News & Opinion
Keep up with the latest industry news and trends, our annual business book awards, and other pieces of news and opinion floating around the offices and minds of Porchlight Book Company.
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Inside the 2022 Longlist | Personal Development & Human Behavior
By Emily Porter
We are creatures that need guidance, love, compassion, and (we believe in) books that bring us back to considering and working on ourselves, which is what this category is all about.
Categories: news-opinion, personal-development-human-behavior
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Inside the 2022 Longlist | Narrative & Biography
By Dylan Schleicher
Like fiction, narratives and biographies can help us empathize with and even inhabit, for a brief moment in the pages of a book, the mindsets and experiences of other people. It allows us to peek into the lives of individuals, see inside organizations, and visit other places without having to leave our reading chair.
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Inside the 2022 Longlist | Innovation & Creativity
By Gabbi Cisneros
These five books will prompt you to ask questions about yourself and the world around you, and it is in this inner-searching and outward observation that we will find, innovate, and create a better world for us all.
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Inside the 2022 Longlist | Current Events & Public Affairs
By Dylan Schleicher
It seems like each and every category of our awards has elements of Current Events & Public Affairs percolating within them, but that doesn't negate the need for a dedicated category. These are the five best books in that space this year.
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Inside the 2022 Longlist | Marketing & Communications/Sales & Influence
By Dylan Schleicher
As the books being submitted to our awards have evolved and expanded over the years, we decided it was time to evolve and expand for the name of the Marketing & Sales category.
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Inside the 2022 Longlist | Management & Workplace Culture
By Dylan Schleicher
Dylan Schleicher takes a look at the best books 2022 had to offer in the Management & Workplace Culture category.
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The 2022 Porchlight Business Book Awards Longlist
By Dylan Schleicher
“This terrific collection of books balances the innovative with the iterative, and champions doing the right things the right way to make our work and our future tangibly better, no matter the industry or the endeavor.”
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The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee is the 2021 Porchlight Business Book of the Year
By Dylan Schleicher
Heather McGhee's brilliant and beautifully written book examines the origins of the zero-sum narrative that is used to divide us as individuals and undermine us economically, and asks us to embrace instead the power and possibilities of the Solidarity Dividend.
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The 2021 Jack Covert Award for Contribution to the Business Book Industry
By Porchlight
This year, we are using our annual Jack Covert Award for Contribution to the Business Book Industry to honor the amazing man, mentor, and friend who the award is named for.
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The Sum of Us | An Excerpt from the Porchlight Big Ideas & New Perspectives Book of the Year
By Heather McGhee
In the lead up to announcing the Porchlight Business Book of the Year (coming tomorrow, January 13th!), we have been sharing excerpts from each of the eight books on the shortlist for the award. Today, we have one from the Big Ideas & New Perspectives book of the year, The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee.
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