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The 2020 Porchlight Leadership & Strategy Book of the Year

By Dylan Schleicher

We will be announcing the overall winner of the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards on January 14. Until then, we thought we'd take a look back at the rest of the books on the list. Today, we have the runners up in the Leadership & Strategy category, and a look inside the book we chose as the best among them.

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The 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards Shortlist

By Dylan Schleicher

Ranging from the nature of work and creativity to the foundations that our communities, business models, and economics are built upon, each of these books resonates strongly with 2020, a year like none other.

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The 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards Longlist

By Dylan Schleicher

These are the 40 books we found represent the year best in one way or another. They help us make sense of the challenges 2020 has presented us with, understand the depths of the existing cracks it has exposed in our society, and offer solutions to solve the many truly monumental challenges we face—together.

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Distraction for the Way Through

By Rebecca Schwartz

Porchlight owner, president, and CEO Rebecca Schwartz shares some of the distractions that are helping her through these trying times for our businesses and lives.

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Five Books for a Crisis

By Sally Haldorson

Our Managing Director Sally Haldorson looks at five books that she has found insightful over the years that are relevant to the times we're in and how we might get through them.

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Any Kind of Woman

By Sally Haldorson

Our managing director, Sally Haldorson, reflects on her reading of A Woman Like Her by Sanam Maher and her watching of Miss Americana.

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Thank you, Shawn!

Porchlight Accounting Director Shawn Quinn is retiring today, February 28th, after 30 years with the company.

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Porchlight's Bestselling Business Books of 2019

By Dylan Schleicher

The 15 books that we sold the most, and most often, in 2019. Thank you to everyone who helped bring the books into existence, who brought them to our awareness, and who worked with us to deliver them into the hands of readers.

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Scenes from the 2019 Porchlight Business Book Awards Party

By Dylan Schleicher

A peak inside the business book awards and industry appreciation event we hosted this year in New York City, honoring those in the publishing industry whose work makes our work possible.

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The 2019 Business Book of the Year: Don't Be Evil

The 2019 Porchlight Business Book of the Year is Rana Forhoohar's "penetrating indictment of how today’s largest tech companies are hijacking our data, our livelihoods, our social fabric, and our minds."