I was running away from risk. What was at risk was me. I was around 40 years old at the time I started down this path.
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Thinker in Residence: Richard Sheridan
By Sally Haldorson
Richard Sheridan, author of Joy, Inc. is the CEO, Chief Storyteller and co-founder of Menlo Innovations. Here's his story: Rich knew at 13 years old what he was going to do the rest of his career when he typed in a two-line program into a Teletype and the computer came back and typed back “HI RICH”.
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Thinker in Residence: Debbie Millman on Business & Books
By Sally Haldorson
Great thinkers are often influenced by other great thinkers, twisting their knowledge about to make new and thoughtful iterations. Here are Debbie Millman's influences. Q.
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Thinker in Residence: A Q&A with Debbie Millman
By Sally Haldorson
Creativity requires a personal belief that you have something meaningful to say or to contribute. If this belief gets squashed or hindered, it can fundamentally damage the brain’s neurological pathways responsible for creative connections and communication. ~Debbie Millman Q.
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Thinker in Residence: Debbie Millman
By Sally Haldorson
Debbie Millman is President of the design division at Sterling Brands. She has been there for 18 years and in that time she has worked on the redesign of over 200 global brands, including projects with P&G, Colgate, Nestle, Kraft and Pepsi. She is President Emeritus of AIGA, the largest professional association for design in the world.
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